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f1n

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Registered: 2014-10-16

Posts: 7

All characters in bash are always selected

Hello there, I just registered because I got a disturbing problem.

I'm not sure if I should post this in the Newbie Corner but I think it's fitting better here. I installed Arch yesterday with Cinnamon as deskop and everything went well - I love it.
But since some hours I'm experincing a mithering misbehaviour concerning my bash. The Problem is, that the characters in the bash are selected from the start. If I try to select a specific part with my mouse, this part becomes unselected ("normal"). I hope this is understandable, if not I will attached a screenshot.
This a heavy problem and it's impossible to work on vim anymore. I'm not sure what caused this behaviour...it could be the todays system update. (Maybe it has something to do with the first connection to my extern display and the subsequent xrandr-command? Sounds not legit but I don't know...).

Help would be appreciated since my system is not really usable at the moment... Thanks in advance! :)

teateawhy

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Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: All characters in bash are always selected

This sounds like it is related to Xorg or the terminal emulator rather than bash.

dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: All characters in bash are always selected

What terminal emulator are you using? It sounds like the theme configured within your terminal defaults to highlighting all text, therefore selected text appears un-highlighted.

f1n

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Registered: 2014-10-16

Posts: 7

Re: All characters in bash are always selected

Thanks for the answers, I'm using the standard terminal-emulator delivered with cinnamon, I think it's the gnome-terminal. But I didn't figure  out yet how to solve invert the highlighting...

dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: All characters in bash are always selected

Could you post a screenshot? I'm not clear if it is all text (your shell prompt included) or only the output from certain commands, or just output from vim.

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: All characters in bash are always selected

Aren't the color's simply reversed, making you believe the text is selected? Have a look at you terminal settings; maybe you can switch color-schemes