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replabrobin

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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[SOLVED] Dec 10 update caused change in pasted text style

I run up to date archlinux x86_64 system with openbox as wm and am using xterm, xfce4-terminal or lxterminal.

After a full update on December 10th I noticed an annoying change in the way that pasted text appears in the terminals.

Simply put the pasted text has the same reverse colouring as the copied/marked text. Previously the pasted text looked as if typed by hand. I am running parcellite as the clipboard manager.

Obviously something changed globally, but I don't know what. My previous update was Nov 10th and if I rollback with the archive to that date I can see the original behaviour is restored.

Obviously quite a large number of packages are candidates, but I don't know where to look. Is the only solution some kind of binary search on the changes.

For some reason I find this change very annoying.

Last edited by replabrobin (2020-12-13 18:14:21)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Dec 10 update caused change in pasted text style

My guess is it's either the "readline" or "bash" packages. Those two were updated around that date. I update my system nearly every day. This change you mention only started happening the last few days.

Last edited by Ropid (2020-12-13 17:41:51)

replabrobin

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Dec 10 update caused change in pasted text style

Thanks very much ropid for the suggestion; rolling back readline-8.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst to readline-8.0.004-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst seems to fix the problem in xterm xfce4-terminal and lxterminal. So I guess the change is there.

Looking at the changes for readline I think that the 'fix' is to create ~/.inputrc and put a line

set enable-bracketed-paste off

in it.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Dec 10 update caused change in pasted text style

Thanks very much ropid for the suggestion; rolling back readline-8.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst to readline-8.0.004-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst seems to fix the problem in xterm xfce4-terminal and lxterminal. So I guess the change is there.

Looking at the changes for readline I think that the 'fix' is to create ~/.inputrc and put a line

set enable-bracketed-paste off

in it.

This was very helpful!  Thanks!!