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can not copy content selected by shift-key

Asked by agou

in Ubuntu8.04 and Ubuntu9.10, I use gnome-terminal to run my program, and copy the output content to gedit to analyze. If the content is too large, I usually use shift-key + mouse-left to select the content I need, and copy this content to gedit. It is alway successful.

but in Ubuntu10.04, I can't use shift key to do this. my system is upgrade from ubuntu9.10 to ubuntu10.04.

can anyone help me?

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agou (agooou) said : 		#1

I've already download gnome-terminal and switch to tag2.22.1 which is used on Ubuntu8.04. then compile it on ubuntu10.04, but the problem still exist.
maybe the problem does nothing about gnome-terminal. maybe associate with other things.
any ideas?

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#2

I can't help with your shift-clicking (which works for me on 10.04), though I do have a possible suggestion for you. Is there anything stopping you routing the output to a file, which you could then open in gedit, saving you from copying any text in the terminal at all. For example,
myprogram >/tmp/my-programs-output && gedit /tmp/my-programs-output
"/tmp/my-programs-output" can be replaced with any filename you like.

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agou (agooou) said : 		#3

thank you! your method is ok, but not convenient.
not only me meet this problem, a colleague upgrade ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04 in vmware virtual machine. and he meet this problem either.
maybe this problem only exist when upgrading?

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agou (agooou) said : 		#4

Is there anyone else meet this problem?
if no one meet this, can someone give me a configure file of gnome-terminal. I think maybe it is cause by some setting?

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agou (agooou) said : 		#5

after reading the gnome-terminal code, I found it call vte_terminal_get_has_selection() to determine whether there is something selected.
then, I download vte code, checking the history of vte.c, and final found that behdad has remove this function and leave it be a bug 614658. because this operation is hard to deal with.

now, I can do the selection with the following way.
one hand hold on mouse-left, and the other hand press on shift key, and the "third hand" click PgUp/PgDn key.
aha, it is very cool.

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agou (agooou) said : 		#6

another way, you can reinstall the old version of vte.