Problems with copy-paste/root terminal

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#1 Post by **keos** » Mon May 22, 2017 2:04 pm

Hi,

I don't know why i'm no able to open the option for copy-paste with right click at the root terminal. It doesn't work ... right click and nothing happen ...

#2 Post by **Eadwine Rose** » Mon May 22, 2017 2:44 pm

Does ctrl-v work at all in there?

#3 Post by **Jerry3904** » Mon May 22, 2017 2:50 pm

I've never had Ctrl-V work in the xfce4-terminal, but right click > paste has never failed me in MX (not sure about antiX).

#4 Post by **anticapitalista** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:13 pm

Which version of antiX? Roxterm is the default terminal and both user terminal and root terminal right click work on my box.

#5 Post by **skidoo** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:15 pm

PSA

Never copy/paste web-snipped code directly into terminal !
ref: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/0 ... web-pages/
ref: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508225
ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comment ... inal_demo/

#6 Post by **skidoo** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:22 pm

here's a possible cause:
a clipboard manager is not running on user's system, and after performing "copy", but before attempting to paste...
...user closes the app from which the text was copied.

another (common, but unrelated to mouseclick) reason people think "copy/paste in terminal doesn't work":
user expects "Ctrl+C" and "Ctrl+V" to work, but...
...in many terminal emulators, "Shift+Ctrl+C" and "Shift+Ctrl+V" are required for copy/paste operation.

#7 Post by **Eadwine Rose** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:33 pm

Both ways (ctrl v and right click paste) work here.

#8 Post by **caprea** » Mon May 22, 2017 6:47 pm

In antiX-17.a3 I can see this,too.

#9 Post by **anticapitalista** » Mon May 22, 2017 6:55 pm

caprea wrote:In antiX-17.a3 I can see this,too.

antiX-17.a3 uses lxterminal not roxterm. Also, root terminal in the menu is urxvt, which does not do anything if you right click in it. (In next alpha upload, root terminal in menu will open lxterminal, not urxvt). That is why I asked OP to let me know which version of antiX is used.

#10 Post by **keos** » Tue May 23, 2017 11:00 am

Code: Select all

keos@kaos:~
$ uname -a
Linux kaos 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 24 17:15:57 EET 2017 i686 GNU/Linux
keos@kaos:~

I,m user of xfce4 ... installed by me is xfce4-panel 4.12.1

Something is wrong the arrow, the pointing from the mouse move slowly and erratic ...

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