#1 2018-11-09 22:48:06

fritzgrant

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Registered: 2017-05-20

Posts: 2

[solved] Right click in a terminal and copy/paste functions

I'm coming from a hiatus from Debian, after being on Arch forks for a while (ArchLabs,Manjaro). In both of those distros, I had the ability to right click in the terminal, whether it be Terminator or Termite and then click copy or paste.

With Bunsenlabs however, I'm discovering that that functionality isn't there, and if I do select some text in the terminal and then try right clicking, brings up the context menu, but the option to copy is greyed out.

Seeing as this was available in the Arch forks in both Terminator and Termite, I feel like this isn't a terminal configuration issue, but something higher. Any ideas on how to get this implemented?

Last edited by fritzgrant (2018-11-10 00:17:03)

Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,030

Re: [solved] Right click in a terminal and copy/paste functions

Works for me:

Maybe my config: ~/.config/terminator/config

[global_config]
  title_transmit_bg_color = "#000000"
  borderless = True
  handle_size = 1
  inactive_color_offset = 0.86
  title_inactive_bg_color = "#000000"
[keybindings]
  hide_window = <Shift><Control>a
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    foreground_color = "#d8d8d8"
    palette = "#000000:#cd0000:#00cd00:#cdcd00:#1e90ff:#cd00cd:#00cdcd:#e5e5e5:#4c4c4c:#ff0000:#00ff00:#ffff00:#4682b4:#ff00ff:#00ffff:#ffffff"
    copy_on_selection = True
    background_image = None
    background_darkness = 0.76
    scrollback_lines = 5000
    background_type = transparent
    use_system_font = False
    cursor_color = "#ffdead"
    cursor_blink = False
    scroll_on_output = False
    scrollbar_position = hidden
    show_titlebar = False
    color_scheme = custom
    font = Liberation Mono Bold 10
    background_color = "#2e3436"
    allow_bold = False
    scrollback_infinite = True
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      type = Terminal
      parent = window0
    [[[window0]]]
      type = Window
      parent = ""
[plugins]

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fritzgrant

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Registered: 2017-05-20

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] Right click in a terminal and copy/paste functions

Works for me:
https://cdn.scrot.moe/images/2018/11/10/2018-11-09_203508_Scrot11.th.jpg

Maybe my config: ~/.config/terminator/config

[global_config]
  title_transmit_bg_color = "#000000"
  borderless = True
  handle_size = 1
  inactive_color_offset = 0.86
  title_inactive_bg_color = "#000000"
[keybindings]
  hide_window = <Shift><Control>a
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    foreground_color = "#d8d8d8"
    palette = "#000000:#cd0000:#00cd00:#cdcd00:#1e90ff:#cd00cd:#00cdcd:#e5e5e5:#4c4c4c:#ff0000:#00ff00:#ffff00:#4682b4:#ff00ff:#00ffff:#ffffff"
    copy_on_selection = True
    background_image = None
    background_darkness = 0.76
    scrollback_lines = 5000
    background_type = transparent
    use_system_font = False
    cursor_color = "#ffdead"
    cursor_blink = False
    scroll_on_output = False
    scrollbar_position = hidden
    show_titlebar = False
    color_scheme = custom
    font = Liberation Mono Bold 10
    background_color = "#2e3436"
    allow_bold = False
    scrollback_infinite = True
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      type = Terminal
      parent = window0
    [[[window0]]]
      type = Window
      parent = ""
[plugins]

That's really odd, this is a fresh install and I haven't touched the config, but loading yours fixed it. Thank you for your help.

Sector11

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,030

Re: [solved] Right click in a terminal and copy/paste functions

That's really odd, this is a fresh install and I haven't touched the config, but loading yours fixed it. Thank you for your help.

Mine is an old one I have been using for a long time.  Glad it helped.

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johnraff

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Registered: 2015-09-09

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Re: [solved] Right click in a terminal and copy/paste functions

I've just tested this in a Terminator window running off the default BunsenLabs config, and copy/paste works for me too.

Confirmed c/p is OK in a freshly installed system on a VM too, so @fritzgrant could it be that you imported some configuration from somewhere else?

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