Ubuntu
xterm package

  1. Bug #775967
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 775967

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auquicu (aebsbkrs) wrote : Re: [Bug 775967] [NEW] mouse pasted text not shown

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, auquicu wrote:
>
>>>> Public bug reported:
>>>>
>>>> Binary package hint: xterm
>>>>
>>>> Start X, and under X an xterm running bash.
>>>> Select some text and paste it at the command prompt. It is not echoed.
>>>> Type any keyboard character and the mouse-pasted text appears,
>>>> followed by the typed character.
>>>> This is not a bash problem: typing to cat or ed shows the same
>>>> results.

I never found out what caused this. However, an upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10
fixed it. (And made this machine usable for the first time.)