On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 12:28 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 2/7/21 02:02, Chris Murphy wrote:
> As it turns out there's a bug where copying a large amount of selected
> text can cause Terminal to crash. The work around, which I'm
> experiencing in Rawhide, is worse than the bug: select-all is limited
> to just the immediately visible text.
>
>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/288#note_1015588
>
> Any ideas on a work around for the work around? I don't really want to
> have to run script all the time just because I might want to extract a
> bunch of text, and then have to deal with ensuing encoding problems. I
> also don't want to have to track down a replacement terminal
> application either. So far my work around has been to just not fight
> this and reboot Fedora 33 where the problem doesn't happen.
I went ahead and filed
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/216 to
get the Workstation WG guidance on this.
Limit to whatever amount doesn't crash, rename the menu entry Select
(A)s Much As Possible :P
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