#1018538 is back - can't copy in 5.77-0ubuntu1.2

[Loren Amelang]

I have Ubuntu 14.04 on an EeePC 901, with Byobu 5.77-0ubuntu1.2. As described in detail in Bug #1018538, any text I manage to select gets unselected within a second. If I can manage the whole sequence fast enough, copy is successful. Apt says my version is the latest available. I haven't dug any deeper, beyond searching the web and finding the 2012 bug which describes exactly what I experience. Would some of the "workarounds" mentioned there help?

I seem to remember the same problem with Byobu in Ubuntu 12.04, but I don't remember which version I had then. Whatever was automatically installed and updated by Apt-get.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

What terminal are you using? I seem to recall that the source of this bug is related to how the terminal repaints.

I can tell you that I cannot reproduce this problem in gnome-terminal under Ubuntu 15.04 and byobu 5.92.

[Loren Amelang (loren-x)]

Dustin,

About says Gnome-terminal 3.6.2.

Amazingly, it is working great right now! I don't remember ever being able to easily copy text from the terminal on this machine. Absolutely no idea what could be different, though I did install a huge batch of updates recently. Maybe the former cause got fixed?

If it comes back I'll explore and let you know!

Thanks for the reply,

Loren

| Loren Amelang | <email address hidden> |

On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Dustin Kirkland 
<email address hidden> wrote:

> What terminal are you using? I seem to recall that the source of this
> bug is related to how the terminal repaints.
>
> I can tell you that I cannot reproduce this problem in gnome-terminal
> under Ubuntu 15.04 and byobu 5.92.
>
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> #1018538 is back - can't copy in 5.77-0ubuntu1.2
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> Bug description:
> I have Ubuntu 14.04 on an EeePC 901, with Byobu 5.77-0ubuntu1.2. As
> described in detail in Bug #1018538, any text I manage to select gets
> unselected within a second. If I can manage the whole sequence fast
> enough, copy is successful. Apt says my version is the latest
> available. I haven't dug any deeper, beyond searching the web and
> finding the 2012 bug which describes exactly what I experience. Would
> some of the "workarounds" mentioned there help?
>
> I seem to remember the same problem with Byobu in Ubuntu 12.04, but I
> don't remember which version I had then. Whatever was automatically
> installed and updated by Apt-get.
>
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