Copy-paste adds tilde (bracketed paste)

[Ted]

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release: 16.04

mate-terminal 1.12.1-1
libvte9 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu3

When copy-pasting into certain applications (such as MariaDB client), ~0 and ~1 are added around the pasted text, e.g.:

this is some copied text

becomes

0~this is some copied text1~

Some searching finds that this is due to a mishandling of bracketed pastes. Apparently this was fixed in the VTE library. According to [1]: "libvte-2.91-0 is good. libvte-2.90-9 is only good if the actual version of that package is 0.36.2 or newer, and libvte9 is bad"

mate-terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 depends on libvte9. libvte-2.91-0 is also available in Ubuntu 16.04. Just installing it doesn't fix the issue of course; mate-terminal would need to be updated to use it.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/407575

Related bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/1350334
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte3/+bug/1506166
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1604351

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