While the issue is annoying there are workarounds, selecting manually being one for example, it's also something upstream milestoned for 0.68 pending libglib overflow handling changes, we are tagging as rls-ff- notfixing because we don't believe it requires special Ubuntu handling
** Tags removed: rls-jj-incoming ** Tags added: rls-jj-notfixing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte2.91 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922276 Title: Select All (Shift+Ctrl+A) followed by Copy (Shift+Ctrl+C) copies only visible part of terminal output Status in MATE Desktop: New Status in mate-terminal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Have Ubuntu MATE 21.04 installed (or use Live session) 2. Launch MATE Terminal 3. Enable infinite history (Edit - Profile Preferences - Scrolling, Scrollback - Unlimited) 4. Execute command with long output such as `journalctl | cat` 5. Select Edit - Select All (or press <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<A>), then Edit - Copy (or press <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<C>) 6. Open Pluma text editor and paste just copied terminal output Expected results: * whole terminal output is copied - staring by `user@host:~$ journalctl | cat` and ending by `user@host:~$` Actual results: * only last 15 lines were copied (depends on terminal size) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04 Package: mate-terminal 1.24.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-13.14-generic 5.11.7 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CasperVersion: 1.461 Date: Thu Apr 1 17:35:47 2021 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=C.UTF-8 SourcePackage: mate-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mate-desktop/+bug/1922276/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
