Select All not working correctly in Linux Mint-21.x

[vossenjp]

Re-creating from obsolete: https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/bugs/135/

"Edit > Select All" now seems to select only the visible view-port text, no matter where the scroll-back is positioned. So the result is "select all visible" and not "select all in scroll-back" as intended. (See original Select the entire scrollback buffer? discussion.)

Environment:

• FAILS as below on: ROXTerm 3.12.1 from PPA on Linux Mint-21.0 and 21.2 (base = jammy).
• Works as expected on: ROXTerm 3.12.1 from PPA on Linux Mint-20.3 (base = focal).

To reproduce:

1. Run several commands so that output scrolls off the screen into the scroll-back buffer.
2. "Edit > Select All".
3. "Edit > Copy".
4. Paste into an editor.

Result: I only get the text from the visible screen.
Expected: I want the text from the entire scroll-back buffer.

Hack-around? Is there a way to get ROXTerm to (continuously?) write the scroll-back to disk, in addition to RAM? I'd love that for some other reasons as well.

[vossenjp]

Tony Houghton - 2023-07-27
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Anyway, the change in behaviour is caused by VTE. https://gitlab.gnome.org/search?search=vte_terminal_select_all&nav_source=navbar&project_id=1893&group_id=8&scope=issues. It's supposed to be a temporary hack to prevent a crash in gnome-terminal, but they've failed to fix the issue in a reasonable time.

There is a function to write the entire buffer to a (file) stream, so I could support that in ROXTerm. I'm quite busy at the moment though, so it might take a while before I can get around to it.

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JP Vossen - 2023-07-27
Damn, I knew it moved to GitHub, I went here because I looked up my old ticket about "select all" and this is where it was. ... Re-created here.

As always, thanks for the quick reply and awesome tool.

[realh]

Looks like the builds have worked this time, except on bionic, whose CMake is too old, I think. The actual publishing is still pending though.

[vossenjp]

I think that comment was for #150. I have now gotten 3.13.1 from Jammy PPA. I haven't tested it yet because I am in the middle of things. I'll get to it Real Soon Now, though some folks at work might beat me to it.