Basic terminal question... Stop copy paste on drag.

[Angel Hess]

Often when I am selecting something with the mouse in terminal I select and by mistake drag slightly then unclick which automatically does <copy, paste, enter> in my OS. I press ctrl-c quickly to break out of it and never had any big issues but it is very annoying. I need to stop this from happening. Any idea? Thanks!

 

[richardtoohey2]

in my OS

What OS is that? What version, platform, window manager, etc?

 

[kent_dorfman766]

your question depends on the terminal in question. xterm is the common denominator and is well documented as to how to configure it. other terminals...hit or miss.

 

[SirDice]

your question depends on the terminal in question

It's the copy/paste functionality of X (and Wayland), not the terminal.

 

[kent_dorfman766]

It's the copy/paste functionality of X (and Wayland), not the terminal.

The configuration of such is still under control of the terminal. cut-paste functionality are configured as xterm X resources, so likely would also be under other terminals. the gui server backend only provides the IPC channel to copy the data.