As the title says. The new OS (10.3 Cinnamon) is running fast and updates well. I can copy and paste files anywhere to and from each other, EXCEPT to the terminal. I do quite a bit of terminal work and not having the ability to paste in my command lines when I work on them is a hassle. Sometimes they are long and I don't want to re-key them. For now I am using executable batch scripts but of course that is sub par. Just starting to look around for solutions. After I spin out a few forensic level backups I will get hands on with a solution as needed. The systems where I upgraded to Buster from Stretch/Jessie don't have this issue. I am assuming some settings remained in place during the upgrade. Straight Buster is fine except for this issue. Looking. Anyone else here running clean installed 10.3 (especially Cinnamon) and experiencing this issue? Do you guys have any thoughts? Casual reading (not much so far) doesn't show too much out there. Maybe installing a different terminal emulator?
I've installed Buster 10.0 and 10.3 in a UEFI multi-boot system. Secure Boot enabled. During both OS installs I ticked auto-login. Both installs ignored this and when the OS is loading it requests username/password. Both OS don't allow copy/paste into a Terminal. I plan to delete both OS partitions and remove the booting files from the ESP.
It would be my first thing to do. It would work both as a workaround for problem, but also may give some information - it would be strange if both terminal emulators would not allow copy-pasting. I use Sakura terminal in Openbox/X11 setting. I don't use Wayland yet.
@Palancar with what terminal emulator does chinammon ships with? If it is xterm you can try this https://askubuntu.com/questions/617629/how-to-enable-cut-or-copy-paste-in-xterm
I use a very simple solution for autologin and can confirm it works well! Paste solution: VERIFIED 2-11-2020 WORKING!!!! How to autologin user permenantly on Debian Buster Autologin means than when Debian runs a session starts without entering any password. To get this in Debian we modify the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and change the lines: sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf #autologin-user= #autologin-user-timeout=0 change above to below removing # of course autologin-user=your_user autologin-user-timeout=0 Simple and fast. End paste. I am also looking into installing gnome terminal 3.30.2, which is what is on my Buster systems that came about as upgrades from Stretch. I may not get to this today, but I may be able to.
Thanks for the link. I'll run it through and see if its what I want to try. May just go back to gnome terminal as posted above. Still thinking.
Success, took me less than two minutes to get my old familiar terminal back with all the capabilities I am used to. I installed gnome terminal 3.30.2-2 (version for Buster) directly from Debian. Just placed a terminal icon on my Desktop and I am back in business! Downloaded from Deb's ftp to my Desktop, verified shasum (small file) and installed as below. Easy as hell. I don't have to contend with xterm now. Happy about that. Sailing along now. cd Desktop && sudo dpkg -i gnome-terminal_3.30.2-2_amd64.deb #needed to run for dependencies sudo apt-get install -f Only needed to install a few files, not alot of dependencies.
@Palancar I checked on my machines and xterm does not allow copy paste in Stretch too. I always use xfce4-terminal, so never noticed it in the past... about the autologin. lightdm.conf editing is the first thing to do on debian installations since debian 7 (wheezy).
I know that. I simply like to add "connect the dots" for anyone coming along that would be new to this. I don't know why Debian doesn't honor the autologin selection when an install is happening. Many of us are using Debian on fully encrypted LUKS volumes. Access is protected behind long passwords even booting our machines in the first place. Just saying!
Lightdm is not even listed on the debtags https://debtags.debian.org/search/?wl=&q=tag:x11::display-manager AND tag:role::program&qf=default so I doubt that we will see better support for it for the next decade.
Brian if you have multiple users you may want to change also the line #greeter-hide-users=false to greeter-hide-users=false to avoid typing the user name manually.
Panagiotis, I'm a single user. I have multiple Linux OS booting from BIU. I was interested in seeing which Linux OS support Secure Boot. The only Linux OS I really use is Mint Cinnamon and I have IFL installed and BootNow.
