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My desktop environment/window manager (XFCE) in Debian has sadly, suddenly started asking me if I'm sure I want to copy/paste into my terminal.

Yes. I'm sure, always.

How do I disable this fantastical technology, with XFCE specifically? Debian 9.9, if it matters.

AlphaCentauri
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This is new "feature" of xfce4-terminal.

Go to Edit > Preferences > General tab and uncheck "Show unsafe paste dialog".

andrej
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Another answer here explains how to handle this issue through the GUI. However, if you need to do it in a script or from the terminal itself:

echo "MiscShowUnsafePasteDialog=FALSE" | sudo tee -a /etc/xdg/xdg-backbox/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
Chris Davies
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bfbcPing
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It is year 2022 now and the Edit > Preferences > General (tab) > "Show unsafe paste dialog" is no longer present.

However, Edit > Preferences > Advanced (tab) has checkboxes related to copy & paste via mouse, for those of us missing the old X-Window/XTerm/PuTTY behavior:

  1. Use middle mouse click to close tabs
  2. Use middle mouse click to open URL
  3. Automatically copy selection to clipboard.

Terminal Preferences (Advanced tab)

datsb
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