Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.22.2-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
[I'm submitting this partially for documentation so that others can find the solution if there is one.] The pattern for double-click-select-words in gnome-terminal used to select most URLs. Now it excludes ':', so fails to select URLs by excluding the protocol part. This has been the subject of numerous debates elsewhere, including upstream, and regardless of the rights or wrongs there appears to have been a documented workaround. Unfortunately that does not appear to work on gnome-terminal in stretch. In particular, there apparently used to be gconf settings which allowed sufficiently-motivated users to restore old behaviour through some command line work, by setting "word-char-exceptions" on their gnome- terminal profile. My attempts to do this have failed; indeed that setting doesn't appear to exist any more. Any suggestions as to an alternative? Upstream issue related to this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730632 Ubuntu discussions of same: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1463072 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1501250 Supposed fix: https://muug.ca/pipermail/roundtable/2015-December/004433.html Personally, while I can appreciate the rigid logic of the new approach, I don't think usability == rigid logic; the old behaviour which recognised most URLs as words was useful. I think it would have made more sense to explicitly make word selection recognise whole URLs when they were detected, rather than prevent that behaviour. That aside, any guidance as to how to restore the old "bad" behaviour for those recidivists who appreciate it would be most gratefully received. --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 Debian Release: 9.0 500 yakkety ppa.launchpad.net 500 stable repo.vivaldi.com 500 stable dl.google.com 500 stable deb.opera.com 500 stable deb.debian.org 100 stretch-backports deb.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =============================================-+-================ libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) | 2.22.0-1 libc6 (>= 2.9) | libdconf1 (>= 0.14.0) | libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.42.0) | libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.20) | libnautilus-extension1a (>= 3.21.92-3~) | libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) | libuuid1 (>= 2.16) | libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.45.90) | libx11-6 | dconf-gsettings-backend | OR gsettings-backend | gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 0.1.0) | gnome-terminal-data (>= 3.22) | gnome-terminal-data (<< 3.23) | Recommends (Version) | Installed =======================================-+-=========== default-dbus-session-bus | OR dbus-session-bus | gvfs | 1.30.4-1 yelp | 3.22.0-1 Package's Suggests field is empty.
