On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:55:42AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote:
> On 15/05/21 8:54 am, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:45:44AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote:
> > > On 15/05/21 4:38 am, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > I have just upgraded my laptop from 20.10 to 21.04 and pasted text now
> > > > appears in reverse video in my terminal windows, how do I undo this
> > > > unwanted change?  I want pasted text in normal video.
> > > > 
> > > open a terminal, and under edit>profile Preferences there are settings to
> > > alter how text appears
> > > 
> > I've tried looking there (in preferences) but there doesn't seem to be
> > a setting which would affect pasted text, unless I'm being very silly.
> > 
> what video card are you using?
> 
> I dimly remember a similar problem many years back and solved it by purging
> the NVIDIA drivers and reinstalling
> 
I'm all Intel (Lenovo T470 laptop).

It's definitely something to do with the 'local' set-up as it only
happens when pasting into a terminal window running bash on the
laptop.  If I ssh to my desktop machine (running 20.10) and paste into
that window the reverse video doesn't happen - really strange!

-- 
Chris Green

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