When I select text in terminal with a mouse, selection only gets copied to primary X selection, but does not update clipboard selection. For example, I select word "input" in terminal. Primary is updated, secondary is empty - as expected. But clipboard still contains old data: $ xsel -p input \ No newline at end of selection $ xsel -s $ xsel -b uint32 bufferWriterCounter \ No newline at end of selection xfce4-terminal version is 0.8.0 $ xfce4-terminal --version xfce4-terminal 0.8.0 (Xfce 4.12) I'm using Arch linux without XFCE DE. Terminal is from official repo. It is built from 0.8.0 release tarball with only this single patch which should not affect selections at all: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/0001-Set-window-hints-properly-showes-columns-rows-when-r.patch?h=packages/xfce4-terminal Ctrl+Ins copies to clipboard as expected.
Why do you expect it to be copied to the clipboard? There's Shift+Ctrl+C shortcut and a context menu entry for that.
I was told here https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=43476 that this is a bug and should be reported as such.
Ok, thanks for posting the forum link. You were replied incorrectly - text selection should _not_ automatically be copied to the clipboard. In xfce4-terminal, there is no option to copy text to the clipboard when selecting it, and we can discuss if it could be added - but this is not a bug.
Not a bug - closing.