Select All (Shift+Ctrl+A) followed by Copy (Shift+Ctrl+C) copies only visible part of terminal output

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Reverting VTE on Ubuntu 21.04 to version 0.62.0-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu 20.10 helps.

I suppose that other VTE-based applications are broken in the same way.

So someone with permissions should revert VTE to the above version in the hirsute archive. Without this all VTE-based terminals will transform to useless toys.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

The "Select All" shortcut, when enabled, only selects text from the end of the buffer that fits precisely within the height of the terminal.

For example

1. Type `ls -l /lib/*` and press Enter.
2. Scroll the terminal to the beginning.
3. Select all using your configured shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-A in my case).
4. Notice that no text is selected.
5. Then scroll the terminal to the bottom.
6. Notice all of the text that fits within the terminal window size is selected.
7. You can expand the terminal vertically to see that text above this area is not selected.

Is this behavior a consequence of Bug #1926256 "Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected" ?

Ubuntu MATE 21.10 impish will be affected by this bug if no additional measures will be taken. Please do something :cry: .

Still not fixed. It is unacceptable.

While the issue is annoying there are workarounds, selecting manually being one for example, it's also something upstream milestoned for 0.68 pending libglib overflow handling changes, we are tagging as rls-ff-notfixing because we don't believe it requires special Ubuntu handling

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1922276

Still happens on Jammy. Should be fixed before final release.

Still a problem for Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS. Please fix it on distro level.

As seb128 explained, this is an issue with libvte-2.91-0 and is scheduled to be addressed in 0.68 and work arounds do exist.

I have run Ubuntu Mate 22.04 in Virtual Box for the specific reason of testing this. I updated VTE to 0.68, but this problem still existed. Should it be fixed in 0.68? As for the workarounds, selecting text manually stops being an option when you repeatedly have to scroll up several minutes while pressing the mouse button...and one slip of the finger in the end forces you do it all over again.

Please fix this before final 22.04 LTS release!!!!!111111

Temporary fix for Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is reverting VTE to previous non-buggy version:

> To fix the 1922276 bug one can use 20.04 LTS's VTE library from [my PPA](https://launchpad.net/~nrbrtx/+archive/ubuntu/vte?field.series_filter=jammy) as follows:
> ```
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/vte
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>````

(The method shown above was originally posted at https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/howto-fixing-some-ubuntu-mate-22-04-lts-issues/25345 ) .