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IntrusionCM14956280d@Root THX.
GNOME has really become the"You're morons, so we carefully did our best to take everything away" kind of DE. -
exerceo1192280d@AdolfBasedler You're welcome! Persch must be shamed into the ground.
@cafecortado Or set a low enough DPI. 😂 -
IHateFrameworks117279dthere are a ton of reasons to not use linux, but this one gives you a precious insight on who is building your precious OS, linux fanboys
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melezorus343614278d@IHateFrameworks mmmhm. like we can't use another one from the thousands we have. mmmmmmhm
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hjk1015731276d@IHateFrameworks yeah a single implementation of a user land commodity tool (terminal emulator) that is not even part of "Linux" itself. This one gives precious insights...
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In 2020, a bug was found in gnome-terminal where selecting many megabytes of text inside the terminal would cause the terminal emulator to crash.
As a remedy, the brain of gnome-terminal developer Christian Persch spawned a "brilliant idea": Limiting the "Select all" feature to selecting only the portion of text that is visible on screen.
In other words, Persch made the "Select all" option useless. After pressing "Select all", it appeared as if everything was selected, but once you scrolled up, nothing beyond what was visible was selected.
By solving a minor problem that rarely ever occurs, Christian Persch created a major problem that often occurs.
Source for screenshot: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/...
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