I cannot select a text from a window while a command keeps on outputting. E.g. when I'm playing a movie via mplayer, it's writing a position in the movie and another stuff which remains on a single line (via \r). When I try to select a text in the scrollback (not selecting the changing line at all), sometimes I can select it (when it succeeds to stop outputting for the time I'm selecting) and sometimes I cannot. Can you please look at that? Thank you in advance. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open xfce4-terminal 2. $ mplayer some-movie 3. Try to select a text in the scrollback multiple times. Actual Results: Sometimes the text can be selected, sometimes it cannot. Expected Results: The text can always be selected.
Most terminals have this. That is why you can stop output (Ctl-S) and then continue (Ctl-Q). Not sure this is 1) specific to xfce4-terminal or 2) a bug.
Yeah, but sometimes it works. And I'd be very glad if sometimes changed into always.
Indeed, not a bug. It's obvious that if you're trying to select text in the console when it's continuously updating it means you're racing the process which is updating it. If you've managed to select text then you've just been lucky. In any case, it's an upstream thing.
