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After upgrading from xubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, I'm getting the following warning message popping up when I try to paste into a terminal:

Warning: Unsafe Paste

I'm and experienced user. I do understand the implications of pasting arbitrary text from a web page into the terminal, including the possibility of the page injecting invisible text into the clipboard. When I'm pasting text from a web page, I explicitly paste it into a text editor. Every time. I understand why this message exists, and why it shouldn't be easy to disable, but I do take my own precautions, and I don't want this message.

How do I get rid of it?

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  • This has got to be the biggest and stupidest anti-feature of all time!
    – carlspring
    Apr 26, 2023 at 14:32
  • @carlspring: I don't think that it's stupid -- users who aren't being careful about their pastes could definitely get pwned. The implementation is clunky and I don't want it in my way, but it's better than having a lot of new users get compromised out of ignorance.
    – Barton Chittenden
    May 4, 2023 at 16:06
  • Users who aren't careful and don't know what they're doing, should probably not use Linux or any form of Unix, as it requires a certain level of understanding and caution. Turning Ubuntu into just another form of Windows is not what Linux is meant for. I mean -- how would this functionality help someone who doesn't understand what sudo rm -rf / does?
    – carlspring
    May 12, 2023 at 0:05
  • @carlspring: I knew what sudo rm -rf / does long before I understood that pasting what looks like ls -l ~ could actually inject hidden malicious commands into the command line. In any case, you don't become an experienced unix user without being an inexperienced unix user first.
    – Barton Chittenden
    May 12, 2023 at 20:57

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Open up the terminal, click on edit, click on preferences, and untick the box.

Here you go.

That should do it.

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