Why does xfce terminal paste commands 1 character at a time?

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Depends on shell.

  • zsh does this.
  • bash doesn’t.

Try simply starting bash before paste.

bash

For permanent default shell change, see:
Default Interactive Shell

There might be a zsh setting for as indicated by pasting characters into terminal slow · Issue #568 · romkatv/powerlevel10k · GitHub.

Reported in Change default shell from bash to zsh by default? - #165 by Patrick just now so hopefully this can be fixed.

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