[xubuntu-users] How to undo 21.04's reverse video for pasted text?

[Alex Johns]

On 15/05/21 8:54 am, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:45:44AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote:
>> On 15/05/21 4:38 am, Chris Green wrote:
>>> I have just upgraded my laptop from 20.10 to 21.04 and pasted text now
>>> appears in reverse video in my terminal windows, how do I undo this
>>> unwanted change?  I want pasted text in normal video.
>>>
>> open a terminal, and under edit>profile Preferences there are settings to
>> alter how text appears
>>
> I've tried looking there (in preferences) but there doesn't seem to be
> a setting which would affect pasted text, unless I'm being very silly.
> 
what video card are you using?

I dimly remember a similar problem many years back and solved it by 
purging the NVIDIA drivers and reinstalling