How can I block select in Konsole?

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In terminal emulators like GNOME terminal, I can hold the control key and use my mouse to select a block of text. Doing the same in Konsole has no effect -- the mouse simply selects one character after another, to the end of each line, wrapping around, as if I were using GNOME terminal and selecting text without holding the control key.

How can I block select text in Konsole?

In the unlikely event that someone arrives here wondering why block selects don't work for them in konsole or GNOME terminal in e.g. VirtualBox running under macos: it should work if you disable mouse integration. Macos interprets Ctrl-click as a right-click. — sneep, Jul 14 '23 at 07:05

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '13 at 21:42

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Does Ctrl+Alt work?

Found it mentioned in a bug tracker, but I can't test it myself as I don't use KDE.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 21:42

Martin von Wittich

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Doesn't work with tmux though – baldrs Sep 12 '17 at 10:44
yup , it works in konsole ! thanks ! – neofutur Sep 16 '22 at 07:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '20 at 02:02

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I can confirm that Ctrl+Alt works (and yes, even in tmux).

(but I'm pretty sure you figured it out by yourself 6 years ago)

answered May 08 '20 at 02:02

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How can I block select in Konsole?

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