Had to use a non-hardened browser to interact with muggle websites this week and my usual fallback is the chromium based browser, Vivaldi. Sometimes I'll use ungoogled Chromium as well.

Normally when using these browsers for the first time in many weeks, I forget that they don't respect the middle button paste buffer in the URL bar, or anywhere I guess. Today I was annoyed enough to see if I can find a work around.

As it turns out it's a GTK gsetting:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste

If that returns false then do a:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

Now you can middle click paste in Chromium based browsers!

For the uncertain, this works regardless of whether you are running a GTK based desktop or not (i.e. do this if you are running Plasma, LXQt, CoW, whatever also).

Gee, what am I going to do with myself for the rest of the day now?

#Chromium #Browser #Web #Vivaldi #gsettings #GTK #MiddleButtonPaste #SandingSharpEdgesForFunAndProfit