Peter Bohner

Fix GhosTTY middle-click/primary Paste

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

After an update, middle-click (primary) copy & paste stopped working in ghostty, because gnome decided to disable the primary clipboard by default. Since ghostty is the only gtk4 application I use, this change caught me by surprise. Luckily, the GitHub discussion was easily findable.

Rant

This is the second time in a couple of months that the way I interact with my terminal has been broken. Things like this must not happen, and I am slightly annoyed that in my 11 years of using Linux, my all my terminal emulators1 had done their job for a decade, only for it to break twice in a couple of months. Software is information, it should not break2.


  1. a surprisingly long list. I remember using: gnome-terminal, konsole, urxvt, st, alacritty, foot and ghostty. ↩︎

  2. that said, he who lives in a glass house… ↩︎