"Paste on selection" pastes the wrong item in Gnome Terminal about gnome-clipboard-history HOT 6 CLOSED

Better idea, let's just set the primary clip too (Shift + Insert pulls from there). It seems to work fine in the terminal.

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Ah, I know what's going on. What I'm doing is pretty hacky: there's no "paste this thing" API, so I have to create a virtual keyboard and simulate a paste. Right now, I chose Shift + Insert as the keyboard shortcut to paste, but apparently that's wrong: https://askubuntu.com/a/356032/456255. Changing it to Ctrl + Shift + V would fix it and should be universally accepted. The one downside is that a bunch of programs will interpret that as a "Paste as plain-text" request so people will have to repaste normally if they want the full text.

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Changing it to Ctrl + Shift + V would fix it and should be universally accepted.

Just tried this. It doesn't work in so many places.

Right now, I chose Shift + Insert as the keyboard shortcut to paste

I can't try that combination since there's no Insert key on my keyboard (lol), but mouse middle-click seems to work just fine everywhere, even in Gnome Terminal.

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Found your thread. Haha... Cool stuff.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/api-to-paste-from-clipboard-for-extensions/8593

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Yup lol. I'm curious, where does Ctrl + Shift + V not work? For me, the middle mouse click doesn't work lol (though maybe that's just my mouse being weird, I'll have to try with the virtual keyboard).

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I'm curious, where does Ctrl + Shift + V not work?

In my case, it's most places. Just some examples:

• Firefox (location bar; any text field either in the browser chrome or in web content)
• GNOME Files (search; location bar)

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