I know this isn’t Qubes specific but cannot find the answer, so I thought I should try here… Thanks in advance.
I didn’t need gnome-keyring in my (Debian) distro template, so I just removed it from there. No more annoying keyring popups in the Brave dispVM.
sudo apt-get remove gnome-keyring
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I guess I won’t need it too? So, removed it and it works now… Can’t think through if I’d need it for anything… Thanks.
Instead of getting any sleep tonight, I decided to necro this topic & update the initial_preferences file. apparatus’s methodology still works on Qubes 4.3.0, fedora-42-xfce, Brave 1.85.118. Looks like Brave has made some backend updates. A few variables changed. I also added code to remove the Leo AI, and override the default Google search engine with DuckDuckGo.
I cannot figure out how to configure 1) dark mode on default, and 2) disabled javascript optimization, as per the PG recommendations. I leave this task to the next enterprising traveller
initial_preferences
{
"brave": {
"default_private_search_provider_data": {
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"id": "4",
"keyword": ":d",
"prepopulate_id": 501,
"short_name": "DuckDuckGo",
"suggestions_url": "https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"synced_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=brave"
},
"default_private_search_provider_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"ai_chat": {
"context_menu_enabled": false,
"storage_enabled": false,
"tab_organization_enabled": false,
"user_customization_enabled": false,
"user_memory_enabled": false
},
"autocomplete_enabled": false,
"brave_ads": {
"should_allow_ads_subdivision_targeting": false
},
"de_amp": {
"enabled": true
},
"debounce": {
"enabled": true
},
"enable_window_closing_confirm": true,
"fb_embed_default": false,
"linkedin_embed_default": false,
"gcm": {
"channel_status": false
},
"new_tab_page": {
"hide_all_widgets": true,
"show_background_image": false,
"show_brave_news": false,
"show_rewards": false,
"show_stats": false,
"show_together": false
},
"reduce_language": true,
"rewards": {
"badge_text": "",
"show_brave_rewards_button_in_location_bar": false
},
"sidebar": {
"hidden_built_in_items": [
7
],
"last_used_built_in_item_type": 0,
"sidebar_items": [
{
"built_in_item_type": 1,
"type": 0
},
{
"built_in_item_type": 2,
"type": 0
},
{
"built_in_item_type": 3,
"type": 0
},
{
"built_in_item_type": 4,
"type": 0
}
]
},
"today": {
"should_show_toolbar_button": false
},
"twitter_embed_default": false,
"wallet": {
"default_solana_wallet": 1,
"default_wallet2": 1,
"show_wallet_icon_on_toolbar": false
},
"webtorrent_enabled": false
},
"browser": {
"custom_chrome_frame": false,
"color_scheme2": 2,
"has_seen_welcome_page": true
},
"default_search_provider": {
"guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501"
},
"default_search_provider_data": {
"mirrored_template_url_data": {
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"id": "4",
"keyword": ":d",
"prepopulate_id": 501,
"short_name": "DuckDuckGo",
"suggestions_url": "https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"synced_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=brave",
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"id": "4",
"keyword": ":d",
"prepopulate_id": 501,
"short_name": "DuckDuckGo",
"suggestions_url": "https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"synced_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=brave"
},
"template_url_data": {
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"id": "4",
"keyword": ":d",
"prepopulate_id": 501,
"short_name": "DuckDuckGo",
"suggestions_url": "https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"synced_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=brave",
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"id": "4",
"keyword": ":d",
"prepopulate_id": 501,
"short_name": "DuckDuckGo",
"suggestions_url": "https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"synced_guid": "485bf7d3-0215-45af-87dc-538868000501",
"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=brave"
}
},
"media_router": {
"enable_media_router": false
},
"ntp": {
"custom_background_inspiration": false,
"custom_background_local_to_device": false,
"shortcust_visible": false
},
"profile": {
"content_settings": {
"exceptions": {
"cosmeticFiltering": {
"*,*": {
"setting": 2
},
"*,https://firstparty": {
"setting": 2
}
},
"fingerprintingV2": {
"*,*": {
"setting": 3
}
},
"shieldsAds": {
"*,*": {
"setting": 2
}
},
"trackers": {
"*,*": {
"setting": 2
}
}
}
},
"cookie_controls_mode": 1,
"default_content_setting_values": {
"brave_remember_1p_storage": 2,
"cookies": 4,
"httpsUpgrades": 2,
"javascript": 2
}
},
"safety_hub": {
"unused_site_permissions_revocation": {
"enabled": true
}
},
"search": {
"suggest_enabled": false
},
"webrtc": {
"ip_handling_policy": "disable_non_proxied_udp"
}
}