KDE thing that pops up asking if I want to open text in a browser etc.

David Goodenough david.goodenough at btconnect.com
Mon Nov 11 09:37:36 GMT 2002


On Monday 11 November 2002 08:49, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> This one piece of KDE that I can see being useful to some but is
> annoying to me I can't turn off.
>
> I highlight text - and if the text is a URL kde will pop up a window
> asking me if I want to open it in a browser etc.
>
> This is really annoying- it happens when I highlight a URL in Mozilla.
> It happens when I highlight (for the purpose of cut-n-paste or deleting)
> a URL on web pages I am working on in NEdit or jEdit.
>
> It happens when I just want to copy a URL out of an evolution email and
> paste it into a text document or to a terminal for wget.
>
> It's really annoying- but I can't find where to turn it off.
>
> I actually prefer gnome but gnome won't go 12 hours on my system without
> either completely crashing (box hangs and becomes non pingable) or the
> XServer crashing dropping me back into console.
>
> So I'm stuck with KDE.
>
> Other than (2 my knowledge) KDE not having drawers, though- I could live
> with KDE as long as this thing is disabled.
>
> It's really starting to annoy me. Big time. How do I shut it off?
>
>
>
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right mouse on the Klipboard icon on the panel, and turn off actions
enabled.

David
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