KDE 3.0 URL popup

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:06:47AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
>On 3/6/2003 4:15 AM, someone claiming to be Pam R wrote:
>> On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:13, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> 
>>>When I highlight a URL in an xterm under KDe 3.0.3 (SuSE 8.1) a popup comes
>>>up from the control panel at the bottom of the screen labelled WEB-Url with
>>>a selection of programs that I might want to use.  What's doing this, and
>>>what do I do to disable it?
>> 
>> 
>> It's coming from the Klipper panel applet. You may be able to configure 
>> Klipper to disable this action, I don't know because I run with Klipper 
>> itself disabled 'cause I find it to be a general nuisance.
>> 
>
>It's in the right-click menu somewhere, Disable Actions or some such. 
>That annoying, intrusive behavior is gone in 3.1.x...

Yeah, I found that shortly after posting the question.  It's in the
clipboard control and right-clicking shows an option to disable the
actions.

Perhaps the KDE folks were trying to be as annoying as the Microsoft
paperclip?

Bill
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