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On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:12:09 Jim Cunning wrote: |
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> I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that |
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> kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a |
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> single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is |
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> pressed and released. Another depression/release of the control key |
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> removes the boxes. |
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> I first noticed this with KDE 3.4 on OpenSUSE 10.3, and it has continued on |
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> gentoo with KDE 3.5 and now 4.4. An example of what I'm describing can be |
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> seen at http://cunning.ods.org/kmail-boxes.jpg |
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> I couldn't get any useful hits on Google with the keywords I came up with. |
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> Has anyone seen this and/or know how to eliminate it? |
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Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. IIRC |
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the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you to the link |
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labelled D |
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I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or kmail's config |
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and it went away. Go through both looking for options that mention "Ctrl". I |
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forget what it was, but do remember it was distinctly not obvious at the time. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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