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On Wednesday 20 January 2010 07:48:33 Jim Cunning wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. |
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> > > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you |
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> > > to the link labelled D |
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> > > |
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> > > I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or kmail's |
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> > > config and it went away. Go through both looking for options that |
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> > > mention "Ctrl". I forget what it was, but do remember it was distinctly |
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> > > not obvious at the time. |
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> > |
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> > I had the same problem turning it off on KDE3. It's a system setting, |
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> > Konqueror does the same. ISTR it's in the Accessibility section of |
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> > systemsettings. |
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> OK, thanks for the guidance. |
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> Alan, I was at first confused by your response, and as a test tried, for |
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> example, to enter Ctrl-<letter> for whatever lettered link I wanted to |
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> follow. Didn't work--when I pressed Ctrl the first time to display the |
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> letter boxes, then pressed Ctrl-H (when an "H" box was displayed), the |
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> boxes disappeared as soon as I depressed Ctrl, and with that still |
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> pressed, pressing "H" did nothing. But....if I press and release Ctrl to |
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> display the letter boxes, and then press one of the letters (upper/lower |
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> case didn't matter), the nearby text link was activated. In kmail I was |
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> able to select mailto:, http:, and https: links to open a compose window |
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> in kmail or a new web page my firefox browser. |
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> Firefox does not exhibit this behavior, but konqueror does in the same way |
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> as kmail. I couldn't find any other kxxx utilities with the same |
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> behavior, though. |
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> At least now I know how to use this feature, but unfortunately, I can find |
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> nothing in the KDE menu "System Settings" under the General or Advanced tab |
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> that appears to enable or even modify this behavior. Any other suggested |
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> places to look? |
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Sorry, I have no more suggestions. I think Neil is on the right track with |
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Accessibility. I have that completely disabled here so it doesn't show up in |
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my settings. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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