[ale] Konqueror bothering

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:07 am, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> Ok.. I did exactly what you mentioned, i.e. changed the file association
> for HTML/HTM etc. file types.  And, of course restarted KDE, just in
> case... However, I'm still not able to get rid of this annoying Web URL
> handler window that keeps poping at my face, with the following heading:
>
> Web URL - Action for: http://www.cnn.com
>
> Any further clues as to how to get rid of this for eternal ever???

To disable it click on the Klipper icon in your KDE panel.  It's the little 
clipboard icon, generally on the right hand side.  Then deselect "Actions 
Enabled".  If you don't even like its feature of saving your selections, 
just quit the application. 

--Michael

> For some reason it seems to me that there is some sort of handler
> process running that keeps watching for Web URL, which keeps bringing
> this annoying action window every time a URL is highlighted or clicked
> upon.
>
> ~Sunmeet
>
> da Black Baron wrote:
> > OK... THIS is the right snapshot.  Sorry about the other.  And if you
> > get this twice, pardon.  I didn't see the corrected message with
> > attachment in my "sent" folder, so I thought I may have hit the wrong
> > button in my haste...
> >
> > Hope this get's through to ya, because it's really easy as hell to do,
> > man.
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:56, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> >>Hi Aron,
> >>
> >>Thanks for the cool advice, but unfortunately, I'm unable to find the
> >>default URL hadler setting in KDE control center.  Can you help me
> >> find this particular setting?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Sunmeet
> >>
> >>da Black Baron wrote:
> >>>On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:58, Jim wrote:
> >>>>On Thursday 13 March 2003 05:56 pm, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> >>>>>I'm using Netscape 7.0 as my primary browser on with KDE, but
> >>>>> everytime I have to highlight a URL, Konqueror pops out a window
> >>>>> asking me what do I need to do with the URL.  And, I have to press
> >>>>> "cancel" to get rid of it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Any ideas on how can I turn "Cool" feature off.  Thanks but no
> >>>>> thanks to Konquerer for the concern, but this has really started
> >>>>> to bug me.. :(
> >>>>
> >>>>It's probably Klipper, a clipboard app. There should be an icon for
> >>>> it in the lower right hand corner of your kicker panel. Just
> >>>> right-click on it and turn it off.
> >>>
> >>>Or you could go into the KDE control center and change the default
> >>> URL handler to Netscrape...  I've got mine set to Phoenix...  What
> >>> Mozilla should have been 6 years ago... :-)
> >>
> >>--
> >>======================================================================
> >>==== Sunmeet Saluja					Email: sunny at cc.gatech.edu
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> >>Georgia Institute of Technology			Fax:   +1 (404)894-9826
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>---

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