Hi Howard,

On Nov 2, 1:35 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Richard Sheppard wrote:
>
> > I had a handy hot key I had (ctrl-alt-cmd-c) did a "Show Contents
> > Menu" for the Clipboard history, so I could do any number of things
> > with it (mainly pasting the text elsewhere).
>
> I don't remember hearing this one before, it's nice if your clipboard  
> contents are short though I would think it would make more sense on a  
> mouse trigger than a HotKey one (I think this for most menu commands  
> since you need to use the mouse ultimately).

It made sense to me!

> > After upgrading to Leopard, this now causes my PM Dual G5 to thrash
> > quite badly and give me multiple instances of the submenu of Actions.
>
> > Screenshot :http://tinyurl.com/65r6qn
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> > QS ß54 & ß56 both display this.
>
> I was going to say make sure you don't have any Unknown Objects on the  
> history but the screenshot shows you don't. When I try it I don't get  
> the duplicated submenu. B54, 10.5.5, Intel, Clipboard plugin B9, Mouse  
> Triggers plugin 142. I think it's the mouse triggers plugin that  
> provides the Show Contents Menu action.

I've not got Mouse Triggers installed, yet still have Show Content
Menu action available.

> I don't know what's causing the problem. Clearing the clipboard  
> history would be my first attempt. After that try a clean install.  
> Quit Quicksilver, rename ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/  
> and restart QS. You'll lose all your configuration but you'll see if  
> it's a config problem (or corruption) if it works. If it does work you  
> can try moving items back from where you renamed them (while QS isn't  
> running) and see if they break things.

I started from scratch completely and it happens regardless.

> On your same hotkey I have Clipboard History (Show Contents) which  
> shows them in a results list in the main QS command window, so I can  
> quickly type to select an action though I usually hit shift-command-P  
> while in the first pane to perform the Paste action (my default text  
> action for the letter P). Since it doesn't use the mouse, you might  
> like it.

That's what I've resorted to in the end. Thanks for checking it out
though!

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