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