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