My system just upgraded to new kde and klipper. I see that the url patterns and actions have been replaced by a smarter function. That's wonderful, for those that want url actions. I don't want any url actions, only my defined actions. How do I turn off the built-in URLGrabber without turning off all actions?

Unfortunately, I could not find any reference to "URL grabbing" in my Trunk version of Klipper. I would recommend simply removing the offending actions.

This pretty much describes the feature I'm talking about.
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=946900
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=947439

I have no expressions or actions related to urls but klipper "automatically" recognizes urls and pops up it's own built-in/discovered actions. This is the behavior I want to turn off.

And now I'm discovering an even more annoying aspect of this.
Apparently it tries to recognize anything that looks like a filename with a known extension and offers to open it with an appropriate program assuming that it's an actual file on the local system in my home directory.

I really love klipper's history and programmable actions but really don't want any of these default internal actions.

I have never seen this myself... please report a feature request at bugs.kde.org requesting the ability to disable this functionality.

markw wrote:I have no expressions or actions related to urls but klipper "automatically" recognizes urls and pops up it's own built-in/discovered actions. This is the behavior I want to turn off.

I had something similar to that before, and in my case it was sufficient to uncheck "Ignore selection".

Again, that disables all actions. I need to disable ONLY the automatic built-in actions not any of the actions listed in the Configure->Actions list.

markw wrote:Again, that disables all actions. I need to disable ONLY the automatic built-in actions not any of the actions listed in the Configure->Actions list.

Actually, that's what I thought would happen too. On my system it doesn't at least. The actions work when you cut or copy something, it's just not triggered automatically as soon as something that would trigger an action is selected. You need to hit ctrl-c or ctrl-x to trigger the action.

I.e. my custom actions work as they should when I've marked something AND hit ctrl-c or equivalent. Granted, I can't rule out the possibility that I may have made a customization somewhere that I've forgotten about that has made klipper work the way I want.

I just tried again. Ignore selection prevents the selection from showing up in the history and from triggering any actions. Using ^C or ^X gets the selection into the history but doesn't trigger any actions.

% klipper -v
Qt: 4.5.2
KDE: 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0)
Klipper: v0.9.7
% cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)

Even if it did work having the extra keystroke would drastically reduce the usefulness. I would really like an option to return to previous behavior. I've made such a request in bugs.ked.org. So until a fix I'm stuck with excessive popups or no action shortcuts.