First, I use KDE, and the copy and paste behavior was driving me nuts.\u00c2\u00a0 If I copied text in an application with ctrl-c and then selected text with the mouse, my copied text would get clobbered by the selected text.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that the culprit was Klipper. \u00c2\u00a0 I made the functionality the way I wanted it by checking the ignore selection<\/em> option in the Klipper configuration window (right click on Klipper icon in tray -> Conrigure Klipper).<\/p>\n Default Browser for Tomboy<\/strong><\/p>\n I like the Tomboy note taking program.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it was opening URLs in notes in Epiphany instead of Firefox.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I run KDE for my desktop environment, since Tomboy is a Gnome app, I have to set the default browser for Gnome apps.\u00c2\u00a0 You can do this with the\u00c2\u00a0 gnome-default-applications-properties<\/em> command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally got off my butt and fixed a few things that had been driving me nuts with the settings on my workstation. Weird KDE copy\/select behavior First, I use KDE, and the copy and paste behavior was driving me nuts.\u00c2\u00a0 If I copied text in an application with ctrl-c and then selected text with… Continue reading Fixing annoying behavior in various Linux desktop appss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[588,591,592,96,594,589,285,590,587,593],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","tag-copy","tag-gnome","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-mouse","tag-paste","tag-recipes","tag-select","tag-settings","tag-tomboy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-ny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Klipper](\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2008\/09\/klipper_config.jpg\")
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