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Re: [trinity-users] One more KMail config question

From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 02:05:44 +0100
On Tuesday 12 April 2016 01:46:21 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 11 April 2016 15:42:49 Kate Draven wrote:
> > On Monday 11 April 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday 11 April 2016 07:20:48 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 10 April 2016 16:26:46 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > However I can't say that clicking on the abc icon  (in KMail)
> > > > > ever refused to spell check.
> > > >
> > > > No, nor for me.  Works every time.  What keeps turning itself off,
> > > > and I have to keep turning it on again, is the red underlining as
> > > > I type, which I only found out about recently, and which I find
> > > > very useful. The trouble is that I don't always notice immediately
> > > > that it isn't working.  No red *could* mean no typing errors - it
> > > > does happen occasionally! - if I even remember it at all.
> > > >
> > > > Lisi
> > >
> > > I am so used to its not working that it doesn't alarm me when I see
> > > no red, but here its never been underlined.  That is a relatively
> > > minor detail in comparison to the unknown hot key enabling of html
> > > formatted output.
> > >
> > >  know when it happens because of the screen flash I see out of the
> > > corner of my eye about 10% of the time. Its a full screen refresh
> > > just as you get when you discover its on because there more icons to
> > > the right of the encryption multi selector.  I suspect its something
> > > involving my not reaching far enough for the left shift key, and
> > > pressing both it and the ctrl key just below it.  These K360 keys
> > > are square topped and vertical sided keys, which discourage being
> > > hung up like keytops with slanted sides having a piece of metallic
> > > cuttings from the lathe or milling machine, following the slant down
> > > into the key frame, then because the key sides are slanted, wedging
> > > the key down.
> > >
> > > And since we can drive the machines given axis with keys in addition
> > > to writing the code for complex operations, the X & Y is by the
> > > arrow keys, Z being page-up/page-down on the mill, having one of
> > > them jammed down usually equals a damaged/broken tool or damaged
> > > part, usually both. Cutting tools I can buy, for 10-50 dollars,
> > > replacement parts can be worth even more, so stuck keys are to be
> > > avoided at all costs.  I use this same keyboard here in the house
> > > just so I don't have to relearn it when I go to the machines to do
> > > something.  And I just found a place to buy skins for this keyboard,
> > > which should even save things if I spill a cuppa on them, which has
> > > also happened in the past.
> > >
> > > But I have not been able to deduce the third key that completes this
> > > hot-key combo.
> > >
> > > And thats why I am pleading now, for a way to remove that html
> > > enabling hotkey.
> > >
> > > Please people, where is it?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Ok reread. Hotkey combos. Open kcontrol, go to keyboard shortcuts and
> > search there for it. I can't say I've seen one.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> >
> > Kate
>
> BTDT, nothing even remotely close, rather sparsely configured only to
> some stuff that switches workspaces.

I don't think that the problem is a hot key.  But I'll watch out to see if I 
can spot such a pattern.

Lisi
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett