Preferences

Viewing the Preferences Dialog
To view or change 's settings, open the pop-up menu, and select Preferences. The Preferences Dialog will appear. Its contents are described below.

General Options
Pop-up menu at mouse-cursor position 	Make the pop-up menus appear at the position of the mouse cursor, instead of their default positions of in the Panel. Useful if you use the mouse more than the keyboard.
Save clipboard contents on exit 	If this option is on, selecting an item from the history causes to check if any actions are applicable for that item, and shows the possible actions. If the option is off, actions cannot be run on items from the history.
Replay actions on an item selected from history 	If this is switched on, selecting an item from the history causes to display the actions pop-up on that item, if appropriate.
Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection 	Sets the clipboard mode. See Clipboard Modes.
Prevent empty clipboard 	If selected, the clipboard will never be empty: will insert the most recent item from the clipboard into the clipboard history instead of allowing it to be empty.
Timeout for Action pop-ups 	Set the time that a pop-up menu will remain for if you do nothing with it.
Clipboard history size 	Sets the number of items that are stored in the clipboard history.

Actions Options
Editing Expressions/Actions 	On the Actions tab, click the regular expression or action that you want to edit. An in-place text editing box will appear in which the text can be edited as you wish. Make sure you press Enter when you are done.
Adding Expressions/Actions 	Click the Add Action button to add a regular expression for to match. uses 's QRegExp, which understands most regular expressions as you would use in grep or egrep for instance.
You can add a description of the regular expression type (⪚ HTTP URL) by left clicking in the Description column.
You can find detailed information about the use of QRegExp regular expressions at http://doc.trolltech.com/qregexp.html#details. Note that does not support the wildcard mode mentioned on this page.
Edit the regular expression as described above. To add a command to execute, right click, select Add Command and edit the command which appears in the tree under the regular expression.
Note that %s in the command line is replaced with the clipboard contents, ⪚ if your command definition is kedit %s and your clipboard contents are /home/phil/textfile, the command kedit /home/phil/textfile will be run. To include %s in the command line, escape it with a backslash, as so: \%s.
Advanced... 	Brings up the Disable Actions for windows of type WM_CLASS dialog.
Some programs, such as , use the clipboard internally. If you get unwanted pop-ups all the time when using a certain application, do the following:
Open the application
From a terminal, run xprop | grep WM_CLASS and then click on the window of the application you are running
The first string after the equals sign is the one to enter
Once the WM_CLASS is added, no more actions will be generated for windows of that application.

Shortcut Options
The shortcuts tab allows you to change the keyboard shortcuts which are used to access functions. You can change the shortcut to one of three things:
No Key 	The selected action cannot be accessed directly from the keyboard
Default Key 	The selected action uses 's default key. These are the shortcuts referred to in this manual.
Custom Key 	The selected action is assigned to the keys you choose.
To choose a custom key for the action you have selected, click on the representation of a key in the lower right of the screen to activate it, and type the desired key combination on your keyboard, as in any application.