Thanks for the reply. I do not have a Klipper icon. I tossed it a long time ago trying to fix this very problem. And there is no "klipper" process running. (BTW, I started klipper and verified that it's "Enable Actions" is unchecked.) gm On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:46:21PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Gregory Margo wrote: > >I'm running KDE 3.1.3 under Mandrake 9.2. > > > >Almost every time I type a Control-V (^V) in an application (gnumeric > >or vim) or just at the xterm command line, the application gets it, > >but the KDE desktop also gets it, thinks it's been directed to "Paste", > >and downloads the most recent URL it has onto the Desktop. > > > >This is incredibly annoying. It does seem to stop after downloading the > >same file 3 or 4 times, but by that time I've hit the ceiling. > > > >How do I disable this behavior? > > > Do you have the Klipper icon in your system tray? > > Click on it and uncheck: "Enable Actions". > > -- > JRT -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gregory H. Margo Home: greg at margofamily dot org, gmargo at yahoo dot com or pacbell dot net New every monday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/ ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.