Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux I cannot invoke an action on the current clipboard, either automatically or manually. I cannot even get a tick to appear next to the URL in the clipboard, even though it is the current contents of the clipboard. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start klipper 2. Clear clipboard history 3. Enable automatic actions in klipper 4. Select the URL http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/293557/ 5. Press CTRL+C to copy it Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: Some program should open that URL OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.38-0.rc5.git7.1.fc15.x86_64 Compiler: gcc
A context menu should appear after pressing Ctrl+C for copying that URL(at least for me). I am using klipper 0.9.7 in KDE 4.7.3.
Works for me when using KDE SC 4.8 beta2. I just saved the reporter text into a text file and opened it with kate, then after copying that "http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/293557/", the action was triggered and the popup menu appeared. Did you copy that URL in web browser? Actions are disabled by default for some applications, notably web browsers. Feel free to reopen if it still happens in recent version .
Still seeing this on KDE 4.8.2.
Ah, but now it's slightly better - "Manually invoke action on current clipboard" now works, but automatic actions for URLs don't.
I'm not sure if there is some confusion here. Current;y, it seems that the "automatic" checkbox only makes the pop-up window appear "automatically", when the regex is seen. From the "Expected Results" in the report, it seems that you expect the actions to automatically execute as well? If so, I agree; this would be a useful addition to klipper.
"Automatic" simply does not do anything. The popup doesn't appear. This is still the case in plasma-workspace-5.13.5.
I concur with Robin Green in Comment #6 -- the "automatic" checkbox appears to do nothing. I also agree with you, automatic actions which match should execute as well. I think it should automatically execute the action for which automatic action is selected, no pop-up needed. If the content of the clipboard matches the regular expression and the automatic bit is on, execute the automatic action. Perhaps there are multiple actions with matching regular expressions and the automatic bit set, in that case execute them all one by one. If that's not what automatic was meant to mean, perhaps there could be some documentation listing what "automatic" means (and perhaps a better term other than "automatic" should be chosen because the word automatic seems to be misleading). Some docs on klipper's actions written by anyone who knows how they work (including some examples) would be welcomed.
This bug is for 4.6.0, not 5.15.3, so I'm marking this as resolved unmaintained. If anyone has a similar issue, please make a new bug report since it's likely that the code involved has changed since this bug was submitted. Just in case, I tested the automatic popup menu that is currently available in Klipper and it works fine for the most part. To test it, you need to have some actions set up and in the config dialog, you need to check "Show action popup menu: [x] Immediately on selection". For some reason, Firefox doesn't work with the popup menu, but Qt apps, Gtk apps and Chromium do.