Sync klipper docs with the current interface

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Yuri Chornoivan 4 years ago
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<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>
<date>2021-04-17</date>
<releaseinfo>Plasma 5.20</releaseinfo>
<date>2022-05-05</date>
<releaseinfo>Plasma 5.25</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>&klipper; is the &plasma; clipboard cut &amp; paste utility.</para>
@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ contents, select <guimenuitem>Disable This Popup</guimenuitem> on the pop-up men
to return to what you were doing before. If you leave the menu, it will
disappear, leaving you to continue your work. You can change the time
that the menu remains for in the settings
dialog, with the option <guilabel>Timeout for action popups</guilabel>
dialog, with the option <guilabel>Show action popup menu</guilabel>
under the <guilabel>General</guilabel> page. You can separately disable the
file path part using the option <guilabel>Enable MIME-based actions</guilabel> under
the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> page.</para>
file path part using the option <guilabel>Include MIME actions</guilabel> under
the <guilabel>Action Menu</guilabel> page.</para>
<para>Actions can be disabled completely by pressing
the shortcut <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>X</keycap></keycombo>.</para>
@ -187,13 +187,12 @@ in a context menu.</para>
In order to change clipboard/selection behavior, select
<guimenuitem>Configure Clipboard...</guimenuitem> from the &klipper; context menu,
and in the dialog box that appears, select the
<guilabel>General</guilabel> page. Unchecking <guilabel>Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the
selection</guilabel> makes the clipboard and selection function as completely
<guilabel>General</guilabel> page. Unchecking <guilabel>Selection and Clipboard</guilabel> makes the clipboard and selection function as completely
separate buffers as described above. With this option set, the option
<guilabel>Ignore selection</guilabel> will prevent &klipper; from
<guilabel>Ignore</guilabel> will prevent &klipper; from
including the contents of the selection in its clipboard history and from
performing actions on the contents of the selection. Selecting
<guilabel>Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection</guilabel>
<guilabel>Selection and Clipboard</guilabel>
causes the clipboard and selection buffers to always be the same, meaning that
text in the selection can be pasted with either the
<mousebutton>middle</mousebutton> mouse button or the key combination <keycombo>&Ctrl;<keycap>V</keycap>
@ -221,85 +220,70 @@ selected, the clipboard functions in the &UNIX; mode; if not, the
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Save clipboard contents on
exit</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>If this option is on, the clipboard
history will be saved when &klipper; exits, allowing you to use it next time
&klipper; starts.</para>
</listitem>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Selection and Clipboard</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>When text or an area of the screen is highlighted with the mouse or
keyboard, this is the <emphasis>selection</emphasis>. It can be pasted using
the middle mouse button.</para><para>If the selection is explicitly copied
using a <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem> action, it
is saved to the <emphasis>clipboard</emphasis>. It can be pasted using a
<guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> action.</para><para>When turned on this option
keeps the selection and the clipboard the same, so that any selection is
immediately available to paste by any means. If it is turned off, the
selection may still be saved in the clipboard history (subject to the
options below), but it can only be pasted using the middle mouse button.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Prevent empty clipboard</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If selected, the clipboard will never be empty: &klipper; will
insert the most recent item from the clipboard history into the clipboard
instead of allowing it to be empty.</para></listitem>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Clipboard history</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Toggles clipboard history.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Ignore images</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>When an area of the screen is selected with mouse or keyboard,
this is called the <quote>selection</quote>. If this option is selected, only text
selections are stored in the history, while images and other selections are not.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Ignore selection</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the clipboard mode. This option will prevent &klipper; from
including the contents of the selection in its clipboard history and from
performing actions on the contents of the selection. See <xref linkend="clipboard-modes"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Number of entries</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the number of items that are stored
in the clipboard history.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Text selection only</guilabel></term>
<term><guilabel>Text selection</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>When an area of the screen is selected with mouse or keyboard, this is
called the <quote>selection</quote>. If this option is selected, only text selections
are stored in the history, while images and other selections are not.
called the <quote>selection</quote>. This option determines wWhether text selections are
saved in the clipboard history. It is possible to choose between <guilabel>Always save
in history</guilabel> and <guilabel>Only when explicitly copied</guilabel>. The
<guilabel>Always save in history</guilabel> option is not available if
selection/clipboard synchronisation is turned off &dash; in this
case the selection is never automatically saved in the clipboard history.
See <xref linkend="clipboard-modes"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the
selection</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the clipboard mode.
When an area of the screen is selected with mouse or keyboard, this is
called the <quote>selection</quote>. If this option is selected, the selection and the
clipboard is kept the same, so that anything in the selection is immediately
available for pasting elsewhere using any method, including the traditional
middle mouse button. Otherwise, the selection is recorded in the clipboard
history, but the selection can only be pasted using the middle mouse button.
Also see the <guilabel>Ignore selection</guilabel> option.
See <xref linkend="clipboard-modes"/>.
<term><guilabel>Non-text selection</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This option determines whether non-text selections (such as images) are
saved in the clipboard history. It is possible to choose between <guilabel>Always save
in history</guilabel>, <guilabel>Only when explicitly copied</guilabel>, and
<guilabel>Never save in history</guilabel>. The <guilabel>Always save in
history</guilabel> option is not available if selection/clipboard synchronisation
is turned off &dash; in this case the selection is never automatically saved in the
clipboard history. See <xref linkend="clipboard-modes"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Timeout for action popups</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Set the time that a popup menu will remain for if you do
nothing with it.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Clipboard history
size</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the number of items that are stored
in the clipboard history.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="actions-page">
<title>Actions Options</title>
<sect1 id="action-menu-page">
<title>Action Menu</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show action popup menu</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Set the time that a popup menu will remain for if you do
nothing with it.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Replay actions on an item selected from
history</guilabel></term>
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Exclude Windows</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Brings up the <guilabel>Disable Actions for windows of type
WM_CLASS</guilabel> dialog.</para>
<para>Some programs, such as &konqueror;,
use the clipboard internally. If you get unwanted &klipper; pop-ups all the time
when using a certain application, do the following:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Open the application.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From a terminal, run <userinput><command>xprop</command>
| <command>grep</command> <parameter>WM_CLASS</parameter></userinput>
and then click on the window of the application you are
running.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The first string after the equals sign is the one to
enter.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Once the WM_CLASS is added, no more actions will be generated for
windows of that application.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Remove white space when executing actions</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If selected, any white space (spaces, tabs, &etc;) at the
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Enable MIME-based actions</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If selected, in addition to the actions you defined
a list of applications for the detected MIME type will appear in the popup menu.</para>
<term><guilabel>Include MIME actions</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If selected, include applications that can accept its
&MIME; type of a file name or URL selected in the popup menu.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="actions-configuration-page">
<title>Actions Configuration</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Editing Expressions/Actions</term>
<listitem><para>On the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> page, double-click
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include <token>%s</token> in the command line, escape it with a
backslash, as so: <userinput>\%s</userinput>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Advanced</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Brings up the <guilabel>Disable Actions for windows of type
WM_CLASS</guilabel> dialog.</para>
<para>Some programs, such as &konqueror;,
use the clipboard internally. If you get unwanted &klipper; pop-ups all the time
when using a certain application, do the following:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Open the application.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From a terminal, run <userinput><command>xprop</command>
| <command>grep</command> <parameter>WM_CLASS</parameter></userinput>
and then click on the window of the application you are
running.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The first string after the equals sign is the one to
enter.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Once the WM_CLASS is added, no more actions will be generated for
windows of that application.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>

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