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Editing Expressions/Actions

On the Actions tab, double-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 Klipper to match. Klipper uses Qt™'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 (e.g.HTTP URL”) by left clicking in the Description column.

Note

You can find detailed information about the use of QRegExp regular expressions at http://doc.trolltech.com/qregexp.html#details. Note that Klipper 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, e.g. 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 Konqueror, use the clipboard internally. If you get unwanted Klipper pop-ups all the time when using a certain application, do the following:

  1. Open the application.

  2. From a terminal, run xprop | grep WM_CLASS and then click on the window of the application you are running.

  3. 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.

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