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04-08-2017, 12:23 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2007
Posts: 8
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[KDE] clicking in edit box does not select all automatically
is there an option to change this? because I am used to Windows. Now it requires extra work like clicking somewhere in between, or select all with the mouse, for example/
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04-08-2017, 12:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Earth, unfortunately...
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
Posts: 3,881
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rmdeboer82
is there an option to change this? because I am used to Windows. Now it requires extra work like clicking somewhere in between, or select all with the mouse, for example/
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Just hit CTRL A and that will select all for you. |
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04-08-2017, 12:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 4,328
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Use Ctrl-A to select all text.
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04-08-2017, 02:10 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2007
Posts: 8
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thank you both. there is no config option how to set window behaviour for this case?
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04-08-2017, 07:06 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,932
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What specific "edit box" are you referring to and what distro/version are you running?
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