Re: How do you stop "auto-selection" in KDE?

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Scott wrote:

> I'm running KDE 3.5 in Debian Sid.
>
> A few days ago I'd found a setting that read something like "Hovering 
> over icons automatically selects them" and I checked it.
>
> A day later I realized this was very annoying and wanted to turn it 
> off.  Not only does it auto-select icons, it auto-selects items in a 
> list as well (e.g. the lists in Kcontrol (be they text lists or icon 
> lists).
>
> But try as I might, I can't remember where I found the setting in the 
> first place.  I've looked in the "logical" places in Kcontrol such as...
>
> Appearances & Themes -->"Icons"
> Desktop --> "Behavior"
> Desktop --> "Window Behavior"
> KDE Components --> "File Manager"
>
> After having gone through those over and over, I went through 
> everything in Kcontrol in case I'd somehow overlooked something.
>
> Obviously, I have or you'd not be reading this.  But for the life of 
> me I can't figure out what I'm overlooking.
>
> This question seems downright stupid (after all I first used KDE back 
> in 1998) but I'm grasping at straws here.
>
> S0 then, where do I turn this back off? :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
Peripherals --> Mouse...  did the same thing myself....  :)

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