Just a passing curiosity, rediscovering an old 80s/90s trait of overtyping using the Insert key, I thought it could be a nifty time-saver given the amount of text selection and editing I do in general daily computer usage, but it doesn't work in all apps. In Plasma I can use it for instance in KWrite, and it works within LibreOffice, but it won't work when renaming a file in Dolphin. It's also redundant in Thunderbird or Firefox. Is there a setting somewhere that enables this universally or is it a complex thorny issue? gumb
On 2024-10-16 10:47, gumb via openSUSE Users wrote:
Just a passing curiosity, rediscovering an old 80s/90s trait of overtyping using the Insert key, I thought it could be a nifty time-saver given the amount of text selection and editing I do in general daily computer usage, but it doesn't work in all apps.
In Plasma I can use it for instance in KWrite, and it works within LibreOffice, but it won't work when renaming a file in Dolphin. It's also redundant in Thunderbird or Firefox. Is there a setting somewhere that enables this universally or is it a complex thorny issue?
It is per application :-( -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 16/10/2024 11:13, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-10-16 10:47, gumb via openSUSE Users wrote:
Just a passing curiosity, rediscovering an old 80s/90s trait of overtyping using the Insert key, I thought it could be a nifty time-saver given the amount of text selection and editing I do in general daily computer usage, but it doesn't work in all apps.
In Plasma I can use it for instance in KWrite, and it works within LibreOffice, but it won't work when renaming a file in Dolphin. It's also redundant in Thunderbird or Firefox. Is there a setting somewhere that enables this universally or is it a complex thorny issue?
It is per application :-(
☹️ oh that's unfortunate It's the places where I'd want to use it the most where I can't use it at all.
Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Insert key Message-ID : <43e995ea-c23d-4ef8-93ca-dc59fc675e4c@linuxmail.org> Date & Time: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:36:52 +0200 [gumb] == gumb via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: gumb> On 16/10/2024 11:13, Carlos E. R. wrote: CER> > On 2024-10-16 10:47, gumb via openSUSE Users wrote: gumb> >> Just a passing curiosity, rediscovering an old 80s/90s trait of gumb> >> overtyping using the Insert key, I thought it could be a nifty gumb> >> time-saver given the amount of text selection and editing I do in gumb> >> general daily computer usage, but it doesn't work in all apps. gumb> >> In Plasma I can use it for instance in KWrite, and it works within gumb> >> LibreOffice, but it won't work when renaming a file in Dolphin. It's gumb> >> also redundant in Thunderbird or Firefox. Is there a setting somewhere gumb> >> that enables this universally or is it a complex thorny issue? CER> > It is per application :-( gumb> ☹️ oh that's unfortunate gumb> It's the places where I'd want to use it the most where I can't use it gumb> at all. Why not use extensions? 1. for FireFiox Custom Key Binding, et al. 2. for Thunderbird tbkeys https://github.com/wshanks/tbkeys Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past" -- Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) --
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