Fedora 43 KDE, how to do text replacement? Is there a native GUI? When typing January 2nd as 1/2, it auto-replaces to ½ and I’d like to disable it. Thanks!
Not at the Fedora or KDE Plasma level - where this happens, it will be application-specific functionality.
For example in LibreOffice apps, go to “Tools [menu] >> AutoCorrect >> AutoCorrect options”. The defined mappings are shown in the “Replace” tab. If you want to disable all of those, go to the “Options” tab and uncheck the boxes for “Use replacement table”.
Thanks, can I change this in Discover? That’s where the issue is.
That’s weird, there isn’t a setting for it in Discover as far as I can see.
So if you type 1/2 in the search field in Discover, for you it gets converted to ½ ? I can’t make that happen for me.
One thing you could try is disabling the Plasma Keyboard functionality if it is enabled. (This is new and still seems glitchy, for example it causes this issue for some of us.)
To do that, go to the System Settings app, Keyboard >> Virtual Keyboard. If “Plasma Keyboard” is selected, change the setting to “None” instead and click “Apply”.
I’m so sorry, I meant Dolphin, I’m still new to this. It happens when naming files. Thanks!
Oh right, I see. I hadn’t seen this before, but it makes sense.
/ isn’t a legal character in a Linux filename, because it’s the directory separator.
So if you try to use / when renaming a file, it seems that Dolphin takes its best guess at how to convert it to something legal.
1/2 gets converted to ½, whereas a/b gets converted to a⁄b, where the middle character is not a / but the similar-looking character Unicode 0x2044 (“fraction slash”).
You could argue that maybe Dolphin should be consistent between 1/2 and a/b, but it doesn’t seem to be configurable.
In any case, you probably don’t want your filename to include either ½ or the “fraction slash” character, both of which would be annoying to type. So the best thing is probably just to choose a different filename.
Thanks so much! This is my first Linux distro and I’ve only had it for six weeks or so, so I’m still ironing out some kinks.
You’re welcome! I learned something too 