The Konqueror Handbook
Copyright © 2000, 2002 Erwan Loisant, Pamela Roberts
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Konqueror is KDE's advanced File Manager, Web Browser and Universal Viewing Application.
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Konqueror is an advanced file manager for the K Desktop Environment, providing file management functions ranging from simple cut/copy and paste operations to advanced local and remote network file browsing. Folder contents can be displayed in a variety of text and icon view modes, which can include thumbnail preview images of file contents. File and folder properties can easily be examined and changed and applications launched with a simple click of the mouse button.
Konqueror is an HTML 4.01 compliant web browser with built in support for JavaScript (ECMA-262), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and bidirectional scripts (such as Arabic and Hebrew). It provides support for the secure running of Java™ applets, Netscape® plugins for viewing Flash™, RealAudio® and RealVideo® and SSL for secure communications. Advanced features include automatic URL and form completion, the ability to import bookmarks from other browsers and tabbed browsing.
Konqueror is also an excellent full featured FTP client.
Konqueror is a universal viewing application, capable of displaying images and documents without having to launch another application. It does this by embedding components (KDE Parts) provided by other applications; from KView for image viewing, KDVI for DVI viewing, KGhostView for PostScript® documents and from the various KOffice applications for their document types.
Konqueror is a fully customisable application which anyone can configure to suit their own needs, from changing the overall style and the sizes of text and icons to selecting which items appear in the Menubar, changing the number and positions of the toolbars and even defining new shortcut key combinations. Different configuration profiles can be saved for easy recall as needed.
Like all KDE applications, Konqueror is highly configurable. This document describes how Konqueror behaves with the normal, default, settings.
A three button mouse can be useful when you are running Konqueror or any other KDE application. If your mouse only has two buttons then you should be able to set your system up so that you can simulate a mouse button by pressing both buttons at the same time.
If you are used to having to double-click to perform an action, then take care, because in common with the rest of KDE, Konqueror defaults to single-clicking.
Being a combined File Manager and Browser, Konqueror will automatically switch between the two modes as needed when it is running, but it is convenient to be able to choose which mode is to be used when you start it up.
If you have a house shaped icon on the panel or desktop, then click on it to open Konqueror as a file manager.
Or click on world shaped icon on the panel or desktop to open Konqueror in browser mode.
From the menu, select -> to start it as a browser, or to launch Konqueror in file manager mode.
Alt+F2 will open a Run Command dialogue box, type konqueror (lower case) and press Enter or the button to start in file manager mode, or just enter a URL such as http://www.konqueror.org to start Konqueror as a browser.
Konqueror is also started automatically when you click on a desktop icon that represents a folder, such as a hard disk drive or the Trash icon.
A brief look at the main parts of Konqueror's window:
The Titlebar is the strip across the top of Konqueror's window, and operates in the same way as for other KDE applications. click on the central portion to bring up the neat Titlebar menu.
The Menubar is the strip containing the names of the drop-down menus. click on a name to alternately show and hide that menu, or use Alt+the underlined letter in the name as a hot key, for example Alt+E to show the menu. The various menus are described in the Menubar section of this document.
The Toolbar contains icons for commonly used operations. clicking on an icon will activate it. If you have enabled tooltips in the Control Centre -> dialogue a brief description of what that icon does will appear when you hover the pointer over it.
Some icons, for example the Up and Back icons in the previous screenshot, have a small black triangle at their bottom right corner. If you hold the mouse button pressed while the cursor is over this type of icon a small dropdown menu will appear.
clicking on the Toolbar will bring up the Toolbar Menu which you can use to change the Toolbar's appearance and position.
The Location Toolbar shows the path to the directory, URL or file being viewed. You can type a path or URL here and press Enter or click on the Go icon at the right hand end of the Location Toolbar to go to it. The black icon at the left hand end of the Location Toolbar clears the text entry box.
The Bookmark Toolbar is the area under the Location Toolbar in the previous screenshot. You can add frequently used bookmarks here, see the Organising Your Bookmarks section of this document.
The Window is the main area of Konqueror and can show you the contents of a directory, web page, document or image. Using the menu you can split Konqueror's main window into one or more separate views, useful for drag and drop operations, or set it to contain two or more tabbed views.
The Status Bar runs across the bottom of the Konqueror's window and often shows general information about whatever the mouse pointer is hovering over. If you have split the main window into a number of views you will get an Status Bar for each view, and it will include a small green light at the left hand end to show which is the “active” view. clicking on the Status Bar brings up the Status Bar Mouse Button Menu.
Don't worry if your Konqueror doesn't look exactly like this screenshot, it is highly configurable. In particular:
You can use the menu to choose whether to show or hide the Menubar, Main Toolbar, Location Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbar, or even to add an Extra Toolbar.
You can also “flatten” the toolbars by clicking on the vertical lines at the left hand end of the bars, or move them around by holding the mouse button down while you drag these bars around.
This screenshot does not show the optional Navigation Panel.
For more details of how to change Konqueror's appearance, see the Configuring Konqueror section
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You can find out a lot about how Konqueror works without needing to read this entire document if you take advantage of Tooltips and the feature.
If Tooltips have been enabled in KDE (K menu ->->, Style dialogue) then when you hover the mouse pointer over a Toolbar or Navigation Panel button it should bring up a terse description of what that button does.
is invoked by the Menubar -> item, by Shift+F1, or by just mouse button clicking on the question mark near the top right hand corner of Konqueror's window. It changes the cursor to show a question mark alongside the arrow.
When this question mark is visible, a mouse button click won't actually do anything until you have clicked on a control (or the text alongside it) that supports , in which case it will display a reasonably comprehensive description of what the control is supposed to do. Most of the dialogue boxes that Konqueror brings up support the feature.
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If you click the mouse button on an item in Konqueror's window that item will be “activated”. Thus
click on an icon in the Toolbar to do whatever that icon is supposed to do.
click on an item in the Menubar to make that menu drop down.
click on a menu item to do that thing.
click on an icon in the Bookmark Toolbar to open that URL.
click on a link in a web page to make Konqueror follow that link.
click on a folder icon or name and Konqueror will descend into (show the contents of) that folder.
click on a file name or icon and Konqueror will do whatever it thinks appropriate, based on the file type. In general this means opening HTML pages, or previewing text, image or KOffice files, showing them within Konqueror's window (“Preview” means that you can see the file but not change it).
Konqueror decides what the file type is by matching the filename extension against a list of known types. If that fails it tries to guess the type from the file contents. You can change the list of known file types and associated actions with the File Associations page of the -> dialogue.
Clicking the mouse button on a file or folder name or icon does essentially the same as clicking except that it usually does it in a new Konqueror window, unless the Open links in new tab instead of in new window box has been checked in the page of the -> dialogue.
Holding the Shift key down while pressing the mouse button will open the link in the background.
If you click the mouse button when the mouse cursor is over a blank part of the main view (not over a link or file name or icon) Konqueror will copy the contents of the clipboard into the Location Toolbar and try to use that as a URL.
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Clicking the mouse button on almost any part of Konqueror's window will bring up an appropriate context menu.
If you have enabled the Right click goes back in history option in Konqueror's configuration settings a simple click is equivalent to clicking on the button. In this case you can access the context menu by moving the mouse with the button held down.
clicking on any free area of the Titlebar brings up the Titlebar Menu, allowing you to control the position of Konqueror's window as well as the decoration applied to all KDE program windows.
click on any free area of the Toolbar to bring up the Toolbar Menu. You can use it to control whether the Toolbar is at the top, bottom, left or right of Konqueror's window. You can also use the Toolbar Menu to set the size of the buttons on the Toolbar, and whether they are shown as icons, text or both.
click in the URL entry box area to perform Cut, Copy, Paste or Clear operations in this area, or to change the automatic Text Completion features.
If you have the Bookmark Toolbar showing, then click on any free part of it to bring up the Bookmark Toolbar Menu which lets you change its position and whether items are shown as text, icons, or both.
If you click on any free area of a view then you will get a menu that contains, among other options, the Up, Back, Forward and Reload navigation commands.
This is a most useful feature. clicking on the name or icon of any file or folder not only “selects” that item but also brings up a menu allowing you to Cut, Move, Copy or Remove the item in various ways, add it to your , open it with the program of your choice or preview it, rename it, or edit the file type or properties.
click on the Status Bar at the bottom of a window or view to add or remove a view within Konqueror's window.
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You can view KDE Help and UNIX® Man and Info pages directly in Konqueror, without having to start up KHelpCentre.
To view a KDE Help page, enter help:/ (for example application namehelp:/kmail to view the KMail documentation.) into Konqueror's Location Toolbar window.
If you want to read UNIX® Man pages Konqueror makes it easy. For example type man:/touch or #touch into the Location Toolbar to see the page for the touch command.
To browse through UNIX® Info pages, entering info:/dir takes you to Info's top level directory, then it's just a matter of clicking on the right links to find the page you want. Alternatively, use info:/ to go straight to the Info page you want.command name
Unfortunately, KDE Help pages are stored in such a way that they cannot be viewed in other browsers. If you really need to do this your only recourse is to go online and visit http://docs.kde.org.
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In UNIX® and Linux® all folders are arranged in a simple inverted tree structure descending and branching down from from a single top level folder. This means that you can get from any folder to any other by going “up” until you reach a common point then “down” through the appropriate subfolders until you reach your target.
The position of any file or folder in the tree can be described by its “path”, which is a simple list of the folders you would have to descend through to get to the target folder or file. For example /home/pam is the subfolder pam of the subfolder home of the top level folder, and /home/pam/words.txt is the file words.txt in that subfolder. The leading “/” in these paths represents the top level folder.
Every folder accessible by your system, including those on other hard disk partitions, your floppy and CD-ROM, will appear in the tree descending from /, their exact paths will depend on how your system was set up (see also the section on Floppy and CD-ROM Drives).
Every user on a UNIX® / Linux® system has their own “home” folder to hold their personal files and settings, for example /home/jon and /home/mary. The symbol ~ is often used to represent the user's home folder, so that ~/letter.txt refers to the file letter.txt in my home folder.
Note that the term “directory” is often used instead of “folder”.
In File Manager mode, Konqueror shows you what files and subfolders are held in a folder, and can provide you with some information about them.
The “path” of the folder you are looking at is shown in the Titlebar, and also in the Location Toolbar, prefixed with “file: ” to indicate that the folder is part of your computer's normal file system. For example file:/home/pam.
The way that Konqueror displays the files and folders depends mainly on your choice of View Mode. This can be selected from the -> sub menu, which gives you the following options:
Displays the name and a suitable icon for each file or folder.
Similar to except that the display is neatly formatted into regular columns.
Displays each file or folder on a separate line, as a small icon followed by the file or folder name followed by information about the item. The amount of information shown is controlled by the -> sub menu settings.
Similar to except that icons are not shown and the first character in each line will be “/” if the item is a folder.
This option is useful for navigating through the folder tree below the current folder. The display is similar to except that the start of each line will show a small + sign in a box if the item is a folder. clicking on the box will expand the display to show the contents of that folder.
Similar to except that, where applicable, it shows the number of lines, words and characters and file format for each file.
The default file icons shown in and modes can be replaced by small preview images of the file contents, see the section File Previews of this handbook for more details.
Checking the Show file tips box in the Behaviour page of the Konqueror Configuration dialogue causes a small pop up information window to appear when the mouse pointer is hovered over a file or folder name or icon in or mode.
If the Show previews in file tips checkbox is checked the pop up window will also show a small image of the file contents.
Selecting -> from the Menubar will bring up a sub menu that lets you enable file previews for certain types of file.
Generally this means that the file's icon will be replaced by a small image showing the file contents.
If file preview is enabled for the file will be played whenever the mouse cursor is hovering over the file name or icon.
Note that file previews are only available in and modes.
Because Konqueror has to read much more data than just the file name details to generate a preview, file previews may not be appropriate when viewing files on a floppy or from a remote system. The Previews page of the File Manager Configuration dialogue allows you to disable file previews for protocols such as ftp where reading the extra data would take too long.
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To get to a file with Konqueror you first need to navigate through the folder tree to find the folder containing that file.
To move between folders you can simply step up and down the tree:
To descend into a subfolder click on its name or icon, or if you have “selected” it (see below) then just press Enter.
To go up the folder tree, click on the Up button in the Toolbar, or useAlt+Up Arrow, or use the Menubar -> option.
To “select” a file or folder in the displayed folder without opening it in any way use the up and down arrow keys to move through the items. The selected item will be highlighted and some information about it will be displayed in the Status Bar.
Setting the View Mode to can help you locate folders in the tree below the current folder. In this mode each folder is shown with a small box at the left. If the box contains a + sign, clicking on the box (not on the folder name or icon) will display a sub tree showing files and subfolders contained in that folder. The small box will then change to show a - sign. click on that to collapse the sub tree. Once you have found the folder you are looking for, click on the folder name or icon to open it.
The Navigation Panel can also help you find your way around the file system.
You can go directly to any folder by typing its path into the Location Toolbar window or into the dialogue box invoked by the Menubar -> item or by Ctrl+ O. Konqueror's Text Completion feature may be useful when you do this. Don't forget that in Linux® / UNIX® file and folder names are case sensitive.
Once you have moved to a new folder you can go back to your previous choice by using the Toolbar Back button, the Menubar -> item, or Alt+Left Arrow.
Once you have gone back you can go forward. Use the Toolbar Forward button, the Menubar -> item or Alt+Right Arrow.
Holding the mouse button pressed while the mouse pointer is over the Toolbar Up, Back or Forward buttons brings up a menu of recently visited locations.
If you don't know or can't remember where a file or folder is within your system, then use the Toolbar Find File button or the Menubar -> option. This will embed the file finder application KFind into Konqueror's window. See the KFind Handbook for help in using KFind.
If the name of a file or folder begins with a period (dot), then it is a “hidden” file or folder, and will not normally be shown by Konqueror. To see hidden files or folders use the Menubar -> option.
Another reason Konqueror may not show the file or folder you are looking for is that you may have the plugin set to display only certain types of file.
Any floppy disk, CD drive or other hard disk partition that you have on your system will usually appear in the / , /mnt or /auto folder, having a path something like /mnt/floppy or /cdrom. The details will depend on how your system was set up.
UNIX® / Linux® requires that you mount a floppy disk or CD-ROM when you have inserted it into the drive, and mount other hard disk partitions when you want to access them. You also need to unmount a floppy disk or CD-ROM before removing it to register that it is no longer available.
How you do this will depend on how your system:
You may have an Automount facility, in which case you don't have to bother about explicitly mounting and unmounting, although you may find that the CD-ROM occasionally starts up by itself for no apparent reason.
You may have Floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk icons on your desktop, in which case mouse button click on the icon to mount it. Doing this should also bring up a Konqueror window showing the contents of the floppy, CD-ROM or partition. To unmount, click on the icon and choose the item. Visit the section Create New... in this Handbook to see how to create such an icon.
Or you can do it the traditional way by typing into a text console window:
mount /mnt/floppy
to mount, for example, the floppy drive, and
umount /mnt/floppy
to unmount it (umount not unmount).
Rather than having to open a text console to type the mount or umount commands, you may prefer to use Konqueror's -> (Ctrl+E) feature.
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Konqueror gives you two ways to dispose of an unwanted file or folder:
You can move it to the Trash folder, which is the safest method as you can get it back if you realise that you have made a mistake.
You can just plain Delete it, which removes the entry from the folder and adds the disk area occupied by the file(s) to the system's list of free disk areas, in the same way as the rm command.
The simplest way to remove a file or folder is to position the mouse pointer over its name or icon and press the mouse button, which will bring up a menu containing the options and .
Or, if you have “selected” the item, the Menubar menu will give you the choice of “” and “” options.
Del will move the selected item or items to the Wastebin.
Shift+Del will really, truly and irrevocably delete the selected item or items.
You won't be able to remove a file or folder if you do not have the necessary permissions, see the section on Super User Mode for further details.
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To copy a file or subfolder between folders you can:
Position the mouse pointer over its name or icon and hold down the mouse button, which will bring up a menu containing the option. Choose that.
Or if the item is “selected” you can use the Copy button on the Toolbar or the Menubar -> item, or the Ctrl+C shortcut key combination.
Navigate to the folder you want to copy the item into then Paste the item into the new folder by using the Toolbar Paste button or the Menubar -> option or the Ctrl+V shortcut, or by moving the mouse pointer to a clear area of the window and holding the mouse button down to bring up a menu containing the option.
Moving a file or subfolder between folders can be done in the same way as copying, except that you choose the option or Ctrl+X instead of . The item that you have will be removed from the original folder when you do the into the new folder.
You can also copy or move selected item(s) to another folder by using -> (F7) or -> (F8), or by selecting or from the drop down menu you get when you click on an file or folder name in the File Manager window.
You may not be able to copy or move a file or folder if you don't have the necessary permissions. See the section on Super User Mode for further details.
Konqueror also supports Drag and Drop copying and moving of files and folders.
You can do this by having two instances of Konqueror, one showing the folder you want to copy from, the other showing the target folder. Position the mouse pointer over the item you wish to copy or move, then, holding the mouse button pressed, “drag” it to a clear space in the target folder. Release the button and you will be presented with a menu choice of or . Take care to “drop” the item into an empty area of the target folder view - dropping it on top of another file name or icon can cause problems.
You can also set up Konqueror to show more than one folder within its window and drag & drop between them.
This screenshot illustrates the use of the Menubar -> option, also available with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L, to split the main Konqueror window into two views, each showing the contents of a different folder.
To be able to show different folders in each view they should not be linked; the little boxes at the bottom right of each view should be empty.
The “active” view, that is the one whose path is shown in the Location Toolbar and which responds to navigation and Menubar commands, is shown by the little green light in the bottom left corner. To make a view active, click on an empty area of the view or on its Status Bar.
To remove an active view from Konqueror's window use the Ctrl+Shift+R shortcut, or the Menubar -> option, or mouse button click on the Status Bar and choose the option from the resulting menu.
If you use Konqueror tabs, you can drag and drop between tabs by dragging the file to the tab label, without letting go yet. The destination tab will pop to the front, allowing you to continue dragging and then drop the file.
If you try to paste a file into a folder that already contains a file with the same name, Konqueror will pop up a dialogue box warning you that the file already exists. You can then choose to:
Overwrite the old file with the newly copied one. The button can be used if you have copied multiple items.
Cancel the paste operation by pressing the or button.
Give the file that is being copied a different name. You can do this by typing a new name into the text entry box or get Konqueror to one. When you have done this press the button.
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You sometimes want to delete, copy or move a number of files that are similar in some way. For example you may wish to move all of the .png graphics files from one folder to another. Konqueror makes this easy by letting you select multiple files based on similarities in their file names.
Use the Menubar ->-> item or the shortcut Ctrl++. This brings up a little dialogue box in which you enter a filename containing the wildcard characters *, which matches any number of characters, and ? which matches a single character. Press and Konqueror will highlight all files with matching names. For example;
flag*.png.png”.
memo?.txtmemo1.txt and memo9.txt but not memo99.txt.
When you have selected a range of files, you can narrow down the selection by uing the Menubar -> option or Ctrl+- to specify which of the selected files should be removed from the selection.
Use Ctrl+U or the Menubar -> option or just mouse button click on a clear area of the view to cancel the selection.
You can even invert the selection: that is, deselect all selected files and select those that were previously unselected. Use the Menubar -> option or Ctrl+* to do this.
A number of useful shortcut keys can be used in list, tree and text view modes:
Toggle the current selection.
Toggle the current selection and move down to the next item.
Move the selection, toggling the selection of everything on the way.
Deselect everything, then move the selection, selecting everything on the way.
Once you have selected the right files then the normal delete, copy or move commands will act on all of the selected files at once.
Depending on your keyboard type and locale, you may find that the Ctrl++, Ctrl+- and Ctrl+* shortcuts only work with the Numeric keypad +, - and * keys.
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When Konqueror is in File Manager mode, picking from the menu or from the context menu you get by mouse button clicking on a free area in a folder view gives you a submenu letting you create any of the following in the current folder:
This option is most useful if you want to create an icon that will open a particular application. It opens a dialogue box with three tabbed pages. The first, General, is where you choose an icon and the text that will appear with it. The second page, Permissions, lets you select who can use or modify the icon. In the Application page you must enter the Command that will run the application, for example, kedit to start up the KEdit text editor. kedit /home/pam/todo.txt would open the file /home/pam/todo.txt in KEdit. Advanced options such as the file types which the application can open are also available from this page.
To make the application icon appear on your desktop, create the link in your ~/Desktop folder (this may be called something slightly different depending on how KDE was installed on your system) or get to the sub menu by clicking on a free area of the desktop instead of within Konqueror's window.
If you have a lot of specialised application links and don't want to clutter up the desktop, then why not create them in your Applications folder. You can get there in Konqueror by choosing ->. Then create a single icon on your desktop to open your Applications folder, which is usually in ~/.kde/share/applnk.
To put an application link icon into the panel, first create it in the Applications folder then drag the icon onto a clear area of the panel.
This lets you create an icon to open Konqueror at a particular folder or web page. As with you can make the application icon appear on your desktop by creating the link in your ~/Desktop folder or going to the sub menu by right clicking on a free area of the desktop. When you first create it the text shown with the icon will be the full path or URL. You can change it by right clicking on the icon, selecting and entering the preferred text in the General tab page.
Use this option to create an icon that will mount a floppy disk and open an instance of Konqueror showing the disk's contents. To unmount the disk when you have finished with it click on the icon and select . In practice it doesn't have to be a floppy disk but can be any hard disk or partition on your system that is not normally mounted. In most cases you will want to create the icon on your desktop.
This option is similar to but for a hard disk drive or partition.
This option is similar to but for a CD or DVD drive.
An easy way of creating a new (sub)folder.
Use this to create an ordinary, empty, text file. A dialogue box will be opened for you to enter the name of your new file.
Creates a skeleton HTML source file. When you type the new file's name into the dialogue box it is probably best to give it a .html extension to avoid confusion.
Creates a skeleton KOffice KPresenter document. Give its name a .kpr extension.
Creates a skeleton KOffice KWord document using the standard KWord style template. Give its name a .kwd extension.
Use this to create a new KOffice KSpread spreadsheet file, and name it with a .ksp extension.
Creates a new KOffice Kontour document. Name it with the extension .kil.
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The easiest way to change the name of a file or folder is to click on it and select .
To change the name or permissions of a file or folder click on its name or icon and select the item, or if you have “selected” the file or folder, then you can use the Menubar -> option.
This will bring up the Properties dialogue box with two tabbed pages:
General, which gives you some information about the item and lets you change its name and, for a folder, the associated icon.
Permissions, which shows you the item's ownership and access permissions and lets you change the permissions.
If you want to make a copy of an existing file with a different name, perhaps as a backup, in the same folder as the original file, do a normal then when you it a dialogue box will pop up complaining that the file already exists. Just type the new name into the dialogue's text box and press the button (or if you are feeling lazy pressing the button will generate a new name for you).
If you are running as a normal user and try to access files outside of your own home folder you will often be prevented from doing so and get an error message such as Access Denied.
To access these files you need to be logged in as the system administrator, often known as the Super User or root.
Rather than logging out then in again, you can launch Konqueror from the Menu in Super User mode by selecting ->. You will be asked for the root login password but as long as you can provide that Konqueror will be started up with full access privileges to all files on your system.
Take care. As Super User (root), you have complete control of your system, and a wrong command can easily do irrevocable damage.
Also, connecting to the internet as root is an extremely bad idea, as it seriously increases your vulnerability to malicious hacking.
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Although Konqueror is a very powerful and flexible GUI file manager, there are occasions when the experienced Linux® / UNIX® user wants to get down to the basics and work at the text command line level.
She could, of course, open an instance of Konsole, perhaps with Konqueror's Menubar -> option or with Ctrl+T.
If she only wants to launch a program or view a URL, the -> (Alt+F2) option may be easier.
-> (Ctrl+E) opens a small command line dialogue window where you can enter a shell command such as ps -ax | grep kdeinit . Note that it does not support full featured terminal control characters, so applications such as top and less will not work properly, but it is available immediately without the delay involved in starting Konsole.
For more complex operations, Konqueror has another nice feature; the Menubar -> option, which opens up a terminal window as a new view within Konqueror. As long as the link icon is visible at the bottom right corner of each view, the terminal will follow any folder changes you make in the normal file manager view.
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Once you are connected to the Internet you can use Konqueror to browse the Web just as easily as you can use it to handle your local files. Just type a URL into the Location Toolbar window, press Enter, and you are away!
If you use a dial-up modem connection, then you will be using KPPP or a similar dialler program to make the connection.
If your machine is connected to a local area network (LAN) that gives you a proxy connection to the Internet then you will have to set Konqueror up for the proxy connection. This can be done with the Proxy page of the -> dialogue.
If you are lucky enough to have a high speed cable connection, then the service provider will probably give you an external cable modem which needs an ethernet connection to your machine. Unfortunately the details of how to establish the connection depend on the service provider and to some extent on which Linux/UNIX® distribution you are using. Some ISPs connect their customers to the Internet through a proxy server, in which case you will have to set up Konqueror to use it. You may find it useful to search the archives of your distribution's user group mailing list for help.
An error message such as Unknown Host usually means that Konqueror cannot find a connection to the Internet or that you have entered an incorrect URL.
Once you have a connection to the Internet, you can surf with Konqueror just as you can with any other browser.
Type a URL into the Location Toolbar window, press Enter or click on the button at the right hand end of the Location Toolbar, and Konqueror will download and display that page. If you have visited the page before, Konqueror's Automatic Text Completion feature can help you type the URL a second time, or you could look through the History page in the Navigation Panel. If you want to use one of the web's search engines, Konqueror's Web Shortcuts feature can make this easier.
click on a link in the page to go there.
To open a link in a new instance of Konqueror, leaving the old page still visible, mouse button click on the link or click on it and select the option.
You could also select the multiple view mode with Ctrl+Shift+L or the Menubar -> option which will let you see different pages at the same time. This can be useful if you are looking through a complicated set of HTML pages, but make sure the little link box at the bottom right hand corner is empty when you are doing this.
Tabbed Browsing will let you hold a number of pages in one Konqueror window and quickly switch between them with a single mouse click.
To go back to the previous page use the Alt+Left Arrow shortcut, the button on the Toolbar, or the Menubar -> option.
Similarly, once you have gone back you can go forward by using Alt+Right Arrow, the button, or the Menubar -> option.
If you want to stop the download for any reason then use the Esc key, the Toolbar button or the Menubar -> item.
When you are viewing a web page you should see two new icons in the Toolbar, looking like magnifying glasses with small + and - symbols. Use these to adjust the size of the text in the page if you find it difficult to read. How well this works will depend on how the web page has been constructed.
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By using this feature you can make Konqueror load multiple web pages in the same window, and switch between them using tabbed pages. This way, you can preload a page “in the background” while you carry on reading another.
To use tabbed browsing, click on a link and choose from the drop down menu. The page will be downloaded and displayed as normal, but with tabs across the top of the view, one tab for each page. click on a tab to view that page, or you can use the shortcuts Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] to cycle through the tab pages.
The option in the mouse button menu also downloads the page and shows a new tab for it, but the new page will not be displayed until you click on the tab.
If you check the Open links in new tab instead of in new window box in the page of the -> dialogue, mouse button clicking on a link will open it in a new tab page and if you hold the Shift key down while clicking the mouse button the link will be opened in a background tab page.
clicking on a tab will bring up a menu with the following options:
This opens a new, blank, tabbed page view. You can then download a web page into it by typing the URL into the Location Bar or by making a selection from the Bookmark Toolbar or the Navigation Panel history page.
To create a duplicate tabbed page.
This option removes the selected tabbed page from the current Konqueror window and opens it in a new instance of Konqueror.
To close the selected tab page.
Reloads the content of the current tab.
Reloads the content of every tab.
Displays a submenu showing all other tabs. Choosing a tab from this list makes it the active tab.
To close all but the selected tab page.
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If enabled, Konqueror's Web Shortcuts feature lets you submit a query directly to a search engine or similar web site without having to visit the site first.
For example, entering gg:konqueror into the Location Bar and pressing Enter will ask Google™ to search for items related to Konqueror.
To see what Web Shortcuts are available, and perhaps add your own, use -> to open the Settings dialogue box and click on the Web Shortcuts icon.
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When Konqueror connects to a web site it sends some brief browser identification information, known as the “User Agent” string. Many web sites use this information to customise the pages that they send back, based on the strengths and weaknesses of different browsers.
Unfortunately, some badly designed sites refuse to work properly unless you are using a browser that the site recognizes as a “valid” one, even though if given a chance, Konqueror will work satisfactorily with the vast majority of web pages.
To overcome this problem, you can change the browser identification information that Konqueror sends for specific sites or domains by selecting -> to bring up the Settings dialogue box and clicking the Browser Identification icon.
Problems with getting a web page to work properly may also be due to its use of Java™ or JavaScript. If you suspect that this may be the case check that they have been enabled in the Java & JavaScript section of the Settings dialogue box.
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When you are viewing a web page you can save it (or at least the basic HTML or similar source text) to your local disk with ->. If the page you are viewing uses frames, then you will also be given the -> option. click in the frame you want to save first.
If the page uses a background image, you can get and save that with the -> option.
But if what you really want is that glorious picture of the latest Ferrari, then clicking on the image will give you a drop-down menu with a option. Be sure to respect the owner's copyright, and ask for permission before using any pictures saved this way for anything other than your own viewing pleasure.
If you click on a link (which may be a picture) and select from the pop up menu the basic HTML or similar source text will be downloaded and saved on your local disk.
clicking on a link (which may be a picture) and choosing will copy the URL of the link to the clipboard so you can then paste it into, say, an e-mail to a friend telling her about this wonderful new site.
clicking on a picture and choosing copies the URL of the picture to the clipboard.
To save a complete web page, including images, select from the menu. Note that this feature is provided by a plugin and may not have been installed on your system. The web page will be saved as a single file with a .war extension and can be opened by clicking on the filename in Konqueror running in File Manager mode.
Printing a copy of the page you are viewing is easily done with the Menubar -> or option or with the Toolbar Print button.
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FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is one of the the earliest, and still perhaps the best, way of transferring files between computers over the Internet.
With FTP you can see files and folders on the distant computer just as if they were on your own system, download them onto your computer using Konqueror's normal and or Drag 'n Drop methods and, if allowed, upload files from your machine to the other computer's filesystem. To try it, type the URL
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde
into the Location Toolbar and press Enter. As long as you are connected to the Internet, and as long as the KDE's FTP site is not too busy, you should end up seeing the /pub/kde folder at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
Although, strictly speaking, FTP URLs should be entered starting with ftp:// and WWW URLs starting with http:// Konqueror is usually smart enough to figure out what is meant, and insert these characters for you if you leave them out.
When you access an FTP site it will usually need some form of username and password from you. To simplify things, most FTP sites that offer files for free downloading will accept the word anonymous as a username and your email address as a password, and to make your life even easier Konqueror will automatically supply these without troubling you.
If you try to access an FTP site that does not need a proper username or password but which is too busy to accept any more connections, Konqueror often interprets the “busy” message as a request for a name and password and will therefore pop up a dialogue box asking you to supply them.
Sites that are more concerned with security will need a proper username and password, in which case Konqueror will ask you for them or you can include the username in the URL you type into the Location Toolbar, as for example
ftp://username@ftp.cia.org
Konqueror will then prompt you for the password.
Konqueror can also support automatic logins as specified in a .netrc file. Details of how to enable this feature are given at http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html#netrc
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If you specify a port number in your URL, as in for example http://intranet.corp.com:1080, you might get the error message “Access to restricted port in POST denied”. This is done for security reasons. If you nevertheless need to access a server on this port, just add a key line
OverridePorts=CommaSeparatedListOfAllowedPorts
$KDEDIR/share/config/kio_httprc or ~/.kde/share/config/kio_httprc.For example
OverridePorts=23,15
Konqueror will reject the following ports (the list is hardcoded in kdelibs/kio/kio/job.cpp):
1, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 37, 42, 43, 53, 77, 79, 87, 95, 101, 102, 103, 104, 109, 110, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 123, 135, 139, 143, 179, 389, 512, 513, 514, 515, 526, 530, 531, 532, 540, 556, 587, 601, 989, 990, 992, 993, 995, 1080, 2049, 4045, 6000, 6667
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You can get Konqueror to help you enter a path or URL into the Location Toolbar by enabling one of the features. To do this click on a clear part of the Location Toolbar text entry box and select from the pop up menu. This will let you choose between the following options:
What you get is what you type.
When you have typed part of a path or URL, pressing Ctrl+E will complete the entry if it is possible to do so unambiguously.
As you type into the Location Toolbar window Konqueror will automatically extend what you type to complete one possible path or URL, highlighting the characters it has added. Continue typing if that is not what you wanted or press Enter to accept it.
A drop-down window will appear as you type, showing the possible matches to what you have typed so far. When the path or URL that you want appears in the window double click on it with the mouse button. You can also use the Down Arrow and Up Arrow keys to select it then press Enter.
This is like Automatic mode except that it only extends what you have typed as far as the next / symbol in the path or URL. Press Ctrl+E to accept the suggestion, Enter when the complete path or URL is shown.
You should try out these different modes and pick the one that suits you best.
The history of recently visited URLs that Konqueror uses for the Text Completion function can be viewed and edited in the History page of the Navigation Panel.
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Although you can use Konqueror's bookmarks to record the locations of your own files and folders, they are most useful when you are surfing the Web, letting you build up a list of useful sites.
To open the menu you may either click on the menu or use the Alt+B shortcut. Once the list is visible, you can navigate through it with the arrow keys or with your mouse, then press Enter or click to visit the selected location.
To add a new item to the list use -> or Ctrl+B or click on a clear space in the web page or folder view and select from the pop up menu.
The list can contain subfolders containing other bookmarks, you can create these with -> . To add a bookmark into a subfolder rather than into the main Bookmark list, select the folder from within the list and use the item in that folder.
You can also access your bookmarks from the Navigation Panel.
The -> option opens the Bookmark Editor.
This shows a tree view of your bookmarks and bookmark subfolders. As is usual for tree views in KDE, subfolders are shown with a small square at the left of the folder name; if the square contains a + sign clicking on it will expand the view to show the contents of that subfolder and the + sign will change to -, clicking on the - sign will collapse the subfolder view.
To select an item in the list you can click on it, or you can navigate through the list by using the Up arrow and Down arrow keys to move around, Right arrow to expand a subfolder and Left arrow to collapse it.
You can move an item to a different place in the list by using the normal Drag and Drop or and methods. The order in which the items appear in the Bookmark Editor is the order they will appear in the drop down list. The -> option can be used to insert separating lines into the list wherever you wish.
A new subfolder can be created at the selected point in the list by using the option in the menu or from the drop down menu you get when you click on an item in the main part of the window, or with Ctrl+N
To change the name of a bookmark or folder select it then press F2 or choose the item from the menu or the pop up menu that appears when you click on the item. Similarly, you can edit the URL by pressing F3 or choosing the menu item.
The Bookmark Editor lets you import bookmarks from a range of other browsers into Konqueror's bookmark list, putting them into a new folder or replacing all current bookmarks. To do this select from the menu. The -> option can be used to export Konqueror's bookmarks to a Netscape® or Mozilla browser.
If you often use the Netscape® browser as well as Konqueror, then rather than importing your Netscape® bookmarks into Konqueror it is better to select the item in the menu. If you do this any updates to Netscape®'s bookmarks are automatically seen by Konqueror.
To select which bookmark subfolder is used to hold the Bookmark Toolbar items select the subfolder then choose from the menu.
If you are tidying up your bookmarks and have forgotten what a particular web page is, you can easily open it from within the Bookmark Editor by clicking on the item and selecting from the pop up menu. If you just want to check that the URL is still valid select instead.
Don't forget to save your changes with -> or Ctrl+S before you leave the Bookmark Editor.
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The Navigation Panel appears as a separate view at the left of Konqueror's window. It can be invoked with -> or toggled on and off with the F9 key.
It contains a number of tabbed pages; click on a tab's icon to view that page. clicking on the icon for the visible page will collapse the Navigation Panel so that only the tab icons are visible.
This page shows a tree view of your Bookmarks. click on an item to open it in the main view.
This page shows a tree view of your browsing History. clicking on an item will open it in the main view, or you can open it in a new Konqueror window by clicking and selecting from the pop up menu.
You can remove an item from the history by clicking on it and selecting . Selecting will clear out the entire history.
The pop up menu you get when you click on any entry in the History page also gives you the option of choosing whether the entire history is sorted by name or by date.
Selecting from this pop up menu brings up the History Sidebar control module. This can be used to set the maximum size of your history and set a time after which items are automatically removed. You can also set different fonts for new and old URLs. The Detailed tooltips checkbox controls how much information is displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over an item in the history page.
This page shows a tree view of the subfolders your home folder. Note that “hidden” folders (those with names beginning with a dot) are not shown. click on an item to open it in the main view, or click to display a pop up menu allowing you to open the subfolder in a new window or as a new tab page of the main view.
This page is intended to show a tree view of your important network connections, although local folders can also be included. Again, you can click on an item to open it in the main view or click to bring up a menu with a wider range of possibilities.
The folders shown in the Network page are held in the folder ~/.kde/share/apps/konqsidebartng/virtual_folders/remote/, and you can make new ones just as you would make any other subfolder. The items within these folders are held as .desktop files and can be created with Konqueror's -> option.
The Root Folder tree has the path /, and is the base folder of your system's local files. If you expand the “Root” folder you will find another folder called root. This belongs to the system administrator or Super User and is her home folder. You will also find a folder called home, in which you should be able to find your own “Home” folder again.
This page provides quick access to the following services:
The Audio CD Browser.
Devices. This shows your hard disc partitions, floppy and CD-ROM. click on a device or partition name to mount it and display its contents in the main view. A mounted device or partition can be unmounted by clicking on the device name and selecting from the pop up menu.
The LAN Browser allows you to browse other machines connected to your Local Area Network.
The Print System Browser tree gives you quick access to KDE's print manager Kprinter.
The Navigation Panel configuration can be changed by clicking on the empty area below the bottom tab icon or by clicking on the Configuration Button icon (the top icon in the previous screenshot, it may not be present in your setup). Doing this brings up a menu with the following options:
This option lets you add a new tab page to the Navigation Panel. The new page can contain the (a Konqueror Plugin feature) or a new tree view.
Selecting this option splits the Navigation Panel so that two tab pages can be seen at once.
This option lets you choose whether the tab icons are shown at the left or right of the Navigation Panel.
Use this option to show or hide the Configuration Button icon.
clicking on a tab icon brings up a menu with the following options:
Only available for folder pages, this option lets you change the URL (path) of the folder viewed in that page.
To change the tab icon.
To remove the tab page from the Navigation Panel.
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When you close down Konqueror your current menu settings (such as the , and items) are automatically saved as the default options to be used next time Konqueror is started.
But you can also specify different menu settings for an individual folder. To do this check the box in the menu, change the settings to whatever you want then uncheck the box. Doing this creates a .directory file in that folder to hold the folder settings. Use the -> option to remove the folder specific settings (or just delete the .directory file).
One nice use of this feature is if you have a folder full of pictures. You can set that particular folder to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing and -> from the menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other folders.
Konqueror can save a whole set of options as a “View Profile”. Some view profiles are part of the standard Konqueror installation, such as Web Browsing and File Management, but you can add your own, too.
To modify a view profile (say, the Web Browsing profile), load the profile with ->->, and change the Konqueror settings to whatever you want. Now select ->. In the dialogue which appears, you can change the name of the profile, which will create a new profile with that name, or you can leave the name as it is to modify the current profile. If you select Save URLs in profile, the current URL will be loaded when you load that view profile. This functions in a similar way to the “Home Page” in many web browsers. If you want Konqueror to start up with an empty window enter about:blank into the location bar before saving the profile.
You can create a desktop icon to start Konqueror with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the Konqueror icon from the menu onto the desktop and selecting . Then click on the new icon, select and change Program Name in the Execute tab page to kfmclient , openProfile MyNewProfileMyNewProfile being what you called the new profile. Then in the General tab page change the name to something like MyNewProfile and pick a more suitable icon.
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Currently, Konqueror supports Netscape® 4.x plugins.
Selecting ->-> will give you a dialogue box with two tabbed pages; Scan and Plugins.
The Scan page controls how KDE scans for new Netscape® plugins, either manually by pressing the button or automatically each time KDE starts up.
The scan is done by looking through the folders listed in the Scan Folders list for .so files containing plugin code. It examines every such file to find out which MIME types the plugin supports. It then creates MIME type definitions for KDE in the user's ~/.kde/share/mimelnk folder to make other applications aware of them.
The Plugins page shows you the Netscape® plugins that KDE has found, and for each plugin it lists the MIME types and the filename suffixes it uses to recognise them.
The dialogue box also contains a checkbox Enable plugins globally which you can use to enable or disable plugins that can be contained in HTML pages (these can be considered a security risk).
The package kdeaddons contains several useful plugins that interact with Konqueror in various ways. These are explained briefly below, more detailed information may be obtained by looking through the section in the KDE Help Centre.
This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current HTML page to whatever language you want (within reason). It can be launched with ->.
This is controlled by -> and allows you to choose which types of item are displayed in a folder.
Selecting -> opens a new window which displays the document object model (DOM) of the current HTML page.
This is started with ->->. It uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when creating web pages.
Started with ->->, it uses the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style Sheets.
Select -> to enable or disable a number of HTML settings without going through the dialogue.
In File Manager mode, you can select -> to create an HTML page with thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page is called images.html and the thumbnails are put into a new thumbs folder.
Select -> to get a menu that allows you to change the User Agent string without going through the dialogue procedure.
Invoked with ->, this tool creates an archive (.war ) file containing the web page being viewed including the images. click on the archive file name to view the saved page.
This is a simple media player, embedded as a tab page in the Navigation Panel. You can drag songs or videos onto this page to play them.
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In common with the rest of KDE, Konqueror is highly configurable, so you can really get the look and feel that best fits your needs and wishes.
When KDE is newly installed, Konqueror's window contains a Menubar, Main and Location Toolbars and possibly a Bookmark Toolbar.
Maybe you don't need all these toolbars. To hide one of them, go into the -> menu and uncheck its box. To show a hidden toolbar, just check the box.
The Menubar itself can be toggled on and off with the shortcut key combination Ctrl+M.
On the left hand end of each bar you can see some vertical lines. By mouse button clicking on them, you “flatten” the bar, meaning that it is hidden but can be quickly restored by clicking on the now horizontal lines. You can also drag a bar into a new position with these lines.
If you click on a Toolbar, you will get a menu to configure this bar. You can choose the orientation, text position and icon size
The icons shown in the various bars can be changed by using the -> option, which brings up the Configure Toolbars dialogue box. The Main and Extra Toolbars are divided into sections, such as Main Toolbar <Konqueror>, Main Toolbar <khtmlpart> and Extra Toolbar <khtmlsettingsplugin>. The number and type of these sections will depend on whether Konqueror is in Web Browser or File Manager mode and whether you have Konqueror plugins installed.
To change the shortcut key arrangements used by Konqueror select ->. This will launch a dialogue box as shown below.
Search through the combo box to find the action you want to add or change the shortcut keys for and select it by clicking on the name. You will then be able to change the shortcut by selecting the None, Default or Custom radio button or by clicking on the large button in the Shortcut for Selected Action area.
The Define Shortcut dialogue box will then open.
Choose whether you want to change the Primary or Alternate shortcut then press the key combination you want to act as the shortcut, for example Ctrl+Shift+S. If the Auto-Close box is checked the dialogue will vanish as soon as you enter the key combination, otherwise it will remain until you press or . Clicking on the little black icon with a white cross in it clears the shortcut.
You can add your own pop up menu to Konqueror so that pressing one key combination will make the menu appear then pressing a second key, or using the Up arrow and Down arrow keys and pressing Enter, will select an item from it.
To do this add a Custom shortcut for each of the actions you want to appear in the menu and in the Define Shortcut dialogue check the Multi-Key box, press the key combination that you want to bring up your new menu then, separately, press the key that will choose that item from the menu.
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Selecting -> brings up a dialogue box which you can use to control most aspects of Konqueror's behaviour. It contains several sections which are selected by clicking on one of the icons at the left of the dialogue box.
Pressing the button will give you detailed instructions about how to use each of these sections, or you can use the What's This? feature.
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The shortcut key combinations shown in this chapter are the default ones. They can of course be changed.
There are some useful shortcuts that are not shown in any of the menus:
Sets the focus to the text entry box in the Location Toolbar.
Activate the next tab page.
Activate the previous tab page.
Note that some menu entries only appear when they are applicable to the file you currently have open in Konqueror. For example, the -> item will not appear when you are viewing the contents of a directory.
Open another Konqueror window.
Open another Konqueror tab, containing a blank page.
Open another Konqueror window, duplicating the current one.
Open a folder or file by entering its path (for example /home/pam or /home/pam/fred.txt) in a simple dialogue box.
Send an email containing a link to the current location.
Send an email containing the selected file as an attachment.
Only applies if you are viewing a web page with a background image. Opens the Save As dialogue box to let you save the background image file to your own computer.
Only applies if you are viewing a document or web page, uses the Save As... dialogue box to let you save a copy to your own computer.
Similar to but for use with a web site that uses frames.
Print.
Print selected frame of a Web page.
Open the web page you are viewing in Konqueror with Netscape®/Mozilla as well.
Close down this instance of Konqueror.
Most items in the Menubar menu can also be found by mouse button clicking on a free area of a view.
Sometimes lets you reverse a mistaken action.
Puts selected item(s) into the clipboard. If you then do a a the item(s) will be moved from the original location to the new one.
Copy selected item(s) to the clipboard.
Paste item(s) from clipboard to the currently viewed folder.
Lets you rename a file or folder without having to open the dialogue box.
Move selected item(s) to the Wastebin folder.
Delete the selected item(s).
Copy the selected item(s) to another folder.
Move the selected item(s) to another folder.
Create a link to an application, URL, Floppy or CD-ROM device, or create a new Folder or text or HTML file. See the Create New...section for more details.
Open the Edit File Type dialogue box
Open the Edit Properties dialogue box
Contains a number of options for changing the items selected in the Konqueror window:
Together with the , and Selection commands, this provides an easy and powerful way of selecting multiple files.
It brings up a simple dialogue box where you can enter a file name using the wild card characters * and ?, for example entering *.html will select all files ending with .html while ?a* will select all files which have the letter a as the second character in their filename.
Unselect files or folders via a dialogue similar to the one used by .
Unselect all selected files or folders.
Invert current selection.
Selects all text in a HTML page or in a text page being previewed, you can then it and it into a text editor.
Find a text string in a text page you are previewing or in an HTML page.
Find the next occurrence of the text string in the text or HTML page.
Go to a particular line number in a text page you are previewing.
Selects , , , or view mode.
If a selected folder contains a file index.html, it will be opened as a web page rather than showing the folder as a list of files.
Lock to current location.
Unlock all views.
Link current view to others in a multiple view window.
Reload.
Stop load (particularly useful when web browsing).
Select size of icons used when viewing a folder in Icon Mode.
Choose order in which items are presented in the window when in Icon or MultiColumn View mode.
Choose whether the sort order in Tree, Detailed List or Text View modes is case sensitive.
View document source text.
Only available if you are viewing a document or HTML page.
View frame source text
Only applies if you are viewing a web site that uses frames. Similar to .
View document information, such as title, URL, and HTTP headers used in retrieving the document.
Only available if you are viewing an HTML page.
Tells you whether the current browser connection is secured with SSL and lets you bring up the Cryptography Configuration... dialogue box. clicking on the Menubar padlock icon does the same thing.
Set encoding
Allows you to choose the character encoding used to display HTML pages. is usually the best choice.
Lets you choose to show thumbnails of images, text files or HTML pages instead of the normal icons in Icon or MultiColumn View modes.
Show hidden (dot) files.
Lets you choose which file and folder details are shown in Tree, Detailed List and Text views.
Select background colour for the File Manager mode.
Select background image for the File Manager mode.
Go up a level in the folder hierarchy.
Go back to the previous view.
You can only go forward if you've just gone back.
Go to your home folder.
Open the folder holding your applications.
Open your Trash folder in a separate window.
Open the Templates folder in a separate window.
Open your Autostart folder in a separate window.
Displays a submenu showing the URLs you visit most often. Selecting one of these will make Konqueror open that URL.
See the section Using Bookmarks in this manual for a fuller description of these menu items.
Add current selection to your bookmarks.
Create a bookmark folder containing links to all of the URLs currently open in Konqueror tabs.
Open the Bookmark Editor.
Create a new folder in your Bookmarks folder.
Run a program by entering its name in a simple dialogue box.
Open a Konsole terminal window.
Open the KFind application.
If you have Konqueror plugins installed there will be additional entries in the menu. See the Konqueror Plugins chapter for further details.
See also the section Saving Settings and Profiles.
Show/Hide the menubar.
Opens a sub menu where you can choose to show or hide the various Toolbars.
Changes Konqueror to full screen mode, in which the Konqueror window takes up the whole screen, and does not have the usual window decorations. To exit full screen mode, click on the Exit Full Screen Mode icon on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Shift+F.
Save View properties to current folder. If this is selected, a .directory file will be written in the current directory storing the settings you last used to view the directory. These settings are then loaded when you open the directory in Konqueror.
Remove settings stored in folder by .
Load the settings associated with a particular view profile.
Save the current settings to the current view profile.
Lets you change an existing view profile or create a new one.
Lets you see and change Konqueror's shortcut key bindings, i.e. the associations between actions such as and keys or combinations of keys such a Ctrl+V. If you do this take care not to duplicate an existing shortcut.
Lets you configure the Main, Extra and Location Toolbars. See the section Changing Bars.
Lets you configure the File manager, File Associations, Browser, Internet Keywords, Cookies, Proxies, Cryptography, User Agent, or Toolbars by bringing up the appropriate dialogue box.
Displays the spell checking configuration dialogue box, in which you can change settings associated with spell checking in Konqueror.
Split View Left/Right.
Split View Top/Bottom.
Remove Active View.
Open a new, empty, tab page.
Open a duplicate tab page.
Show the current tab page in a new instance of Konqueror.
Close the current tab page.
Move the current tab one place left in the list of tabs.
Move the current tab one place right in the list of tabs.
Open a small text terminal view at the bottom of the main window.
Toggles the display of the Konqueror navigation panel. See Chapter 7, The Navigation Panel.
View this document.
Draws a question mark (?) beside the mouse pointer, clicking on a window item such as the Stop button will then display a brief explanation. See Tooltips and What's This? .
Revisit the introductory pages that you got when Konqueror was first started.
Report bug.
Display some brief information about Konqueror's version number, authors and licence agreement.
Show some information about the version of KDE that you are running.
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| 12.1. | Can I run Konqueror from another window manager? |
Just install Qt™, kdelibs and kdebase, and from your favourite window manager, launch Konqueror. It should work just fine, but if it doesn't (KDE developers don't test that case often), report it to http://bugs.kde.org and try running kdeinit before running Konqueror, it usually helps. | |
| 12.2. | Where does Konqueror keep all its configuration data? |
Generally in the
Any folder specific view settings are put into | |
| 12.3. | How do I clear out the history file? |
There are two “histories”:
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| 12.4. | How do I enable, disable or clear the browser cache? |
If you select in the dialogue launched by selecting ->, you will be presented with a dialogue box that lets you disable the cache, clear it or set its size, and change the caching policy. | |
| 12.5. | How can I change the timeout values used by Konqueror when web browsing? |
In the Control Centre -> page. | |
| 12.6. | How do I set my “home” page - the page loaded on startup? |
Start Konqueror with the Web Browser icon on the panel. Open the page you want to be loaded in any new “Web Browser” window and select from the menu. All new Konqueror windows that are started with the Web Browser icon on the panel, or from the menu, and new empty tabs, will now start at this page. NoteThis does not change the behaviour of the Home button on the Konqueror toolbar, which will continue to take you to the URI defined in the Konqueror configuration module. You can reach that module from within Konqueror, via ->+Behaviour. By default this is set to To have Konqueror start up with no page loaded, use | |
| 12.7. | I can't find the answer to my question here. |
Take a look at http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html or http://www.konqueror.org/konq-java.html. |
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Konqueror. Program copyright 1999-2003, the Konqueror developers:
(faure AT kde.org)developer (parts, I/O lib) and maintainer
(hausmann AT kde.org)developer (framework, parts)
(michael.reiher AT gmx.de)developer (framework)
(welk AT fokus.gmd.de)developer
(neundorf AT kde.org)developer (list views)
(brade AT kde.org)developer (list views, I/O lib)
(knoll AT kde.org)developer (HTML rendering engine)
(koivisto AT iki.fi)developer (HTML rendering engine)
(mueller AT kde.org)developer (HTML rendering engine)
(pmk AT post.com)developer (HTML rendering engine, JavaScript)
(bastian AT kde.org)developer (HTML rendering engine, I/O lib)
(koss AT napri.sk)developer (I/O lib)
(zipzippy AT sonic.net)developer (I/O lib)
(coolo AT kde.org)developer (I/O lib)
(rich AT kde.org)developer (Java™ applet support)
(dima AT mercury.co.il)developer (Java™ applet support)
(wynnw AT calderasystems.com)developer (Java™2 manager support and other major improvements to applet support)
(porten AT kde.org)developer (JavaScript)
(schimmi AT kde.org)developer (Netscape® plugin support)
(pfeiffer AT kde.org)developer (framework)
(staikos AT kde.org)developer (SSL support)
(adawit AT kde.org)developer (I/O lib, Authentication support)
(tackat AT kde.org)Graphics / icons
(weis AT kde.org)kfm author
developer (navigation panel framework)
Documentation copyright 2000-2003
Erwan Loisant (erwan AT loisant.org)
Pamela Roberts (pamroberts AT blueyonder.co.uk)
Documentation updated for KDE 3.2 by Philip Rodrigues (phil AT kde.org).
Conversion to British English: John Knight (anarchist_tomato AT herzeleid.net)
This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
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Konqueror is part of the kdebase package which an essential part of KDE.
For instructions on acquiring KDE please see http://www.kde.org.
For further information about Konqueror you might like to visit http://www.konqueror.org.
Conversion to British English: John Knight (anarchist_tomato AT herzeleid.net)
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