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<chapter id="faq">
<chapterinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Pamela.Roberts;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>John</firstname
><surname
>Knight</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>[email protected]</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
<date
>2003-11-06</date
> <releaseinfo
>3.2</releaseinfo
> </chapterinfo>

<title
>Questions and Answers</title>

<qandaset>

<!-- Link is dead, unfortunately. I suppose this is a more general thing anyway
<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>How can I browse web sites using non latin
 scripts?</para
></question>
<answer
><para
>Detailed instructions can be found at <ulink
url="http://www.konqueror.org/i18n.html"
>http://www.konqueror.org/i18n.html</ulink
></para
></answer>
</qandaentry>
-->

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>Can I run &konqueror; from another window manager?</para
></question>

<answer
><para
>Just install &Qt;, tdelibs and tdebase, 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 <ulink url="http://bugs.kde.org"
>http://bugs.kde.org</ulink
> and try running <application
>tdeinit</application
> before running &konqueror;, it usually helps.</para
></answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>Where does &konqueror; keep all its configuration data?</para
></question>
<answer
><para
>Generally in the <filename
>~/.kde</filename
> folder (this may be <filename
>~/.kde3</filename
> on your system, depending on how &kde; 3 was installed). Do not alter these files unless you really know what you are doing.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem
><para
>The <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles</filename
> folder holds individual files containing settings for each of your <link linkend="save-settings"
>profiles. </link
></para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>Your bookmarks are held in <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml</filename
></para
></listitem>
<listitem
><para
>Cookies are held in <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/apps/kcookiejar/cookies</filename
></para
></listitem>
<listitem
><para
>Your history, as used for the auto-completion feature, is in <filename
>~/.kde/share/config/konq_history</filename
></para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>In the folder <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/config/</filename
> the files <filename
>konqiconviewrc</filename
>, <filename
>konqlistviewrc</filename
> and <filename
>konquerorrc</filename
> hold a whole lot of general configuration settings.</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>The folder <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/cache/http/</filename
> contains the browser cache.</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>The Navigation Panel uses the files and subfolders in <filename class="directory"
>~/.kde/share/apps/konqsidebartng</filename
></para
></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para
>Any folder specific view settings are put into <literal role="extension"
>.directory</literal
> files in the individual folders.</para
></answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>How do I clear out the history file?</para
></question>
<answer
><para
>There are two <quote
>histories</quote
>:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem
><para
>One is used for text completion in the Location Toolbar text entry box. To clear this <mousebutton
>right</mousebutton
> click on the text entry box and select <guimenuitem
>Clear History </guimenuitem
>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem
><para
>The other is the log of visited locations. Select the History page in the Navigation Panel, <mousebutton
>right</mousebutton
> click on an entry and choose <guimenuitem
>Remove Entry</guimenuitem
> to remove just that entry or <guimenuitem
>Clear History</guimenuitem
> to delete all entries.</para
></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>How do I enable, disable or clear the browser cache?</para
></question
> <answer>
<para
>If you select <guimenuitem
>Cache</guimenuitem
> in the dialogue launched by selecting <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
><guimenuitem
>Configure Konqueror... </guimenuitem
></menuchoice
>, 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.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>How can I change the timeout values used by &konqueror; when web browsing?</para
></question
> <answer>
<para
>In the Control Centre <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Internet &amp; Network</guimenu
> <guimenuitem
>Preferences</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
> page.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>How do I set my <quote
>home</quote
> page - the page loaded on startup?</para
></question>
<answer
><para
>Start &konqueror; with the <guiicon
>Web Browser</guiicon
> icon on the panel. Open the page you want to be loaded in any new <quote
>Web Browser</quote
> window and select <guimenuitem
>Save View Profile "Web Browsing"</guimenuitem
> from the <guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
> menu.</para>

<para
>All new &konqueror; windows that are started with the <guiicon
>Web Browser</guiicon
> icon on the panel, or from the <guimenu
>location</guimenu
> menu, and new empty tabs, will now start at this page.</para>

<note
><para
>This does not change the behaviour of the <guiicon
>Home</guiicon
> 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 <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
><guimenuitem
>Configure Konqueror</guimenuitem
><guilabel
>Behaviour</guilabel
></menuchoice
>. By default this is set to <userinput
>~</userinput
>, which is your Home folder. You may set this to any &URI;, either local or remote, and pressing the <guiicon
>Home</guiicon
> icon on the toolbar will display it.</para
></note>

<para
>To have &konqueror; start up with no page loaded, use <userinput
>about:blank</userinput
>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question
><para
>I can't find the answer to my question here.</para
></question
> 
<answer>
<para
>Take a look at <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html"
> http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html</ulink
> or <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org/konq-java.html"
> http://www.konqueror.org/konq-java.html</ulink
>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

</qandaset>

</chapter>
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