<!-- <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd"> --> <chapter id="filemanager"> <title>The File Manager</title> <para>&kde;'s file manager is &konqueror;. The &konqueror; home page is located at <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org">http://www.konqueror.org</ulink> where a &konqueror; specific <acronym>FAQ</acronym> can be found.</para> <qandaset> <qandaentry> <question> <para>How can I change the appearance of a folder in &konqueror;?</para> </question> <answer> <para>Right-click the folder, select <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>, click on the large icon in the dialog which appears, and choose another icon.</para> <para>To change the icon displayed for entries in the <guimenu>K Menu</guimenu>, use the <application>Menu Editor</application>, located at <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Menu Editor</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>How can I do non-anonymous &FTP; transfers with &konqueror;?</para> </question> <answer> <para>Normally, if you enter a &URL; like <userinput>ftp://<replaceable>ftp.somehost.com</replaceable></userinput>, &konqueror; will attempt an anonymous login to the &FTP; server. If you want to login as a particular user, enter a &URL; like <userinput>ftp://<replaceable>username@ftp.somehost.com</replaceable></userinput> instead. &konqueror; will ask for your password and connect to the server.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>How do I specify the startup folder for &konqueror;?</para> </question> <answer> <para>Using the &RMB;, click on the Home icon and choose <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. Under the <guilabel>Application</guilabel> tab you will probably find something like <command>kfmclient openProfile filemanagement</command>; just append <filename class="directory">file:/whereever/you/want</filename> with the folder you would like &konqueror; to start in.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>How do I rename files?</para> </question> <answer> <para>Simply <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the file and select <guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem> or press the keyboard shortcut <keycap>F2</keycap> with a file selected.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>Where did the delete entry from my right-click context menu go?</para> </question> <answer> <para>In &kde; 3.4 the delete context menu entries that bypass the trashcan are no longer displayed by default. To enable them, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure &konqueror;</guimenuitem></menuchoice > and select <guilabel>Behaviour</guilabel> in the iconbar to the left. Tick the checkbox <guilabel>Show 'Delete' context menu entries which bypass the trashcan</guilabel>. </para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question><para>How do I configure the programs that &konqueror; uses to open different types of files?</para></question> <answer> <para>In order to configure file associations, you should go to the &kcontrolcenter; and choose the item <guimenuitem>File Associations</guimenuitem> under the category <guimenu>KDE Components</guimenu>.</para> <para> Suppose the default <acronym>PDF</acronym> viewer is now &kghostview; and you would prefer to use <application>KPDF</application> as a viewer. You would simply type <userinput>pdf</userinput> in the search box at the top of the dialog, choose <guimenuitem>pdf</guimenuitem> in the <guimenu>application</guimenu> group and move <application>KPDF</application> up. In the <guilabel>Embedding</guilabel> tab you can also choose which component other applications will use to display files (for example, when viewing files in &konqueror; or using &ark;'s embedded viewer). </para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question><para>When I try to click on a folder in &konqueror;, I get the message: <quote>There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it cannot handle this file type.</quote></para> </question> <answer> <para>You need to make sure that the embedding settings for inode/directory are correct: <orderedlist> <listitem><para>In &konqueror;, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Konqueror</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and then to the <guilabel>File Associations</guilabel> page.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Open inode->directory in the tree view.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Click on the <guilabel>Embedding</guilabel> tab. Make sure that <guilabel>Left Click Action</guilabel> is set to <guilabel>Show file in embedded viewer</guilabel>, and by default <guilabel>Icon View (konq_iconview)</guilabel> is at the top of <guilabel>Services Preference Order.</guilabel></para></listitem> </orderedlist> </para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>What are <option>%i</option> and <option>%m</option> in the Execute line?</para> </question> <answer> <para>They are used by all &kde; applications (since they are implemented in <classname>KApplication</classname> and all good &kde; programs create a <classname>KApplication</classname> object before they even look at the command line arguments).</para> <para>A standard line for a &kde; application looks like this: <userinput><command>foo</command> <option>... %i %m -caption \"%c\"</option></userinput>. Pretty confusing, -but it has been designed in that way so that it can integrate legacy, non-&kde; applications as smoothly as possible. &konqueror;, when executing the line above, will extend the command to <userinput><command><replaceable>foo</replaceable></command> <option>-icon something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The Foo\"</option></userinput>. Both the icon and the mini-icon as well as "The Foo" are properties defined in the <filename>.desktop</filename> file. If the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name <replaceable>foo</replaceable>.</para> <para>This way a user can change these things in &kmenuedit; for his or her applications. The <option>-caption</option> option is important, because no user will accept that the menu item <guimenuitem>Editor</guimenuitem> starts something called <guilabel>kedit-0.9pl4-build47</guilabel>. Instead, he expects a window called <guilabel>Editor</guilabel>. Furthermore these names are localized, <abbrev>i.e.</abbrev> an American user launches <guimenuitem>CD-Player</guimenuitem> and gets a window called <guilabel>CD-Player</guilabel> while a German user launches <guimenuitem>CD-Spieler</guimenuitem> and gets a window called <guilabel>CD-Spieler</guilabel>.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question><para>How do I make &konqueror; start up without a menu bar? I can't save a view profile when the menu bar is invisible!</para> </question> <answer><para>The easiest way to do this is to edit &konqueror;'s configuration file manually. Add the following lines to <filename>~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc</filename>: <programlisting> [KonqMainWindow] MenuBar=Disabled </programlisting> </para> <para>On restarting &konqueror;, the menubar should be hidden.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> </qandaset> </chapter> <!--Local variables: mode: xml sgml-omittag:nil sgml-shorttag:nil sgml-namecase-general:nil sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-always-quote-attributes:t sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:true sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") sgml-exposed-tags:nil sgml-local-catalogs:nil sgml-local-ecat-files:nil End: -->