The System Tray Widget

Location and Usage

When Smb4K is started, a status icon appears in the system tray. Its status is set to active if workgroups or domains were discovered in your network neighborhood. Otherwise it is set to inactive.

System tray widget

You can minimize or restore the main window by left clicking the status icon. A right click brings up a popup menu that contains several items allowing you to work with the mounted shares, manage or mount your bookmarks, select the profile you want to use, and configure Smb4K without opening the main window.

Menus and Menu Items

The Mounted Shares menu lists all mounted shares and some actions that can be performed on them.

System tray widget's Mounted Shares menu
Unmount All

Unmount all shares at once. Depending on your settings, Smb4K attempts to unmount either only those shares that are owned by you or all that are listed.

For each mounted share you can open a submenu that contains the following entries. For further information read the popup menu section.

Unmount

Unmount the share.

Add Bookmark

Add the selected share to the bookmarks.

Add Custom Settings

Open the custom settings editor for the selected share. For further information read the section about the Custom Settings editor.

Synchronize

Synchronize the mounted share with a local copy or vice versa. For further information read the sections about the shares view's actions and popup menu and the synchronization.

Open with Konsole

Open the base folder of the share in Konsole.

Open with File Manager

Open the contents of the share in the default file manager (e.g. Dolphin).

The Bookmarks menu contains all your bookmarks organized according to the structure you gave them (see also adding bookmarks and editing bookmarks).

System tray widget's Bookmarks menu

Its layout is as described here, except that the Add Bookmark menu item is not present.

In the Profiles menu, all profiles are listed:

System tray widget's Profiles menu

You can activate a profile by clicking it. The profiles can be managed in the configuration dialog.

These are the other menu entries:

Open Mount Dialog

Open the dialog for mounting shares by manually providing the URL, IP address and domain or workgroup.

Configure Smb4K...

Open the configuration dialog. See the section about the configuration for a full list of available settings.

Minimize | Restore

Hide (minimize) or show (restore) the main window. The text shown depends on the state of the main window.

Quit (Ctrl+Q)

Quit the application.