The Konqueror Handbook

The Konqueror Handbook

Pamela Roberts

Developers: The KDE Team

Revision 3.1 (2002-09-22)

Copyright © 2000, 2002 Erwan Loisant, Pamela Roberts

Konqueror is KDE's advanced File Manager, Web Browser and Universal Viewing Application.

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. Konqueror Basics

Starting Konqueror
The Parts of Konqueror
Tooltips and What's This?
Left and Middle Mouse Button Actions
Right Mouse Button Menus
Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages

3. Konqueror the File Manager

Folders and Paths

File Tip Info
File Previews

Finding Files and Folders
Floppy and CD-ROM Drives

Deleting Files and Folders

Moving and Copying

Using Drag 'n Drop
Duplicate File Names

Selecting Multiple Files

Changing Names and Permissions

Copy and Rename
Super User Mode

Configuring File Associations

At the Command Line

4. Konqueror the Web Browser

Connecting to the Internet
Surfing and Searching
Tabbed Browsing
Web Shortcuts
Access Keys
Browser Identification
Saving and Printing Web Items
FTP
URLs with Port Numbers

5. Automatic Text Completion

6. Using Bookmarks

The Bookmark Editor

7. The Navigation Panel

8. Saving Settings & Profiles

General Settings
View Profiles

Netscape® Plugins
Konqueror Plugins

10. Configuring Konqueror

User Defined Menus

Other Settings

11. Command Reference

Special Shortcuts

The Menubar

The Location Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Go Menu
The Bookmarks Menu
The Tools Menu
The Settings Menu
The Window Menu
The Help Menu

12. Questions and Answers

13. Credits and License

A. Installation

Overview