| 8.1. | How can I change the appearance of a folder in
Konqueror? |
| Right-click the folder, select ,
click on the large icon in the dialog which appears, and choose another
icon. To change the icon displayed for entries in the
, use the Menu Editor,
accessed by clicking with the right mouse button on the menu icon and selecting
from the menu.
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| 8.2. | How can I do non-anonymous FTP transfers with Konqueror? |
| Normally, if you enter a URL like
ftp://ftp.example.com,
Konqueror will attempt an anonymous login to the FTP server. If you
want to login as a particular user, enter a URL like
ftp://username@ftp.example.com
instead. Konqueror will ask for your password and connect to the
server. |
| 8.3. | How do I specify the startup folder for Konqueror? |
| Using the right mouse button, click on the Home icon and choose
. Under the
Application tab you will probably find something like
kfmclient openProfile filemanagement; just append
file:/whereever/you/want with the
folder you would like Konqueror to start in. |
| 8.4. | How do I rename files? |
| Simply right click on the file and select
or press the keyboard shortcut F2 with a file selected. |
| 8.5. | Where did the delete entry from my right-click context menu go? |
| In KDE 3.4 the delete context menu entries that bypass the
trashcan are no longer displayed by default. To enable them, go to
-> and select
Behaviour in the iconbar to the left. Tick the checkbox
Show 'Delete' context menu entries which bypass the
trashcan.
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| 8.6. | How do I configure the programs that Konqueror uses to
open different types of files? |
| In order to configure file associations, you should go to the
KDE Control Center and choose the item under the category .
Suppose the default PDF viewer is now KGhostView and
you would prefer to use KPDF as a viewer. You
would simply type pdf in the search box at the top of
the dialog, choose in the
group and move
KPDF up. In the Embedding
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).
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| 8.7. | How can I configure Konqueror to open files with double-click
instead of single-click? |
| In the KDE Control Center, go to
->
and in the General tab, select
Double-click to open files and folders. |
| 8.8. | When I try to click on a folder in Konqueror, I get the
message: “There appears to be a configuration error. You have
associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it cannot handle this file
type.” |
| You need to make sure that the embedding settings for inode/directory
are correct:
In Konqueror, go to
-> and then to the File
Associations page. Open
inode->directory in the tree view. Click on
the
Embedding tab. Make sure that Left Click
Action is set to Show file in embedded
viewer, and by default Icon View (konq_iconview)
is at the top
of Services Preference Order.
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| 8.9. | What are %i and
%m in the Execute line? |
| They are used by all KDE applications (since they are implemented in
KApplication and all good KDE programs create a
KApplication object before they even look at the
command line arguments). A standard line for a KDE
application looks like this: foo
... %i %m -caption \"%c\". 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
foo -icon
something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The
Foo\".desktop file. If
the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name
foo. This way a user can change these things in KMenuEdit for his or her
applications. The -caption option is important, because no
user will accept that the menu item starts
something called kedit-0.9pl4-build47. Instead, he
expects a window called Editor. Furthermore these
names are localized, i.e. an American user launches
and gets a window called
CD-Player while a German user launches
and gets a window called
CD-Spieler. |
| 8.10. | How do I make Konqueror start up without a menu bar?
I can't save a view profile when the menu bar is invisible! |
| The easiest way to do this is to edit Konqueror's
configuration file manually. Add the following lines to
~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc:
[KonqMainWindow]
MenuBar=Disabled
On restarting Konqueror, the menubar should be hidden. |
| 8.11. | JPEG files no longer show previews in Konqueror (and I've installed CrossOver Office)
|
|
CrossOver creates new MIME types that will override the default
image/jpeg and image/jpg times. In Konqueror, go to
->, and then to File Associations. Find the
application/x-crossover-jpg and application/x-crossover-jpeg entries,
and remove them. Then hit OK. This problem is
reported fixed in the latest version of CrossOver. |
