Note that some menu entries only appear when they are applicable to the file you currently have open in Konqueror. For example, the → item will not appear when you are viewing the contents of a directory.
Konqueror has different menu items in file manager and browser mode. Only the items for these two modes are described in this chapter.
If Konqueror is using embedded components (KDE Parts) such as Gwenview for image viewing, Okular for PDF and PostScript® documents etc. the menu items from these applications are merged into Konqueror's menu. Help for these additional menu items you find in the handbook of the embedded application.
- → (Ctrl+N)
Open another Konqueror window.
- → (Ctrl+T)
Open another Konqueror tab, containing a blank page.
- → (Alt+O)
Sets the focus to the text entry box in the Location Toolbar.
- → (Ctrl+O)
Open a file using the KDE file dialog.
- →
Open a submenu to save the current session (open tabs and windows) for easy retrieval, manage sessions and switch to previously saved sessions.
- →
Send an email containing a link to the current location.
- →
Send an email containing the selected file as an attachment.
- → (Browser mode - KHTML view)
Only applies if you are viewing a web page with a background image. Opens the Save As dialog box to let you save the background image file to your own computer.
- → (Browser mode)
Only applies if you are viewing a document or web page, uses the Save As... dialog box to let you save a copy to your own computer.
- → (Browser mode)
Similar to but for use with a web site that uses frames.
- → (Ctrl+P)
Print.
- → (Browser mode)
Print selected frame of a Web page.
- →
Displays a list of applications installed on the system associated with the mimetype of the current URL.
- → (Ctrl+Q)
Close down this instance of Konqueror.
Note
Some items in the Menubar menu can also be found by mouse button clicking on a free area of a view.
- → (Ctrl+Z)
Sometimes lets you reverse a mistaken action.
- → (Ctrl+X)
Puts selected item(s) into the clipboard. If you then paste the items they will be moved from the original location to the new one.
- → (Ctrl+C)
Copy selected item(s) to the clipboard.
- → (Ctrl+V) (Browser mode)
Paste the clipboard content into the Location Bar, if the Location Bar has the focus.
- → (Ctrl+V) or → or → or → (File Manager mode)
Paste the currently copied/cut item(s) to the current folder. If the clipboard does not contain files or folders, the clipboard contents (such as text or image data) will be pasted into a new file.
- → (Ctrl+A) (Browser mode)
Selects all text in an HTML page or in a text page being previewed, you can then it and it into a text editor.
- → (File Manager mode)
Creates a new object (such as a folder or a text file) in the current folder. See the Create New... section for more details.
- → (F2) (File Manager mode)
Lets you rename a file or folder without having to open the dialog box.
- → (Del) (File Manager mode)
Move selected item(s) to the Trash folder.
- → (Shift+Del) (File Manager mode)
Delete the selected item(s).
- → (File Manager mode)
Open the Edit File Type dialog box
- → (Alt+Return) (File Manager mode)
Shows the properties dialog for the currently selected item(s).
- → → (Ctrl+S) (File Manager mode)
Together with the , and commands, this provides an easy and powerful way of selecting multiple files.
It brings up a simple dialog box where you can enter a file name using the wild card characters * and ?, for example entering
*.html
will select all files ending with.html
while?a*
will select all files which have the letter a as the second character in their filename.- → → (File Manager mode)
Unselect files or folders via a dialog similar to the one used by .
- → → (Ctrl+A) (File Manager mode)
Selects all items in a folder; you can then or them and them into a different folder.
- → → (File Manager mode)
Unselect all selected files or folders.
- → → (Ctrl+Shift+A) (File Manager mode)
Invert current selection.
- → (Ctrl+F) (Browser mode)
Displays the search bar at the bottom of the current window. Start typing to find a text string in a text page you are previewing or in an HTML page.
- → (F3) (Browser mode - KHTML view)
Find the next occurrence of the text string in the text or HTML page.
- → (Shift+F3) (Browser mode - KHTML view)
Find the previous occurrence of the text string in the text or HTML page.
- →
In browser mode this submenu holds items to select embedded views like , , and more embedded views.
In file manager mode this submenu holds items to select , , , and more view modes.
- →
A locked view cannot change folders. Use in combination with to explore many files from one folder.
- →
Link current view to others in a multiple view window. A linked view follows folder changes made in other linked views. This is especially useful with different types of views, such as a folder tree with an icon view or detailed view, and possibly a terminal emulator window.
- → (F5)
Reload.
- → (Esc)
Stop load (particularly useful when web browsing).
- → (Ctrl++) / → (Ctrl+-) (Browser mode - KHTML view)
Use these to adjust the size of the text in the page if you find it difficult to read. How well this works will depend on how the web page has been constructed.
- → (Ctrl+U) (Browser mode - KHTML view)
View document source text.
Only available if you are viewing a document or HTML page.
- → (Browser mode)
View frame source text
Only applies if you are viewing a web site that uses frames. Similar to .
- → → → → → (Browser mode - WebEngine view)
These menuitems offer different actions to modify the size of the items in the page.
- → (Ctrl+I) (Browser mode - KHTML view)
View document information, such as title, URL, and HTTP headers used in retrieving the document.
Only available if you are viewing an HTML page.
- → (Browser mode)
Allows you to choose the character encoding used to display HTML pages. is usually the best choice.
- → (File Manager mode)
Changes whether items are sorted by or other criteria described in Information in the View.
reverses the sort order. sorts folders before files.
- → (File Manager mode)
Displays additional information described in Information in the View.
- → (File Manager mode)
Displays a symbolic preview of the file contents in the different view modes.
- → (File Manager mode)
Displays the content of the current folder grouped by the option selected in (only available in the Icons view mode).
- → (Alt+.) (File Manager mode)
Shows all the hidden files and sub-folders within the current folder.
- → (File Manager mode)
Opens the View Properties Dialog.
- → (Alt+Up)
Go up a level in the folder hierarchy or select a folder in the hierarchy from the submenu.
- → (Alt+Left)
Go back to the previous view or select a previously visited item from the submenu.
- → (Alt+Right)
You can only go forward if you've previously gone back.
- → (Alt+Home) (Browser mode)
Go to your home page as defined on the General page of the settings dialog.
- → (Alt+Home) (File Manager mode)
Changes to the users home folder, e.g., /home/Peter/.
- → (File Manager mode)
Open the folder holding your applications.
- → (File Manager mode)
Network folders show up in a special location of Konqueror and Dolphin called a virtual folder. You can find more information on how to use this folder in the KNetAttach Handbook.
- → (File Manager mode)
Open a virtual folder with all System Settings modules in , or view. Select an item to display the settings module in a separate dialog window.
- → (File Manager mode)
Open your
Trash
folder.- → (File Manager mode)
Open your
Autostart
folder.- → (Ctrl+Shift+H)
Shows a tree view of your browsing history in a separate window.
- →
Displays a submenu showing the URLs you visit most often. Selecting one of these will make Konqueror open that URL.
- →
Displays a submenu showing the URLs you recently visited. Selecting one of these will make Konqueror open that URL.
- →
Displays a submenu showing the closed URLs you visit. Selecting one of these will make Konqueror open that URL. Use to clear the submenu.
Note
See the section Using Bookmarks in this manual for a fuller description of these menu items.
- → (Ctrl+B)
Add current selection to your bookmarks.
- →
Create a bookmark folder containing links to all of the URLs currently open in Konqueror tabs.
- →
Create a new folder in your Bookmarks folder.
- →
Open the Bookmark Editor.
- → (F4) (File Manager mode)
Open a Konsole terminal window.
- → (Ctrl+F) (File Manager mode)
Open the KFind application.
- → (File Manager mode)
Offers to choose the charset used by a remote connection manually.
If you have Konqueror plugins installed there will be additional entries in the menu. See the Konqueror Plugins chapter for further details.
Apart from the common KDE Settings menu items described in the Settings Menu chapter of the KDE Fundamentals Konqueror has these application specific menu entries:
- →
Open a small text terminal view at the bottom of the main window.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+F)
Changes Konqueror to full screen mode, in which the Konqueror window takes up the whole screen, and does not have the usual window decorations. To exit full screen mode, click on the Exit Full Screen Mode icon on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Shift+F.
- →
Opens a dialog with all installed plugins (e.g. from the KDE module extragear) and allows you to select the ones you need. All plugins are accessible in the menu.
- →
Displays the spell checking configuration dialog box, in which you can change settings associated with spell checking in Konqueror.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+L)
Split View Left/Right.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+T)
Split View Top/Bottom.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+W)
Remove Active View.
- → (Ctrl+N)
Open another Konqueror window.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+D)
Open another Konqueror window, duplicating the current one.
- → (Ctrl+T)
Open a new, empty, tab page.
- → (Ctrl+D)
Open a duplicate tab page.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+B)
Show the current tab page in a new instance of Konqueror.
- → (Ctrl+W)
Close the current tab page.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+Left)
Move the current tab one place left in the list of tabs.
- → (Ctrl+Shift+Right)
Move the current tab one place right in the list of tabs.
Apart from standard KDE menu items described in the section Help Menu of the KDE Fundamentals you will have the menu entry to revisit the introductory pages that you got when Konqueror was first started.