The Konqueror Handbook

Pamela Roberts (pamroberts blueyonder.co.uk)

Developers: The KDE Team

Revision Gear 25.04 (2025-02-27)

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

Information in the View

Folder View Properties

The View Properties Dialog

Finding Files and Folders
Removable Devices

Deleting Files and Folders

Moving and Copying

Using Drag’n Drop
Duplicate File or Folder Names

Selecting Items in the View

Selecting Items Using the Mouse
Selecting Items Using the Keyboard
Selecting Items Using the Menu

Changing Names and Permissions

Copy and Rename

Configuring File Associations

At the Command Line

4. Konqueror the Web Browser

Surfing and Searching
Tabbed Browsing
Web Search Keywords
Access Keys
Browser Identification
Saving and Printing Web Items
FTP
URLs with Port Numbers

5. Automatic Text Completion

6. Using Bookmarks

7. Saving Settings

Konqueror Plugins

9. View Mode Extensions

FSView—the File System View

Introduction
Visualization Features
User Interface
Credits and License

10. Configuring Konqueror

Other Settings

11. Command Reference

Special Shortcuts

The Menubar

The File 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