summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc/faq/filemng.docbook
blob: bfe6d1e984bc5dac6159b31c9ec563ecb133d256 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
<!-- <?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
 "dtd/kdex.dtd"> -->
	
<chapter id="filemanager">
<title>The File Manager</title>

<para>&kde;'s file manager is &konqueror;.  The
&konqueror; home page is located at <ulink
url="http://www.konqueror.org">http://www.konqueror.org</ulink> where a
&konqueror; specific <acronym>FAQ</acronym> can be found.</para>

<qandaset>


<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>How can I change the appearance of a folder in
&konqueror;?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Right-click the folder, select <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>,
click on the large icon in the dialog which appears, and choose another
icon.</para> <para>To change the icon displayed for entries in the
<guimenu>K Menu</guimenu>, use the <application>Menu Editor</application>,
located at <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Menu
Editor</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>How can I do non-anonymous &FTP; transfers with &konqueror;?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Normally, if you enter a &URL; like
<userinput>ftp://<replaceable>ftp.somehost.com</replaceable></userinput>,
&konqueror; will attempt an anonymous login to the &FTP; server.  If you
want to login as a particular user, enter a &URL; like
<userinput>ftp://<replaceable>username@ftp.somehost.com</replaceable></userinput>
instead.  &konqueror; will ask for your password and connect to the
server.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>


<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>How do I specify the startup folder for &konqueror;?</para>
</question>
<answer>

<para>Using the &RMB;, click on the Home icon and choose
<guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>.  Under the
<guilabel>Application</guilabel> tab you will probably find something like
<command>kfmclient openProfile filemanagement</command>; just append
<filename class="directory">file:/whereever/you/want</filename> with the
folder you would like &konqueror; to start in.</para>

</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>How do I rename files?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Simply <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the file and select
<guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem> or press the keyboard shortcut <keycap>F2</keycap> with a file selected.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>Where did the delete entry from my right-click context menu go?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>In &kde; 3.4 the delete context menu entries that bypass the
trashcan are no longer displayed by default. To enable them, go to 
<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
&konqueror;</guimenuitem></menuchoice > and select
<guilabel>Behaviour</guilabel> in the iconbar to the left. Tick the checkbox
<guilabel>Show 'Delete' context menu entries which bypass the
trashcan</guilabel>.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question><para>How do I configure the programs that &konqueror; uses to
open different types of files?</para></question>
<answer>
<para>In order to configure file associations, you should go to the
&kcontrolcenter; and choose the item <guimenuitem>File
Associations</guimenuitem> under the category <guimenu>KDE
Components</guimenu>.</para>
<para>
Suppose the default <acronym>PDF</acronym> viewer is now &kghostview; and
you would prefer to use <application>KPDF</application> as a viewer. You
would simply type <userinput>pdf</userinput> in the search box at the top of
the dialog, choose <guimenuitem>pdf</guimenuitem> in the
<guimenu>application</guimenu> group and move
<application>KPDF</application> up. In the <guilabel>Embedding</guilabel>
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).
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question><para>When I try to click on a folder in &konqueror;, I get the
message: <quote>There appears to be a configuration error. You have
associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it cannot handle this file
type.</quote></para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You need to make sure that the embedding settings for inode/directory
are correct:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>In &konqueror;, go to
<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
Konqueror</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and then to the <guilabel>File
Associations</guilabel> page.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Open
inode->directory in the tree view.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Click on
the
<guilabel>Embedding</guilabel> tab. Make sure that <guilabel>Left Click
Action</guilabel> is set to <guilabel>Show file in embedded
viewer</guilabel>, and by default <guilabel>Icon View (konq_iconview)</guilabel>
is at the top
of <guilabel>Services Preference Order.</guilabel></para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry> <question> <para>What are <option>%i</option> and
<option>%m</option> in the Execute line?</para> </question> <answer>
<para>They are used by all &kde; applications (since they are implemented in
<classname>KApplication</classname> and all good &kde; programs create a
<classname>KApplication</classname> object before they even look at the
command line arguments).</para> <para>A standard line for a &kde;
application looks like this: <userinput><command>foo</command>
<option>... %i %m -caption \"%c\"</option></userinput>.  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
<userinput><command><replaceable>foo</replaceable></command> <option>-icon
something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The
Foo\"</option></userinput>.  Both the icon and the mini-icon as well as "The
Foo" are properties defined in the <filename>.desktop</filename> file.  If
the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name
<replaceable>foo</replaceable>.</para>
 
<para>This way a user can change these things in &kmenuedit; for his or her
applications.  The <option>-caption</option> option is important, because no
user will accept that the menu item <guimenuitem>Editor</guimenuitem> starts
something called <guilabel>kedit-0.9pl4-build47</guilabel>.  Instead, he
expects a window called <guilabel>Editor</guilabel>.  Furthermore these
names are localized, <abbrev>i.e.</abbrev> an American user launches
<guimenuitem>CD-Player</guimenuitem> and gets a window called
<guilabel>CD-Player</guilabel> while a German user launches
<guimenuitem>CD-Spieler</guimenuitem> and gets a window called
<guilabel>CD-Spieler</guilabel>.</para>

</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question><para>How do I make &konqueror; start up without a menu bar?
I can't save a view profile when the menu bar is invisible!</para>
</question>

<answer><para>The easiest way to do this is to edit &konqueror;'s
configuration file manually. Add the following lines to
<filename>~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc</filename>:
<programlisting>
[KonqMainWindow]
MenuBar=Disabled
</programlisting>
</para>

<para>On restarting &konqueror;, the menubar should be hidden.</para>

</answer>
</qandaentry>

</qandaset>
</chapter>

<!--Local variables:
mode: xml
sgml-omittag:nil
sgml-shorttag:nil
sgml-namecase-general:nil
sgml-general-insert-case:lower
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
sgml-indent-step:0
sgml-indent-data:true
sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter")
sgml-exposed-tags:nil
sgml-local-catalogs:nil
sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
End:
-->