&Pamela.Roberts;
2010-10-25
&kde; 4.5

# Command Reference

The shortcut key combinations shown in this chapter are the default ones. They can of course be changed.

## Special Shortcuts

There are some useful shortcuts that are not shown in any of the menus:

F6

  Sets the focus to the text entry box in the Location Toolbar.

&Ctrl;.

  Activate the next tab page.

&Ctrl;,

  Activate the previous tab page.

## The Menubar

Note that some menu entries only appear when they are applicable to the file you currently have open in &konqueror;. For example, the Edit Find... 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) like 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.

### The File Menu

&Ctrl;N File New Window

  Open another &konqueror; window.

&Ctrl;T File New Tab

  Open another &konqueror; tab, containing a blank page.

&Alt;O File Open Location...

  Sets the focus to the text entry box in the Location Toolbar.

&Ctrl;O File Open File...

  Open a file using the &kde; file dialog.

File Sessions

  Open a submenu to save the current session (open tabs and windows) for easy retrieval, manage sessions and switch to previously saved sessions.

File Send Link Address...

  Send an email containing a link to the current location.

File Send File...

  Send an email containing the selected file as an attachment.

File Save Background Image As... (Browser mode)

  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.

File Save As...

  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.

File Save Frame As... (Browser mode)

  Similar to Save As... but for use with a web site that uses frames.

&Ctrl;P File Print...

  Print.

File Print Frame (Browser mode)

  Print selected frame of a Web page.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  Close down this instance of &konqueror;.

### The Edit Menu

&Ctrl;Z Edit Undo: Action

  Sometimes lets you reverse a mistaken action.

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

  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 Edit Copy

  Copy selected item(s) to the clipboard.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste (Browser mode)

  Paste the clipboard content into the Location Bar.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste Clipboard Contents... (File Manager mode)

  Pastes the currently copied/cut items 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 Edit Select All (Browser mode)

  Selects all text in an &HTML; page or in a text page being previewed, you can then Copy it and Paste it into a text editor.

F2 Edit Rename (File Manager mode)

  Lets you rename a file or folder without having to open the Properties... dialog box.

Edit Create New (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.

Del Edit Move to Trash (File Manager mode)

  Move selected item(s) to the Trash folder.

&Shift;Del Edit Delete (File Manager mode)

  Delete the selected item(s).

Edit Edit File Type... (File Manager mode)

  Open the Edit File Type dialog box

&Alt;Return Edit Properties... (File Manager mode)

  Open the Edit Properties dialog box

&Ctrl;S Edit Selection Select Items Matching... (File Manager mode)

  Together with the Unselect Items Matching..., Unselect All and Invert Selection 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.

Edit Selection Unselect Items Matching... (File Manager mode)

  Unselect files or folders via a dialog similar to the one used by Select....

&Ctrl;A Edit Selection Select All (File Manager mode)

  Selects all text in an &HTML; page or in a text page being previewed, you can then Copy it and Paste it into a text editor.

Edit Selection Unselect All (File Manager mode)

  Unselect all selected files or folders.

&Ctrl;&Shift;A Edit Selection Invert Selection (File Manager mode)

  Invert current selection.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find... (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 Edit Find Next (Browser mode)

  Find the next occurrence of the text string in the text or &HTML; page.

F3 Edit Find Previous (Browser mode)

  Find the previous occurrence of the text string in the text or &HTML; page.

### The View Menu

View View Mode

  In browser mode this submenu holds items to select embedded views like KHTML, Embedded Advanced Text Editor and more embedded views.

  In file manager mode this submenu holds items to select Icon, Details, Columns, Terminal Emulator and more view modes.

View Use index.html

  If a selected folder contains a file `index.html`, it will be opened as a web page rather than showing the folder as a list of files.

View Lock to Current Location

  A locked view cannot change folders. Use in combination with Link View to explore many files from one folder.

View Link View

  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 View Reload

  Reload.

&Esc; View Stop

  Stop load (particularly useful when web browsing).

&Ctrl;+ View Enlarge Font / &Ctrl;- View Shrink Font (Browser mode)

  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 View View Document Source (Browser mode)

  View document source text.

  Only available if you are viewing a document or &HTML; page.

View View Frame Source (Browser mode)

  View frame source text

  Only applies if you are viewing a web site that uses frames. Similar to View Document Source.

&Ctrl;I View View Document Information (Browser mode)

  View document information, such as title, &URL;, and &HTTP; headers used in retrieving the document.

  Only available if you are viewing an &HTML; page.

View Set Encoding (Browser mode)

  Allows you to choose the character encoding used to display &HTML; pages. Default is usually the best choice.

View Sort By (File Manager mode)

  Changes whether items are sorted by Name, Size, Date, Permissions, Owner, Group or Type. Descending reverses the sort order. Folders First sorts folders before files.

View Additional Information (File Manager mode)

  Displays additional information like Size, Date, Permissions, Owner, Group or Type in the different views.

View Preview (File Manager mode)

  Displays a symbolic preview of the file contents in the different view modes.

View Show in Groups (File Manager mode)

  Displays the content of the current folder grouped by the option selected in Sort By (only available in the Icons view mode).

&Alt;. View Show Hidden Files (File Manager mode)

  Shows all the hidden files and sub-folders within the current folder.

View Adjust View Properties... (File Manager mode)

  Opens the View Properties Dialog.

### The Go Menu

&Alt;Up Go Up

  Go up a level in the folder hierarchy.

&Alt;Left Go Back

  Go back to the previous view.

&Alt;Right Go Forward

  You can only go forward if you've just gone back.

&Alt;Home Go Home Page (Browser mode)

  Go to your home page as defined on the General page of the settings dialog.

&Alt;Home Go Home Folder (File Manager mode)

  Changes to the users home folder, &eg;, /home/Peter/.

Go Applications (File Manager mode)

  Open the folder holding your applications.

Go Network Folder (File Manager mode)

  Network folders show up in a special location of &konqueror; and &dolphin; called a virtual folder. More information how to use this folder you find in the KNetAttach Handbook.

Go Settings (File Manager mode)

  Open a virtual folder with all &systemsettings; module.

Go Trash (File Manager mode)

  Open your `Trash` folder.

Go Autostart (File Manager mode)

  Open your `Autostart` folder.

&Ctrl;&Shift;H Go Show History

  shows a tree view of your browsing history in a separate window. See Sidebar.

Go Most Often Visited

  Displays a submenu showing the &URL;s you visit most often. Selecting one of these will make &konqueror; open that &URL;.

Go Recently Visited

  Displays a submenu showing the &URL;s you recently visited. Selecting one of these will make &konqueror; open that &URL;.

Go Closed Items

  Displays a submenu showing the closed &URL;s you visit. Selecting one of these will make &konqueror; open that &URL;. Use Empty Closed Items History to clear the submenu.

### The Bookmarks Menu

See the section Using Bookmarks in this manual for a fuller description of these menu items.

&Ctrl;B Bookmarks Add Bookmark

  Add current selection to your bookmarks.

Bookmarks Bookmark Tabs as Folder...

  Create a bookmark folder containing links to all of the &URL;s currently open in &konqueror; tabs.

Bookmarks New Bookmark Folder...

  Create a new folder in your Bookmarks folder.

Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks...

  Open the Bookmark Editor.

### The Tools Menu

F4 Tools Open Terminal (File Manager mode)

  Open a &konsole; terminal window.

&Ctrl;F Tools Find File... (File Manager mode)

  Open the &kfind; application.

Tools Select Remote Charset (File Manager mode)

  Offers to choose the charset used by a remote connection manually.

&Ctrl;E Tools Execute Shell Command... (File Manager mode)

  Run a program in the current folder by entering its name in a simple dialog box. The output of the command is displayed in a window.

If you have &konqueror; plugins installed there will be additional entries in the Tools menu. See the &konqueror; Plugins chapter for further details.

### The Settings Menu

See also the section Saving Settings and Profiles.

Settings Toolbars Shown

  Opens a sub menu where you can choose to show or hide the various Toolbars.

&Ctrl;M Settings Show Menubar

  Show/Hide the menubar.

Settings Show Terminal Emulator

  Open a small text terminal view at the bottom of the main window.

F9 Settings Show Sidebar

  Toggles the display of the &konqueror; sidebar. See .

&Ctrl;&Shift; F Settings Full Screen Mode

  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.

Settings Load View Profile

  Load the settings associated with a particular view profile.

Settings Save View Profile As...

  Save the current settings to the current view profile.

Settings Configure View Profiles...

  Lets you change an existing view profile or create a new one.

Settings Configure Extensions...

  Opens a dialog with all installed plugins &eg; from the KDE module extragear and allows to select the ones you need. All plugins are accessible in the Tools menu.

Settings Configure Spell Checking...

  Displays the spell checking configuration dialog box, in which you can change settings associated with spell checking in &konqueror;.

Settings Configure Shortcuts...

  Lets you see and change &konqueror;'s shortcut key bindings, i.e. the associations between actions such as Copy and keys or combinations of keys such a &Ctrl;V. If you do this take care not to duplicate an existing shortcut.

Settings Configure Toolbars...

  Lets you configure the Main, Extra and Location Toolbars. See the section Changing Bars.

Settings Configure &konqueror;...

  Lets you configure &konqueror;' behavior in file manager and browser mode.

### The Window Menu

&Ctrl;&Shift;L Window Split View Left/Right

  Split View Left/Right.

&Ctrl;&Shift;T Window Split View Top/Bottom

  Split View Top/Bottom.

&Ctrl;&Shift;R Window Close Active View

  Remove Active View.

&Ctrl;N Window New Window

  Open another &konqueror; window.

&Ctrl;&Shift;D Window Duplicate Window

  Open another &konqueror; window, duplicating the current one.

&Ctrl;T Window New Tab

  Open a new, empty, tab page.

&Ctrl;D Window Duplicate Current Tab

  Open a duplicate tab page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;B Window Detach Current Tab

  Show the current tab page in a new instance of &konqueror;.

&Ctrl;W Window Close Current Tab

  Close the current tab page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;Left Window Move Tab Left

  Move the current tab one place left in the list of tabs.

&Ctrl;&Shift;Left Window Move Tab Right

  Move the current tab one place right in the list of tabs.

### The Help Menu

Apart from standard &kde; Help menu items described below you will have the menu entry &konqueror; Introduction to revisit the introductory pages that you got when &konqueror; was first started.

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