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<chapter id="filemanager">
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<title
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>The File Manager and Web Browser</title>
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<para
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>The file manager and web browser of &kde; is &konqueror;. The &konqueror; home page is located at <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org"
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>http://www.konqueror.org</ulink
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> where a &konqueror; specific <acronym
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>FAQ</acronym
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> can be found.</para>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How do I use &konqueror; as a web browser with a proxy?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>&konqueror; can be used with &HTTP; and &FTP; proxies. To set up the proxy server in &konqueror;, just select <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guisubmenu
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>Configure &konqueror;...</guisubmenu
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></menuchoice
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> from the &konqueror; menu and go to the <guilabel
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>Proxy</guilabel
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> tab.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How can I change the appearance of a folder in &konqueror;?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Right-click the folder, select <guimenuitem
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>Properties</guimenuitem
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>, click on the large icon in the dialogue which appears and choose another icon.</para>
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<para
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>To change the icon displayed for entries in the <guimenu
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>K Menu</guimenu
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>, use the <application
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>Menu Editor</application
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>, located at <menuchoice
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><guisubmenu
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>Settings</guisubmenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Menu Editor</guimenuitem
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></menuchoice
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>. </para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How can I do non-anonymous &FTP; transfers with &konqueror;?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Normally, if you enter a &URL; like <userinput
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>ftp://<replaceable
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>ftp.somehost.com</replaceable
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></userinput
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>, &konqueror; will attempt an anonymous login to the &FTP; server. If you want to login as a particular user, enter a &URL; like <userinput
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>ftp://<replaceable
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>username@ftp.somehost.com</replaceable
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></userinput
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> instead. &konqueror; will ask for your password and connect to the server.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry
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> <question
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> <para
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>What are <option
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>%i</option
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> and <option
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>%m</option
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> in the Execute line?</para
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> </question
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> <answer>
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<para
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>They are used by all &kde; applications (since they are implemented in <classname
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>KApplication</classname
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> and all good &kde; programs create a <classname
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>KApplication</classname
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> object before they even look at the command line arguments).</para
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> <para
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>A standard line for a &kde; application looks like this: <userinput
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><command
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>foo</command
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> <option
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>... %i %m -caption \"%c\"</option
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></userinput
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>. 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
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><command
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><replaceable
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>foo</replaceable
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></command
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> <option
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>-icon something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The Foo\"</option
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></userinput
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>. Both the icon and the mini-icon as well as "The Foo" are properties defined in the <filename
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>.desktop</filename
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> file. If the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name <replaceable
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>foo</replaceable
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>.</para>
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<para
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>This way a user can change these things in &kmenuedit; for his or her applications. The <option
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>-caption</option
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> option is important, because no user will accept that the menu item <guimenuitem
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>Editor</guimenuitem
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> starts something called <guilabel
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>kedit-0.9pl4-build47</guilabel
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>. Instead, he expects a window called <guilabel
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>Editor</guilabel
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>. Furthermore these names are localised, <abbrev
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>i.e.</abbrev
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> an American user launches <guimenuitem
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>CD-Player</guimenuitem
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> and gets a window called <guilabel
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>CD-Player</guilabel
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> while a German user launches <guimenuitem
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>CD-Spieler</guimenuitem
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> and gets a window called <guilabel
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>CD-Spieler</guilabel
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>.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How do I specify the startup folder for &konqueror;?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Using the &RMB;, click on the Home icon and choose <guimenuitem
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>Properties</guimenuitem
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>. Under the <guilabel
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>Application</guilabel
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> tab you will probably find something like <command
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>kfmclient openProfile filemanagement</command
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>; just append <filename class="directory"
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>file:/whereever/you/want</filename
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> with the folder you would like &konqueror; to start in.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="nsbookmark">
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<para
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>How do I import &Netscape; bookmarks?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>There is no need to import anything at all. &Netscape; bookmarks are automatically available under the <guimenu
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>Bookmarks</guimenu
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> menu in &konqueror; with no configuration on your part necessary. The <application
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>Bookmark Editor</application
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> is able to convert &Netscape; bookmarks to the format used by &konqueror;, if you want this.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How do I fool a site into believing &konqueror; is &Netscape; or some other browser?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>In &konqueror;, select <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Configure Konqueror...</guimenuitem
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></menuchoice
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> and in the configuration dialogue, select <guilabel
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>Browser Identification</guilabel
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>. Default and site-specific browser identifications can be set from here.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How do I configure &konqueror; to run &Java; applets?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Choose <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Configure &konqueror;...</guimenuitem
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></menuchoice
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> from &konqueror;'s menubar and then select <guilabel
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>Java & Javascript</guilabel
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>. Set the <guilabel
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>Path to Java executable</guilabel
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> correctly. If it doesn't work, please check the <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org/javahowto/"
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>Konqueror + Java HOWTO</ulink
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>.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>What is this new <guilabel
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>Smart</guilabel
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> policy for JavaScript web popups?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>This new policy attempts to block intrusive JavaScript popup windows. If the user does not click on a button or submit a form to trigger the popup, then the popup is not permitted. Some sites will open a second new window from within the first and in that case, the second window will not show. </para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>Why doesn't my banking site work with &konqueror;? It pops up a new window with the login screen in other browsers, but not in &konqueror;.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Make sure you have Javascript enabled, and the default JavaScript web popups policy set to <guilabel
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>Ask</guilabel
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> or <guilabel
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>Allow</guilabel
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>. The <guilabel
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>Smart</guilabel
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> policy is not always sufficient for some banks. Many banks also require &Java; support. You can find more help on enabling this at <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org/"
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>http://www.konqueror.org/</ulink
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>. </para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>Why can't &konqueror; render &GIF; images?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>It is because you did not enable &GIF; support in &Qt;. Please see <xref linkend="gif"/> for more details.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para
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>How do I rename files?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>Simply <mousebutton
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>right</mousebutton
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> click on the file and select <guimenuitem
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>Rename</guimenuitem
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> or click once on an already selected file. The default keyboard shortcut to rename a file is <keycap
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>F2</keycap
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>.</para>
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</answer>
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<qandaentry>
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<question
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><para
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>When I try to open a web page with &konqueror;, I get the message: <quote
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>There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with text/html, but it cannot handle this file type.</quote
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></para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>You need to make sure that the embedding settings for the text/html <acronym
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>MIME</acronym
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> type are correct: <orderedlist>
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<listitem
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><para
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>In &konqueror;, go to <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Configure Konqueror</guimenuitem
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></menuchoice
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> and then to the <guilabel
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>File Associations</guilabel
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> page.</para
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></listitem>
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<listitem
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><para
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>Open text->html in the tree view.</para
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></listitem>
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<listitem
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><para
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>Click on the <guilabel
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>Embedding</guilabel
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> tab. Make sure that <guilabel
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>Left Click Action</guilabel
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> is set to <guilabel
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>Show file in embedded viewer</guilabel
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>, and that <guilabel
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>KHTML (khtml)</guilabel
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> is at the top of <guilabel
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>Services Preference Order.</guilabel
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></para
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></listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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<para
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>Try opening a website in Konqueror. It should now work.</para>
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</answer>
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<question
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><para
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>How do I configure the programs that &konqueror; uses to open different types of files?</para
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></question>
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<answer>
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<para
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>In order to configure file associations, you should go to the &kcontrolcenter; and choose the item <guimenuitem
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>File Associations</guimenuitem
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> under the category <guimenu
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>KDE Components</guimenu
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>.</para>
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<para
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>Suppose the default <acronym
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>PDF</acronym
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> viewer is now &kghostview; and you would prefer to use <application
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>KPDF</application
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> as a viewer. You would simply type <userinput
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>pdf</userinput
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> in the search box at the top of the dialogue, choose <guimenuitem
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>pdf</guimenuitem
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> in the <guimenu
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>application</guimenu
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> group and move <application
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>KPDF</application
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> up. In the <guilabel
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>Embedding</guilabel
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> 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>
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</answer>
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