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<chapter id="basics">
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<chapterinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2003-10-20</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>
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</chapterinfo>
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<title>&konqueror; Basics</title>
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<important><para>Like all &kde; applications, &konqueror; is highly
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configurable. This document describes how &konqueror; behaves with the normal,
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default settings.</para>
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<para> A three button mouse can be useful when you are running
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&konqueror; or any other &kde; application. If your mouse only has two buttons
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then you should be able to set your system up so that you can simulate a &MMB;
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by pressing both buttons at the same time.</para>
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<para>You can read more about mouse usage in <xref
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linkend="lmb-mmb"/></para>
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<para>If you are used to having to double-click to perform an action,
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then take care, because in common with the rest of &kde;, &konqueror; defaults
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to single-clicking.</para></important>
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<sect1 id="konq-start">
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<title>Starting &konqueror;</title>
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<para>Being a combined File Manager and Browser,
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&konqueror; will automatically
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switch between the two modes as needed when it is running, but it is convenient
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to be able to choose which mode is to be used when you start it up.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>If you have a <guiicon>house</guiicon> shaped icon on the panel
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or desktop, then <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on it to open
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&konqueror; as a file manager.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Or <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on <guiicon>world
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</guiicon> shaped icon on the panel or desktop to open &konqueror; in browser
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mode.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>From the <guimenu>K</guimenu> menu, select
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<menuchoice><guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Konqueror Web
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Browser</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start it as a browser, or
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<guimenuitem>Home</guimenuitem> to launch &konqueror; in file manager mode.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>
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will open a <guilabel>Run Command</guilabel> dialog box, type
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<userinput><command>konqueror</command></userinput> (lower case) and press
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<keycap>Enter</keycap> or the <guibutton>Run</guibutton> button to start in
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file
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manager mode, or just enter a &URL; such as
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<userinput>http://www.konqueror.org</userinput> to start &konqueror; as a
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browser.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>&konqueror; is also started automatically when you
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<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on a desktop icon that represents a
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folder, such as a hard disk drive or the <guiicon>Trash</guiicon> icon.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="parts">
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<title>The Parts of &konqueror;</title>
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<para>A brief look at the main parts of &konqueror;'s window:</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="parts.png"/></imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>Here's a screenshot of &konqueror;</phrase>
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</textobject>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>The <interface>Titlebar</interface> is the strip across the top of
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&konqueror;'s window, and operates in the same way as for other &kde;
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applications. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on the central portion to
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bring up the neat Titlebar menu.</para>
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<para>The <interface>Menubar</interface> is the strip containing the names of
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the drop-down menus. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a name to
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alternately show and hide that menu, or use <keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>the underlined
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letter</keycap></keycombo> in the name as a hot key, for example <keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>E</keycap></keycombo> to show the
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<guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. The various menus are described in the <link
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linkend="menubar">Menubar</link> section of this document.</para>
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<para>The <interface>Toolbar</interface> contains icons for commonly used
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operations. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> clicking on an icon will activate
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it. If you have enabled tooltips in the Control Center <menuchoice><guimenu>
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Appearance &
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Themes</guimenu><guisubmenu>Style</guisubmenu></menuchoice>
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dialog a brief description of what that icon does will appear when you hover
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the pointer over it.</para>
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<para>Some icons, for example the Up and Back icons in the previous screenshot,
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have a small black triangle at their bottom right corner. If you hold the &LMB;
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pressed while the cursor is over this type of icon a small dropdown menu will
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appear.</para> <para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on the
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<interface>Toolbar </interface> will bring up the <link
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linkend="rmb-menus"><guilabel>Toolbar Menu</guilabel></link> which you can use
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to change the <interface>Toolbar</interface>'s appearance and position.</para>
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<para>The <interface>Location Toolbar</interface> shows the path to the
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directory, &URL; or file being viewed. You can type a path or &URL; here and
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press &Enter; or <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the
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<guiicon>Go</guiicon> icon at the right hand end of the <interface>Location
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Toolbar</interface> to go to it. The black icon at the left hand end of the
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<interface>Location Toolbar</interface> clears the text entry box.</para>
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<para>The <interface>Bookmark Toolbar</interface> is the area under the
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<interface>Location Toolbar</interface> in the previous screenshot. You can add
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frequently used bookmarks here; see the <link
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linkend="orgbmark">Organizing
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Your
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Bookmarks</link> section of this document.</para>
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<para>The <interface>Window</interface> is the main area of &konqueror; and
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can show you the contents of a directory, web page, document or image.
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</para>
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<para>The <interface>Status Bar</interface> runs across the bottom of the
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&konqueror;'s window
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and often shows general information about whatever the mouse pointer is
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hovering
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over. If you have split the main window into a number of views you will get an
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Status Bar for each view, and it will include a small green light at the left
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hand end to show which is the <quote>active</quote>
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view. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on the Status Bar brings up the
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Status Bar <link linkend="rmb-menus"><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> Mouse
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Button Menu</link>.</para>
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<note><para>Don't worry if your &konqueror; doesn't look exactly like this
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screenshot; it is highly configurable. In particular:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>You can use the <link
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linkend="menu-settings"><guimenu>Settings</guimenu></link> menu to choose
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whether to show or hide the Menubar, Main Toolbar, Location Toolbar and
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Bookmark Toolbar, or even to add an Extra Toolbar.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>You can also <quote>flatten</quote> the toolbars by
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<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> clicking on the vertical lines at the left hand end
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of the bars, or move them around by holding the &LMB; down while you
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drag these bars around. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>This screenshot does not show the optional <link linkend="sidebar">
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Navigation Panel</link>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>For more details of how to change &konqueror;'s appearance, see the <link
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linkend="config">Configuring &konqueror;</link> section</para></note>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="bubble">
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<title>Tooltips and What's This?</title>
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<para>You can find out a lot about how &konqueror; works without needing to
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read
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this entire document if you take advantage of <guilabel>Tooltips</guilabel> and
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the
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<guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> feature.</para>
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<para>If <guilabel>Tooltips</guilabel> have been enabled in &kde; (K menu
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Control Center</guimenu><guisubmenu>Appearance &
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Themes</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Style</guisubmenu></menuchoice>,
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<guilabel>Style</guilabel> dialog) then when you hover the mouse pointer
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over a Toolbar or Navigation Panel
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button it should bring up a terse description of what that button does.</para>
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<para><guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> is invoked by the Menubar
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem></menuchoice> item, by
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<keycombo action="simul">&Shift;<keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo>, or by
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just &LMB; clicking on the question mark near the top right hand corner of
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&konqueror;'s window. It changes the cursor to show a question mark alongside
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the arrow.</para>
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<para>When this question mark is visible, a &LMB; click won't actually do
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anything until you have clicked on a control (or the text alongside it) that
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supports <guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem>, in which case it will
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display
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a reasonably comprehensive description of what the control is supposed to do.
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Most of the dialog boxes that &konqueror; brings up support the
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<guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> feature.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="lmb-mmb">
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<title><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> and <mousebutton>Middle</mousebutton>
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Mouse Button Actions</title>
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<para>If you click the &LMB; on an item in &konqueror;'s window, it will
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be
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<quote>activated</quote>. Thus</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an icon in the Toolbar
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to do whatever that icon is supposed to do. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an item in the Menubar
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to make that menu drop down.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a menu item to do that
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thing.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an icon in the
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Bookmark
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Toolbar
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to open that &URL;.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a link in a web page
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to make &konqueror; follow that link.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a folder icon or
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name and &konqueror; will descend into (show the contents of) that folder.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a file name or icon
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and &konqueror; will do whatever it thinks appropriate, based on the file type.
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In general this means opening <acronym>HTML</acronym> pages, or previewing
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text, image or
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<application>KOffice</application> files, showing them within &konqueror;'s
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window (<quote>Preview</quote> means that you can see the file but not change
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it).</para>
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<para>&konqueror; decides what the file type is by matching the filename
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extension against a list of known types. If that fails it tries to guess
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the type from the file contents. You can change the list of known file types
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and associated actions with the <guilabel>File Associations</guilabel> page of
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the <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Konqueror...
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</guimenuitem></menuchoice> dialog.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Clicking the &MMB; on a file or folder name or icon does essentially the
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same as <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> clicking except that it usually does it
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in a new &konqueror; window, unless the <guilabel>Open links in new tab instead
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of in new window</guilabel> box has been checked in the
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<guimenuitem>Behavior</guimenuitem> page of the
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
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Konqueror...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> dialog. &konqueror; can open
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links on pages and <menuchoice><guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu></menuchoice>,
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as well as the
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<guibutton>Home</guibutton>, <guibutton>Up</guibutton>,
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<guibutton>Back</guibutton> and <guibutton>Forward</guibutton>
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entries in a new tab or window.</para>
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<para>Holding the &Shift; key down while pressing the &MMB; will open the link
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in the background.</para>
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<important><para>If you click the &MMB; when the mouse cursor is over a blank
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part of the main view (not over a link or file name or icon) &konqueror; will
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copy the contents of the clipboard into the Location Toolbar and try to use
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that as a &URL;.</para></important>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="rmb-menus">
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<title><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> Mouse Button Menus</title>
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<para>Clicking the &RMB; on almost any part of &konqueror;'s window
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will bring up an appropriate context menu.</para>
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<note><para>If you have enabled the <guilabel>Right click goes back in
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history</guilabel> option in &konqueror;'s <link linkend="othersettings">
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configuration</link> settings a
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simple <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click is equivalent to clicking on the
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<guibutton>Back</guibutton> button. In this case you can access the context
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menu by moving the mouse with the <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> button held
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down.</para></note>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On the Titlebar</term>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on any free area of
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the Titlebar brings up the Titlebar Menu, allowing you to control the position
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of &konqueror;'s window as well as the decoration applied to all &kde; program
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windows. </para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On the Main Toolbar</term>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on any free area of the
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Toolbar to bring up the Toolbar Menu. You can use it to control whether the
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Toolbar is at the top, bottom, left or right of &konqueror;'s window.
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You can also use the Toolbar Menu to set the size of the buttons on the
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Toolbar,
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and whether they are shown as icons, text or both.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On the Location Toolbar</term>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click in the
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&URL;
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entry box area to perform Cut, Copy, Paste or Clear operations in this area, or
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to change the automatic <link linkend="path-complete">Text Completion</link>
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features.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On the Bookmark Toolbar</term>
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<listitem><para> If you have the Bookmark Toolbar showing, then
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<mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on any free part of it to bring up the
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Bookmark Toolbar Menu which lets you change its position and whether items are
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shown as text, icons, or both. </para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Within a View</term>
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<listitem><para>If you <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on any free area
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of a view then you will get a menu that contains, among other options, the
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<guiicon>Up</guiicon>,
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<guiicon>Back</guiicon>, <guiicon>Forward</guiicon> and
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<guiicon>Reload</guiicon> navigation commands.
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</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On a File or Folder</term>
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<listitem><para>This is a most useful feature. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton>
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clicking on the name or icon of any file or folder not only
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<quote>selects</quote> that item but also brings up a menu allowing you to
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<guiicon>Cut</guiicon>, Move, <guiicon>Copy</guiicon> or Remove the item in
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various
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ways, add it to your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu>, open it with the program of
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your choice or preview it, rename it, or edit the file type or
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properties.</para></listitem> </varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>On the Status Bar</term>
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<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on the Status Bar at the
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bottom of a window or view to add or remove a view within &konqueror;'s
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window.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="man-info">
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<title>Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages</title>
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<para>You can view &kde; Help and &UNIX; Man and Info pages directly in
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&konqueror;, without having to start up <application>KHelpCenter</application>.
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</para>
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<para>To view a &kde; Help page, enter
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<userinput>help:/<replaceable>application name</replaceable></userinput> (for
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example <userinput>help:/kmail</userinput> to view the &kmail; documentation.)
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into &konqueror;'s Location Toolbar window.
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</para>
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<para>
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If you want to read &UNIX; Man pages &konqueror; makes it easy. For
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example type <userinput>man:/touch</userinput> or
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<userinput>#touch</userinput> into the Location Toolbar to see the page for
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the <command>touch</command> command.</para>
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<para>To browse through &UNIX; Info pages, entering
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<userinput>info:/dir</userinput> takes you to Info's top level directory, then
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it's just a matter of clicking on the right links to find the page you
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want. Alternatively, use <userinput>info:/<replaceable>command
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name</replaceable></userinput> to go straight to the Info page you want.</para>
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<note><para>Unfortunately, &kde; Help pages are stored in such a way that they
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cannot be viewed in other browsers. If you really need to do this your only
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recourse is to go online and visit <ulink url="http://docs.kde.org">
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http://docs.kde.org</ulink>.</para></note>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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