# The File Manager and Web Browser

The file manager and web browser of &kde; is &konqueror;. The &konqueror; home page is located at http://www.konqueror.org where a &konqueror; specific FAQ can be found.

How do I use &konqueror; as a web browser with a proxy?

&konqueror; can be used with &HTTP; and &FTP; proxies. To set up the proxy server in &konqueror;, just select Settings Configure &konqueror;... from the &konqueror; menu and go to the Proxy tab.

How can I change the appearance of a folder in &konqueror;?

Right-click the folder, select Properties, click on the large icon in the dialogue which appears and choose another icon.

To change the icon displayed for entries in the K Menu, use the Menu Editor, located at Settings Menu Editor.

How can I do non-anonymous &FTP; transfers with &konqueror;?

Normally, if you enter a &URL; like `ftp://ftp.somehost.com`, &konqueror; will attempt an anonymous login to the &FTP; server. If you want to login as a particular user, enter a &URL; like `ftp://username@ftp.somehost.com` instead. &konqueror; will ask for your password and connect to the server.

What are `%i` and `%m` in the Execute line?

They are used by all &kde; applications (since they are implemented in `KApplication` and all good &kde; programs create a `KApplication` object before they even look at the command line arguments).

A standard line for a &kde; application looks like this: ``foo` `... %i %m -caption \"%c\"``. 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 ``foo` `-icon something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The Foo\"``. Both the icon and the mini-icon as well as "The Foo" are properties defined in the `.desktop` file. If the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name foo.

This way a user can change these things in &kmenuedit; for his or her applications. The `-caption` option is important, because no user will accept that the menu item Editor starts something called kedit-0.9pl4-build47. Instead, he expects a window called Editor. Furthermore these names are localised, i.e. an American user launches CD-Player and gets a window called CD-Player while a German user launches CD-Spieler and gets a window called CD-Spieler.

How do I specify the startup folder for &konqueror;?

Using the &RMB;, click on the Home icon and choose Properties. Under the Application tab you will probably find something like `kfmclient openProfile filemanagement`; just append `file:/whereever/you/want` with the folder you would like &konqueror; to start in.

How do I import &Netscape; bookmarks?

There is no need to import anything at all. &Netscape; bookmarks are automatically available under the Bookmarks menu in &konqueror; with no configuration on your part necessary. The Bookmark Editor is able to convert &Netscape; bookmarks to the format used by &konqueror;, if you want this.

How do I fool a site into believing &konqueror; is &Netscape; or some other browser?

In &konqueror;, select Settings Configure Konqueror... and in the configuration dialogue, select Browser Identification. Default and site-specific browser identifications can be set from here.

How do I configure &konqueror; to run &Java; applets?

Choose Settings Configure &konqueror;... from &konqueror;'s menubar and then select Java & Javascript. Set the Path to Java executable correctly. If it doesn't work, please check the Konqueror + Java HOWTO.

What is this new Smart policy for JavaScript web popups?

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.

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;.

Make sure you have Javascript enabled, and the default JavaScript web popups policy set to Ask or Allow. The Smart policy is not always sufficient for some banks. Many banks also require &Java; support. You can find more help on enabling this at http://www.konqueror.org/.

Why can't &konqueror; render &GIF; images?

It is because you did not enable &GIF; support in &Qt;. Please see for more details.

How do I rename files?

Simply right click on the file and select Rename or click once on an already selected file. The default keyboard shortcut to rename a file is F2.

When I try to open a web page with &konqueror;, I get the message: There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with text/html, but it cannot handle this file type.

You need to make sure that the embedding settings for the text/html MIME type are correct:

1. In &konqueror;, go to Settings Configure Konqueror and then to the File Associations page.

2. Open text->html in the tree view.

3. Click on the Embedding tab. Make sure that Left Click Action is set to Show file in embedded viewer, and that KHTML (khtml) is at the top of Services Preference Order.

Try opening a website in Konqueror. It should now work.

How do I configure the programs that &konqueror; uses to open different types of files?

In order to configure file associations, you should go to the &kcontrolcenter; and choose the item File Associations under the category KDE Components.

Suppose the default PDF viewer is now &kghostview; and you would prefer to use KPDF as a viewer. You would simply type `pdf` in the search box at the top of the dialogue, choose pdf in the application group and move KPDF up. In the Embedding 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).