&Pamela.Roberts;
2010-02-07
4.4.0

# Configuring &konqueror;

In common with the rest of &kde;, &konqueror; is highly configurable, so you can really get the look and feel that best fits your needs and wishes.

## Toolbars

When &kde; is newly installed, &konqueror;'s window contains a Menubar, Main and Location Toolbars and possibly a Bookmark Toolbar.

Maybe you don not need all these toolbars. To hide one of them, go into the Settings Toolbars Shown menu and uncheck its box. To show a hidden toolbar, just check the box.

The Menubar itself can be toggled on and off with the shortcut key combination &Ctrl;M.

If you right click on a Toolbar, you will get a menu to configure this bar. You can lock or unlock the toolbar position and choose the text position, icon size and the orientation of unlocked bars.

If the toolbars are unlocked, on the left hand end of each bar you can see some handles. By &LMB; clicking on them, you can drag a bar into a new position and even detach it from the window and place it anywhere on your screen.

The icons shown in the various bars can be changed by using the Settings Configure Toolbars... option, which brings up the Configure Toolbars dialog box. The number and type of these toolbars will depend on whether &konqueror; is in Web Browser or File Manager mode and whether you have &konqueror; plugins installed.

## Shortcuts

To change the shortcut key arrangements used by &konqueror; select Settings Configure Shortcuts... . This will launch a dialog box as shown below.

Shortcut config screenshot 1

Use the search box to find the action you want to add or change the shortcut keys for and select it by left clicking on the name.

After you have selected an action in the list you will notice that this item is highlighted and you see two additional check boxes below this item in the list view. There you can configure a combination of keys or maybe no key binding at all for the selected action.

Shortcut config screenshot 2

- Default: the selected action will be associated with &kde;'s default value. This is a good choice for most actions, as &kde; comes with reasonable key bindings we have thought about.

- Custom: if this option is enabled, you can create a key combination for the selected action. Click on the button labeled either None or labeled with the previously selected custom shortcut. Now the button label changes to Input. Then press any modifier key (&ie; &Shift;, &Ctrl;, or &Alt;) and then normal key or a function key (&eg; F11) you want to assign to this key combination.

- You can reset the shortcut to None by using this button: .

  Clicking on the Alternate column of a row in the list allows to edit the second shortcut for the action.

## Other Settings

Selecting Settings Configure Konqueror... brings up a dialog box which you can use to control most aspects of &konqueror;'s behavior.

It contains these sections which are selected by left clicking on one of the icons at the left of the dialog box:

- General: Configure general &konqueror; behavior

- Performance: Configure settings that can improve &konqueror; performance

- Bookmarks: Configure the bookmarks home page

- File Management: You can configure how Konqueror behaves as a file manager here

- View Modes: Configure file manager view modes

- Navigation: Configure file manager navigation

- Services: Configure file manager services

- General: Configure general file manager settings

- File Associations: Configure file associations

- Trash: Configure trash settings

- Web Browsing: Configure the browser behavior

- Proxy: Configure the proxy servers used

- Appearance: Configure how to display web pages

- AdBlocK Filters: Configure &konqueror; AdBlocK filters

- Web Shortcuts: Configure enhanced browsing

- Cache: Configure web cache settings

- History: Configure the history sidebar

- Cookies: Configure the way cookies work

- Browser Identification: Configure the way Konqueror reports itself

- Java & JavaScript: Configure the behavior of Java and JavaScript

- Plugins: Configure the browser plugins

Pressing the Help button will give you detailed instructions about how to use each of these sections, or you can use the What's This? feature.