Konqueror
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Konqueror is the default file manager for KDE and therefore the default file manager for Mandriva. However it can not only be used to explore the file system, it is also a full web browser.
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[edit] Starting Konqueror
To start Konqueror, you can use the menu entry under "Web browsers", or the icon on the KDE taskbar. From a console you can start Konqueror with the command
konqueror
To run Konqueror with root privileges, use the su command to become root, and then issue the konqueror command.
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[edit] Features
Konqueror has a lot of standard features like tabbed web page browsing, and various views of the file system, including details view, thumbnails and icons. It also has several unique features, outlined below.
[edit] Split Views
This feature allows you to look at multiple pages in the same tab (If you were wondering, you cannot make more tabs inside a split view.)
You can split views Left and Right or Top and Bottom. To do this, click on the "Window" button on the menubar at the top of the screen and then select "Split view Left/Right" or "Split view Top/Bottom" to split the view however you want to, as many times as you wish.
[edit] The Navigation Panel
To Show/Hide the navigation panel, click on the "Window" button on the menubar at the top of the screen and then select "Show Navigation Panel" or "Hide Navigation Panel", or just press F9.
In this panel you will find tabs showing:
- Your Bookmarks
- System Devices
- Your Browsing History
- Your Home Folder
- The Sidebar Media Player
- FTP archives and web sites
- Your Root Folder (A tree view of the filesystem).
This last tab is worth a bit more discussion. Here you will find a highly useful "Audio CD Browser," that you can use to extract music from your CDs to a variety of audio formats, including uncompressed (like wav and flac) and compressed (like ogg vorbis or mp3). It even downloads the name of each track for you from an online database (freedb). To extract and encode tracks, just find the virtual files you want and either drag/drop or copy/paste to your file system - the files will be generated on the fly.
There are also several browsers:
- A device browser
- A font browser
- A LAN Browser
- A print system browser, which displays connected printers, current jobs, and so on.
Of course, there is always more to find in the "Konqueror Handbook" which you can access through the Help menu, or by just pressing F1.
