# Command Reference

The shortcut key combinations shown in this chapter are the default ones. They can of course be changed.

## Special Shortcuts

There are some useful shortcuts that are not shown in any of the menus:

F6

- Sets the focus to the text entry box in the Location Toolbar.

&Ctrl;]

- Activate the next tab page.

&Ctrl;[

- Activate the previous tab page.

## The Menubar

### The Location Menu

&Ctrl;N Location New Window

- Open another &konqueror; window.

&Ctrl;D Location Duplicate Window

- Open another &konqueror; window, duplicating the current one.

&Ctrl;O Location Open Location...

- Open a directory or file by entering its path (for example `/home/pam` or `/home/pam/fred.txt`) in a simple dialogue box.

&Ctrl;L Location Send Link

- Send an email containing a link to the current location.

Location Send File

- Send an email containing the selected file as an attachment.

Location Save Background Image As...

- Only applies if you are viewing a web page with a background image. Opens the Save As dialogue box to let you save the background image file to your own computer.

&Ctrl;S Location Save As...

- Only applies if you are viewing a document or web page, uses the Save As... dialogue box to let you save a copy to your own computer.

Location Save Frame As...

- Similar to Save As... but for use with a web site that uses frames.

&Ctrl;P Location Print...

- Print.

Location Print Frame

- Print selected frame of a Web page.

Location Open With Netscape

- Open the web page you are viewing in &konqueror; with Netscape as well.

&Ctrl;Q Location Quit

- Close down this instance of &konqueror;.

### The Edit Menu

Most items in the Menubar Edit menu can also be found by &RMB; clicking on a free area of a view.

&Ctrl;Z Edit Undo

- Sometimes lets you reverse a mistaken action.

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

- Puts selected item(s) into the clipboard. If you then do a a Paste the item(s) will be moved from the original location to the new one.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

- Copy selected item(s) to the clipboard.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

- Paste item(s) from clipboard to the currently viewed directory.

F2 Edit Rename

- Lets you rename a file or directory without having to open the Properties... dialogue box.

Delete Edit Move to Trash

- Move selected item(s) to the Trash directory.

&Shift;Delete Edit Delete

- Delete the selected item(s).

&Ctrl;&Shift;Delete Edit Shred

- Shred the selected item(s).

F7 Edit Copy Files

- Copy the selected item(s) to another directory.

F8 Edit Move Files

- Move the selected item(s) to another directory.

F10 Edit New Directory...

- Create a new sub directory.

Edit Create New

- Create a link to an application, URL, Floppy or &CD-ROM; device, or create a new Directory or text or HTML file. See the Create New...section for more details.

Edit Edit File Type...

- Open the Edit File Type dialogue box

Edit Properties..

- Open the Edit Properties dialogue box

&Ctrl;+ Edit Select...

- Together with the Unselect..., Unselect All and Invert Selection commands, this provides an easy and powerful way of selecting multiple files.

  It brings up a simple dialogue box where you can enter a file name using the wild card characters * and ?, for example entering `*.html` will select all files ending with `.html` while `?a*` will select all files which have the letter a as the second character in their filename.

&Ctrl;- Edit Unselect...

- Unselect file or folder.

&Ctrl;U Edit Unselect All

- Unselect all selected files or folders.

&Ctrl;* Edit Invert Selection

- Invert current selection.

&Ctrl;U Edit Select All

- Selects all text in a HTML page or in a text page being previewed, you can then Copy it and Paste it into a text editor.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find

- Find a text string in a text page you are previewing or in an HTML page.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find in Frame

- Find a text string in an HTML frame.

F3 Edit Find Next

- Find the next occurrence of the text string in the text or HTML page.

Edit Go to Line...

- Go to a particular line number in a text page you are previewing.

### The View Menu

View View Mode...

- Selects Icon, MultiColumn, Tree, Detailed List or Text view mode.

View Use index.html

- If a selected directory contains a file `index.html`, it will be opened as a web page rather than showing the directory as a list of files.

View Lock to current location

- Lock to current location.

View Unlock all views

- Unlock all views.

View Link View

- Link current view to others in a multiple view window.

F5 View Reload

- Reload.

Esc View Stop

- Stop load (particularly useful when web browsing).

View Icon Size

- Select size of icons used when wiewing a directory in Icon Mode.

View Sort...

- Choose order in which items are presented in the window when in Icon or MultiColumn View mode.

View Case Insensitive Sort

- Choose whether the sort order in Tree, Detailed List or Text View modes is case sensitive.

View View Document Source

- View document source text.

  Only available if you are viewing a document or HTML page.

View View Frame Source

- View frame source text

  Only applies if you are viewing a web site that uses frames. Similar to View Document Source.

View Security...

- Tells you whether the current browser connection is secured with SSL and lets you bring up the Cryptography Configuration... dialogue box. Left clicking on the Menubar padlock icon does the same thing.

View Set Encoding

- Set encoding

  Allows you to choose the character encoding used to display HTML pages. Auto is usually the best choice.

View Preview

- Lets you choose to show thumbnails of images, text files or HTML pages instead of the normal icons in Icon or MultiColumn View modes.

View Show Hidden Files

- Show hidden (dot) files.

View Show details...

- Lets you choose which file and directory details are shown in Tree, Detailed List and Text views.

View Background Colour...

- Select background colour for the File Manager mode.

View Background Image...

- Select background image for the File Manager mode.

### The Go Menu

&Alt;Up Arrow Go Up

- Go up a level in the directory hierarchy.

&Alt;Left Arrow Go Back

- Go back to the previous view.

&Alt;Right Arrow Go Forward

- You can only go forward if you've just gone back.

&Ctrl;Home Go Home URL

- Go to your home directory.

Go Applications

- Open the directory holding your applications.

Go Trash

- Open your `Trash` directory in a separate window.

Go Templates

- Open the `Templates` directory in a separate window.

Go Autostart

- Open your `Autostart` directory in a separate window.

### The Bookmarks Menu

See the section Using Bookmarks in this manual for a fuller description of these menu items.

&Ctrl;B Bookmarks Add Bookmark

- Add current selection to your bookmarks.

Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks...

- Open the Bookmark Editor.

Bookmarks New Folder

- Create a new folder in your Bookmarks dirctory.

### The Tools Menu

&Alt;F2 Tools Run Command...

- Run a program by entering its name in a simple dialogue box.

&Ctrl;T Tools Open Terminal...

- Open a &konsole; terminal window.

Tools Find File...

- Open the &kfind; application.

If you have &konqueror; plugins installed there will be additional entries in the Tools menu. See the &konqueror; Plugins chapter for further details.

### The Settings Menu

See also the section Saving Settings and Profiles.

&Ctrl;M Settings Show Menubar

- Show/Hide the menubar.

Settings Toolbars

- Opens a sub menu where you can choose to show or hide the various Toolbars.

Settings View Properties Saved in Directory

- Save View properties to current directory.

Settings Remove Directory Properties

- Remove directory properties.

Settings Save View Profile "File Management"

- Save the current view profile as the default one for File Management mode.

Settings Save View Profile "Web Browsing"

- Save the current view profile as the default one for Web Browsing mode.

Settings Configure View Profiles...

- Lets you change an existing view profile or create a new one.

Settings Load View Profile

- Load a View Profile.

Settings Configure Shortcuts...

- Lets you see and change &konqueror;'s shortcut key bindings, i.e. the associations between actions such as Copy and keys or combinations of keys such a &Ctrl;V. If you do this take care not to duplicate an existing shortcut.

Settings Configure Toolbars...

- Lets you configure the Main, Extra and Location Toolbars. See the section Changing Bars.

Settings Configure &konqueror;...

- Lets you configure the File manager, File Associations, Browser, Internet Keywords, Cookies, Proxies, Cryptography, User Agent, or Toolbars by bringing up the appropriate dialogue box.

### The Window Menu

&Ctrl;&Shift;L Window Split View Left/Right

- Split View Left/Right.

&Ctrl;&Shift;T Window Split View Top/Bottom

- Split View Top/Bottom.

&Ctrl;&Shift;R Window Remove Active View

- Remove Active View.

Window Show Terminal Emulator

- Open a small text terminal view at the bottom of the main window.

&Ctrl;&Shift;N Window New Tab

- Open a new, empty, tab page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;D Window Duplicate Tab

- Open a duplicate tab page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;B Window Detach Current Tab

- Show the current tab page in a new instance of &konqueror;.

&Ctrl;W Window Close Current Tab

- Close the current tab page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;F Window Fullscreen Mode

- Fullscreen Mode.

### The Help Menu

Help &konqueror; Handbook

- View this document.

&Shift;F1 Help What's This?

- Draws a question mark (?) beside the mouse pointer, clicking on a window item such as the Stop button will then display a brief explanation. See Tooltips and What's This ? .

Help &konqueror; Introduction

- Revisit the introductory pages that you got when &konqueror; was first started.

Help Report Bug...

- Report bug.

Help About &konqueror;...

- Display some brief information about &konqueror;'s version number, authors and licence agreement.

Help About KDE...

- Show some information about the version of &kde; that you are running.