Test Driving Linux

Konquering Advanced Techniques

As you can see, there's a lot more to Konqueror than you might think. It's a core application in KDE and is central to most of what you do with your desktop. In the following section, I'll cover a few of the more advanced features of Konqueror.

Using Tabs and Bookmarks

Some of the features in Konqueror the web browser bleed over into Konqueror the file manager. One such feature is tabs. You can open a new tab in Konqueror by pressing Ctrl-Shift-N, and use it to browse to another part of the filesystem or start surfing the Web. Tabs allow you to keep all your file-browsing windows in one place. If you drag a file from one tab and hold it over another tab for one second, Konqueror switches to that other tab and you can drop the file in the window, using the standard choices to Copy, Move, or Link it. Be sure not to drop the file on top of the tab; if you do that, the program just tries to open the file.

You can also use bookmarks to manage files in the same way you use them in the Konqueror web browser. Bookmarks can provide quick links to directories, even on remote systems. To create a bookmark, just go into the directory you want to bookmark and choose Bookmarks→ Add Bookmark (or press Ctrl-B). To learn more about managing bookmarks, read the Section 2.6.

Zipping Files

Archives are one or more files that are grouped together and compressed. You probably know of them as zip files. There are different types of archives, because Linux has several methods ...