Look & Feel page

Here you can determine the look & feel of things - which basically means fine-tuning the application to your needs. The page is divided into five tabs: Operation, Panel, Toolbar, Key-bindings and Panel Toolbar. Since Toolbar and Key-bindings are KDE standard tools we'll focus on the other sections:


Konfigurator Look & Feel page

Konfigurator Look & Feel page.


Operation

Look & Feel

  • "Warn on exit": if checked, Krusader will display an "Are you sure?" warning when you're trying to shut it down. Otherwise, it will exit without protest.

  • "Minimize to tray": if checked, when you minimize Krusader, its icon will appear in the system tray instead of the taskbar.

  • "Show hidden files": if checked, Krusader will display the "dot files" which are otherwise hidden.

  • "Automark directories": when marking a group of files (either by using Select Group or by using Select All), Krusader will check this option. If it is checked, than directories matching the select criteria will also be marked. Otherwise, only files will be marked.

  • "Case sensitive sorting": if checked (the UNIX® default), all files beginning with capital letters appear before files beginning with non-capital letters, otherwise, all files beginning with a specified letter (capital or otherwise) will appear together.

  • "New style quicksearch": The new Quicksearch feature is used.

  • "Case sensitive quicksearch": When using the Quicksearch feature: if checked (the UNIX® default), all files beginning with capital letters appear before files beginning with non-capital letters, otherwise, all files beginning with a specified letter (capital or otherwise) will appear together.

  • "Show panel level toolbar": if checked, show the toolbar in the panel with e.g. the "/" and ".." buttons.

Single click / Double click selection

  • "Double click executes": if checked, with a single click on a file it will be selected and focused, with a double click it opens the file or steps into the directory.

  • "Obeys KDE's global policy": if checked, it uses KDE's kcontrol setting. KDE Control Center->Peripherials->Mouse here you will have two options:

    • Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click).

    • Single-click to open files and folders.

Mouse selection modes

  • NOTE: this feature is disabled for the moment, due to a bug, sorry

    • Classic: the way Krusader used to work from day one. Both keys allow selecting files. To select more than one file, hold the Ctrl key and click the left mouse button. Right-click menu is invoked using a short click on the right mouse button.

    • "Left mouse button selects": this way, pressing the left mouse button selects files - you can click and select multiple files. Right-click menu is invoked using a short click on the right mouse button.

    • "Right button selects": this way (sometimes referred to as 'total (windows) commander style') the left mouse button does not select, but sets the current file without affecting the current selection. The right mouse button selects multiple files and the right-click menu is invoked by pressing and holding the right mouse button.

Panel

  • "Panel font": allows you to change the font used inside the file lists.

  • "Filelist icon size": allows you to change the size of the icons in the file lists. The available sizes are 16x16, 22x22, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels.

  • "Extension Column": if checked, show the extension field (part after the last dot of the filename).

  • "Permission Column": if checked, show the full perissions e.g. "-rw-r--r--".

  • "Mimetype Column": if checked, show the mimetype field.

  • "Krusader Permission Column": if checked, show only the rights of the current user e.g. "-rw".

  • "Size Column": if checked, show the size field.

  • "Owner Column": if checked, show the owner field.

  • "Date and Time Column": if checked, show the date and time field.

  • "Group Column": if checked, show the group field.

  • "Use icons in filenames": if checked, show the icons in filenames and folders.

  • "Human readable file size": if checked, the file size will be displayed in kB, Mb etc. and not in bytes (default).

Tip

Uncheck the not used columns, this allows to have more space for the used columns.

Toolbar

Here you can configure the Toolbar the way you want. Add the action buttons of your favourite functions to the Toolbar.

Key-bindings

Here you can configure the Key-Bindings. Configure the Key-bindings of your favourite functions the way you want.

Panel Toolbar

"Panel Toolbar visible": if checked, Krusader will display the Panel Toolbar.

The buttons on the Panel Toolbar can be made visible or hidden:

  • "Open" button

  • "Equal (=)" button

  • "Up (..)" button

  • "Home (~)" button

  • "Root (/)" button

  • "Toggle-button for sync-browsing": if checked, show the Sync-browsing button.