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This a rather short but important section that will go into the details of controlling Krusader. This section doesn't try to cover all the various key combinations for two reasons: one, there are just too many of them and two, most of Krusader's actions are configurable in the Konfigurator Look & Feel page. We will only mention the most important keyboard shortcuts with the default configuration but keep in mind that most of the key-bindings are configurable. If you find that you use a certain command a lot and want to know what is the shortcut for this command, or you want to change this command shortcut, then check out the "key-bindings" tab at the Konfigurator Look & Feel page.
By moving around we mean the transfer of the keyboard and mouse focus between the different parts of the Krusader main window. The focus can be in one of five places: the left or right panel, the menu bar, the command line or the terminal emulator. The panel that has the focus is called the active panel, an active panel will remain active until the other panel receives the focus (i.e.: if the left panel was active and you clicked on the command line - then the left panel remains the active panel).
The most common way to transfer the focus to a specific part is to use the mouse to click on that part. But you should be aware of the following:
Clicking on the toolbar, the FN keys bar or the status bar does not change the focus.
The display part of the quick view panel does not accept clicks so you should click on the Location Toolbar of this panel if you want it to have focus.
Pushing the "history" or the "run in terminal" buttons in the command line will not transfer the focus so you have click inside the input line.
The menu bar can get the focus by choosing a menu but it keeps the focus until you choose a command and then the focus returns to the previous owner.
There are of course ways to use the keyboard to change the focus
The Tab key will switch panels if one of the panel has the focus, or rotate between all the commands in a menu if the menu bar is active.
The Ctrl+Down arrow will take you from the active panel to the command line or terminal emulator, and the Ctrl+Up arrow will take you back from the command line to the active panel.
The Esc key will make the menu bar loose the focus if it has it.
If you happen to be inside the terminal emulator, the mouse is your only way out.
Pressing Alt+"underlined letter" from the menu bar will open that menu (unless this key combination is already taken by one of Krusader's actions).
Marking is a skill you need to master in order to get the most out of Krusader. Since you can't mark files in the quick view panel, and the tree panel only lets you mark one directory at a time, this paragraph mainly explains how to mark files in the list panel filelist.
Moving the cursor is easy, and you don't need this manual to tell you that left-clicking on a file will mark it, but here are some useful pointers:
The SPACE key will toggle the marking of the file under the cursor without affecting the marking of other files/directories.
Pressing the SPACE on a directory under the cursor will calculate occupied space without affecting the marking of other files/directories.
The Insert key will do the same as the SPACE key but it will go one position down to toggle the next file.
Left clicking on a file will mark and unmark all previously marked files.
Ctrl+left clicking has the same effect as the SPACE key.
Shift+left clicking will mark all the files between the previous cursor location and the new one.
Shift+Home will clear the actual marking and marks the cusor and all elements above the cursor.
Shift+End will clear the actual marking and marks the cusor and all elements below the cursor.
Ctrl+Up arrow or Ctrl+Down arrow will toggle the mark state of the files under the cursor.
The ".." entry is unmarkable.
The Mark menu can offer more ways to mark your files.
Konfigurator Look & Feel page can offer you other ways of using your mouse to select files.
There isn't a lot to say here, all you need to do is mark some files (if you don't Krusader will treat the file or directory that has the focus), choose a command from the menu bar or use a keyboard shortcut (or the right click menu) and you're done. See also Executing files.
This feature will do a quick search for the file name in the active list panel.
There are two quick search methods:
"Old Quicksearch": type foo (one character) to do a quick search in the active list panel for a file beginning with "foo".
"New Quicksearch": type foo to open the small quick search dialog box below the active list panel. Type the first characters of the wanted filename (more than one character allowed), the cursor will jump to that filename (if exists), e.g. type "ab" to search for a file which begins with "ab". The Up/Down arrow will jump to the next or previous match. Esc will close the quicksearch line. The cursor will stay on the last found quick search file.
If you press Alt+foo, the key binding will be executed. If there is no configured key binding, the remaining letter foo will used for the quick search.
Use Konfigurator Look & Feel page to change the default configuration.
Krusader has many right-click menu's that allows you to do fast operations with the mouse. This list gives an overview of the most important right-click menu's, use them to discover the available commands.
Toolbar (orientation, text position , icon size)
List Panel on a file or directory
Command Line (undo, paste, text completion, ...)
Terminal emulator (send signal, font, history, ...)
Folder tabs (new, duplicate, close)
KruSearcher Search results file list (F3 View, F4 Edit)
MountMan (unmount, format, ...)
Synchronize Directories File List
Konqueror right-click actions are shown in Krusader
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