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The Krusader Main Window with all the different parts marked up.
This is Krusader's main window with all the different parts marked up. In the following sections we'll cover the basic functions of each part with the exception of:
The Menu Bar that has a chapter of its own.
The Status Bar shows the properties of the current file that has the focus. It accepts that you drop an URL on it.
There isn't a lot to say about the Krusader toolbar, it's a standard KDE toolbar that can be dragged around the application or configured via a right-click menu. You can decide if you want to display it (or not) every time you start Krusader in the Konfigurator Startup page, and you can toggle its use in the current session in the View menu. The toolbar contents can be configured from the "configure toolbars" in the Settings menu or the "toolbar" tab in the Konfigurator Look & Feel page. Since the various commands and options in Krusader are not always available (i.e.: you can't disconnect from a FTP session if you're not connected), the icon of an unavailable action will become grayed-out and you won't be able to click it.
The Krusader panels are where most of the action takes place. Currently there are two types of panels:
List Panel: shows the files and directories.
PopUp Panel: shows the directory tree or a preview of the file that has the focus.
The List Panel with all the different parts marked up.
This is the default panel and the one you'll probably use most of the time. This panel shows the contents of one directory which can be local (part of your mounted file systems), remote (accessed via FTP or Samba) or inside an archive. File copy/paste/cut via Clipboard between Konqueror and Krusader Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+D is supported.
The following items are available:
Location Toolbar : shows the path where the panel is currently pointing to. If the path where the panel is pointing to is too long, it will be shortened and a ".." will replace the middle part. Also when entering archives the path will consist of the "archive name:/directory/archive_filename/the directory inside the archive". With a mouse click you can enter the desired path e.g.
/mnt/cdrom/
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
sftp://sftp.foo.org/
fish://fish.foo.org/
smb://smb.foo/
settings:/ will browse and open entries of the KDE control center
devices:/ gives an overiew of the devices e.g. floppy or cdrom drives.
Panel toolbar : can have up to five configurable buttons.
Information Label : shows how much free space is physically available on the file system, the file system capacity and where it is mounted. If the information is not available (most often in the case of remote file system) a message will be displayed with the reason instead of the information.
Column Headers : here you can change the sort order of the files and directories. The default sort order is by name. The sort order can be changed by clicking on one of the Column Headers. To reverse the sort order, click a second time on the header. An arrow will apear on the right of the column header text, this will show the sort direction (Up arrow = a to z sorting, Down arrow = z to a sorting). The default Column Headers are: name, extension, size, and date. More optional Column Headers are available. The width Column Headers can be changed with the mouse. Both List Panels remember the sort order and column width.
File List : displays the files and directories in the browsed directory. The Quick search allows you to search for files by typing their names. Pressing Enter or double clicking on a file will open/execute that file. You can mark/unmark files using the mouse with the Insert key or the Mark menu.
Totals Label : marking or unmarking files will change the Totals Label at the bottom of the panel, which displays how many files you've selected (and how much disk space they use) as well as the total file and disk usage of the current directory (as opposed to the information label that displays information for the whole file system). If a directory contains a lot of subdirectories, it may not possible to drop the URL onto the panel (on which only directories are visible), but the URL can be dropped onto the "Status Bar" or "Totals Label" instead.
Some useful List panel Key-Bindings:
Ctrl+r will refresh the panel.
Focus a file or directory on the left panel, press Ctrl+Left arrow and the right panel changes:
on a file: the right panel gets the same path as the left panel.
on a directory: refreshes the right panel with the contents of the directory.
For the right panel: press Ctrl+Right arrow and the left panel will change.
This is our 3rd Panel, click on the arrow up button on the left of the Totals Label or Alt+Down Arrow to open the PopUp Panel. This panel has several display modes who can be activated by clicking on the apropriate button
Preview : gives a preview of the file that has the focus.
Treeview : is used to quickly browse the local directory tree. The panel behaves like the list panel but only one directory may be selected at a time and double clicking or pressing Enter on a directory will open that directory in the active panel. It supports drag and drop (copy,move,link).
Quickselect: select quickely files, e.g. *.png and click on the "Go" button. The "floppy" button stores the current selection. The "select group dialog" is also available.
Both panels have a configurable Panel Toolbar. The complete Panel Toolbar or some buttons can be made visible or hidden.
"OpenDir Button": opens the directory browser.
"Equals Button (=)": changes the panel directory to the other panel directory.
"Up Button (..)": changes the panel directory to the parent directory.
"Home Button (~)": changes the panel directory to the home directory
"Root Button (/)": changes the panel directory to the root directory.
"Sync-browsing Button": when active, each directory-change in the specific panel is performed in the other too.
This part of the GUI (graphical user interface) can have two modes:
Command Line
The traditional command line mode offers a single line of input to enter commands, it also features two buttons: "run in terminal mode" (console icon) and "command history" (down arrow) to the right of the input line. When you start typing your commands the command line "auto completion" feature will make its offers according to what you choose in the KDE Control Center. If you want to change the way auto complete behaves in the current Krusader session then right click on command line and change it. To the left of the input line you can find the local path that the active panel is currently is pointing to, this path is where your command will be executed. Typing cd <directory> in the command line will also cause the active panel to point to this directory. Cick here to view the command line keybindings.
Terminal emulator
The terminal emulator mode is in fact a small konsole and acts just as one. You can change the active directory in the terminal by using the cd command. The terminal emulator will follow the active panel directory. When you drag a file from the "List Panel", you will get to choose between: "Paste", cd, mv and ln. If you drag multiple files, then cd will not be available. You can close the emulator by typing exit.
You can choose your mode of operation (command line, emulator, both or none) either for Krusader's startup with the Konfigurator Startup page, or for the current session with the View menu.
This bar gets its name from the function (FN) keys it represents. For each button on this bar there is a corresponding function key that performs the same action. This bar is derived from the design of the first twin-panel file managers and the FN keys usually act the same with two changes: the F2 key will open a terminal at the last local path that the active panel pointed to, and the F9 key is used to rename files. Mkdir F7 can create whole directory trees on the fly e.g. foo/bar/test. You can choose to display or not the FN keys bar when starting up Krusader via the Konfigurator Startup page, and you can toggle its use in the current session with the View menu.
The actions performed by the function keys are currently hard coded and cannot be changed, they will remain active with or without the FN keys bar.
With Folder Tabs you can quickly change to multiple folders, each panel has is own Folder Tabs. The Folder Tabs positions are saved when closing Krusader. To switch between tabs, click them with the mouse. Squeezed tabs have tooltips to display the full path. The next Folder Tabs operations are available:
To open a new tab and keep the current directory: Right-click on a directory and select open in a new tab, or use the middle mouse button, or use Alt+Ctrl+n.
To duplicate a tab: right-click on the tab and select duplicate tab, or use Alt+Ctrl+Shift+n.
To close a tab (except the left tab): right-click on the tab and select close tab, or use the middle mouse button, or use the Folder tabs "red cross" button, or use Alt+Ctrl+c.
To create a "home" tab: click on the Tabbed Browsing "Bookmark" button.
To change tabs: Shift+Left Arrow or Shift+Right Arrow.
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