Configure Krusader Konfigurator is &krusader;s configuration center. When runnig &krusader;, use Settings Configure &krusader; , and it will start Konfigurator. There you can modify the way &krusader; works and customize it to your own needs. At any time, pressing the Apply button applies the changes, pressing Close closes Konfigurator, and pressing Defaults re-applies &krusader;'s "factory" settings. Konfigurator is divided into pages, each containing items related to that page. For some changes to the &GUI;, you have to close and restart &krusader;. Since &krusader;-1.80.0 the &keybindigs-lnk; and &main-toolbar-lnk;-&actions-toolbar-lnk; have reiceived their own configuration windows and so they are not a part anymore of Konfigurator, you can configure them now via the &settingsmenu-lnk;.

Startup configuration

The startup page determines the way that &krusader; looks (and works) when it is launched. It is divided into two main parts: General Startup Profile: Starts the selected Panel profile at startup. <Last session> is a special Panel Profile, it is saved automatically when closing &krusader;. Show splashscreen: Displays a splash screen when starting &krusader;. Single Instance Mode: Allows only one &krusader; instance to run. User Interface Determines which parts of the user interface are visible after start-up. Save settings on exit: If checked, restores the user interface components to their condition when last shut-down. Show toolbar: If checked, &main-toolbar-lnk; is visible after startup. Show statusbar: If checked, the &statusbar-lnk; is visible after start-up. Show function keys: If checked, the &fnkeybar-lnk; is visible after start-up. Show command line: If checked, the &cmdline-lnk; is visible after start-up. Show terminal emulator: If checked, the &termemu-lnk; is visible after start-up. Save last position, size and panel settings: When launched, &krusader; resizes itself to the size it was when last shut-down. &krusader; also appears in the same location on the screen, having panels sorted and aligned as they were. If this option is unchecked, you can use the menu Settings Save Position option to manually set &krusader; size and position at start-up. Start to tray: if checked, &krusader; starts to tray (if minimize to tray is set), without showing the main window. Here you can determine the look and feel of things - which means finetuning the application to your needs. The page is divided into four tabs: Operation, Panel, Panel Toolbar and Selection Mode: Warn on exit: If checked, &krusader; displays an "Are you sure?" warning when you try to shut it down; otherwise, it exits without protest. Minimize to tray: If checked, when you minimize &krusader;, its icon will appear in the system tray instead of the taskbar. Autoselect Directories: When you select a group of files (either by using Select Group or by using Select All), &krusader; checks this option. If checked, the directories matching the select criteria are also selected. Otherwise, only files are selected. Rename selects extension: When you rename a file, the whole text is selected. If you want total commanderlike renaming of just the name, without extension, deselect this item. Use fullpath tab names: If checked, display the full path in the &foldertabs-lnk;; otherwise only the last part of the path is displayed. Fullscreen terminal (mc-style): Terminal appears instead of the &krusader; window (full screen). New style Quicksearch: The new Quicksearchfeature is used. Case Sensitive Quicksearch: When you use the Quicksearchfeature: If checked (the &UNIX; default), all files beginning with capital letters appear before files beginning with lower case letters; otherwise, all files beginning with a specified letter (capital or otherwise) will be displayed together. 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. Use icons in filenames: If checked, show the icons in file names and folders. Human readable file size: If checked, the file size appears in kB, Mb &etc;, and not in bytes (default). Since &krusader;-1.70.0 you need to configure the columns with the right click menu in the panel, not in Konfigurator. The left and right panel use their own columns independently. The following columns are available: Name: Shows the filename without the part after the last dot, this latter part is displayed in the Ext column. When the Ext column is made hidden, the complete filename is shown in the Name column like e.g. &konqueror; does. Ext: Shows the last part of the filename (the part after the last dot) in the ext column, and not as a complete filename in the name column like e.g. &konqueror; does. Type: Shows the mime type field. Size: Shows the size field. Modified: Shows the modified date and time field. Perms: Shows the full permissions ⪚ "rwxr-xr-x" or as octal numbers '0755' instead with enable/disable Numeric Permissions in Look & Feel Operation Tab. rwx: Shows only the rights of the current user ⪚ "-rw". Owner: Shows the owner field. Group: Shows the group field. Show Hidden files: If checked, &krusader; displays the "dot-files" which are otherwise hidden. 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) appear together. Always sort dirs by name: Sorts directories by name, regardless of the sort column. Numeric permissions: Permission column (Look & Feel PanelTab) shows octal numbers '0755' instead of 'rwxr-xr-x'. Uncheck the columns not in use. This allows more space for columns in use. Panel Toolbar visible: If checked, &krusader; displays the Panel Toolbar. You can make the buttons on the Panel Toolbar visible or hidden: Clear Location Toolbar button: Clears the &location-toolbar-lnk; Open button Equal (=) button Up (..) button Home (~) button Root (/) button Toggle-button for sync-browsing: If checked, shows the &sync-browsing-lnk; button. Here you can configure the selection modes. &krusader; Mode: The way &krusader; has worked from day one. Both mouse keys allow selecting files. To select more than one file, hold the &Ctrl; key and click the &LMB;. Right-click menu appears with a short click on the &RMB;. Konqueror Mode: pressing the &LMB; selects files -- you can click and select multiple files. Right-click menu appears with a short click on the &RMB;. Total commander Mode: Pressing the &RMB; selects multiple files and the right-click menu appears with pressing and holding the &RMB; The &LMB; does not select, but sets the current file without affecting the current selection. Custom Selection Mode: Create your own selection style! Double-click selects (classic): A single click on a file will select and focus, a double click opens the file or steps into the directory. Obey KDE global selection policy: Pressing the &LMB; selects files -- Use &kde;'s global setting: &kde; Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse. Custom Selection Mode items: Based on KDE's selection mode Left mouse button selects Left mouse button preserves selection Shift/Ctrl-Left mouse button selects Right mouse button selects Right mouse button preserves selection Shift/Ctrl-Right mouse button selects Space bar moves down Space bar calculates diskspace Insert moves down Right-clicking shows the context menu immediately This page configures the colors of the &list-panel-lnk; and the &synchronizer-lnk;. The KDE default colors is the default color configuration. General Use the default KDE colors: this is the default, it uses &kde; color settings of kcontrol. Use Alternate Background color: If checked, the Background color and the Alternate background color alternates line by line. When you do not use the &kde; default colors, you can configure the alternate colors in the Colors box. Show current item even if not focused: If checked, shows the last cursor position in the non active list panel. This option is only available when you do not use the &kde; default colors. Dim the colors of the inactive panel: If checked, the colors of the inactive panel are dimmed. These settings can be configured in the Inactive tab of the Colors box. This option is only available when you do not use the &kde; default colors. Colors Configure the colors the way you like, you can see the result in the Preview section. The following items of the active and inactive panel can be configured: Foreground Directory foreground Executable foreground Symbolic link foreground Invalid symlink foreground Background Alternate background Selected foreground Selected background Alternate selected background Current foreground Selected current foreground Current background The following items of the &synchronizer-lnk; can be configured: Equals foreground Equals background Differing foreground Differing background Copy to left foreground Copy to left background Copy to right foreground Copy to left background Delete foreground Delete background Preview Here you see a preview of the configured colors. Color schemes With the Import Color Scheme and Export Color Scheme buttons you can load and save a Color Scheme profile. This allows &krusader; to use &tcmd;, &mc;, foo-commander or your own custom color profile. The Color Schemes are stored in $KDEDIR/share/apps/krusader, the foo.color is a binary file that holds the color scheme. &mc; and &tcmd; Color scheme files are provided. Please upload your favorite Color schemes so that they become available for the &krusader; community. Thanks! Here you configure the basic operations. The following options determine basic aspects of operation: Delete files/Move to trash: when &krusader; deletes files it can either 'really' delete them or move them to the trash folder, thereby making them available via &kde;'s trash. Use mimetype magic: mime type magic is a mechanism which allows &krusader; to inspect the files in the panels and determine their type even if the file has no identifying extension. For example, if you take an image file - 'image1.jpg' - and rename it to 'image1', &krusader; will still know it's an image file and work with it accordingly. However, this mode of operation is slower (while refreshing the panel, or changing directories), so try &krusader; with and without mime type magic and decide what is best for you. Editor: choose what editor will be used when editing a file (via F4). Default viewer mode: either generic, text or hex mode. Viewer opens each file in a separate window: you can use the browsing tabs for navigation. Atomic extensions: predefined atomic extensions like tar.gz are shown as one part in the Ext Column of the &list-panel-lnk;. Terminal: choose which terminal emulator will be used when &krusader; opens a console window (via F2, or Commands->Terminal menu option). Terminal Emulator sends Chdir on a panel change: if unchecked, there will be no cd command sent to the Terminal Emulator if the panel folder changes. Temp Directory: this option selects the base directory for &krusader;'s temporary files. The actual files will be created in separate directories under the 'Temp directory', so that each user running &krusader; will have their own temporary subdirectories under the chosen directory. You must choose a temporary directory to which all users running &krusader; have full permissions! This page handles more advanced issues, so you should double-check your actions here: modifying settings here makes &krusader; a more powerful AND dangerous tool. The page is divided into three parts: General Preserve attributes for local copy/move (slower): If checked, &krusader; will try to preserve all attributes (time, owner, group) of the local files according to the source file depending on your permissions. Automount filesystems: this makes &krusader; try to mount a file system before entering it. For example, if you click on /mnt/cdrom (and /mnt/cdrom appears in /etc/fstab as a mount point), &krusader; will check if it is mounted. If not, it will try and mount it for you and then enter, so that you would see the contents of your cdrom. Note, however, that &krusader; will NOT unmount when exiting /mnt/cdrom. Do not use KDE media protocol for the Media button (if it is buggy or missing): If checked, &krusader; will not use &kde; media protocol for the Media button. Choose this when the media protocol is buggy (in some older &kde; versions) or if you have no kdebase package installed on your system. MountMan will not (un)mount the following mount points: If you have file systems that you do not want to accidentally unmount (or mount) then enter a list of mount points separated by commas (⪚ /, /boot, /tmp) and &mountman-lnk; will not try to (un)mount them. Confirmations By checking the options in this section, &krusader; will ask for confirmation before doing a specific action; otherwise, the following actions will be done without warning: deleting non empty directorie(s) deleting file(s) copying file(s) moving file(s) Fine-Tuning Icon Cache Size: &krusader; uses an icon cache, so it will not have to reload icons that have been used before. Of course, as the cache grows bigger, it can store more icons and further speed operations, but the memory footprint of &krusader; will become bigger. Arguments of updatedb: sets additional arguments for updatedb, please read the manpages for more information. This page handles the way &krusader; works with archives. In the General section you will see a list of archive formats. Some are checked and some are grayed-out. The ones that are available (not grayed-out) are supported by &krusader;. If you check them, &krusader; will handle the archives transparently and let you open them as folders; otherwise, &krusader; will attempt to invoke an application which opens archives of that type. If a certain archive is grayed-out, it means that &krusader; could not find the appropriate executables in the configured path. The next archives are supported: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip. If you have installed a certain archive application (let's say arj) and want &krusader; to know about it, just click the Auto Configure button. &krusader; will search for all supported executables and print a report listing the archive formats that can be handled. If the operation was successful the new archive should be available and checked. Please install new packagers to your PATH (&ie;: /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin &etc;) The full path of the packagers is stored in the &konfigdependencie-lnk; (⪚ to handle ZIP archives, &krusader; needs the unzip and zip executables). It is possible that you need to manually configure the mimes to the protocols in the &konfigprotocol-lnk;. Fine-Tuning Allow moving into archives: this option allows you to move files into an archive (as opposed to just copying into the archive). The down side is that if a power failure occurs during the process, the files that were moved might already be deleted, but not yet packed into the archive. If such a thing happens, the file(s) are NOT LOST. They were actually moved into a subfolder in &krusader;'s temp directory. You can search the directory and recover your files. Test archives when finished packing: this option automatically runs a test on a newly packed archive. It is safer, but takes longer. This page configures the full path of the external applications. It is even possible to configure the full path of &krusader;! General tab Here you can configure the full path of the following external applications: application configurable full path df /bin/df eject /usr/bin/eject kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu kget /usr/bin/kget kmail /usr/bin/kmail diff utility /usr/bin/kompare krename /usr/bin/krename krusader /usr/bin/krusader locate /usr/bin/locate mount /bin/mount umount /bin/umount updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb By default &kompare; (part of the kdebase package) is used as external diff utility but you can also use your favorite diff utility ⪚ &xxdiff-url; or &kdiff3-url;, just fill in the full path and enjoy. Packers tab Here you can configure the full path of the following external packers. &krusader; also offers an auto configure tool for packagers. packer configurable full path 7z usr/bin/7z arj usr/bin/arj bzip2 usr/bin/bzip2 cpio /bin/cpio dpkg /bin/dpkg gzip /usr/bin/gzip lha /usr/bin/lha rar /usr/bin/rar tar /bin/tar unace /usr/bin/unace unarj /usr/bin/unarj unrar /usr/bin/unrar unzip /usr/bin/unzip zip /usr/bin/zip &krusader; may not be compatible with ACE despite our best efforts. Unace uses closed source and contains additional lines that make Unace get into infinite loop if the stdin is redirected to somewhere else. It works in the same manner as 'su', where you cannot enter the password only from the stdin. &krusader; >= 1-51 emulates the command line environment to enable co-operation with Unace, but we have noticed that Unace always changes its output format from release to release, making co-operation almost impossible. Checksum Utilities tab Here you can configure the full path of the following external Checksum Utilities: Checksum Utilities configurable full path supported checksums md5sum /usr/bin/md5sum md5 sha1sum /usr/bin/sha1sum sha1 md5deep /usr/bin/md5deep md5 sha1deep /usr/bin/sha1deep sha1 sha224sum /usr/bin/sha224sum sha224 sha256sum /usr/bin/sha256sum sha256 sha256deep /usr/bin/sha256deep sha256 sha384sum /usr/bin/sha384sum sha384 sha512sum /usr/bin/sha512sum sha512 tigerdeep /usr/bin/tigerdeep tiger whirlpooldeep /usr/bin/whirlpooldeep whirlpool cfv /usr/bin/cfv md5, sha1, sfv, crc Here you can configure the terminal for UserActions and the font for the output-collection. The default terminal is konsole --noclose -e. To set up, configure and manage your UserActions use ActionMan (&useractions-lnk; url). This page links the mimes to protocols. ⪚ protocol "tar" is linked to mime "application/x-tar". In the Defined Linksyou will see ⪚ Iso application/x-iso krarc application/x-ace application/x-arj application/x-bzip2 application/x-cpio application/x-deb application/x-debian-package application/x-gzip application/x-jar application/x-lha application/x-rar application/x-rpm application/x-zip tar application/x-tar application/x-tarz application/x-tbz application/x-tgz