# Konfigurator: &krusader;'s Configuration Center

Konfigurator is &krusader;s configuration center. When running &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 Key-Bindings and Main Toolbar-Actions Toolbar have received their own configuration windows and so they are not a part anymore of Konfigurator, you can configure them now via the Settings menu.

## Startup

### Startup configuration

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.

  - Fallback Icon Theme: Allows you to configure a fallback icon theme for &krusader;. Whenever icon is not found in system icon theme, this theme will be used as a fallback. If the fallback theme does not contain the icon, Breeze or Oxygen will be used if any of these are present.

User Interface

- Determines which parts of the user interface are 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 Window Save Position option to manually set &krusader; size and position at start-up.

  - Update default panel settings: If checked, the default panel settings will be updated after start-up.

  - Start to tray: if checked, &krusader; starts to tray (if minimize to tray is set), without showing the main window.

  - Save component settings on exit: If checked, restores the user interface components to their condition when last shut-down.

  - Show function keys: If checked, the FN Keys Bar is visible after start-up.

  - Show statusbar: If checked, the Statusbar is visible after start-up. Available only if the Save component settings on exit item is unchecked.

  - Show command line: If checked, the Command Line is visible after start-up. Available only if the Save component settings on exit item is unchecked.

  - Show embedded terminal: If checked, the Terminal emulator is visible after start-up. Available only if the Save component settings on exit item is unchecked.

## Panel

Here you can determine the look and feel of panel - which means finetuning the application to your needs. The page is divided into six tabs: General, View, Buttons, Selection Mode, Media Menu, and Layout:

### General

### Navigator bar

- Edit Mode by default: If checked, show editable path in Navigator bar by default.

- Show full path by default: If checked, always show full path in Navigator bar by default.

### Operation

- 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.

- Unselect files before copy/move: If checked, &krusader; remove the selection marks from files or folders before copying or moving them to the new location.

- Filter dialog remembers settings: If checked, the filter dialog will be opened with the last filter settings that where applied to the panel.

### Tabs

- Use fullpath tab names: If checked, display the full path in the Folder tabs; otherwise only the last part of the path is displayed.

- Show new/close tab buttons: If checked, &krusader; displays new and close buttons on tabs.

- Tab Bar position: Lets you choose Tab bar position (Bottom or Top).

- Show Tab Bar on single tab: If checked, &krusader; displays the Tab Bar even if there is only one tab on the panel.

### Search bar

- Start by typing: allows to select if quick search feature is used. When checked, you can open search bar and start searching by typing something while viewing folder contents in the active panel.

- Case sensitive: When you use the search or filter feature: 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.

- Up/Down cancels search: Pressing Arrow Up or Arrow Down cancels search bar.

- Directory navigation with Right Arrow: If checked, pressing the Right arrow key enters directory if no search text editing intention is captured.

- Position: Lets you choose search and filter bar position (Bottom or Top).

- Default mode: Lets you choose the search bar default mode between Search, Select and Filter. You can change the mode later using the search bar itself.

### Bookmark Search

- Always show search bar: If checked, make bookmark search bar always visible.

- Search in special items: If checked, bookmark search is also applied to special items in bookmark menu like Trash, Popular URLs, Jump Back, &etc;

### Status/Totalsbar

- Show size in bytes too: If checked, &krusader; displays size in bytes on statusbar or totalsbar.

- Show space information: If checked, &krusader; displays free/total disk space in the Status-/Totalsbar.

### View

### General

- View font: Allows you to change the font used inside the file lists.

- Tooltip delay (msec): Allows you to configure the delay in milliseconds between the moment you have stopped mouse pointer above an item in a file list and the moment when the tooltip will be shown.

- Use human readable file size: If checked, the file size appears in kB, Mb &etc;, and not in bytes (default).

- Numeric permissions: Permission column (Panel View tab) shows octal numbers '0755' instead of 'rwxr-xr-x'.

- Show hidden files: If checked, &krusader; displays the "dot-files" which are otherwise hidden.

- Load the user defined folder icons: If checked, &krusader; loads the user defined folder icons.

- Always show current item: If checked, &krusader; shows current item border decoration in inactive panel.

- Sort method

  - Krusader (default): the comparison used so far. Uses comparison using locale rules (even context rules).

  - Alphabetical: strings are compared character by character (no context rules from locale applied). Alphabet characters are compared using locale rules, special characters are compared by the character code.

  - Alphabetical and numbers: the same as above, but if the names contains numbers, the numbers are compared numerically instead of alphabetically.

  - Character code: comparison by character code (quick).

  - Character code and numbers: the same as above, but with numerical comparison of numbers.

- 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.

- Show directories first: If checked directories have precedence in folder lists.

- Locale aware sorting: Sorts files and directories according to the current locale settings.

### View modes

- Default view mode: Allows you to change the default view mode. You can choose Detailed View or Brief View. On tabs of both view modes you can define the following options.

- Default 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 the filenames: If checked, show the icons in file names and folders.

- Show previews by default: If checked, show the previews of file contents.

- To configure the columns use the right click menu in the panel when viewing files. 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 ⪚ &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 ⪚ &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 Panel View Tab.

  - rwx: Shows only the rights of the current user ⪚ "-rw".

  - Owner: Shows the owner field.

  - Group: Shows the group field.

Uncheck the columns not in use. This allows more space for columns in use.

### Buttons

Toolbar buttons have icons: If checked, &krusader; displays icons on toolbar buttons.

Show Media Button: If checked, &krusader; displays media button.

Show Back Button: If checked, &krusader; displays back button.

Show Forward Button: If checked, &krusader; displays forward button.

Show History Button: If checked, &krusader; displays history button.

Show Bookmarks Button: If checked, &krusader; displays bookmarks button.

Show Panel Toolbar: If checked, &krusader; displays the Panel Toolbar.

You can make the buttons on the Panel Toolbar visible or hidden:

### Visible Panel Toolbar buttons

- Equal button (=)

- Up button (..)

- Home button (~)

- Root button (/)

- Toggle-button for sync-browsing: If checked, shows the Sync-browsing button.

### Selection Mode

Here you can configure the selection modes.

### General

- &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 Left Mouse Button does not select, but sets the current file without affecting the current selection.

- Ergonomic Mode: The &LMB; does not select, but sets the current file without affecting the current selection. The &RMB; invokes the context-menu. You can select with &Ctrl; key and the left button.

- Custom Selection Mode: Create your own selection style!

### Details

- 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 global selection policy: Pressing the &LMB; selects files -- Use global setting: &plasma; System Settings -> Input Devices -> Mouse.

- Custom Selection Mode items:

  - Based on &plasma;'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

  - Spacebar moves down

  - Insert moves down

  - Right-clicking pops context menu immediately

### Media Menu

Using this tab you can select the Media button menu contents:

- Show Mount Path: show the mount path of partition if checked.

- Show File System Type: show the file system type of partition if checked.

- Show Size: allows selection of the size representation in media menu. Can be Always (default, always show the size of partition), When Device has no Label (show the size for partitions with no label only) or Never (never show the size in media menu).

### Layout

You can choose the layout and frame settings:

- Layout: allows to define layout. The default options are Default, Compact, and Classic.

- Frame Color: defines frame color. Can be Defined by Layout, None, or Statusbar.

- Frame Shape: defines frame color. Can be Defined by Layout, None, or Statusbar.

- Frame Shadow: defines frame color. Can be Defined by Layout, None, or Statusbar.

## Colors

This page configures the colors of the List Panel and the Synchronizer. The KDE default colors is the default color configuration.

General

- - Use the default KDE colors: this is the default, it uses &plasma; color defined in the &systemsettings;.

  - Use Alternate Background color: If checked, the Background color and the Alternate background color alternates line by line. When you do not use the &plasma; 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 &plasma; 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 &plasma; 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 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 Total Commander, Midnight Commander, foo-commander or your own custom color profile. The Color Schemes are stored in `/usr/share/krusader`, the `foo.color` is a binary file that holds the color scheme.

  Midnight Commander and Total Commander Color scheme files are provided. Please upload your favorite Color schemes so that they become available for the &krusader; community. Thanks!

## General

Here you configure the basic operations. The page is divided into three tabs: General, Viewer/Editor, and Atomic extensions.

### General

The following options determine basic aspects of operation:

- Warn on exit: if checked, &krusader; warns you every time when exit action is triggered.

- Minimize to tray: If checked, the &krusader; icon will appear in the system tray. When you minimize &krusader;, it will not appear in the taskbar. It also will not exit if you close the main window. Instead you can quit &krusader; by selecting Quit from the File menu or the context menu of the tray icon.

- Use MIME type 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 is 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.

- 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!

Delete mode (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 &plasma;'s trash.

External Terminal: choose which terminal emulator will be used when &krusader; opens a console window (via F9, or Tools Start Terminal menu option).

Embedded Terminal sends Chdir on panel change: if unchecked, there will be no `cd` command sent to the Terminal Emulator if the panel folder changes.

Toggle Fullscreen Embedded Terminal: if checked, &krusader; shows fullscreen terminal in Midnight Commander style (Terminal is shown instead of &krusader; window).

### Viewer/Editor

Here you can change the viewer and editor settings:

- Internal editor and viewer opens each file in separate window: check this item if you want each file to be opened in separate window.

- Default viewer mode:

  - Generic mode: use the systems default viewer.

  - Text mode: view the file in text-only mode.

  - Hex mode: view the file in hex-only mode.

  - Lister mode: Fast text/hexadecimal viewer for huge filesizes. &krusader; lister never loads the whole file into memory, just a little part of it, and uses caching for faster scrolling. Remote files are downloaded, but during the download, viewing the downloaded part is possible. If a file constantly changes, then it can also be viewed, lister will always see its current state.

  - Use lister if the text file is bigger than: 10 MB (default value): checks whether a text file is bigger than 10 MB (configurable), and if yes, then &krusader; Lister is used instead of &plasma;'s default viewer.

  - Use Okteta as Hex viewer: if checked (default option), use &plasma; hex editor Okteta to view raw data. To use this option you should install Okteta package first.

- Editor: choose what editor will be used when editing a file (via F4). Default the internal viewer is used, this is the &plasma;'s default viewer.

### Atomic extensions

Atomic extensions: predefined atomic extensions like `.tar.gz` are shown as one part in the Ext Column of the List Panel.

## Advanced

This page handles more advanced issues, so you should double-check your actions here: modifying settings here

The page is divided into three parts:

General

- - 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`.

  - 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 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 directories

  - 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.

## Archives

This page configures some aspects of archive handling in &krusader;.

krarc ioslave

- Enable Write Support: this option allows you to enable writing files into an 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. Moving archives into themselves will delete them.

Archive handling

- Browse Archives As Directories: if checked, &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.

Fine-Tuning

- - Test archives after packing: this option automatically runs a test on a newly packed archive. It is safer, but takes longer.

  - Test archives before unpacking: this option automatically runs a test before unpacking. Some corrupted archives might cause a crash; therefore, it is better to test archives before unpacking.

## Dependencies page

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
`kdesu` | ``/usr/bin/kdesu``
`kget` | ``/usr/bin/kget``
`mailer` | ``/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; is used as external diff utility but you can also use your favorite diff utility ⪚ xxdiff or KDiff3, just fill in the full path and enjoy.

Packers tab

In the Packers tab you will see a list of archive formats. Some are filled and some are empty. The ones that are available (filled) are supported by &krusader;. For them, &krusader; will handle the archives transparently and let you open them as folders (provided you have checked the Browse Archives As Directories item in the Archives section); otherwise, &krusader; will attempt to invoke an application which opens archives of that type. If a certain archive item is empty, 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, lzma, rar, rpm, tar, xz, zip and 7z.

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``
`lzma` | ``/usr/bin/lzma``
`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``
`xz` | ``/usr/bin/xz``

&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

## UserActions

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 &URL;).

## Protocols

This page links the MIMEs to protocols. ⪚ protocol "tar" is linked to MIME "application/x-tar".

In the Links you 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