2002-09-22
3.1

# Saving Settings & Profiles

When you close down &konqueror; your current View menu settings (such as the View Mode, Use index.html and Show Hidden Files items) are automatically saved as the default options to be used next time &konqueror; is started.

But you can also specify different View menu settings for any individual directory. To do this check the View Properties Saved in Directory box in the Settings menu, change the View settings to whatever you want then uncheck the View Properties saved in Directory box. Doing this creates a `.directory` file in that directory to hold the directory View settings. Use the Settings Remove Directory Properties option to remove the directory specific settings (or just delete the `.directory` file).

One nice use of this feature is if you have a directory full of pictures. You can set that particular directory to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing Icon View and Preview Show Previews from the View menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other directories.

&konqueror;'s overall appearance when you start it up is determined by one of two profiles, depending on whether you start it as a File Manager or as a Browser. These control the window size, whether the window is split into two or more views, whether the Navigation Panel or Terminal Emulator are shown, and the starting directory or &URL;.

To change this start up behaviour, simply set &konqueror; to whatever you want, then in the Settings menu select Save View Profile "File Management" or Save View Profile "Web Browsing" depending on which mode you are in. If you want &konqueror; to start up with an empty window enter `about:blank` into the location bar before saving the profile.

You can also create extra start up profiles and save them with the Settings Configure View Profiles... option. You can then select them from the Settings Load View Profile drop down menu when you have started &konqueror;

You can create a desktop icon to start &konqueror; with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the &konqueror; icon from the K menu onto the desktop and selecting Copy Here. Then right click on the new icon, select Properties... and change Program Name in the Execute tab page to ``kfmclient` `openProfile MyNewProfile``, MyNewProfile being what you called the new profile. Then in the General tab page change the name to something like `MyNewProfile` and pick a more suitable icon.

KDE British Conversion John Knight anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net