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Using the File Manager
With KDE 4, Dolphin has replaced Konqueror as the default file manager,
while Konqueror remains the default Web browser (refer to
Browsing the Internet). To start Dolphin, click the
card box icon in the panel or press Alt+F2 and enter dolphin.
Dolphin Main Window
The Dolphin main window consists of the following elements:
Managing Files and Folders with Dolphin
To perform actions like copying, moving, creating or deleting files,
you need appropriate permissions to the folders and files involved in
your action.
To copy, move, or delete a file or folder, proceed as follows:
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In order to select one or multiple files and folders in Dolphin, move
your mouse over the icon but do not click. A green cross appears on
the upper-left edge. If you click on it, the icon is selected.
Alternatively, press Ctrl and click the file
or files.
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Right-click and select or from the context menu.
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Navigate to the destination folder in which to insert the object.
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To create a new folder at the current location, select or press
F10. Enter a folder name in the new window and press
Enter.
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To insert the object you copied or cut in
Step 2, right-click the destination
folder in the main display field and select .
The object is copied or moved there.
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To delete a file or folder, right-click the object in the main
display field and select from the
context menu. The object is moved to the trash bin. From there, you
can restore it if necessary or delete the object irretrievably.
To quickly filter for certain filenames in the current directory, press
Ctrl+I
to add the input field to the bottom of the
Dolphin main window. Type any part of the filename you are searching
for to see all files in the current directory containing the search
string. For more detailed and advanced searches, press Ctrl+F to use
KFind. For more information, refer to
Using KFind.
Configuring Dolphin
Dolphin offers many options to adjust the view and the overall settings
according to your needs and wishes.
Changing the View
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To switch from the bread crumb view to the editable version of the
location bar, press F6. Enter a path to a directory
by typing it in. After typing an address, press
Enter or click on the background of the
breadcrumbs view.
To delete the contents of the location bar click the black
X symbol on the left. To switch back to the bread
crumb view, press Ctrl+L.
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To change the view of the currently displayed folder, either click
, , or
in the toolbar. Dolphin remembers the
selected view for each folder.
Click or press F3 to view
the contents of the current folder in two separate columns. Now you
can navigate to a different directory in each column and easily drag
or drop objects or compare the contents of directories.
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To make Dolphin also show hidden files, select or press Alt++.
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To view more details about the files (like access permissions or
ownership), select and enable
the respective options.
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To add further directories to the panel,
drag a folder from the working space to the
panel and drop it there. Right-click and use the context menu to
hide, edit or remove entries from .
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If you want to add more panels to the main window, select
and select additional panels such as
, , or
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The panel shows the properties and a
preview of the currently selected file. It also lets you add
comments to the file.
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The panel shows a tree view of the whole
file system
and lets you navigate trough all subdirectories of
/root.
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The panel attaches a command line to
the bottom of the main Dolphin window. Whenever you click a
directory in the display field, the
panel also changes to the according directory, so you can easily
switch to the command line for certain tasks you prefer to execute
in a shell.
You can even detach the panels from the main Dolphin window by clicking
the left icon at the top of each panel. Click the panel's title bar and
drag it to another place on the desktop. To reintegrate the panel into
the Dolphin window again, click the left symbol at the top of the panel
again.
If you want to change Dolphin's overall behavior or view, select
and explore the options offered in the
Dolphin configuration dialog.
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To use the same view mode for all folders, click in the left sidebar. Activate on the
tab. Adjust the options for the individual
view modes on the other tabs according to your wishes and click
to save the changes.
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If you want Dolphin to show a different default directory on
start-up, or if you want to permanently use the editable location bar
instead of the bread crumb view, change the according options on the
tab.
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Click to save the changes and to close the
Dolphin configuration dialog.
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