&Pamela.Roberts;
2010-10-24
&kde; 4.5

# Questions and Answers

Can I run &konqueror; from another window manager?

Just install &Qt;, kdelibs and kdebase, and from your favorite window manager, launch &konqueror;. It should work just fine, but if it doesn't (&kde; developers don't test that case often), report it to http://bugs.kde.org and try running kdeinit before running &konqueror;; it usually helps.

Where does &konqueror; keep all its configuration data?

Generally in the `~/.kde` folder (this may be `~/.kde4` on your system, depending on how &kde; was installed). Don't alter these files unless you really know what you are doing.

- The `~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles` folder holds individual files containing settings for each of your profiles.

- Your bookmarks are held in `~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml`

- Cookies are held in `~/.kde/share/apps/kcookiejar/cookies`

- Your history, as used for the auto-completion feature, is in `~/.kde/share/config/konq_history`

- In the folder `~/.kde/share/config/` the files `konqiconviewrc`, `konqlistviewrc` and `konquerorrc` hold a whole lot of general configuration settings.

- The folder `~/.kde/share/cache-hostname/http/` contains the browser cache.

- The Sidebar uses the files and subfolders in `~/.kde/share/apps/konqsidebartng`

Any folder specific view settings are put into `.directory` files in the individual folders.

How do I clear out the history file?

There are two histories:

- One is used for text completion in the Location Toolbar text entry box. To clear this right click on the text entry box and select Clear History .

- The other is the log of visited locations. Select the History page in the Sidebar, right click on an entry and choose Remove Entry (Del)to remove just that entry or Clear History to delete all entries.

You can also use the application Sweeper from the kdeutils module which allows you to clean up cookies, favicons, web history and cache, form completion entries and cache policies of visited websites.

How do I enable, disable or clear the browser cache?

If you select Web Browsing Cache in the dialog launched by selecting Settings Configure Konqueror... , you will be presented with a dialog box that lets you disable the cache, clear it or set its size, and change the caching policy.

How can I change the timeout values used by &konqueror; when web browsing?

In the &systemsettings; category Network and Connectivity on the Network Settings Connection Preferences page.

How do I set my home page - the page loaded on startup?

&konqueror; has a Home Folder used in filemanager mode and a Home Page used in browser mode.

To change these settings launch Settings Configure Konqueror General.

To set the &konqueror; startup page in filemanager mode select Show Introduction Page, Show My Home Page, Show Blank Page or Show My Bookmarks from the drop down box labeled When Konqueror starts.

In browser mode &konqueror; starts with the Home page entry.

I can't find the answer to my question here.

Take a look at http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html or http://www.konqueror.org/konq-java.html.

Further information you may find in the KDE Community Forums or on Konqueror's KDE Userbase page.