Managing Your Files
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Managing your files is important. It may be confusing, however.
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[edit] Konqueror
Notice on your desktop how there is a Home icon. Open this by either clicking or-if you set it to double click in Customization of Your Computer-double clicking this icon. You will see our history on Linux file:
Right click on the window that appears and choose New Folder:
We will see a dialog box asking a name for the folder. Name it something descriptive-keeping in mind we will put our linux history file in there. For this walkthrough, it will be named Linux-A History. Place your arrow on the Linux history file that we created in OOo Writer, hold down the mouse button, and drag it to onto the folder we created:
To delete the file, open the folder, right click the file, and choose Move to Trash. On your desktop, open the Tash, right click our file, and click Restore. It will put the file back in the folder we deleted it from.
[edit] Kservice Menus
This part of the walkthrough needs to be written.
[edit] D3lphin (Dolphin)
While Konqueror is usually good for most people and decent to use, some may find it a bit more complicated than what is needed. Especially for those of you that are used to Windows Vista and Macintosh OS X file managers, you may be interested to know you have another option, called D3lphin (pronounced "Dolphin" -- the strange spelling is because this is an older version that uses the KDE3 desktop; Dolphin is the default file manager for the new next generation desktop called KDE4, which ArkLinux will switch to sometime in the future).
D3lphin can easily be installed using Kynaptic; the easiest way to find it is open Kynaptic, and do a search for "d3lphin". Once installed, it is easily accessed by Kmenu >> System >> D3lphin - File Manager, as shown below.
D3lphin uses much of the same framework as Konqueror, so in fact it is in many cases just as powerful, but with a simpler interface.
Below is a picture of the full file manager window, with certain important functions and details marked by a big red numeral; a description of what each part of the D3lphin window is provided underneath.
- Main window that displays your files. Note that this windows works the same as for Konqueror, so for instance you can create folders in the same was as described earlier in the walkthrough.
- So-called "Breadcrumbs"; they display what folder you are in currently, and where you are overall in the system. They are "Breadcrumbs" because you can trace your path back to the folder you started. Notice that any of the folder names that make up the Breadcrumbs can be clicked on to immediately go back to that folder. Also, notice on the very left of this bar is a white box button; if you click it, a box will come up and you can manually type in what folder you want to go to.
- These buttons control the way you view your files in the main window. The default view is Icons (as shown), but you can also choose from Details and Previews. Details will arrange everything in a table and show you file types, sizes, etc., in different columns. Previews is much like Icons, but instead of just showing a generic icon, it will give a scaled-down version of all the pictures/text in the folder. This is convenient but takes memory, so do not use it if your computer is on the slow side. Also, on the far right of this group of buttons is one called Split View. This will split the main window into two smaller windows, making it very convenient and easy for moving files around between different folders.
- This is the left pane. There is a click box at the top to allow you to change what this pane is; the only options are Bookmarks (the default, as shown), and Information. I like to leave the left pane as Bookmarks and the right pane as Information, but you can arrange it how you wish. Bookmarks just gives a list of important folders you probably want to get to fairly often. You can add places to the Bookmarks under "Settings" menu.
- This is the right pane. As mentioned earlier, I like to leave it as the Information pane. This will display something similar to what Windows will show you. Whenever you mouse over a file in the main window, its information is displayed here. An Icon (or Preview) is displayed at the top of this pane, followed by some information on what type of file it is, how big it is, when you last edited it, etc. Underneath this is a convenient menu of different actions you usually do with this file type; for instance, I moused over a Gzipped Tar Archive (a more Linux version of a Zip File, for those of you coming from Windows), so one option is to uncompress it with the "Extract Here" button. I also have the option of emailing it to a friend. Other files with have different options (for instance, documents may have an option to open with OpenOffice).
- Finally is the status bar. This probably isn't so huge a deal, but it always bugged me that I could never find this information on Konqueror so easily. On the left is the number of files in this folder, for reference. On the right, the thing I personally like, is a little bar that tells you how much free space you have left on the current drive you are browsing.
So that is pretty much it, enjoy using D3lphin!
[edit] Krusader
Krusader is an advanced two-panel file manager. It has an extremely large number of built-in functions to allow you to easily manipulate files and move them using only a keyboard (thus, you can do lots of tasks quickly once you get used to it).
Due to its advanced nature, it is not recommended if you are new to Linux and do not use any special file management programs already.
For your viewing pleasure, here is a picture of a basic Krusader setup:
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