[kde-linux] 11.1 & KDE3 Konqueror Startup URL?

Wed Nov 18 07:17:52 UTC 2009

Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 11:44:00 pm Frank K wrote:
>> Bruce MacArthur wrote:
>>> On Monday 16 November 2009 07:37:56 pm Frank K wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sunday, 2009-11-15, Frank K wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello List,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This should be a simple one, but I can't find the handle!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm a subscriber, but I'm using an email account that isn't
>>>>>>  my
>>>>>> 
>>> own. My own
>>> 
>>>>>> account is available via webmail if that's necessary.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Konqueror starts up in openSuse rather than my home. I 
>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>> 
>>> found that
>>> 
>>>>>> config option in .kde or in the Konq Settings.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> General
>>>>> 
>>>>> Top section of the page on the right hand side, a drop down 
>>>>> menu
>>>>> 
>>> with choices
>>> 
>>>>> like Konqueror's internal start page, empty page, etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Kevin
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Thank you Kevin & Bruce, Bruce, sorry about the HTML Post. No 
>>>> promises on the format, but
> this
>>>> time KDE is specified as text only in the address book. I was 
>>>> expecting to post this reply under my registered address, but 
>>>> messages were deleted from my ISP's server. Kevin, I'm sure 
>>>> your instructions are right on, but I have to start
>>>> 
>>> from
>>> 
>>>> one step further back. I can't find the "General" menu! In my 
>>>> Konqueror Web profile, Settings start with Behavior. My home
> URL
>>>> is my blank page. If I press the house on the Konq toolbar I 
>>>> get
> the
>>>> home URL. My problem is to set the startup URL to be the home 
>>>> URL. With my openSuse 11.1 I'm up to kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1. My 
>>>> desktop is
>>>> 
>>> KDE
>>> 
>>>> 3.5.10. I can live without fixing this behavior, but it 
>>>> wrankles me each
> time
>>>> 
>>> it
>>> 
>>>> happens. Frank K
>>>> 
>>> Hello, Frank --
>>> 
>>> Thank you for making that change -- your message arrived in 
>>> "plain
> text"
>>> --- so everything is working properly in this respect.
>>> 
>>> Kevin assumed or implied that you begin by opening Konqeror, and
>>>  by giving it the "focus".  From that point, the directions are 
>>> correct exactly as he specified it -- but you seem to need one 
>>> small
> refinement.
>>> When you go to "Configure Konqeror" and actually click on it, you
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> will
>>> see a display that has two "frames".  The left-hand frame 
>>> consists
> of an
>>> expandable list of configuration options.  As a solid general 
>>> rule,
> the
>>> very first category is "General".  You do not need to "expand" 
>>> that category to make the necessary change, but you might feel 
>>> better
> about
>>> doing so.  With or without the "category expansion", the top line
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> should
>>> still read "General", AND should have "the focus"
>>> 
>>> If it isn't there, scroll up until it IS there.
>>> 
>>> If it does not have"the focus" (usually indicated by a 
>>> blue-colored highlighter-bar), then single-left-click on it.
>>> 
>>> At this point, you should see the address-bar selection tool that
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> Kevin
>>> mentioned; as Kevin stated, it is near the top of the right-hand
>>>  "frame".
>>> 
>>> You may select any existing option -- or you may specify any 
>>> address (whether local to your own machine, on any of the 
>>> intra-nets you may
> be
>>> connected-to, or on any Internet location of your preference).  I
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> hope
>>> that these details prove to be adequate for your purposes!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Bruce   Mac Arthur bmacasuru at fastmail.us 
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>>> 
>> Bruce, Kevin, I'm still looking for the Konq "General" 
>> configuration. This will likely all seem silly once I find the 
>> magic. For the record, my Konq version is: 3.5.10 Release 21.9. I 
>> use mouse focus and auto raise, so I don't think the menu focus is
>>  the problem.
>> 
>> I grabbed a JPG image of Konq with the Settings menu inside. It's
> about
>> 90KB, but I don't suppose I can stuff that into he paste bin.
>> 
>> What I see clicking the blue Konq web browser button in the desktop
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> task
>> bar is first the error caused by not being able to access the 
>> opensuse server - no internet connection! Clicking on the Settings
>>  button in
> the
>> Konq command bar gives me the dropdown menu with Konq Configuration
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> at
>> the bottom.
> Technically, it is "Configure Konqueror", but that is a silly detail.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> As I interpret the left and right "Frames", I see the expansion of
>>  the selected left frame icon in the right frame. Behavior is the 
>> default left icon selection. It is at the absolute top of the left
>>  frame
> scroll bar. You have done it wrong, Frank.  There is NO "Behavior" 
> icon at this point; that is somewhere else.  Also, you are entirely 
> wrong to "see expansion of the selected left frame icon in the right
>  frame."
> 
> The "expansion" I spoke of is the very same thing that we see in 
> Dolphin or (if you used to live in Redmond's Kingdom) Windows 
> Explorer.  There ARE icons, but they are followed immediately (in the
>  very same frame) with text.  Only then do you get to the right-hand
>  frame -- which displays the (sometimes "tabbed") options that are 
> grouped under the left-hand-frame's highlighted category-name.
> 
> But let's try to get to some progress.  Would you tell us the exact 
> text of the title-bar when you see this "Behavior" thingy?  It really
>  ought to read "Configure - Konqueror".

Well, I'm not the original poster, but I have Konqueror 3.5.9 here, and
my dialog box entitled "Configure - Konqueror" has a "Behavior" icon at
the top of the left pane. The icon looks like a file cabinet, and the
first line of text in the right pane reads "You can configure how
Konqueror behaves as a file manager here." There is no Windows Explorer
style "expansion" of any kind in the left pane - you click one of the
icons, the right pane changes to reflect whatever options exist there.

I'm guess something like this might be what the OP is looking for?

 From 
http://www.konqueror.org/faq/#HowdoIsetmyhomepagethepageloadedonstartup

> How do I set my 'home' page - the page loaded on startup? Start 
> Konqueror with the "Web Browser" button, open the page that you want
> to be loaded in any new "Web Browser" window, and select "Save View 
> Profile Web Browsing" in the Window menu. To have Konqueror start up
> with no page loaded (as it did in KDE 2.0), use "about:blank".

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