Konqueror for mac

Draciron Smith draciron at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 09:07:45 BST 2020


Two corrections. I use Krusader, not even sure Konquerer still supported.
The other is Fugu was the sFTP client I used to use, but is totally
unreliable today on Macs.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:05 AM Draciron Smith <draciron at gmail.com> wrote:

> For SSH I've found it's easier to SSH to the Mac than from it. There are
> some SSH clients and you can use the CLI to SSH out but the clients are
> pretty iffy at best. Filezilla the free version works if you want to dump
> everything in /public as that seems to be the only dir it'll allow you to
> navigate to. There's a pro/paid version which I'm not at all interested in.
> sFTP client app works after a fashion but pretty poorly. Same with gah
> forgot name of it. Used to be a pretty good ssh client for the Mac but no
> longer supported apparently. No longer able to sort dirs by date or name or
> reliably see files or reliably know if you are overwriting a file anymore.
>
> Turning SSH on and off is fairly simple. Got  to security settings, turn
> remote connections on/off. You can ssh into the mac from any Linux app that
> supports sFTP. I use Konquerer myself usually.
>
> There are a few alternate file browser apps to Finder but I've not been
> especially impressed by any. Commander One is the best I've tried so far.
> It has sFTP support and works fine for uploading things to a web server.
> Not so well moving files between Linux  and other Macs. I think you have to
> go with pro version now to get sFTP, used to be in free version. Turns out
> Krusader has a Mac version. I am about to try it out. If it does it has a
> good sFTP version built in. Apparently Krusader is part of Mac ports so
> that functionality is almost certainly enabled.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:40 AM YELDA KADiOGLU <ykadioglu at adu.edu.tr>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much really. I had a laptop with openSUSE installed and I
>> was using Konqueror for ssh connections also like to capabilty of splitting
>> windows. It is really easy to copy files between home and ssh folders by
>> "fish" application. My old laptop was broken and now im using a macbook but
>> other file transfer programs such as transmit doesnt work as well as
>> Konqueror. So i will install a linux version to inside mac. Thank you very
>> much again
>> Best
>> Yelda
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:13 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday June 09 2020 22:50:13 YELDA KADiOGLU wrote:
>>> >Hi, i have used Konqueror in linux and love it but i couldnt find its
>>> >version for mac, is it possible to use it in mac?
>>>
>>> Not easily. You may find a more or less crippled version in HomeBrew, or
>>> you could go through the lengthy process of using my MacPorts custom ports
>>> tree to get a less crippled (but probably less up-to-date) version (but
>>> that does use an up-to-date QtWebKit-rebooted version).
>>>
>>> As a web browser, Konqueror is rather strongly inspired by (or at least
>>> looks a lot like) the Safari versions of its time, and the original HTML
>>> engine (KHTML) is even at the basis of the WebKit engine used in Safari.
>>> Nowadays I think most users will use Konqueror with the QtWebEngine
>>> backend, which makes it just another Chromium clone, with an engine that is
>>> only as up-to-date as Qt and the Linux distribution allow and that is too
>>> complete overkill for quick browsing of, say, local documentation in HTML
>>> format.
>>>
>>> If you're looking to use it as a web browser on Mac, just stick with
>>> Safari (or, if you use an older OS X version like I, use Firefox Developer
>>> Edition). Konqueror's other functions on Linux are largely moot and tricky
>>> to deploy on Mac (but then I never really got their point on Linux either).
>>>
>>> R.
>>>
>>
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>>
>> Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi
>> GIZLILIK NOTU: Bu mesaj ve ekleri yalnizca gönderildigi kisi(lere)
>> ozeldir ve gizlidir. Mesaj sizin adiniza degilse, içerigini ve varsa
>> ekindeki dosyalari kimseye göndermeyiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Bu mesajin
>> herhangi bir sekilde açiklanmasi, kullanilmasi, kopyalanmasi, yayilmasi
>> veya mesaj içerigi ile ilgili olarak herhangi bir islem yapilmasi
>> kesinlikle yasaktir. Böyle bir durumda lütfen göndereni uyarip, mesaji
>> siliniz. Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi bu mesajin içerigi ve ekleri ile
>> ilgili olarak hiçbir hukuksal sorumlulugu kabul etmez.
>>
>
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