Test Driving Linux

Customizing Konqueror

Because Konqueror can wear so many hats (acting as a file manager, web browser, and FTP client, among other things), it needs to remember all your preferences for these very different functions. Konqueror keeps track of your preferences through profiles . These profiles remember what size window you prefer, your default startup web page (homepage), and your favorite toolbar configuration. There are five default profiles: File Management, Web Browsing, File Preview, Midnight Commander, and Trash, and you can create more profiles to suit your purposes. The most frequent changes made to the default Web Browsing profile are to the default startup page and to the size of the browser window.

Making Konqueror Remember Its Size

As you use Konqueror, you may become annoyed by the fact that it doesn't remember your preferred window size each time you restart it. I don't know the reason it was programmed this way; after all, KDE remembers the window sizes of other programs. Thankfully, there is an easy solution to this annoyance. To configure the web browser so that it automatically appears in your preferred window size, all you need to do is update the Web Browsing profile.

First, set the Konqueror window to the size you want. Then, inside Konqueror, select Settings→ Save View Profile "Web Browsing" to load the profile manager shown in Figure 2-5.

Figure 2-5. The Web Browsing ...