The Krusader Handbook

Documentation and Marketing coordinator: Frank Schoolmeesters
Documentation and Proofing: Richard Holt
Marketing and Product Research: Matej Urbančič
Author and initial Handbook author: Shie Erlich
Author and initial Handbook author: Rafi Yanai
Webmaster and i18n coordinator: Dirk Eschler
Developer: Csaba Karai
Developer: Heiner Eichmann
Developer: Jonas Bähr
Revision 1.90.0 "Power Stone" (2008-03-06)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the Krusader sources.

Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file-manager for KDE, and other desktops in the *nix world


Table of Contents

Help Krusader
Note from the Editors
1. Introduction
Package description
Welcome to Krusader!
2. Features
3. Installation on KDE3.x
Requirements
Obtaining Krusader
Krusader Downloads
Version Scheme
Stable Version
Development Version (beta release)
CVS Builds
Subversion
Older Releases
Compiling and Installing
Compiling Krusader. What now?
Quickstart Installation Tutorial
Detailed Installation Tutorial
Installing on Mac OS-X
Starting Krusader
Configuring Krusader
Making Krusader the default file manager
4. Installation on KDE4.x
Krusader installation instructions on KDE4.0
5. User Interface
OFM User Interface
Krusader Main Window
Toolbars
Main Toolbar
Actions Toolbar
Location Toolbar
Panel Toolbar
Panels
List Panel
PopUp Panel
Folder History
Command Line / Terminal Emulator
Command Line
Terminal Emulator
Function (FN) Keys Bar
Folder Tabs
Buttons
6. Basic Functions
Controls
General
Moving Around
Selecting
Executing Commands
Quicksearch
Context Menu
Basic File Management
Executing Files
Copying and Moving
Deleting
Shred Files
Renaming Files, Creating Directories and Link Handling
Viewing and Editing files
Archive Handling
Browsing Archives
Unpack Files
Packing Files
Testing Archives
7. Advanced functions
Virtual file systems (VFS)
Compare
Compare by Content
Compare Directories
Calculate Occupied Space
File Splitter
Checksum creation-verification
Send Files by e-mail
Profiles
Panel Profiles
Color Profiles
Key-binding Profiles
Search Profiles
Synchronizer Profiles
ACL permissions
8. Menu Commands
File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Go Menu
Useractions Menu
Tools Menu
Settings Menu
Window Menu
Help Menu
9. Keyboard Commands
Keyboard Usage
Key-Bindings
10. Mouse Commands
Mouse Usage
Mouse Gestures
11. Krusader Tools
BookMan: Organize your Bookmarks
Using Bookmarks
Password handling
Popular URL's
Permanent bookmarks
Manage bookmarks
Bookmarks as action buttons on the Toolbar
Disk Usage
JavaScript Console
JavaScript interface
KruSearcher: find what you are looking for
KrViewer: Krusader's internal viewer-editor
Viewer
Editor
Menu overview
Locate GUI Frontend
MountMan: work with your mounted file systems
Remote Connections
LAN connections via fish:/ protocol (zeroconf)
Synchronizer
Introduction
Comparator
Sychronisation
UserActions
12. Konfigurator: Krusader's Configuration Center
Startup
Look and Feel
Operation
Panel
Panel Toolbar
Selection Mode
Colors
General
Advanced
Archives
Dependencies page
UserActions
Protocols
13. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Installation FAQ
Usage FAQ
General FAQ
14. Credits and License
A. Configuration files
B. useraction.xml
C. Release overview
Glossary
Index