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ander

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Friday, April 14th 2006, 11:27am

Konqueror default view?

I know that several people have asked about this, so I'm sorry to ask again---but nothing I've found seems to work.

Konqueror always opens in Icon view. I'd like it to open in MultiColumn view.

I've saved a View Profile with MultiColumn; it's at the top of my View Profile list. Someone suggested that this would make Konqueror use it as the default, but it doesn't. I'd rather not have to select a profile for each Konqueror window I open.

I've checked these config files:

/home/[username]/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc

/root/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc


...but both of them already say:

[MainView Settings]
SaveViewPropertiesLocally=0
ToggableViewsShown=konq_sidebartng
ViewMode=konq_multicolumnview


Someone suggested starting Konqueror with this command:

kfmclient openProfile [profilename]

But when I type that at a command prompt and press Enter, I see:

>

...meaning it's waiting for more text, right?

Any other ideas? Thanks. (I'm using KDE v3.5.2.)
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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ander" (Apr 14th 2006, 11:32am)


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Friday, April 14th 2006, 4:29pm

RE: Konqueror default view?

How is the profile named? Does it contain a quote? In that case, Bash waits for the closing quote.
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ander

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Friday, May 5th 2006, 8:56am

RE: Konqueror default view?

You're right, my profile name did contain a quote:

A's profile

(Well, actually an apostrophe, but that's like a single quote.)

Okay, assuming I fix that, I can include the profile name in a command to run Konqueror.

But is that the only way to have K. remember the view you want? How about adding a way to make it the default profile in the "manage profiles" list? That would be useful.

(And I must say, I still don't really understand why Konqueror seems to ignore the view mode specified in the config files...)
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Friday, May 5th 2006, 12:24pm

RE: Konqueror default view?

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Originally posted by ander
You're right, my profile name did contain a quote:

A's profile

(Well, actually an apostrophe, but that's like a single quote.)


You might want to escape the ' with \' if you really want the quote in there.

Quoted

Okay, assuming I fix that, I can include the profile name in a command to run Konqueror.

But is that the only way to have K. remember the view you want? How about adding a way to make it the default profile in the "manage profiles" list? That would be useful.


Guess so, I'm not aware of configuring the default profile somewhere. You could submit a bug at http://bugs.kde.org if you want to (as long as it was not reported before).
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