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Re: [trinity-users] Re: konqueror and F4

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 22:24:12 +0200
Anno domini 2020 Wed, 8 Apr 13:14:30 -0700
 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
> Apologies to all if this is a duplicate, or causes other annoyances. I've been 
> having problems sending from my email account. 

No problems here - but I do not use any of this nifty new stuff aka vpn and videocall :)

> 
> By the way, I noticed some others have unsubscribed recently (because their 
> emails appear in the list); I am wondering if other people have been having 
> problems posting to the list, or with subscribe/unsubscribe. For the past 
> couple weeks, I've been having all kinds of weird problems. 
> 
> See below for my comments on this thread. 
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> On Thursday 02 April 2020 08:07:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
>  
>  > On Thursday 02 April 2020 08:07:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: 
>  > > Anno domini 2020 Thu, 2 Apr 08:51:13 -0600 
>  > > 
>  > >  D. R. Evans scripsit: 
>  > > > Stefan Krusche wrote on 4/1/20 11:46 PM: 
>  > > > > Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2020 schrieb D. R. Evans: 
>  > > > >> D. R. Evans wrote on 4/1/20 3:24 PM: 
>  > > > >>> How do I configure exactly which command should be run when I press 
>  > > > >>> F4 inside konqueror? 
>  > > > >> 
>  > > > >> Possibly I should be a bit clearer: by default, F4 appears to run 
>  > > > >> /opt/trinity/bin/konsole; I want to know how to execute a different 
>  > > > >> command that will open a (different kind of) terminal when I hit F4 
>  > > > >> inside konqueror. 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > Have you tried to assign the key F4 globally with kmenuedit? I think 
> it 
>  > > > > should override the assignment inside konqueror. Not tested. 
>  > > > 
>  > > > OK, I guess I still wasn't clear. Sorry. 
>  > > > 
>  > > > Let me try a different way. 
>  > > > 
>  > > > In konqueror under the Tools Menu, the first item is: 
>  > > >   Open Terminal  F4 
>  > > > When I execute that menu item, I want to run something other than 
>  > > > /opt/trinity/bin/konsole. How do I do that? 
>  > > > 
>  > > > Suppose, for example, that I just wanted an xterm, whose executable is 
>  > > > /usr/bin/xterm; how would I cause that menu item to execute 
>  > > > /usr/bin/xterm instead of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole? 
>  > > > 
>  > > >   Doc 
>  > > 
>  > > From commandline execute: "tdecmshell componentchooser" - there select 
>  > > "terminal emulator" (or however it's called in your localisation). 
> Problem: 
>  > > this will not only change it for konquereor, but all TDE. 
>  > > 
>  > > Nik 
>  >  
>  
>  You might want to check out your config file(s), which can be changed with a 
>  text editor. 
>   
>  I'm not sure which one governs your Konqueror settings; it could be that they 
>  are duplicated for reasons unknown to me, or just that I have migrated 
>  through several different Linux systems, always using KDE3 or TDE, so that I 
>  am the culprit. Or maybe the KDE5 version of Konqueror is in the .kde folder, 
>  and the Trinity version is in .trinity, which would make sense, but it ain't 
>  necessarily so. 
>   
>  In any case, it seems to me that if you change the entry in these lines, you 
>  can have whatever terminal-emulator you want. 
>   
>  ************ 
>  /home/<USERNAME>/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc 
>  -or- 
>  /home/<USERNAME>/.trinity/share/config/konquerorrc 
>  [Open-with settings] 
>  ... 
>  /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator,konsole 
>   
>  ************ 
>  And here you will find another variant: 
>  /opt/trinity/share/config.kcfg/konqueror.kcfg 
>   
>   <group name="General" > 
>  <!-- konq_mainwindow.cpp --> 
>   <entry key="TerminalApplication" type="String"> 
>   <default>konsole</default> 
>   <label></label> 
>   <whatsthis>Terminal application to use.</whatsthis> 
>   <!-- checked --> 
>   </entry> 
>   </group> 
>   
>  ************ 
>   
>  Maybe this will help. 
>   
>  Bill 
>   
>  
>  
> 
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