Konqueror on Michael’s Domain

Couldn't find MIME type application/octet-stream (Konquerer/Kdesktop)

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This is copied from [http://users.pandora.be/Ice9/Linux stuff/Linux_tips.html]( http://users.pandora.be/Ice9/Linux stuff/Linux_tips.html). I have used the second method as the desktop file appeared to be disfunctional judging from its content and had been created during the time when the error appeared first (that was when I was playing with the File associations section of the control center).

Quick edits of jpg files from within Konqueror (jhead, jpegtran)

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to have a quick way to rotate the images I take with my digital camera. The Olympus Camedia C-4000 always writes “1” als orientation into the EXIF data (either it doesn’t have an orientaiton sensor or it is broken), therefore I cannot rotate the images automatically by the commandjhead -autorot *.jpgSo I created a desktop file ~/bin/rotate90clockwise.desktpop with the following content[Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=image/jpeg Actions=rotate90clockwise [Desktop Action rotate90clockwise] Name=Rotate 90 clockwise Icon=/opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsvg/22x22/actions/rotate_cw.png Exec=/usr/bin/jhead -cmd "jpegtran -rot 90 &i > &o" %UThen I made a symbolic linksudo ln -sf ~/bin/rotate90clockwise.desktop /opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/rotate90clockwise.desktop Now when I browse files in Konqueror, I get by right-clicking a jpeg file the additonal option of rotating it. The rotation is lossless BTW and the EXIF information in maintaned. It is also possible to integrate rotation commands into image viewing software. E.g. if the following script is located in ~/bin!/bin/sh jhead -cmd "jpegtran -rot 90 &i > &o" $*you can call it from within GQView by adding the scriptname in one of the free slots below the “big” image editors:Menu name Command line Rotate clockwise rotate_clockwise %fEdit -> Options -> Editors

Changing the default to tree view in Konqueror

Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Make the changes how you want to window to appear.
Right-click on title bar, click “Store Window Settings”.
Click “Settings” -> “Save View Profile” ->Select “File Management” from the list of available profiles -> “Save”.
Close the window and reopen it to see that your settings stick.

Konqueror bookmark xml (xbel) files and its display in web browsers (Mozilla that is) using stylesheets (css or xsl)

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Konqueror stores its bookmarks in an xml file ( bookmarks.xml ) of document type xbel (XML Bookmark Exchange Language). Because I want to have my bookmark file always online (a link from my homepage), I need a way to convert the XBEL file into an HTML file or make the browser display the XML file. Most browsers can display xml data, but they need a seperate style sheet document to do so. Thus I inserted into the bookmarks.xml file a reference to a css style sheet file (bookmarks.css): I defined the different tags used in the bookmarks.xml file in the bookmarks.css stylesheet file:title {display:block; font-weight:bold;} bookmark {display:inline; margin-left:40px;} folder {display:block;}After that Mozilla was able to display the bookmarks.xml file. It looks terrible, but I just have to work on the stylesheets (especially how to make the links being links). Konqueror accepts the additonal line in the xml file and leaves it untouched. So I just have to write some nice-looking stylesheets.Although it is possible to use a css stylesheet file to describe the layout of the xml file to the browser, the correct way is to use XSL files (eXtensible Stylesheet Language). I figured out that several people have been already writing XSL stylesheets for the rendering of XBEL files. Here is the link that describes how to to this . In this example a crontab entry executes xsltproc : xsltproc is a program from the libxslt package that can convert xml files into html files and that uses an xsl stylesheet which you write yourself. This html file is then uploaded via scp to the web server.xsltproc -o /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.html /home/jeltsch/bin/bookmarks.xsl /home/jelsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xmlThis command makes the conversion from bookmarks.xml into bookmarks.html using the styles defined in bookmarks.xsl.scp /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.html jeltsch.org:/var/www/html/vhosts/jeltsch.org/bookmarks.htmlThis uploads the bookmarks.html file to my server. The server asks for a password. If you want it to execute automatically from a crontab, you need to create a private/public keypair on both your computer and the webserver to allow passwordless execution of scp. Make sure to limit the authorized_keys2 to your computer!0 * * * * /usr/bin/xsltproc -o /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.html /home/jeltsch/bin/bookmarks.xsl /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml && sudo -u jeltsch scp -q /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.html jeltsch.org:/var/www/html/vhosts/jeltsch.org/bookmarks.html(For some reasons the scp command didn’t work in SuSE 10.1 and I had to change it by removing the “sudo -u jeltsch” part and add the user to the server name (“ jeltsch@jeltsch.org ”.)The command above is from the crontab. Note that you have to execute the scp command as the user that has the passwordless login account on the server; the crontab executes by default as root.