File Manager
In this module, you can configure various aspects of 's file manager functionality.
's web browser functionality has its own configuration modules.

Use
The configuration options for the file manager are organized under tabs as follows:
Appearance 	This tab contains options customizing the appearance of windows, such as the default font text color.
Behavior 	This tab contains a couple of global options
Previews 	 On this tab, you can customize when should show previews.

Appearance
The following settings determine how text and colors are displayed in File Manager mode windows.
Standard font: 	 This is the font used to display text such as file names in windows.
Font size: 	 Lets you control the size of text, while the Standard Font setting determines the font face used.
Normal text color: 	 Determines the standard text color.
Word-wrap icon text: 	 When checked, long filenames will be wrapped onto multiple lines, rather than showing only the part of the filename that fits on a single line.
If you uncheck this option, you can still see word-wrapped filenames by pausing the mouse pointer over the icon.
Underline filenames: 	 When Underline filenames is checked, filenames will be underlined so that they look like links on a web page.
Display filesizes in bytes: 	 The final check box on this page determines how displays file sizes, when you are in one of the file manager modes that normally shows this information. If you check the Display filesizes in bytes box, then file sizes are always shown in bytes. If you leave it unchecked, then file sizes are shown in bytes, kilobytes, and Megabytes, depending on their size.

Behavior

Misc Options
Open directories in separate windows 	 If this option is checked, a new window will be created when you open a directory, rather than simply showing that directory's contents in the current window.
Show network operations in a single window 	 If unchecked, and you download a file, a dialog box will appear that shows the status of the download.
Download Dialog Box
Download Dialog Box
Individual Download Dialog Box
If you start a new transfer, another dialog box will appear. ( users will be familiar with this behavior)
If checked, all transfer status windows will be grouped together under a single dialog box.
Download Dialog Box
Download Dialog Box
Collected Download Dialog Box
If you choose to use the Collected download dialog box, you can delete transfers by clicking once on the transfer you want to cancel, then clicking the Delete Button on the left.
Show file tips 	 Here you can control if, when moving the mouse over a file, you want to see a small popup window with additional information about that file.
Number of file tip entries 	 Here you can set how many items of information are displayed.
Home URL 	This is the (⪚ a directory or a web page) where will jump to when the Home button is pressed.
The default is the users home directory, indicated with a ~.
You can set a path that is your Home URL by typing into the text field, or using the browse icon. The default is ~ which is a standard shortcut for your $HOME direcory. When you choose the home icon on your panel, in a file open or save dialog, or from within in file manager mode, this is the folder you will be shown.
The Ask confirmation for setting tells what to do when you choose to Delete, Trash, or Shred a file in a window. If any box is checked, asks for confirmation before performing the corresponding action.
The next setting determines 's behavior when it comes to memory management. You can choose between the following options:

Minimize memory usage
Never 	 Disables the minimization of memory usage and allows you to make each browsing activity independent from the others.
will make no attempts whatsoever to minimize it's use of memory. If you have a very large amount of RAM, this might make faster. If you have insufficient RAM, it might make run much slower, as more information is paged to disk.
For local browsing only (recommended) 	 will try to minimize memory usage when you are browsing local filesystems, including network drives.
For Web browsing only 	 will only try to minimize memory usage when you are browsing the web.
Always (use with care) 	 This setting is not recommended, and should only be used if you are very low on resources.
A word on minimizing memory usage in
With this option activated, only one instance of will exist in the memory of your computer at any moment, no matter how many browsing windows you open, thus reducing resource requirements.
Be aware that this also means that, if something goes wrong, all your browsing windows will be closed simultaneously.

Previews
has a preview feature for many file types, including HTML files, images, and PDF, sound, web archives (if you have the appropriate plugin installed) and text files.
if you enable previews for one of these, files of that particular file type will not be represented by standard icons in the filemanager, but will instead be shown as miniature previews. On slow computers, the previews can take some time to show up, so you might not want to enable this feature.
In this module you can specify which protocols you wish the previews to be available for. Creating the previews requires that download at least part of the file, in order to create the preview. , like the rest of is entirely network transparent, and will treat a remote directory just as if it was on your local hard drive. This can result in a delay, especially if you are viewing, for example, a directory full of images over a slow network connection.
For each protocol, you can independently enable or disable previews. For example, you might enable previews for NFS mounted drives if you have a fast network, but disable them for because your internet connection is via a modem.
You can further refine the maximum size file that will attempt to show a preview for. The default is 1 MB. In other words, by default, if a file is 900 kb in size, and the protocol you are viewing the directory with is enabled, then will create a preview icon for it. If the file is 1.1 MB in size, will not make a preview, even if the protocol is enabled.
You can turn on and off previews on the fly from within , using the View menu. For example, if you normally want to see image previews on every protocol, but find a particular server is very slow to send you the data, you might turn it off for the present, and turn it on again later.
You may also like to enable the checkbox Increase size of previews relative to icons, in order to see more information in the thumbnails.
Many image files already contain a thumbnail. You can enable the Use thumbnails embedded in files to make use of these. This will save time waiting for thumbnails to be created when viewing a folder full of images you have not previously seen in .

Section Author
Ellis Whitehead kde@ellisw.net
Updated by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com