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Konqueror bookmarks

Konqueror was created primarily as a file manager, with its web browser function designed as an add-in, like its ability to render PDFs, handle ZIP files, etc. The bookmark functions for the browser also work for your local hard drive or network shares. If you spend a lot of time moving between certain directories, you can just bookmark them. Konqueror doesn't care where something is.

Konqueror and MP3s

In KDE3 or Trinity, you can right-click on an MP3 filename, move down and click on "Properties", and then edit the ID3 tag for that MP3.

KDE3 / Trinity

If your distribution no longer supports KDE3 and you hate KDE4, go to http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net and take a look at Trinity. The Trinity Project forked the last version of KDE3 (3.5.10) and is continuing to support and improve it. Installation repositories are available for Ubuntu and Debian, and more are forthcoming.

ls

'ls' stands for "list" in the usual Unix shorthand command naming. By default it returns a plain, unsorted list of filenames in the current directory.

As is usual for Unix utilities, ls has many command parameters.

'ls -laF' prints a detailed list with file sizes and owners. I add the '-laF' to an alias in my ~/.bashrc file so I don't have to type the extra characters
'ls -m' prints filenames separated by commas
'ls -r' reverses the order of some options. For example, ls -tr prints oldest files first
'ls -Sr' lists smallest files first. 'ls -laFtr' will do it in detail.
'ls -r' used by itself lists files in reverse lexicographic order. That's not quite the same as reverse alphabetical order, depending on the system, country code, and character set, but it's close enough.

Thunderbird

Mozilla and Thunderbird bury their mail directories down bizarre trees like:

~/.thunderbird/0ukmglzz.default/Mail/mail.aristotle.net

Every now and then I need to go to the mail directory, and have to find it in the hidden dot-directory, then negotiate the randomly named directory to bore down to where my mail is. Neither program allows changing the mail location.

I could have created an alias command for bash, but I decided to use a soft link. Soft links make a file or directory (to Linux they're the same thing) show up in two places at once. So I wanted to make my mail appear one level below my home directory.

Many Linux programs assume your mail directory is ~/mail, ~/Mail, or ~/.mail. I didn't particularly want any other programs gumming my mail files, so I chose the name "thud" for the Thunderbird mail link.

At the command prompt:
ln -s ~/.thunderbird/0ukmglzz.default/Mail/mail.aristotle.net ~/thud

Now a quick peek to make sure it worked correctly:
ls -laF ~/thud
...and there it is!