[clug-talk] CLI konqueror profile startup question

[Mark Carlson]

On 10/2/07, Roy Souther <roy at silicontao.com> wrote:
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>  See my comments below with your reply.
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>  On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:22 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote:
>  On 10/2/07, Roy Souther <roy at silicontao.com> wrote:
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> >  Anyone know how to set the second select on a split konqueror profile?
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> >  I am trying to use konqueror as a GUI SCP for Linux much like WinSCP is for Windows. konqueror works great for this because it has fish:// and you can create a split profile for left and right viewing and the --select option lets you set the viewing location but so far I am only able to set the left window view and cannot find anyway to set the right side.
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> >  # After creating a left/right split profile called LinSCP and saving it you can invoke it like so from the CLI.
> >  konqueror --profile LinSCP --select $HOME
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> >  I cannot find any way to set the second view on the CLI. I do not want to hard code it in to the profile. If that is the only way then I will have to write a wrapper that will modify the profile at run time.
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> Use two profiles?
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>   I am not trying to open two profiles. I have a profile template that is a split detailed list on the left and the right.
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>  Is it even possible to specify CLI options that are interpreted by the
> profile?  If so, let me know!
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>   I don't know about the profile but as stated in my original email I can set the location for the left window of the split using --select $HOME
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>  Is it really that important to not use the 'tab' key to switch between views?
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>   Don't know, don't care. I am trying to make a different path set to the select in the right window of the split.
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>  Pseudo example:
>  konqueror --profile TwoFrameVerticalSplit --selectleft $HOME --selectright fish://joe@someplace/

Ah, what you said is not what you meant... I get it.  What you meant
was that you want to set the url for the second view.  By "set the
second select on a split konqueror profile" I thought you were trying
to get the second view selected by default.  Sorry, can't help you
there.

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>  If you didn't know already, if you have the right view selected when
> you save the profile, it is selected when the profile is loaded.
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>   I am tyring to write a script for users to launch an SSH connection to do file transfer from their Linux desktop.
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>  These people are already trained on how to use the WinSCP icon and they are Microsoft Left Mouse Click Certified. I need to give them a SCP GUI that works like WinSCP and can be scripted from the CLI so that they do not have to think about it.
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>  I would like to avoid using WinSCP under Wine. The only solution I can think of is to write a script that re-writes the profile and sets the fish:// entry for the right side, but that is also not a good way to do it.
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>  I seem to recall there is a DCOM CLI for KDE programs. I never got into using it but maybe someone knows how that could be used to send a command to konqueror to change the view location of the right frame.