---
name: "konqueror"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "konqueror"
version: "4:18.12.0-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/konqueror"
---

# konqueror(1)

Web browser, file manager and document viewer.

## NAME

konqueror - Web browser, file manager and document viewer.

## SYNOPSIS

konqueror \[Qt-options\] \[KDE-options\] \[KDE-tempfile-options\] \[options\] \[URL\]

## DESCRIPTION

Web browser, file manager and document viewer.

## OPTIONS

###

### Arguments:

- **URL**

  Location to open

### Options:

- **--silent**

  Start without a default window

- **--preload**

  Preload for later use

- **--profile \<profile\>**

  Profile to open

- **--profiles**

  List available profiles

- **--mimetype \<mimetype\>**

  Mimetype to use for this URL (e.g. text/html or inode/directory)

- **--select**

  For URLs that point to files, opens the directory and selects the file, instead of opening the actual file

###

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-kde-tempfile**

  Show KDE-tempfile specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v, --version**

  Show version information

- **--license**

  Show license information

- **--**

  End of options

###

### KDE options:

- **--caption \<caption\>**

  Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar

- **--icon \<icon\>**

  Use 'icon' as the application icon

- **--config \<filename\>**

  Use alternative configuration file

- **--nocrashhandler**

  Disable crash handler, to get core dumps

- **--waitforwm**

  Waits for a WM\_NET compatible windowmanager

- **--style \<style\>**

  sets the application GUI style

- **--geometry \<geometry\>**

  sets the client geometry of the main widget - see man X for the argument format

###

### Qt options:

- **--display \<displayname\>**

  Use the X-server display 'displayname'

- **--session \<sessionId\>**

  Restore the application for the given 'sessionId'

- **--cmap**

  Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display

- **--ncols \<count\>**

  Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification

- **--nograb**

  tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard

- **--dograb**

  running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override

- **--sync**

  switches to synchronous mode for debugging

- **--fn, --font \<fontname\>**

  defines the application font

- **--bg, --background \<color\>**

  sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)

- **--fg, --foreground \<color\>**

  sets the default foreground color

- **--btn, --button \<color\>**

  sets the default button color

- **--name \<name\>**

  sets the application name

- **--title \<title\>**

  sets the application title (caption)

- **--visual TrueColor**

  forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display

- **--inputstyle \<inputstyle\>**

  sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root

- **--im \<XIM server\>**

  set XIM server

- **--noxim**

  disable XIM

- **--reverse**

  mirrors the whole layout of widgets

- **--stylesheet**

  \<file.qss\>   applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

### Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Center. You can also enter the URL

## SEE ALSO

**help:/konqueror/** directly into konqueror or you can run  **\`khelpcenter help:/konqueror/'** from the command-line.\

## AUTHORS

```
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>
Michael Reiher <michael.reiher@gmx.de>
Matthias Welk <welk@fokus.gmd.de>
Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>
Michael Brade <brade@kde.org>
Lars Knoll <knoll@kde.org>
Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>
Peter Kelly <pmk@post.com>
Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
Germain Garand <germain@ebooksfrance.org>
Leo Savernik <l.savernik@aon.at>
Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
Antti Koivisto <koivisto@kde.org>
Zack Rusin <zack@kde.org>
Tobias Anton <anton@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de>
Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde@carewolf.com>
Apple Safari Developers
Harri Porten <porten@kde.org>
Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen@xs4all.nl>
Matt Koss <koss@miesto.sk>
Alex Zepeda <zipzippy@sonic.net>
Richard Moore <rich@kde.org>
Dima Rogozin <dima@mercury.co.il>
Wynn Wilkes <wynnw@calderasystems.com>
Stefan Schimanski <schimmi@kde.org>
George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
Dawit Alemayehu <adawit@kde.org>
Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@kde.org>
Torsten Rahn <torsten@kde.org>
Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>
Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@kde.org>
Stephan Binner <binner@kde.org>
Ivor Hewitt <ivor@ivor.org>
Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix@gmail.com>
```