Editing file name extensions in Konqueror

[John DeCarlo]

On 4/20/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/06, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/19/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I remember once that in Konqueror, when I hit F2 to change a file
> > > name, the file name was automatically highlighted but the extension
> > > was not.
> >
> > No, I do not know the answer.
> >
> > Here is a wild guess:
> >
> > Look in the file ~/.kde/share/config/konqlistviewrc
> >
> > Mine has:
> >
> > [Settings]
> > ShowDotFiles=true
> >
> > If yours does not have this, or has it as false, try changing it to
> true.
> >
> > --
> > John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
>
> No, all I had was:
> [Settings]
> CaseInsensitiveSort=true
>
> So I added the code you mentioned, but no change in behaviour. I
> actually thought that it would start showing me the hidden files, but
> it didn't do that either. Thanks for trying, anyway. I'll play with
> the files in ~/.kde/share/config/ and see where I get.
>

Did you restart kdm?  (sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart)

Also, I found in the kdeglobals file, the following:

[KFileDialog Settings]
Automatically select filename extension=true




--
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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