Using Kupfer in Depth
Adding Applications and Scripts
Kupfer will show all applications that are configured visible in your menu editor.
If you want to add an application manually, you can create a new .desktop file and place it in one of the standard directories for applications, for example ~/.local/share/applications, where Kupfer will find it.
Se si ha una raccolta di script che si vuole chiamare da Kupfer, si può aggiungere la cartella degli script come un directory di cataloghi a Kupfer nelle preferenze. Gli script che vengono aggiunti nel catalogo di Kupfer in questo modo possono essere eseguiti direttamente o nel terminale a condizione che siano eseguibili.
You can also save command-lines by using the action Add to Favorites.
Opening Files and Folders
Using the action Open, files and folders are opened in their preferred application. The application associations can be changed, see Applications.
Show Hidden Files
Use Alt+→ instead of just → when descending into a directory to list hidden files too.
The Comma Trick
The comma trick allows the user to use actions on many objects at the same time.
Simply press comma , when an object is selected. The object is put on a "stack", and you can find yet another file or object, press comma to put it on the stack. When you subsequently invoke an action, the action is carried out on all of the objects at the same time.
Some actions are only "multiplied" when used with many objects, other are smarter than that:
Selecting many files and using the Create Archive action, all files will be packed into the same archive.
If you select multiple contacts and use a Send Email action, it creates one email directed at all the contacts.
If you select multiple subcatalogs (For example Firefox Bookmarks and Epiphany Bookmarks) and use Search Contents.., you get a subcatalog search restricted to the objects of those two catalogs! You can even bind a trigger to this command(!)
The comma trick is directly taken from Quicksilver (the example given in the external article should work identically in Kupfer).
Grab Current Selection
To use the current selected text, from any application, with Kupfer, you can configure a global keyboard shortcut for the action Show with Selection in Kupfer Preferences.
If configured, pressing the global keyboard shortcut will summon Kupfer with the current selection as the focused object.
Command-line Connection
The command kupfer on the command-line will focus Kupfer if it's already running, otherwise it will start it.
The command kupfer can be used to send files or text from the command-line to Kupfer. For example, if you are using the shell in a directory where you have a file called "report.pdf", you can focus this file in Kupfer by running kupfer report.pdf.
You can also send text if you pipe the output of a command into kupfer.
Gestione del contesto e della selezione corrente
Se è stato individuato l'oggetto da utilizzare, quindi si richiama un'azione, Kupfer scompare per eseguire l'azione (per esempio avviare un programma o riprodurre un brano). Quando si ritorna a Kupfer, verrà mantenuto lo stesso oggetto e l'azione selezionata. Alcune azioni hanno senso di essere ripetute (come saltare ad un brano successivo) e può essere utile eseguire azioni differenti sullo stesso oggetto.
However, you always have the top level catalog reachable when you "come back" to Kupfer -- say you went into the subcatalog "Albums" to browse your albums only; you select an album to play, and play it. You come back with the album selected -- but your next search will still go over the top level catalog, not just albums.
Come tornare nel sotto catalogo in cui si era in precedenza? Si può fare semplicemente sfogliando e non cercando nuovamente l'elemento in Kupfer. Un modo veloce è quello di premere la freccia verso il basso o spazio per aprire la finestra di navigazione; è come dire "Voglio restare in questa sotto cartella". Con la finestra di navigazione aperta, la prossima interrogazione cercherà nel sotto catalogo corrente.
In questo modo si può lavorare in entrambi i modi — si può rapidamente scendere nelle cartelle per trovare un file e quando si torna indietro per la prossima azione con Kupfer si può sia richiamare un oggetto qualsiasi dal livello superiore (iniziando a digitare), oppure rimanendo dove si era, scendendo in quella cartella (premere spazio, quindi digitare una interrogazione).
Saving Commands as Files
You can use keyboard shortcut for Compose Command (by default it is Ctrl+Return) to create a command object out of the currently focused command in Kupfer. This object can be saved as a runnable file if you use the Save As... action. The resulting file will can be executed when opened from the file manager (it requires that Kupfer is already running).
Ignoring Accents
You can find an object by an unaccented version of its name (this is more or less only implemented for latin-based alphabets). For example an item named Suð í can be matched with sud i because the accent is removed and the ð transliterated to d.