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== I've lost my menubar, how do I get it back? == <!--T:1-->

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Pressing <keycap>Ctrl + M</keycap> will make it re-appear.
It should be noted that most KDE programs follow the same shortcut convention and you should be able to get your menu back this way most of the time.

== My distro turned off the system tray icon, how do I get it back? == <!--T:3-->

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<menuchoice>Settings -> Configure Konversation -> Behavior -> General -> Enable System Tray</menuchoice>

== I have NetworkManager disabled and connect manually, but Konversation fails to auto-connect and needs restarting == <!--T:5-->

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'''Konversation''' uses the KDE backend [[Glossary#Solid|Solid]] to get network info. To make it reconnect, change the Solid backend to FakeNet.

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<menuchoice>System Settings -> Advanced tab -> Hardware ->Network -> FakeNet</menuchoice>. Move it to top of the list using the arrows

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Apply changes.

== Where can I find the scripts included with Konversation (/media, /weather, etc.)? == <!--T:9-->

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KDE applications such as '''Konversation''' commonly look for their resources in two places, a global directory structure and one located in the home folder of your user account. Each application looks up a directory matching their own name in both places and uses the data within. While ''~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts'' is always picked up by default, the location of the global ''konversation/scripts'' folder containing the default selection of scripts shipped with '''Konversation''' can be harder to establish, because it depends on the file system layout your distribution has chosen to implement.

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Generally, KDE can be told about directories it should consider for retrieval of application resources by filling and exporting the ''$KDEDIR'' or ''$KDEDIRS'' environment variables, and consequently, many distributions make use of this facility. Starting the KDE terminal emulator [[Special:myLanguage/Konsole|Konsole]] and using the ''echo'' command can yield the contents of these variables:
{{Input|1= echo $KDEDIRS}}

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Which may output something along the lines of: 
{{Output|1=/usr}}

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In this case, your global '''Konversation''' script folder would be ''/usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts''. If any of these environment variables contains multiple directories separated by a colon (":"), KDE considers all of them, in the order given. 

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The scripts directory in your home folder - ''~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts'' -, by the way, always has precedence over the global one. So if you want to modify one of the scripts shipped with '''Konversation''' for your own purpose, it's good practice to copy it from the global directory to the one local to your user account. This way, an update to '''Konversation''' won't overwrite your modifications.

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If the above method to retrieve the path of the global scripts folder fails, you can try the output of:
{{Input|1= kde4-config --install data}}

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Here are a few more examples of common paths for the global scripts folder in case all of the above methods to retrieve them fail:
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 /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts (Gentoo, Kubuntu)
 /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversation/scripts
 /opt/kde3/share/apps/konversation/scripts (SUSE)
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Post version 1.3.1, another way to find out where the installed scripts are is to run this command in '''Konversation's''' input line (using the media script as an example, since it comes with any '''Konversation''' installation)
{{Input|1=/exec --showpath media}}

== How do I make my text bold/italized/underlined? == <!--T:18-->

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Examples:

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This is my %Bbold%B text.
: This is my '''bold''' text.

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This is my %Iitalized%I text.
: This is my ''italized'' text.

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This is my %Uunderlined%U text.
: This is my <u>underlined</u> text.

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This is my %Sstruck-out%S text.
: This is my <strike>struck-out</strike> text.

== Where is the server list? == <!--T:24-->

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'''Konversation''' presently doesn't ship with a pre-configured list of known IRC networks and servers. We are planning to provide a place to download and import such lists in the future. In the meantime, on </translate>[[Special:mylanguage/Konversation/Scripts/Import_mIRC_server_list|<translate><!--T:26-->
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you can find a script that will append the contents of mIRC's venerable servers.ini to your '''Konversation''' config file.

== What is an IRC URL? == <!--T:28-->

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'''Konversation''' can be started with an URL from the command line.  The following URL should work:

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* irc://host:port/%23channel
* irc://host:port/name,isuser

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Details: ([http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04 expired IETF draft])

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[[Category:Internet]]

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