Ubuntu For Free

Now that I’ve gotten my SSH server installed and working properly, I’ve found a need for some tools to work with that secure shell. KDE again comes to my rescue, and allows me to browse my remote secure shell connection right from inside of Konqueror. This makes it a breeze to copy and paste documents and folders between remote systems on my network. For this to work, the KIOSlave handler for the “fish” protocol is called upon. You can browse these remote systems by using this format for the Location box:


fish://user@remotesystem


This really cuts down on the time of using the command line to work with large groups of files. You can also use the same format within Qt applications’ dialog boxes, making it easy to work with files directly from inside of applications.

Today’s post discusses one of my new favorite apps for Ubuntu. It’s designed with KDE in mind. It’s called katapult and allows a user to quickly access their bookmarks, applications, kmenu entries, documents, etc.. by typing a couple letters that represent the intended item. I highly suggest it. You can install it by using

sudo apt-get install katapult


It’s a lot more intuitive and much less of a pain than using unique key combinations for everything via a program like xbindkeys.