# The &kget; Handbook

## Introduction

1. Start &kget; (you should see a Drop Target)

2. Drag and drop the required &URL; in the &kget; window/Drop Target.

Screenshot of &kget; Screenshot of &kget;

## &kget; Drop Target

The &kget; Drop Target has four options.

Screenshot of &kget; drop target Screenshot of &kget; drop target

### &kget; Drop Target options

Right click on the drop target to see the options.

&Ctrl;R Start / Resume All

- To start a download or resume all the pending downloads. The shortcut for doing this is &Ctrl;R

Show/Hide Main Window

- This option shows or minimizes the main window to the system tray.

Sticky

- Makes the &kget; drop target undraggable.

Quit &kget;

- Quits &kget;

## &kget;'s Configuration window

Settings Configure &kget;

- Opens the &kget; configuration window

### Appearance

Appearance Appearance

Appearance

- You can modify the various appearance related stuff here.

Use Drop Target

- Uncheck this if you do not want the &kget; Drop Target.

Enable animations

- Enables few fancy animations.

### Groups

You can group downloads.

&kget; Groups &kget; Groups

Use default folders for groups as suggestion

- Tick this box if you want &kget; to use default folders for your downloads.

### Network

You can modify your network related settings here.

&kget; Network &kget; Network

Limit Maximum Downloads Per Group

- Check this box if you want Download limits to be implemented.

Speed Limit

- Check this box if you want the Global speed limits to be used.

Global download limit

- Set the maximum global download limit.

Global upload limit

- Set the maximum upload limit.

Reconnect on Broken Connection

- Check this box if you want &kget; to reconnect after an error or a broken connection.

Number of retries

- Set the maximum number of time &kget; will try to reconnect.

Retry after

- Set the retrying interval here (in seconds)

### Web Interface

To enable the web interface, check Enable Web Interface; default port is 8080, and you configure any port higher than 1024. Then set User and Password. You can access your web interface at http://127.0.0.1:<port>. You will need to enter the username and password to get access.

&kget; Web Interface &kget; Web Interface

### Verification

Verify your downloads.

&kget; Verification &kget; Verification

Using the two methods Automatic checksums verification and Signature you can verify your downloads. You just have to tick the Automatic verification check box.

### Integration

Use as download manager for Konqueror

- You can set &kget; as your download manager for &konqueror;.

Monitor clipboard for files to download

- You can turn on this feature that asks if you want to download &URL;s copied into the clipboard.

### Advanced

Modify Advanced Options.

&kget; Advanced Options &kget; Advanced Options

Enable system tray icon

- This check box enables the &kget; system tray icon.

Execute action after all downloads have been finished

- Check this box to enable Quitting &kget; after all downloads have finished. At startup you can choose to Restore Download state. Such as Stop All downloads/ Start All downloads.

History backend

- You can choose your history backend as Sqlite or Xml.

Enable &kde; global progress tracking

- You can set &kget; to show every single download or show overall progress.

### Plugins

&kget; Plugins Options &kget; Plugins Options

On this page you can select the transfer plugins to be used. Use the button to change the default settings for a plugin.

## Main Window

Overview of &kget;'s Main Window

Screenshot of &kget; Screenshot of &kget;

### The File Menu

&Ctrl;N File New Download...

- Add a new file to download

&Ctrl;L File Import Links...

- Import Links Import Links

  This action brings up another window, where you can see and manipulate which file to download. Also you can make a selection based on Videos, Images, Audio and Archives. There is also a text box to filter out results.

&Ctrl;I File Import Transfers...

- Loads a `*.kgt`, `*.metalink`, `*.meta4` or `*.torrent` file.

&Ctrl;E File Export Transfers List...

- Export the highlighted links to a `.kgt` file, to be loaded later.

File Create a Metalink

- Creating a metalink0 Creating a Metalink0

  Select between creating a new Metalink and loading an existing Metalink. Click the Next button to proceed.

  Creating a metalink1 Creating a Metalink1

  Here you can choose to enter some general optional information. Such as where can this metalink be obtained from (Enter the &URL; in the text box next to Origin).

  Creating a metalink2 Creating a Metalink2

  Here you have to enter the &URL; from where you are trying to download the file. Also you can enter some optional information such as Preference (Priority) for a particular mirror if you are adding more then one mirrors, for the file you want to download.

  Creating a metalink 3 Creating a Metalink 3

  You should be able to see a new window where all your files which will be imported will be shown.

&Ctrl;H File Transfer History

- Transfer History Transfer History

  Opens a new window where you can see all the files downloaded using &kget;. You can manage your history here, including filter and clear the history.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

- Quits &kget;

## Credits and License

&kget;

Documentation copyright © 2009 Gaurav Chaturvedi gaurav.p.chaturvedi@gmail.com

Thanks to:

&Anne-Marie.Mahfouf; &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf.mail; (for helping me with DocBook related stuff)

&Jonathan.Drews; &Jonathan.Drews.mail; (copy and pasted a lot of things from his old &kget; documentation)

&underFDL; &underGPL;
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