You can configure Kerry by right-clicking its icon in the tray and choosing or by clicking in Kerry's main window. The configuration dialog has four tabs.
On the tab, you can change the , on one page, or shortcuts for activating Kerry Beagle Search.
On the tab, you can set whether the Beagle indexing service should be started automatically and whether data should be indexed while the computer is operating on battery power. You can also determine, which folders are to be indexed by Kerry Beagle Search and which folders should not be indexed at all. See Abschnitt 10.2.1, „Indexing More Directories“ and Abschnitt 10.2.2, „Preventing Files and Directories from Being Indexed“ for detailed instructions.
On the tab, you can choose which of the available Beagle backends should be enabled. If you want to disable a backend, uncheck it. For example, if you do not want your Kopete conversations be indexed by Kerry Beagle, uncheck the backend.
On the tab, you can check the status of Beagle daemon. You can stop or start the daemon manually here. If you want to use Kerry Beagle Search functionality, the daemon must be running.
By default, Kerry indexes your home folder only. If you do not want your home folder to be indexed, uncheck the option on the tab of the Kerry configuration. If you want to index more folders, follow these steps:
If the Kerry Beagle configuration dialog is not open yet, right-click on the Kerry icon in the tray and choose .
Click the tab.
Click on the button in the middle part () of the tab.
In the dialog that opens, choose folder to be indexed and click .
If you want to remove a folder from the list of indexed folders, select it in the list, press , and confirm.
Press .
To exclude some folders or files from being indexed by Kerry, follow these steps:
If the Kerry Beagle configuration dialog is not open yet, right-click on the Kerry icon in the tray and choose .
Click the tab.
Click on the button in the bottom part () of the tab.
In the dialog that opens, choose a folder not to index by selecting the option. Specify the path to the folder in the text field or press the folder button and choose the folder in a file dialog.
You can also specify files not to index by selecting the option and specifying the file pattern.
Press .