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1. The KDE Control Center The KDE Control Center is the place to go to change any settings that affect the whole of your KDE environment You can open it using the Control Center item in the K menu or with its command line name kcont rol The settings are divided into several major categories which each contain sev eral pages of settings To display a settings page expand the major category by clicking on the button next to it and then click on the name of the page you want The settings page then appears on the right and you can change settings to your heart s content No changes take effect until you click on the Apply button If you decide after making some changes that you want to leave the settings as they were just click on Reset 36 The KDE User Guide If you need more help with a page visit that page then click on the Help tab You might also want to look at the KDE Control Center Handbook which you can open with the Help KDE Control Center Handbook 5 1 Appearance amp Themes Here you will find settings that change the way your KDE desktop and appli cations look Background This section controls the color or image that is set as your desktop background These settings can be applied to all virtual workspaces or to only a specific one There are a range of background wallpapers that come with KDE or you can supply your own Colors This is where you can modify the colors for your kde app
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3. 0 00 25 11 3klauncher 25 114knotify 0 0 25 12KSMServer 0 000 00004 25 13Environment variables 25 14The kdeinit Mystery Customizing KDE 26 1 Desktop Icons 26 1 1 Websites sccis csoc eresas 26 1 2 Applications 26 1 3 The Exec option in desktop files 124 126 126 126 126 127 129 129 129 130 131 132 132 132 133 134 138 138 139 139 140 140 141 141 141 142 144 27 28 29 The KDE User Guide 26 1 4 Devices 2 ee 26 1 5 Where to Define 2 0 0 ee ee 26 2 KDE Ment so sesia ew ee ee ee we a 26 2 1 How it Works 2 0 0 ee ee 26 2 2 Stored Where 2 2 26 2 3 Common Pitfalls 20 00 0000 eee 26 2 4 Essential Menus 0 00 eee eee 26 2 5 Old Style Menus 0 000 000 8 20 26 KSYCOCE na ode Hee Re een eee Bak eee E 26 2 7 KMenuEdit 0 0 0 0 eee ee 26 3 KDE Panel so 24 604 44 66 ee SE ORE ewe Re 26 4 File Associations 2 ee Locking Down KDE 27 1 How It Works The Basics 0 0 0 0 0000000 eae 27 2 Immutable Configuration Options 27 3 Action Restrictions 0 0 0 0 0 eee ee ee 27 4 URL Restrictions 0 0 a ee ee eee 27 5 Configuration Modules 2 2 00 0 eee eee The Lazy Admin 28 1 Remote Desktop Sharing 2 2 2 0 0 0 02000 28 2 KDE DIY Building Your Own Tool
4. 110 20 Usenet News 111 20 1 Personal settings 0 000000 eee eee eee 112 20 2 Configuring the news account 000 4 112 20 3 Setting up the mail account 000 114 21 Introduction to messaging 116 21 1 How to getstarted lt o s crome mpokee eee 117 21 2 Meta contacts seront ragna a e ee ee 118 21 3 IRE oe erwe bees Gana be eR ee ER EE de ee amp 118 21 4 Linking email and messaging 0 0 118 V Office 120 22 Introduction to KOffice 122 22 OVERVICW oa it on ES We ee Be Re eee PE ee Hees 122 222 Features oydu din ohh dee el eB ech e bo a Hy ees 122 22 3 OASIS OpenDocument file format 0 123 23 24 The KDE User Guide KOffice Components Overview Further Information 24 1 Application Manuals 24 2 Internet Resources 24 3 Plugindevelopment VI KDE for Administrators 25 26 KDE Internals 25 1 Overview 0 0000008 25 2 Directory Layout 25 3 Specifying Directories 25 4 User Profiles 25 5 Directory Layout Revisited 25 6 Architecture specific Directories 25 7 Shared Directories 25 8 Host specific Directories 25 9 Configuration Files 25 10KDE Startup Sequence 25 10 1kdm 1 1 2 25 10 2 The KDE Startup Script startkde 25 11Background Processes 25 11 1kdeinit 0 0 25 11 2keminit
5. lt Filename gt Acrobat Reader desktop lt Filename gt lt Filename gt kde kpresenter desktop lt Filename gt lt Filename gt kde kword desktop lt Filename gt lt Include gt lt Menu gt 148 The KDE User Guide Menu entry with 3 applications e usr share applications Acrobat Reader desktop e opt kde3 share applications kde kpresenter desktop e opt kde3 share applications kde kword desktop 26 2 2 Stored Where menu files describing the menu structure The files are stored in KDEDIR etc xdg menus and etc xdg menus These store the system wide menu structure and are con trolled by xDG_CONFIG_DIRS SHOME config menus stores user specific changes to the menu structure and is controlled by XDG_CONFIG_HOME For more infor mation see http www freedesktop org Standards basedir spec desktop files describe the applications and are stored in KDEDIR share applications usr share applications usr local share applications These are the system wide application desktop files which are controlled by xDG_DATA_ DIRS SHOME 1local applications contains user specific desktop files and user specific changes It is controlled by xDG_DATA_HOME For more information see http www freedesktop org Standards basedir spec directory files describing the sub menus are stored in KDEDIR share desktop directories usr share desktop directories usr local share desktop directories These are the syste
6. local folder that points to this IMAP account Login groupware The Cyrus user we have chosen as owner of all of the office data Password The password of the groupware user Host localhost Remember for our example the Kontact client runs on the same computer as the IMAP server Port 143 The default Check store IMAP password so you will not be asked for it next time you run Kontact Check the Enable interval mail checking and set a value in minutes Note that we have checked the disconnected IMAP type account This has the effect that a copy of the groupware data is stored locally to the client under the home folder and it is synchronized every time the client connects This seems very inefficient since your data is duplicated many times i e if you have 10 users that use Kontact you have 10 1 times the data but it is the only way to make things run fast because at every connection Kontact has to fetch all data and have KOrganizer and KAddressBook interpret it If you use disconnected IMAP data is cached locally and only the delta i e the data that has changed is sent On the other end if your users run KOrganizer on the same PC that runs the IMAP server it seems reasonable to use IMAP that is called online IMAP to save space since transfer speed should not be an issue But unfortunately this does not work because Kontact does not update automatically the Calendar 168 The KDE Use
7. located in your home directory contains a large number of files that store KDE settings Some subdirectories you may find useful are kde share config which con tains configuration files for individual applications kde Autostart which contains links to applications which should start each time you start KDE and kde share apps kabc where your address book is stored The environment variables KDEDIR and KDEDIRS tell KDE where its files are stored You will usually only need to set KDEDIR to the directory in which KDE is installed but sometimes you might have other KDE programs in stalled elsewhere in this case you can use the KDEDIRS environment vari able Set KDEDIRS to a list of all the directories containing KDE programs sep arated by commas For example if you have KDE programs in both usr 1 ocal kde and home phil kde you can use export KDEDIR usr local kde home phil kde if you use bash or setenv KDEDIR usr local kde home phil kde if you use sh RELATED INFORMATION Part VI contains more information about the directories that KDE uses 9 2 Using KDE as Root For UNIX operating systems there are often different users which in turn might have different privileges The conventional method is to have an or dinary user account whose files are generally stored in home username and 64 The KDE User Guide then to also have a root account The root or Super User account has system wide privileges b
8. 172 The KDE User Guide Part VII More Tools 173 The KDE User Guide Chapter 30 Application Guide for Migrates Francis Giannaros KDE has many applications often prefixed with or con taining the letter k The names are generally self explanatory but it can still be difficult sometimes to find the appropriate packages Migrates from operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh might have some difficulty in locating an application for a particular job Below is a table with an expansion on the K menu and the respective Win Mac equivalent RELATED INFORMATION e Many more KDE applications are available from the KDE extragear see chapter 7 for more information or from http kde apps org e Reference http kudos berlios de kf kf1 html pkgtablestock 174 The KDE User Guide Window Macinto K menu Location KPE Ap s one Notes plication Equival Equival ent ent Integrate d file E manager Koniquer Windows content File Manager or Home Explorer viewer Folder player and web browser System and User Control Settings KEODDI Center Office Suite 1 W ord Pr oce ssi ng 2 Sp rea ds he ets 3 Sli D W de ord Pre 1 K Sen W 2 MS tati ord Ex ons cel 2 KS 4 Flo pre 3 MS WC ad Po hart we amp 3 KP rp Di res oint agr ent an a 4 Ad Edi obe ting 4 Ki ll V10 ust 5 Sca _ 5 Ka tat lab b 175
9. I icandy for KDE 10 Internet Shortcuts 109 J Juk 58 K Kaboodle 59 KControl 36 KDE Control Center 36 KDE News Resource 10 KDE User Mailing List 9 KDE wiki 10 kde linux Mailing List 9 kdm 7 Keybindings 32 KHelpCenter 8 Kicker 24 Klipper 27 KMail 106 Konqueror File Management 18 Handbook 18 L login 7 logout 7 M Magnifier 87 Mailing Lists 9 Maximizing Windows 13 The KDE User Guide Horizontally 13 Vertically 13 Minimize 13 Mouse clicking automatically 86 Moving Files 23 Moving Windows 11 Multiple Desktops 17 Music 57 N Navigation Panel 21 Noatun 58 Notifications 32 P Pager 25 Panel 7 24 Paste 26 Previews 19 R Raising Windows 11 Recycle Bin 23 Resizing Windows 12 S Selection 26 Shade 13 Shared Folders 67 Shortcuts 32 Sidebar 21 Sound 57 Sounds 32 Speech 88 startkde 7 startx 7 Sticky Windows 18 T Tooltips 8 Trash 23 U User Manual 8 Handbook 8 V Virtual Desktops 17 WwW Wallpaper 6 Web shortcuts 109 What s This 9 Window Management 10 Window Menu 12 188
10. Was introduced to prevent KDE from accidently overwrit ing user data with root permissions when the user runs a KDE program after switching with su to root KDEWM If the KDEWM environment variable has been set then it will be used as KDE s window manager within the startkde script instead of KWin KDE_LANG Overrides the KDE language configuration e g KDE_LANG fr kprogram amp starts a program with French translation if the necessary files are in stalled KDE_MULTIHEAD Set this variable to true to indicate that KDE is running on a multi head system 142 The KDE User Guide KDE_FORK_SLAVES Since KDE 3 2 3 Set this variable to spawn KIO slaves directly from the application process itself By default KIO slaves are spawned using klauncher kdeinit This option is useful if the KIO slave should run in the same environment as the application This can be the case with Clearcase KDE_HOME READONLY Set this variable to indicate that your home directory is mounted as read only KDE_NO_IPV6 Since KDE 3 2 3 Set this variable to disable IPv6 support and IPv6 DNS lookups KDE_IS_PRELINKED Since KDE 3 2 Set this variable to indicate that you have prelinked your KDE binaries and libraries This will turn off kdeinit KDE_UTF8_ FILENAMES If this environment variable is set KDE assumes all filenames are in UTF 8 encoding regardless of the current C locale KDE_FULL_SESSION Since KDE 3 2 Automatically set to true by K
11. and etc opt kde3 share config foobar contains MyGroup Color blue Position 10 10 the result will be MyGroup Color green Shape circle Position 20 20 To prevent users being able to override default settings settings can be marked immutable Settings can be made immutable individually per group or per file An individual entry can be locked down by adding i behind the key e g Color i l plus A group of entries can be locked down by placing i behind the group name e g MyGroup i To lock down the entire file start the file with i on a single line i e i If SHOME kde share config foobar contains MyGroup Color red Shape circle and etc opt kde3 share config foobar contains MyGroup i Color blue Position 10 10 the result will be MyGroup Color blue Position 10 10 If SHOME kde share config foobar contains MyGroup Color red Shape circle 136 The KDE User Guide and opt kde_staff share config foobar contains MyGroup Color purple Shape rectangle and etc opt kde3 share config foobar contains MyGroup i Color blue Position 10 10 the result will be MyGroup Color purple Shape rectangle Position 10 10 So called Shell Expansion can be used to provide more dynamic default val ues With shell expansion the value
12. ential menu kbuildsycoca4 menutest 2 gt dev null grep Settings lt Modules Application specific modules normally have a desktop file under KDEDI R share applnk hidden which corresponds to the hidden hidden menu included as a result of lt KDELegacyDirs gt kbuildsycoca4 menutest 2 gt dev null grep hidden In KDE 3 3 it is possible to edit the Control Center with kcontroledit kcon troledit works just like kmenuedit changes for current user only Use kiosk tool to make changes for everyone 157 The KDE User Guide Individual configuration modules can be disables by adding the following to kdeglobals KDE Control Module Restrictions module id false For example to disable the proxy module use KDE Control Module Restrictions kde proxy desktop false Check the Control Center and the Configure Konqueror dialog if the proxy configuration is still there 158 The KDE User Guide Chapter 28 The Lazy Admin 28 1 Remote Desktop Sharing Remote desktop sharing allows remote users to view and optionally control the desktop of the current user The remote user needs to be sent an invitation and it is possible to create a password protected standing invitation This is ideal for tech support teams or administrators to gain access to users desktops in order to troubleshoot or remedy a problem or guide a user through a procedure Remote desktop sharing i
13. for instance You will have a configuration interface which does user management mail account setup a central LDAP config data and addressbook server spam and virus filtering vacation scripts free busy list handling resource handling rooms cars groups distribution lists automatic invitation handling etc But that can cause initial setup troubles For a newbie like me it means a long long frustrating nightmare and too much complexity to manage once working So no thanks I ll go to simple IMAP 29 4 How to set up IMAP server Cyrus My choice is Cyrus that is part of the Kolab set of software so if 1 will go for Kolab in the future at least I m acquainted with it Let s start the installation and the setup Become root apt get install cyrus2l imapd cyrus21 common cyrus2l admin cyrus2l client sasl bin sasl2 bin Installing cyrus2l imapd The installer asks something I ve not understood about an search address I just pressed gt Enter The installer also created the user cyrus that is in the automatically created group sas1 that is the owner of all cyrus files At the end with ps A you can find the new processes cyrmaster and notifyd The real problem in setting up Cyrus is the authentication just because it s not trivial and I m a newbie with limited knowledge about what I m doing Cyrus can use different SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer mech anis
14. icon option KDE app will use icon from Icon line in taskbar m The mini icon legacy c The caption caption option KDE app will use name from Name line in taskbar Examples Exec line ksirc i Command executed ksirc icon ksirc Exec line cd d kedit basename f Command executed cd tmp kedit file txt 26 1 4 Devices Links to Devices using desktop file o Create New gt Device 147 The KDE User Guide 26 1 5 Where to Define Many places to define Desktop Icons Desktop copied from etc skel Desktop SKDEDIR apps kdesktop Desktop merged SKDEDIR apps kdesktop DesktopLinks copied Device Icons dynamically merged Distribution Specific SUSE Linux copies certain icons in startkde theme from opt kde3 share config SuSE default 26 2 KDE Menu 26 2 1 How it Works In KDE 3 2 a common menu format is introduced at http freedesktop org Standards menu spec Before KDE 3 2 e Directory structure under share app1nk e Directory structure represents menu structure e Each desktop file represents a single application It was difficult to rearrange the structure in KDE 3 2 so the new menu format e Defines structure in a single menu file e Is based on categories e is shared between GNOME and KDE e Supports applnk style menus as well Example from applications menu lt Menu gt lt Name gt Office lt Name gt lt Directory gt suse office directory lt Directory gt lt Include gt
15. on File Sharing File sharing allows you to configure Samba Microsoft Win dows and NFS UNIX file sharing To make changes in this mod ule you need to have the root or administrator password This is where you would set up whether users are allowed to share files without know ing the root password and which users are allowed to do so You can also configure which folders you re like to be shared using which type of sharing and who is allowed to view these shares Local Network Browsing Here you can configure options related to brows ing network shares in Konqueror Konqueror is able to browse a variety of network shares and manipulate remote files as though they were on your local machine You can configure it to remember your preferred username and password for connecting to Windows shares Samba You can also set what types of network shares you would like to be able to browse including FTP NFS and SMB 39 The KDE User Guide Local Network Chat This module allows you to configure options relating to the UNIX talk daemon It is a very simple network chat program that runs in a terminal designed for chatting over a local area network Some of its features are being able to set up an answering machine that will email to you messages left for you and being able to forward messages to another location Proxy This is where you would configure KDE to connect to a proxy server rather than directly to the inter
16. which lt Smax Just run the script with no arguments and it will cycle the background colour through a slightly muted spectrum untf it is killed Voila The KDE User Guide Of course Perl isn t the only language you can use to write scripts with DCOP if you prefer shell scripting that s available too Example 16 2 Setting a background from the Internet The following script gets the main image from the User Friendly comic strip and sets it as the desktop wallpaper using commonly available tools and a little bit of DCOP bin sh COMICURL wget q0 http www userfriendly org static index Memi nN grep latest sed e Ms SRC r e Ts ANS a TMPFILE mktemp tmp 0 XXXXXX exit 1 wget q O TMPFILE COMICURL dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper TMPFILE 1 The first line after the bin sh uses wget and some regular expression magic to extract the image location from the main page s HTML source The second and third lines download the image and finally dcop sets the downloaded image as wallpaper 16 3 Adding Extra Keybindings to KDE Many modern keyboards contain extra keys that are not by default assigned to any action Multimedia keys often generate a signal and can simply be chosen as a key binding within an application just like choosing any other key Some keys however are not detected and pressing them in a Configure Shortcuts has no e
17. 2 Click the middle mouse button at the place you want the text to be copied to This can be in the same program as you copied the text from or in another program entirely If you have three buttons on your mouse this is easy but if not all is not lost If you have only two buttons try clicking them both at the same time instead of the middle mouse button 3 4 2 The Clipboard With this method you can copy text or cut it that is remove it from one place and move it to another You can use either the mouse and the menu entries or the keyboard with this method I ll list both ways with the menu entry to use followed by the keyboard shortcut which will do the same thing like this Edit Cut Ctrl X MOVING CUTTING TEXT 1 Select the text you want to cut 2 From the menu select Edit Cut Ctrl X and the text will be removed from its current location 26 The KDE User Guide 3 Position the text cursor at the point you want to insert the text This can be in the same application you got the text from or another application entirely Select Edit Paste Ctrl V and the text will appear at the point where you placed the cursor Copying text from one place to another is very similar COPYING TEXT 1 Select the text you want to copy 2 From the menu select Edit Copy Ctrl C and the text will be copied in the clipboard 3 Position the text cursor at the point you want to insert the
18. 27 4 URL Restrictions There are three types of restrictions that can be applied to URLs list To control whether a directory listing is allowed open To control whether certain URLs can be opened Redirect To control whether one URL can open another URL either automat ically or via a hyperlink Rules are checked in the order in which they are defined The last rule that is applicable to a URL defines whether the URL may be accessed The following rules disable opening http and https URLs outside ourcompan y com KDE URL Restrictions rule_count 2 rule_l open http false O rule_2 open http ourcompany com true The first four commas skip over the selection criteria with respect to the originating URL This part is only needed with redirect type rules rule_i forbids the opening of any http or https URL rule_2 allows the opening of any http and https URL in the ourcompany com domain Note the wildcard is only allowed at the start of a domain The following rules makes that the user can no longer browse directories on the local file system that are outside his HOME directory KDE URL Restrictions rule_count 2 rule l list file Ee rule_2 list file SHOME true 155 The KDE User Guide rule_1 forbids the listing of any local directory rule_2 allows listing directories under the users own HOME directory HOME and TMP are special values to indicate th
19. 28 The KDE User Guide the name of the program case sensitive and any command line options you wish to use Choose OK and your new program launcher will be created on your desktop Simply click on the new launcher on the desktop and the asso ciated program will run To launch a program using Konsole click the K menu and choose System Terminals Konsole Once Konsole appears on the screen simply type the name of the program you wish to launch remembering that bash the command language interpreter that Konsole uses by default is case sensitive and press Enter If you are unsure about the name of a program type the first few letters then press the Tab key on your keyboard By pressing Tab bash through Konsole will try to guess the name of the program you wish to launch If it finds more than one matching program a list of matching pro grams will be printed on the screen Type the name of the program from the list and press Enter to launch Whichever way you choose launching a program is a simple affair with KDE From the K menu to Konsole all your programs are just a few clicks or key presses away RELATED INFORMATION e Check the Kicker handbook for more information on enabling or disabling the K menu adding applications to the quick launch or on organizing the categorization of the applications in the K menu You can view the Kicker handbook either via the KHelpCenter or by using Konqueror s KIOslave by typi
20. 4 315116 17892 2 5 21 41 0 00 lt kKdeinit4 knotify kdeinit Running indicates the master kdeinit process The other pro cesses listed are programs started as KLMs When kdeinit starts for the first time it will launch klauncher and kded as well as any additional programs specified on its command line in the startkde script normally kcminit_startup 25 11 2 kcminit kcminit executes initialization services during startup Initialization services are specified in the desktop files of applications or services via the X KDE Init line Desktop Entry Encoding UTF 8 Exec kcmshell4 energy Icon energy_star Type Application X KDE Library energy X KDE Init energy 140 The KDE User Guide Initialization services are typically used for initializing hardware based on user specified settings keminit 1list can be used to show all initialization services and keminit service can be used to execute a single service explicitly This can be useful when investigating startup problems 25 11 3 klauncher klauncher is a daemon which is responsible for service activation within KDE It operates in close connection with the kdeinit master process to start new pro cesses KDE applications communicate with klauncher over DCOP in order to start new applications or services Best known from the error message KLauncher could not be reached vi a DBus which either indicates a serious problem with the dcopserver o
21. Also find out if your ISP uses the POP3 protocol or IMAP The outgoing SMTP mail server address it could be the same as the incom ing mail server or it is often called something like smtp yourisp com e The Usenet News NNTP server address possibly news yourisp com or n ntp yourisp com e Any proxy servers your ISP has set up All this information is probably available on any paperwork you received from your ISP when you signed up with them or you can find it out from your ISP s support telephone line Armed with the above and a fairly recent default installation of Linux you may well find that setting up an internet connection is as simple as running the KPPP wizard 17 2 The KPPP wizard 17 2 1 Starting the Wizard You can start the wizard from KPPP s initial screen Start KPPP from your K menu where you will find its entry in the Internet as KPPP Internet Dial Up Tool The following dialog will appear 103 The KDE User Guide Connect to MyConnection Login ID adfadf Password HHHO X Show log window Quit Configure Help Connect The KPPP dialer startup dialog It will probably not have any entries to begin with and that s what we re about to do now Click the Configure button to begin setting up a new Internet connection The wizard will offer you three choices Wizard Dialog Setup and Cancel Z Create New Account KPPP Do you want to use the wizard to create
22. KDE Control Center or by right clicking on the desktop and selecting Configure Desktop In KDE you have the option to use no picture a single picture or a slideshow of images If No picture is chosen to be the desktop background the Colors op tions are used instead You can also choose whether to use a single background on all virtual desktops or to apply a different background for each desktop This is done by selecting All desktops or the specific desktop name from the drop down menu Other background images can be downloaded using the Get New Wallpapers button on the right or you can visit the Wallpapers section of the kde look org website 12 2 Colors The Colors settings of the KDE Control Center allow you to control the colors that are used for various window elements such as window titlebars window 73 The KDE User Guide backgrounds text and buttons You can change the color of each window element by selecting the element from the drop down list and choosing a color for it You can then save your changes by clicking on Save Scheme This will save your settings in a Color Scheme file Color schemes are text files with a kcsrc extension that contain entries for each window widget and its color in RGB format It is also very easy to add color schemes that you have downloaded by clicking on Import Scheme and pointing to the kcsrc file With color schemes you can save the changes you have done in one convenient f
23. Remember to check the Enable interval mail checking and set a value in minutes When you confirm you are not prompted for the subfolder creation since they are found in the IMAP server and you see them in the folder tree 2 Activate the groupware functionality to be able to save data in the IMAP server Beware that in disconnected IMAP data are transmitted from a client to IMAP server only when the clients connects to check for new mail So if you have your Kontact clients with an interval mail checking of for instance 5 minutes in the worst case you have a 10 minutes delay between the event being written and its appearance to the other users 29 6 How to have Read Only Access NOTE Beware that I ve been confirmed that Notes IMAP implementation in Kontact prior to version 1 01 is broken so this setup will not work for them so you want to use them you need to use the previous setup In the previous setup we have the same fake user named groupware that is used by all the real Kontact users i e tony rohn amanda etc through the IMAP account with its login and password But this way every real user has the same read write permissions of the others since everyone connects as the user groupware to the IMAP server To limit access to some users typically providing read only access we can use the ACL Access Control Lists Select in KMail a subfolder of office_gwdata inbox for instance C
24. So in this article I am going to show you how to feel elite by ripping your CDs in the umm elite way 8 3 1 Ingredients What do we need to be cool Vanilla KDE without any extra ingredients will be able to rip your CDs But to encode them you ll need to install the relevant codecs At the moment Ogg Vorbis MP3 and FLAC formats are supported To enable encoding to these formats you ll have to install libogg lame and flac respectively How exactly you install these depends on your distribution take a look at their documentation to find out how Once you have your favourite codec s installed open KDE Control Center and navigate your way to Sound amp Multimedia Audio CDs and configure the settings on the various tabs to your liking You can leave everything in the default state if you so wish but it s helpful to take a look so you at least know what s on offer Again take a look at Sound amp Multimedia CDDB Retrieval and change anything that s not to your liking CDDB in case you didn t know stands for CD DataBase or Compact Disc DataBase in its more free flowing form This functionality enables KDE to retrieve the Artist Album Track in formation about your CDs from the Internet This metadata is also used to write tags to the MP3 or Ogg files that you ll be encoding your CDs to anytime now C Audio GDs KDE Control Genter File View Settings Help Index Search Help audio CDs Bi Ap
25. and object ar guments o dcop kon konqueror 16006 konsole 8954 Some example commands and their output are below dcop konsole konsole 8954 One Konsole is running with a PID of 8954 dcop konsole 8954 KBookmarkManager share apps kfile bookmarks xml KBookmarkManager share apps konqueror bookmarks xml KBookmarkNotifier KDebug ainApplication Interface konsole default konsole mainwindow 1 ksycoca session l session 2 session 3 session 4 Here you see that there are four sessions running dcop konsole 8954 konsole QCStringList interfaces OCStringlvsy functions int sessionCount QString currentSession QString newSession QString newSession QString type QString sessionId int position void activateSession QString sessionId void nextSession 160 The KDE User Guide void prevSession void moveSessionLeft void moveSessionRight bool fullScreen void setFullScreen bool on ASYNC reparseConfiguration Here are the options for the main Konsole program o dcop konsole 8954 session 1 QCStringList interfaces QCotringurst functions bool closeSession bool sendSignal int signal void clearHistory void renameSession QString name QString sessionName int sessionPID QString schema void setSchema QString schema QString encoding void setEncoding QString encoding QString
26. any subfolders will be shared NOTE Please be extremely careful about which folders you share Remember that all files in the folder and its subfolders including hidden files dotfiles to the techies will be made available to the world so be careful not to share sensitive information such as passwords cryptographic keys your addressbook documents private to your organization etc 67 The KDE User Guide Once kpf is running you will see a square applet with a thin sunken bevel and an icon depicting an hot air balloon The balloon is visible when no folders are being shared To share a folder right click on the balloon icon and a pop up menu will ap pear containing only one item New Server Selecting this entry will cause a wizard to appear which will ask you a few simple questions Completing the questions will set up a folder for sharing There is an alternative to using the applet directly when you want to share a folder kpf is integrated with Konqueror With Konqueror open and displaying a folder right click on the background and bring up the Properties dialog On install kpf added a Sharing tab to this dialog You will be offered the option of starting kpf if it is not running Choosing Ok will send a signal to the kpf applet asking it to add a new share For more detailed information such as how to share different directories to different people see the kpf handbook 10
27. be saved in a variety of formats including JPG and PNG 49 The KDE User Guide e Website http www ipso facto demon co uk ksnapshot e KSnapshot Handbook KolourPaint A simple and easy to use paint program with features such as basic painting drawing diagrams and finger painting image manipula tion and icon editing e Website http kolourpaint sourceforge net e KolourPaint Handbook Kooka An intuitive raster image scan program Kooka helps you to handle the most important scan parameters find the correct image file format to save and manage your scanned images e Website http kooka kde org e Kooka Handbook RELATED INFORMATION e Several more advanced KDE graphics applications can be found in the KDE Extragear under the Section 7 1 see Section 7 1 2 for a list of a few of them 6 6 Multimedia A brief overview of a few of the multimedia related applications below JuK An easy to use music player for KDE JuK is playlist and meta data fo cused allowing you to quickly search through the dynamic playlist pro vided Some of the features include CD cover art fetching from Google images MusicBrainz integration for file identification over the Internet and multiple audio backends including aRts GStreamer and aKode e Website http developer kde org wheeler juk html e JuK Handbook KMix An application that allows you to change the volume of your sound card and it supports several sound drivers Each mixer
28. behavior by right clicking on the History item and selecting Sort by Left click on an item e g www kde org and Konqueror will show you the documents you have visited Left clicking on a document e g in dex html will open the web site in the folder view Right clicking on a history item like www kde org index html opens a slightly different popup menu you will also find the item New Window which makes Konqueror open the site in a new window Home Directory The Home Directory item is in the sidebar s navigation panel You will find your home directory as the first entry Below you will find all folders of your home directory Left clicking on any folder in this view opens the folder in the folder view Alternatively you can also work with the folders context menus create subfolders and so on Sidebar Media Player Try dragging a music file like MP3 Ogg or wav files on the sidebar The file will immediately be played Newsticker Newsticker will display a customisable list of news sources Right click either on the Configure button or on one of the newssource buttons e g KDE News which is usually predefined to add a new newsticker source Network Here you can browse the services provided by other computers on the network The Lisa Daemon has to be started in order to work cor rectly The network browser allows you to see a variety of services pro vided by a computer You can easily browse SMB shares HTTP si
29. button or the right mouse button will increase the window s size in only the vertical or horizontal direction respectively 2 3 1 4 Hiding Windows When you need to keep a program open but you do not want it to take up space on your desktop you can minimize it or shade it To minimize a window click the Minimize button which is third from the right on the window titlebar The window will not be displayed but the program is still running and an entry for it appears in the taskbar on the panel To display the window again click on its entry in the taskbar You can also use Alt Tab see Section 2 3 1 1 Shading windows is very similar to minimizing them but this time only the ti tlebar of the window is shown To shade a window double click on the titlebar To restore the window just double click on the titlebar again 2 3 1 5 Cascading Windows Sometimes you might have a whole lot of windows open and all over the place By selecting to cascade windows KDE will automatically line them up as a succession from the top left of your screen To use this option use your middle mouse button on the desktop and then select Cascade Windows 2 3 1 6 Uncluttering Windows By selecting to unclutter your opened windows KDE will attempt to use the maximum available space of the desktop in order to display as much of each window as possible For example should you have four windows open and you request that they be uncluttered they will each be
30. by clicking on the Settings menu and selecting the Configure Kopete option By selecting the Accounts option you should see a list of your accounts ini tially empty and options to add new accounts and to edit or remove existing accounts By clicking on the add new account button you can add a new ac count using the wizard When you have added an account you can connect to 117 The KDE User Guide this account by clicking on the relevant icon at the bottom of your main Kopete window This should make your contacts appear in the contacts window 21 2 Meta contacts Meta contacts are one of the features of Kopete that make sense once you figure out what they are Until you do they annoy you They are basically a way of taking a contact on one network such as MSN and linking it to another contact on a different network This is useful for when people have accounts on different networks as you can chat to them without needing to know which account they are signed on to This also lets you assign names to your meta contacts that don t change when people change their names on their account this is useful if you have contacts who insist upon setting their MSN nick to something like EF 81 8A You can do other useful things with meta contacts like link them to entries in your address book See Section 21 4 21 3 IRC Internet Relay Chat IRC has been around far longer than most IM systems and is still widely used It is mainly de
31. ee Multimedia ere srs 40408 e eb oe amp Ae ere we we ke bs 28 28 29 29 30 31 31 32 32 32 33 33 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 42 43 44 7 10 11 The KDE User Guide KDE Extragear Applications 7 1 Available in the KDE Extragear 7 1 1 Multimedia 20 7A2 Graphics ss ss 2a ceresna paatai 7 1 3 Network 0 0 000004 eee FAA Utilities p42 0666646 Behe eee eee eae 7 2 Related Information 0 0004 Multimedia With KDE 8 1 Removable Disks 00 8 1 1 Automount 0000 4 8 1 2 Mounting 0 0 02 0 00008 8 2 Playing Music 0 0 00000004 8 2 1 Music Players 000 4 8 3 AudioCDRippinginKDE 8 3 1 Ingredients s so dopdo moneo iito e e 8 3 2 RECIPE ser res raoe de eta eos 8 4 Playing Movies aaa KDE the Multiuser Desktop 9 1 About Your KDE Account 9 2 Using KDE as Root naaa a aaa aaa 9 3 Switching Sessions oaao Networking with KDE 101 FileSharing 24 2 so depres sid 2h e584 454 10 1 1 How to share files withkpf 10 2 Networking With Windows 10 2 1 How It Works 000 10 2 2 resLISa ee ee ee 10 2 3 Configuration 04 10 3 Shared Sessions 0 0 000000 ee eee Graphics Printing and Fonts 11 1 Setting UpaPrinter 04 11 2 Printing From Ap
32. for creating and removing ingredients as well as units helps with diets can calculate the amount of calories vitamins carbohydrates etc Other advantages are its flexilibity and potential to extend further e Website http http krecipes sourceforge net e Krecipes Handbook 7 2 Related Information RELATED INFORMATION AND LINKS 54 The KDE User Guide e It should be stressed that the above is but a preview of what is available in the KDE extragear To view all of the applications and utilities available there visit http extragear kde org where a briefer summary of each application is provided e The handbooks for the majority of applications in extragear can be viewed from http docs kde org e Once again you can find a plethora of other third party KDE applications at the popular http kde apps org 55 The KDE User Guide Chapter 8 Multimedia With KDE 8 1 Removable Disks For KDE to use any device removable or not the device must first be mounted When a device is mounted KDE gets all the needed information about the device how to read it how to write information to it and much more The use of a device is controlled by the operating system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing these devices KDE can also auto mount devices working with HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer Your distribution should have set up HAL automatically if not consult the docu mentation provided
33. for things such as viewing the HTML source of a webpage to handling advanced coding in C PHP and XML with its powerful syntax highlighting engine and code folding capabilities Kate is a very speedy application being capable of opening huge text files in a matter of seconds as well as allowing you to view a hefty amount of multiple views in order to see more instances of the same document and or more documents at any particular time e Website http kate kde org e Kate Handbook Konsole The X terminal emulator for KDE Konsole like many KDE appli cations is extremely customizable while you can create your own user sessions you can also of course open Linux console sessions shell ses sions as Well as standard root and sudo sessions 45 The KDE User Guide e Website http konsole kde org e Konsole Handbook e User Guide chapter 13 Kicker The KDE Panel used for handling your currently running applica tions a pager allowing you to switch between desktops quick launch buttons to act as application launchers and much more e See chapter 3 for altering some of its settings e Kicker Handbook kdcop A GUI front end to the powerful DCOP Desktop COmmunications Protocol DCOP provides a comprehensive protocol for interprocess communication between KDE applications While this is increasingly useful to KDE programmers it is also beneficial to the ordinary user who would want to create a script or say a SuperKaram
34. fractions and more e Website http edu kde org kbruch e KBruch Handbook Kig A great application with interactive geometry Ideal for teachers attempt ing to draw a graph on the computer or students who wish to find out more and investigate with graphs and curves Currently many things are supported and you can very easily construct several things from parabo las and hyperbolas to ellipses e Website http edu kde org kig e Kig Handbook KPercentage Essentially an application to help you improve your skills in cal culating percentages Different exercises are included and there are vary ing difficulty levels to target persons with varying abilities e Website http edu kde org kpercentage e KPercentage Handbook KmPlot A mathematical function plotter It has built in a powerful parser You can plot different functions simultaneously and combine their function terms to build new functions KmPlot supports functions with parame ters and functions in polar coordinates Several grid modes are possible and plots may be printed with high precision in correct scale e Website http edu kde org kmplot e KmPlot Handbook 14 3 Science KStars A desktop Planetarium for KDE It provides an accurate graphical sim ulation of the night sky from any location on Earth at any date and time The display includes 130 000 stars 13 000 deep sky objects all 8 planets the Sun and Moon and thousands of comets and asteroids e Website
35. http edu kde org kstars e KStars Handbook Kalzium A fully featured periodic table application It features a full list of all elements and extended information about each individual element As well as being able to view a basic overview other features include being able to view its chemical data atomic model energies as well as a picture of the element e Website http edu kde org kalzium e Kalzium Handbook 83 The KDE User Guide 14 4 Teaching Tools KEduca A flash card application which allows you to make interactive form based tests It also currently comes with support to add servers from which you can fetch tests Several languages supported e Website http edu kde org keduca e KEduca Handbook 14 5 Miscellaneous KTouch An application for learning touch typing KTouch displays the key board on the screen and the color of the keys changes when they need to be depressed Text appears on the screen and the user is asked to type it out A few lectures are contained in the program by default with various different difficulty levels e Website http edu kde org ktouch e KTouch Handbook KWordQuiz A flash card application which allows you to make interactive form based tests It also currently comes with support to add servers from which you can fetch tests from Several languages supported e Website http edu kde org kwordquiz e KWordQuiz Handbook KTurtle An educational programming environment using
36. important configuration files for example your KMail settings which are in the file kmailrc Sucha major failure should not happen but it still can happen 16 1 3 Editing So why would you want to touch the configuration files at all Well first you need it when you want to enforce the KIOSK mode Perhaps a developer has asked you to add an entry to help him to solve a problem with the application Perhaps you want to recover from a problem without having to remove all the kde directory Perhaps you want to learn more about the depths of KDE Anyway whatever your reason you want to modify by hand a configuration file When planning to edit such a file make sure that the application using it is not running If it is one of the basic configuration files consider editing the file while KDE is not running at all Ready So make a backup of the file Did I tell you this already start you favorite editor let us assume it is Kate load the file Be careful to load as UTF 8 Kate displays it as utf8 Now you have a file like Group Keyl Valuel Key2 Value2 Key3 Value3 You can now modify it with care and then save it Be sure that it is as UTF 8 again Now you can test the application and if the application does not run correctly anymore close the application and restore the backup of the configuration file RELATED INFORMATION e Part VI has more information about KDE s directory structure to hel
37. is where you would go to configure options such as showing or hiding desktop icons showing tooltips and icon layout You can also specify if you would like to see previews of particular filetypes on the desktop and which devices you d like to see icons for Multiple Desktops This is where you would configure the number of virtual desktops or workspaces you would like to have and what you would like them to be called By default KDE has 4 virtual desktops and you can configure up to 20 You can also enable switching between virtual desktops using the scroll button on your mouse Panels Here you can modify options to do with Kicker and other KDE panels Among the options are size position length and hiding You can also modify the appearance of the panel with transparency background im ages and icon zooming This is also where you would configure various menu options including what applications you d like to show in your K menu Taskbar The Taskbar module allows you to configure options related to your taskbar You can configure whether to show windows from all desktops grouping of similar tasks and what actions you would like to assign to your mouse buttons 38 The KDE User Guide Window Behavior This is where you would configure options related to the behavior of KDE s window manager KWin KWin is extremely config urable and has advanced features such as focus stealing prevention and different focus policies such as focus
38. it in KHelpCenter 14 1 Improve your language skills KHangMan An easy to use application which implements the classical hang man game You can choose for the words to be from a particular topic and even choose from a selection of difficulty levels The program comes in twenty four languages and is therefore quite ideal for learning the spelling of basic nouns in other languages e Website http edu kde org khangman e KHangMan Handbook KLettres An application specially designed to help the user learn the alphabet of a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables Ideal for children or any person attempting to learn and familiarize themselves with a foreign language s alphabet A number of alphabets are currently supported e Website http edu kde org klettres 81 The KDE User Guide e KLettres Handbook Kanagram A simple mind training game in which you have to figure out the word that has been given in the program The letters from the word are disordered and from the given words you have to solve which word the letters might make if rearranged Similar to the popular Countdown game as seen on Television e Website http edu kde org kanagram e Kanagram Handbook KVerbos A simple way to learn and study Spanish verb forms The program suggests a verb and a tense and the user enters the different forms The program corrects the user input and gives feedback The user can edit the list of the verbs that can
39. ksystraycmd we ll use a more complicated example a Konsole window tracking the xsession errors file this is the log file that records what s happening on your desktop To begin with we ll simply look at how we can view this o konsole icon log caption X hog nomenubar notabbar noframe e tail f xsession errors The caption and icon arguments are provided as standard by KDE appli cations You can get a full list of these global options by running an application with the help kde and help qt parameters Here we give our Konsole window the title X Log and the icon log You can use these options with any KDE application and as mentioned above ksystraycmd takes account of these when creating the tray icon The e argument is specific to Konsole and tells it to run the less command Despite its complexity we can easily move this window into the tray with ksystraycmd ksystraycmd hidden title X Log konsole icon log caption XLog nomenubar notabbar noframe e tail f xsession errors In addition to being the most complex command we ve used this example demonstrates the hidden option which starts the command with only the system tray icon visible This example achieves our aim of providing quick access to the log file but we can do things a little more efficiently if we only run the konsole process when it is visible The command we use i
40. mykey false Instead of msgbox you can also use sorry and error as appropriate For instance you might use kdialog sorry The network can not be reache d or kdialog error Mail box can not be opened It is also possible to create message boxes that accept a yes or no answer kdialog yesno Do you want to connect to the Internet echo Return Value Meaning 0 Yes OK Continue 1 No 2 Cancel Make sure to store the result in a variable if you do not use it directly the next command will fill with a new value You can use dontagain here as well it 162 The KDE User Guide will remember the users choice and returns it the next times without showing the dialog any more Further variations are warningyesno like yesno but with a different icon warningcontinuecancel With Continue and Cancel buttons warningyesnocancel With Yes No and Cancel button For example kdialog warningyesnocancel Do you want to save the changes kdialog inputbox Enter your name YourName The result is printed to stdout to put it in a variable you can use name kdialog inputbox Enter your name YourName The last argument is optional it is used to pre fill the dialog password kdialog password Enter your password The dontagain option does not work with inputbox or password There are two dial
41. of a configuration key can be constructed from the value of an environment variable or from the output of a shell com mand To enable shell expansion for a configuration entry the key must be followed by e Normally the expanded form is written into the user s con figuration file after first use To prevent that it is recommend to lock the con figuration entry down by using ie The user can t change it then of course In the following example the value for the Host entry is determined by the output of the hostname program This setting is also locked down to ensure that the value is always determined dynamically The value for the Email entry is determined by filling in the values of the USER and HOST environment variables When joe is logged in on joes_host this will result in a value equal to joe joes_host The setting is not locked down Mail Settings Host ie hostname Email e USER S HOST Most configuration entries can be indexed with a language code In this case the language that the user has selected for use on the desktop is used to look up the key value If the default language American English has been selected or if there is no index that corresponds to the selected language the key entry without index is used In the following example the value of the Caption entry depends on the lan guage If the user has selected French as language language code fr the value of the entry will be M
42. or Office le E Gr n14 5 Ad ap 6 Kri obs hics ta Ph oto 6 Im 7 Ku sh age gar op Ma The KDE User Guide Chapter 31 Dictionary for Migrators Tables of terminology differences 176 The KDE User Guide Chapter 32 The Standard Menu Entries Philip Rodrigues One of the main ways that you ll control programs in KDE is via the program s menus They provide access to nearly everything you ll need to do with that program So that you can more easily remember where things are in the menus and to help you learn new programs more easily the menus have a standard layout This means that once you know how to open a file in one program you know how to open a file in any KDE program Let s take a look at the standard menus THE FILE MENU New Ctrl N This entry will start a new blank document that s appropriate to the program you re using For example in Kate the KDE Advanced Text Editor this entry creates a new text file Open Ctrl O The Open menu entry displays the KDE Open File dialog box where you can choose a file to open in the program you re using The Open File dialog is also standardized so it s the same for all KDE programs You can find out more about using this dialog somewhere else in this guide You probably noticed that this menu entry had an ellipsis after the name of the entry This means that clicking on the entry will open a di alog box of s
43. or that they conflict with the shortcuts of another application maybe one that s not part of KDE you can change them with the Settings Configure Shortcuts menu entry This brings up the Configure Shortcuts dialog for the application As an example of how to use this dialog let s add a shortcut for the Send Link Address action to Konqueror so that we can email the locations of interesting pages to friends just by hitting a key or two 1 Open the Configure Shortcuts dialog in Konqueror as described above 2 Click on the Send Link Address item in the main listbox it s near the bottom in the Konqueror section 3 In the Shortcut for Selected Action panel select Custom since we are going to give this action a keyboard shortcut that we have chosen 4 A small shortcut entry dialog pops up Just hit Ctrl E or whatever you want to change the shortcut to and the dialog disappears The key icon in the Configure Shortcuts dialog now shows the new shortcut 5 If you made a mistake or change your mind about what to use as the shortcut just click on the key icon showing the current shortcut The shortcut entry dialog reappears and you can press the key combination for the shortcut you want 4 4 3 Configuring Notifications Something about Settings Configure Notifications 4 4 4 Configuring Toolbars Nearly every KDE application has one or more toolbars at the top of the ap plication window under
44. pixmap image x portable greymap image tiff image jp2 kuickshow desktop MimeType image gif image x xpm image x xbm image jpeg image png image tiff image x bmp image x psd image x eim image x portable bitmap image x portable pixmap image x portable greymap Both can open image gif Which one is used to opena gif file The application with highest preference kview desktop contains InitialPreference 3 whereas kuickshow desktop contains InitialPreference 6 Therefore KuickShow will be used to open gif files How can we make K View default A user can change file association in the KDE Control Center These changes are stored in HOME kde share config profilerc To use the same settings for multiple users store these settings in user profile directory or the global KDE config directory to use as default for multiple users 152 The KDE User Guide Chapter 27 Locking Down KDE 27 1 How It Works The Basics KDE s lock down features are centered around the following options e Make configuration options immutable e Restriction of specific actions e Restrict access to certain URLs e Restrict access to certain configuration modules 27 2 Immutable Configuration Options Locking Down KDE Immutable options allow system administrator to provide default settings that can not be changed by the user Pre existing configuration options of the user will be ignored once a c
45. the new account or the standard dialog based setup ea The wizard is easier and sufficient in most cases If you need very special settings you might want to try the standard dialog based setup Wizard Manual Setup The wizard asks you what you want to do Cancel Choose this if you really don t want to be setting up a new account right now The message box will go away and you will be left with the dialer window as before Wizard If you have a fairly standard modem and use one of the larger ISP s for your country the wizard will probably be able to set you up immedi ately with a working Internet Connection Try this first before you try to set up the connection manually Dialog Setup If you don t succeed with the Wizard or you just want to do things yourself choose this The wizard currently is only useful for a small subset of countries and Internet Providers 104 The KDE User Guide For the purposes of this chapter we ll assume you are choosing Wizard and the dialog based setup will be described in a later chapter 17 2 2 The Rest of the Wizard The first window you see contains just introductory text explaining the things you read about in the first section of this chapter Click Next to move on The second window asks you to choose the country you live in Not all coun tries are represented here and if the country you live in is not listed you will have to click Cancel in which case the Dialo
46. the previous or next virtual desktop two functions for which you will need DCOP as discussed in Section 16 2 This can be achieved easily using the following method 1 Open KControl and in the Regional amp Accessibility section select Input Action Choose New Action 2 3 Name the new action e g Next Virtual Screen 4 Select Keyboard shortcut gt Command URL simple for the Action type 5 In the Keyboard Shortcut tab click the button you wish to use to trigger the command For this example you would press the one with the Next Page picture on it Next_Virtual_Screen will appear in the key image 6 In the Command URL Settings tab enter the command to run in the field dcop kwin default nextDesktop Repeat the above with the Prev_Virtual_Screen key and dcop kwin default previousDesktop Now pressing the Prev_Virtual_Screen or Next_Virtual_Screen will switch you to the previous or next virtual desktop respectively Obviously you can assign any free key to any action RELATED INFORMATION e See the KHotKeys documentation by looking it up in KHelpCenter or typing help khotkeys in a Konqueror window e Section 16 3 e Section 16 2 98 The KDE User Guide 16 5 KDebugDialog Controlling KDE s Debugging Output 16 5 1 Basic Usage KDebugDialog is not in the K menu by default You will need to run it from the shell or from the mini CLI with the command kdebugdialog KDebugDialog pops up a window with a l
47. tion requests access to the wallet Wallet Preferences To enable the KDE wallet subsystem check the En able the KDE wallet subsystem box Unchecking this box will dis able the KDE Wallet on your system By default KDE Wallet Manager is kept opened until the user ses sion is closed but you can change that in the Close Wallet section to close it when unused for a time when a screen saver starts or when the last application stops using it As you can have several wallets Automatic Wallet Selection allows you start KDE with a given wallet KDE Wallet will appear in your system tray by default but you can hide it Uncheck Show manager in the system tray to keep it always hidden or check Hide system tray icon when last wallet closes to hide it only when all wallets are closed These items are in the Wallet Manager section 43 The KDE User Guide Access Control You can set here what policy you want for your KDE applications regarding to the wallet use Password amp User Account You can change here your personal information which will be used in mail programs and word processors You can change your login password by clicking the Change Password button Privacy This module allows you to erase traces which KDE leaves on your system such as command histories or browser caches 5 9 System Administration This module allows you to configure aspects of your system such as the boot loader the kernel and helps you perform essenti
48. to limit what users can do in KDE It is potentially useful in many situations but especially for running single function kiosks with for example just a web browser hence the name The KDE User Guide Part II The Desktop The KDE User Guide Chapter 2 The Basics The desktop is just the name for the layout of the screen when you start KDE It looks something like this on your own system it might look slightly differ ent but the main features should be the same Let us look at the most important parts e Most of the screen is taken up by the background At the moment there is a picture making up the background This picture is usually referred to as the wallpaper and you can change it to make KDE suit your taste The KDE User Guide In the top left hand corner are two icons Trash and Home Clicking on these will open your Trash folder and Home folder respectively You can add more icons to the desktop so that you can open your favorite programs or access removable media with just one click e At the bottom is the KDE Panel also known as Kicker The Panel con tains several useful ways of interacting with KDE It houses the K menu from where you can open any KDE application installed on your computer it shows all the programs that are currently running as well as the time and more Take a look at chapter 3 for more information about the KDE Panel 2 1 Logging In and Logging Out Basic KD
49. you have activated your screensaver and another user wants to log in she or he can simply press the Switch User button and log into another session Switch Session in kdm If you are in kdm and want to switch to another active session you can press the Menu button and choose Switch User which is mainly the same as described above 66 The KDE User Guide Chapter 10 Networking with KDE 10 1 File Sharing 10 1 1 How to share files with kpf kpf provides simple file sharing using HTTP the Hyper Text Transfer Proto col which is the same protocol used by web sites to provide data to your web browser kpf is strictly a public fileserver which means that there are no ac cess restrictions to shared files whatever you select for sharing is available to anyone kpf is designed to be used for sharing files with friends not to act like a fully fledged web server such as Apache kpf was primarily conceived as an easy way to share files with others while chatting on IRC Internet Relay Chat or chat rooms kpf runs as an applet inside Kicker This means that it takes up little space on your screen and its status is always visible To start the kpf applet right click on Kicker and choose Add Applet to Panel to open the Add Applet dialog Select Public File Server and click the Add to Panel button kpf employs the concept of shared folders You may choose one or more folders to make public and all files in that folder and
50. 2 Networking With Windows This section is borrowed and modified from Alexander Neundorf s README file on LISa KDE features two powerful servers called the Lan Information Server LISa and Restricted Lan Information Server resLISa which are used to identify CIFS and other servers on your local network providing a function similar to Network Neighbourhood in Microsoft Windows 10 2 1 How It Works Lisa only depends on the TCP IP stack so samba configuration is not required to make it work but the samba package is a dependency To find hosts on your local network you set a range of IP Addresses in your configuration file that Lisa will check When you start the Lisa daemon it will send a ICMP echo request message to all the IP addresses given in the configuration file and await a response NOTE The Lisa daemon requires root privileges to open the socket but once the socket has been established root privileges are immediately dropped You can also execute Lisa using nmblookup NOTE If you do not have the nmblookup program it can be found at http Awww samba org or through packages provided by your distribution 68 The KDE User Guide The samba command nmblookup will send a broadcast message to the attached network and any host that is running the smb services will send a reply stating that it is accepting connections 10 2 2 resLISa If your company network has very strict guide
51. 20 Usenet News Usenet newsgroups are forums in which you can post messages to discuss var ious topics almost any subject you like and many you don t can be found there Although usenet has become less popular than it once was because of the increasing use of web forums etc it is still a useful tool KDE provides a powerful usenet news reader called KNode You can find KNode in the K Menu under the Internet entry the menu entry KNode News Reader launches the program The main window of KNode should now be displayed on your desktop as shown on the first start the settings dialog will be invoked i KNode File Edit View Go Account Group Folder Article Scoring Settings Help Name Unread Total Local Folders KA Outbox es Sent Drafts Newsgroups To Lines Date w KNode after first start 111 The KDE User Guide 20 1 Personal settings The first page of the settings dialog is for personal settings fm Configure KNode Identity Name Kongi w Organization KDE Dragons Email address kongi kde org Personal Information Accounts Reply to address kongi home org Ei aed Mail copies to konqi work org Appearance Pe Signing key Change D Use a signature from file Reading News D i lo o Posting News Specify signature below l m the KDE dragon Signing Verifying Cleanup Help Defaults OK Apply Can
52. Chapter 35 Contributing to KDE Some basic information to get encourage people to contribute to KDE infor mation about what s available and how to get started 183 The KDE User Guide Appendix A Credits and Licenses A 1 Credits KDE is written by and copyright The KDE Team This document is copyright 2004 The KDE Documentation Team Individual credits are as follows Tom Albers tomalbers kde nl e Wrote Section 21 4 Waldo Bastian bastian kde org e Wrote the notes which became Part VI Gardner Bell gbell72 rogers com e Wrote Section 10 2 e Wrote chapter 13 Gary Cramblitt garycramblitt comcast net e Wrote chapter 15 David Faure faure kde org e Wrote Section 16 3 Nicolas Goutte goutte kde org e Wrote Section 16 1 Francis Giannaros francisg gmail com e Proofreading and update on various parts e Wrote Section 9 2 e Wrote Section 15 4 184 The KDE User Guide e Wrote chapter 6 e Wrote chapter 7 e Re wrote chapter 14 e Wrote chapter 30 Adriaan de Groot groot kde org e Wrote Section 4 4 4 e Wrote Section 16 5 J Hall jes hall kdemail net Wrote Section 5 1 Wrote Section 5 2 Wrote Section 5 3 Wrote Section 5 4 Wrote Section 5 5 Wrote Section 5 6 Wrote Section 5 7 Wrote Section 34 1 Anne Marie Mahfouf annma kde org e Proofreading and update on various parts Richard J Moore rich kde org e Wrote the kstart and ksystraycmd sections Peter Nuttall p s nuttall durac
53. DE startup it is used by e g Konqueror to know if it should consider remaining in memory for future re use when being closed If not set Konqueror will exit after being closed e g KDE su does that it s also useful for debug ging KDESYCOCA Allows you to specify the path and the name of the generated KDE system configuration cache file KDETMP Allows to specify another path than tmp where KDE stores its tem porary files KDEVARTMP Allows to specify another path than var tmp where KDE stores its variable files XDG_DATA_HOME Since KDE3 2 Defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored Default is HOME 1local share XDG_DATA_DIRS Since KDE 3 2 Defines the preference ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the XDG_DATA_HOME base directory Default is usr local share usr share KDE adds locations from KDEDIRS and profiles as well Used for de sktop and directory menu files desktop files under XDG_DATA_DI RS applications directory files under xDG_DATA_DIRS desktop directories XDG_CONFIG_HOME KDE 3 2 Defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored Default is HOME config XDG_CONFIG_DIRS KDE 3 2 Defines the preference ordered set of base directories to search for configuration files in addition to the xDG_CONF IG_HOME base directory The default is etc xdg KDE adds locatio
54. DE wiki I ve found some piece of IRC conversation where they were talking about sharing data without the Kolab infrastructure mmm so interesting For small offices and needs you can have Kontact use shared data without the need of installing the Kolab server or another groupware backend It can work with just an IMAP server that can be easily set up My scenario is a server with Debian unstable and KDE 3 4 I access Kontact and other fabulous GNU Linux apps from windows using Cygwin X while waiting Wine project to be able to run the last Windows programs I need and that are not available under GNU Linux I want to share contacts events todo notes with my secretary 29 2 What is IMAP This definition is from the ComputerUser com High Tech Dictionary 164 The KDE User Guide Internet Message Access Protocol A protocol that allows a user to perform certain electronic mail functions on a remote server rather than on a local computer Through IMAP the user can create delete or rename mailboxes get new messages delete messages and per form search functions on mail A separate protocol is required for sending mail Also called Internet Mail Access Protocol So it can be considered a data storage To use it you you need an IMAP server such as Cyrus Courier or UW 29 3 Kolab or IMAP Kolab brings the ability to share data between different clients It makes possi ble for your secretary to use Outlook and you use Kontact
55. KDE Control Center Once you have set up your desktop the way you want click on Create New Theme Enter the details you want to give your theme such as theme name author version etc then click OK when done This will add your theme to the list of available themes and save your settings in a KDE theme A KDE theme kth file instructs KDE on what window decoration style or color scheme to use for that particular theme To add a KDE theme from an outside source click on Install New Theme and locate the KDE theme file Removing a theme is eas ily done by clicking on Remove Theme If you made changes to your theme you have to either create a new theme name for it or remove the previous version first to be able to use the same theme name The following are the settings that are saved and indicated in a KDE Theme e Background e Screen Saver e Icon Theme 77 The KDE User Guide e System Notifications Color Scheme Cursor Theme e Window Decoration e Konqueror background File Management e Panel background e Style e Fonts One very important thing to consider when using or installing a KDE Theme is that it only indicates what settings to use for the above A KDE Theme includes only system notifications desktop background panel background Konqueror background and the color scheme in its package The other components must be installed separately if they do not already come with KDE KDE Themes can be downloa
56. KDE for now hit Cancel RELATED INFORMATION The KDE User Guide e The kdm Handbook has information about using and setting up the KDE graphical login manager You can read it in KHelpCenter or by entering help kdm in Konqueror s Location bar 2 2 Getting Help 2 2 1 User Manuals Most applications come with a comprehensive user manual which you can reach various ways e By pressing F1 inside the application e From the menu bar Help Application name e By browsing to it in KHelpCenter e By using the help KIOslave in Konqueror So in the Location Toolbar simply type help Application name e Online at http docs kde org 2 2 2 Context and What s This Help Many applications also provide context help in two forms Tooltips and What s This help 2 2 2 1 Tooltips Tooltips are small informational windows or balloons that display when you hover the mouse over an item on your screen without clicking KDE uses tooltips in many places to provide brief help or information about an item on your screen For instance most toolbar buttons inside applications will display their name in a tooltip if you rest or hover your mouse over them Tooltips have another function which is not specifically tied to help In the Konqueror file manager and on your Desktop tooltips can provide information about files This is commonly referred to as meta information You can find out more about meta information to
57. Kexi and scheduling of various projects e Website http www koffice org kplato The data management component It can be used for creating database schemas inserting data performing queries and processing data Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data All database objects tables queries and forms are stored in the database making it easy to share data and database design e Website http www koffice org kexi and http kexi project org e Kexi Handbook KChart The chart drawing component it is used to embed charts into one of the other KOffice components It s easy to use highly customizable allowing all of the parameters to be changed and has a flexible layout e Website http www koffice org kchart e KChart Handbook KFormula A formula editor which provides the basic input facilities and sup port functionality that appears in other KOffice applications Some of its features include intelligent cursor management multi level undo sup port and advanced syntax highlighting e Website http www koffice org kformula e KFormula Handbook RELATED INFORMATION e Main website http www koffice org e KOffice Handbook 125 The KDE User Guide Chapter 24 Further Information 24 1 Application Manuals Each Koffice component comes with its own manual These manuals offer all the latest information about the various components KOffice has to offer and should be read to l
58. M amp startkde stuff There are two ways to log into KDE graphically and via the command line We ll look at them both briefly 2 1 1 Logging in Graphically If you see a screen a little bit like the one below when you start up your com puter then you are all set for logging in graphically Just enter your username in the Login text box and your password in the Password text box Your pass word will not be shown as you type it it will probably be shown as asterisks When you have entered that information click on the Login button and KDE will start up The KDE splash screen will appear and keep you informed about the progress of KDE startup and when it is done KDE will be ready to use 2 1 2 Logging in via the Command Line If you prefer using the command line you can log in to KDE with the startx command Add the line exec startkde to the xinitrc file in your home folder create it if it does not exist save the file and then run startx KDE should start in the same way as if you had logged in graphically 2 1 3 Logging Out Once you have finished using KDE for the moment you will want to log out until next time The easiest way to do this is to click on the K menu at the bottom left of your screen and then select the Log Out item A dialog with the text End session for username will appear To confirm that you want to log out click on the End Current Session button If you change your mind and decide to carry on using
59. MAP resource will be disabled Press Yes this happens only the first time with the first real user You will immediately see that in the KMail folder tree under of Calendar Contacts fice_gwdata Inbox these subfolders are created Notes Tasks Journal if you now do a ls l var spool cyrus mail g user groupware AEWA ae 2 cyrus mail 144 Oct 31 16 36 Calendar AEW 2oy Guise mar MIMA o 6in6 Contacts AEWA 2 cyrus mail 144 Oct 31 16 36 Journal Chih m 2 cyrus mail 144 Oct 31 16 36 Notes CUO aoea 2 cyrus Maik 44 Oct 31 16 6 Tasks Se 1 cyrus mail 4 Oct 31 15 28 cyrus cache SW I eyrus mail Too Oct 29 20759 cyrus header SEW E 1 cyrus mail 76 Oct 31 15 28 cyrus index As you see the office_gwdata Inbox is stored not local to the Kontact current user home but in the IMAP groupware user s folders 169 The KDE User Guide Now Kontact is ready to work and store data there In the calendar applica tion if KMail IMAP account was of type disconnected the resource window should display the item Imap resource with 3 subitems that are paths to local home files Instead the Contacts application does not show subitems below the Imap resource You can now login to KDE with a different username and set up his her Kon tact client in a very similar manner 1 Open Kontact and in the Mail component add an IMAP account speci fying as host the computer where Cyrus server runs in my case 192 168 1 3
60. MP echo g i sts Lisa can also be configured graphically in the KDE Control Center Internet amp Network Local Network Browsing item in the K menu However to use this option Lisa must be started with the K command line switch RELATED INFORMATION 69 pe The KDE User Guide e For a full list of command line switches and further examples see the entire Lisa manual by entering help lisa in Konqueror 10 3 Shared Sessions Sharing your desktop with krfb and pals 70 The KDE User Guide Chapter 11 Graphics Printing and Fonts 11 1 Setting Up a Printer Assume everything is pre configured how to set up a printer refer to big man ual if there is trouble 11 2 Printing From Applications Printing from KDE apps Printing from non kde apps 11 3 PDF Files How to print to a pdf file Viewing pdf files 11 4 Fonts Installing and Configuring Fonts are really easy to configure in KDE Open up the Control Center with K Menu Control Center and choose Font Installer in System Administrationin the tree view There are two kinds of fonts Personal and Global fonts Personal fonts are only accessible to your user whereas global fonts are accessible to everyone When you open the Font Installer you re in Personal mode you can see this 71 The KDE User Guide in the Location bar When you click on the Administrator Mode button and put the root password you can access g
61. OOTHOME root kde3 KDEDIRS opt kde_staff opt kde3 25 4 User Profiles In the previous example opt kde_staff contained additional settings and ap plications for staff members User Profiles allow you to add this directory only for certain users and not for others Add the following to etc kderc Directories staff prefixes opt kde_staff This creates a profile named staff that adds the opt kde_staff directory tree Note that SuSE Linux uses etc kde3rc instead of etc kderc Now that we have a named profile it can be assigned to users To map profiles to users a mapping file needs to be specified in etc kderc Directories userProfileMapFile etc kde user profile It is now possible to assign a profile based on either the user name or based on the UNIX group the user is part of To assign the staff profile to all users that are a member of the UNIX group staff_members add the following to etc kde user profile General groups staff_members Groups staff_members staff It is also possible to assign a profile to a single user Users bastian staff 131 The KDE User Guide 25 5 Directory Layout Revisited Each directory tree used by KDE has a fixed directory structure Directories that are not relevant for a certain tree or simply not used can be left out though For example directories used for temporary files are usually onl
62. The KDE User Guide K The KDE User Guide Contents I Introduction 1 1 Welcome to the KDE User Guide 2 1 1 What this book aims tobe 2204 2 1 2 What this bookisnot aaau 2 1 3 Conventions used in this book a aaau 3 14 System Locations scs ssa crae tyras doam ee 3 1 5 Overview or Where to look in the User Guide 4 II The Desktop 5 2 The Basics 6 2 1 Logging In and Logging Out aoaaa aa 7 2 1 1 Logging in Graphically 0 0 0 7 2 1 2 Logging in via the Command Line 7 21 3 Logging Out 2 2 sa iapa ae e E eee 7 22 Getting Help e qnerre eana a a ag a aula a dee as 8 2 2 1 User Manuals aoaaa aaa 8 2 2 2 Context and What s This Help 8 2221 IOUPS aa es e eae a e Re ae 8 22 2 2 Whats This s aeu ikea ine na Row ata 9 2 2 3 Mailing Lists Newsgroups and IRC 9 2 2 3 1 Mailing Lists aaa aaa 9 223 2 IRG oangie dont ph ae be a e ee ee a 10 2 24 More Resources 00 000 eee eee 10 2 3 Windows How To Work Them 2 00005 10 2 3 1 Basic Window Management 10 The KDE User Guide 2 3 1 1 Switching Between Windows 11 2 3 1 2 Moving Windows 00 11 2 3 1 3 Resizing Windows aaau aaea 12 2 3 1 4 Hiding Windows aaa aaa 13 2 3 1 5 Cascading Windows a aaas aaa 13 2 3 1 6 Uncluttering Windows 13 2 3 1 7 Closing W
63. Use this item to select the whole of the current document Find Ctrl F This menu entry displays the Find Text dialog which you can use to search for a particular word or phrase in the current document 178 The KDE User Guide Find Next F3 Use this item to find the next occurrence of the most recent text you searched for using Find THE SETTINGS MENU Configure Shortcuts In the dialog displayed by this menu entry you can change the keyboard shortcuts used by the application See Section 4 4 2 Configure Toolbars In the dialog displayed by this menu entry you can change which buttons appear on the application s toolbars See Section 4 4 4 Configure Notifications In the dialog displayed by this menu entry you can change the notifications sounds error messages etc used by the appli cation See Section 4 4 3 Configure Application In the dialog displayed by this menu entry you can change settings relating to how the application works in general Help Kapp Handbook F1 Invokes the KDE Help system starting at the KApp help pages this document Help What s This Shift F1 Changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and question mark Clicking on items within KApp will open a help window if one exists for the particular item explaining the item s function Help Report Bug Opens the Bug report dialog where you can report a bug or request a wishlist feature Help Switc
64. a L gende In all other cases the value My Caption will be used Preview Image Caption My Caption Caption fr Ma L gende 137 The KDE User Guide In this example the value of the Caption entry depends on the language If the user has selected French as language language code fr the value of the entry will be Ma L gende In all other cases the value My Caption will be used Preview Image Caption My Caption Caption fr Ma L gende In general the entries that can appear in a configuration file are not docu mented With KDE 3 2 a start has been made to change this In KDEDI R share config kcfg files can be found that provide a formal description of the possible entries in a configuration file These are used by the new KDE Configuration Editor when available Here is an example XML configuration file lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt DOCTYPE kcfg SYSTEM http www kde org standards kcfg 1 0 kero dtd gt lt kcfg gt lt kcfgfile name korganizerrc gt lt group name General gt lt entry type Bool key Auto Save gt lt label gt Enable automatic saving of calendar lt lt label gt lt default gt true lt default gt lt entry gt lt entry type Int key Auto Save Interval gt lt default gt 10 lt default gt lt entry gt lt group gt lt kcfg gt It has the same effect as General Auto Save false Auto Sa
65. a different splash screen Changing the splash screen for the current user can be done in the Splash Screen module of the KDE Control Center Select the splash screen you want to use and click on Apply You can also test what a splash screen will look like by selecting the splash screen and clicking on Test Installing a new splash theme is very easy Just click on Add and browse to the splash screen archive you want to add There is no need to extract the contents of the archive Removing splash screens is also easily done by selecting the splash screen and clicking on Remove Note that you cannot remove splash screens installed by the administrator root or by your distribution s package manager Splash screen themes can be found on kde look org in the Splash Screens sec tion Take note that some splash screens require a specific KSplash engine to be installed 75 The KDE User Guide 12 5 Window Decorations You can change the appearance of window borders titlebars and buttons in KDE using window decorations Some window decorations even have the capability to apply effects such as translucency Window decorations must be able to do all these without sacrificing speed and performance This is the reason why window decorations come in source code that must be compiled or as binary packages that must be installed Basically Window decorations are plugins or small programs that instruct KWin KDE s Window Manager how to display wind
66. ab you can configure your power management options for this screen such as blanking Joystick This section allows you to configure your joystick and test that it is working properly You can also calibrate your joystick here and manu ally specify the joystick device if it is not autodetected correctly 41 To be written The KDE User Guide Keyboard This module allows you to configure basic keyboard settings These include keyboard repeat delay and rate and what state you would prefer numlock to be on KDE startup Mouse Here is where you can configure settings to do with your mouse de vice You can switch the button order reverse the scroll direction or modify the behaviour of clickable icons You may also preview install and select cursor themes The Advanced tab allows you to fine tune your mouse settings further Printers This dialog allows you to configure printers using a variety of print systems You can add local and remote printers check current jobs and look at printer properties 5 6 Power Control This section has a single module Laptop Battery Here you can configure the appearance and behaviour of the Klaptopdaemon battery monitor You can select battery icons to represent different power states and set up notification of certain events In the case that your battery runs down to a critical level you can configure the daemon to suspend or shutdown your laptop to save you from losing data 5 7 Regional amp Ac
67. al system tasks Most of these sections will require the root or Administrator password to effect changes Boot Manager LILO If you use the popular bootloader LILO this section will allow you to configure it You can configure the location to install the bootloader to set the timeout on the LILO boot screen as well as add or modify kernel images for the boot list Date amp Time This configuration module allows you to configure the system date and time settings You can set the date time and also the current time zone These settings will be applied system wide Font Installer Here is where you would configure both personal and system wide fonts This dialog allows you to install new fonts delete old ones and preview the fonts you have installed By default it displays personal fonts To modify system wide fonts click the Administrator Mode button IBM Thinkpad Laptop This configuration module allows you to configure the special keys on an IBM thinkpad laptop You will need the nvram mod ule to use these features Linux Kernel If you run KDE on Linux there is a KControl module to create or modify configuration files for a Linux kernel This configurator is compatible with kernels previous to 2 5 Login Manager This module allows you to configure the KDE login manager kdm kdm is a powerful login manager with a large range of options It supports user switching remote graphical logins and has a fully cus tomizable appea
68. alendar and right click the mouse Select PropertiesAccess Control tab Here you can enter the users you want give access to this folder and what they can do Just to experiment trying to exchange events we give All permission to the user mary 170 The KDE User Guide At cyrus level in the PC that runs IMAP server cyrus with cyrus tools we first need to add the user mary so it s an IMAP recognized user and create an IMAP folder for her Then we login to GNU Linux as mary and enter Kontact As previously shown we will setup an IMAP account in KMail with the same data but the one of the user instead of the fake user groupware and its password we will use mary and her password In KMail folder tree this time you will see this structure office_gwdata user groupware Calendar and Tasks Check the mail File Check Mail and you will also have an inbox folder under office_gwdata Now enable KMail groupware functionality and in Resource folders are sub folders of put the inbox that is subfolder of office_gwdata Now you have two branches of folder under office_gwdata 1 inbox with Calendar Contacts Notes Tasks and Journal that are saved on mary IMAP folders on the IMAP server 2 user with the subfolder groupware and the subfolders to which mary has access to in this example Calendar and Tasks right mouse button click on the user Calendar and check if i
69. ally not shown in the KDE menu itself e Control Center has a hidden Settings menu whose contents are defined by kde settings menu and whose icon and name are defined by kde sett ing s directory e Info Center has a hidden Information menu whose contents are defined by kde information menu and whose icon and name are defined by kde info rmation directory e Screensavers contains a hidden System Screensavers menu whose contents are defined by kde screensavers menu and whose icon and name are de fined by kde system screensavers directory KDEDIR share desktop directories kde system screer contains NoDisplay true 26 2 5 Old Style Menus KDE continues to support old style menus that are defined by the directory structures in SKDEDIR share applnk system wide and HOME kde share applnk user specific This is observed unless the desktop file has a Categories line In that case the categories determine the location in the menu 150 The KDE User Guide 26 2 6 KSycoca KSycoca caches menu structure and information about all available applica tions You can rebuild the database with kbuildsycoca4 The database which is built lives in var tmp kdecache USER ksycoca It is automati cally updated by KDED checked during KDE login and KDED watches for changes while logged in To disable watching for changes since it may hurt over NFS add the following to kdedre General CheckSycoca false T
70. an be downloaded from http www kde look org Style This section allows you to modify your widget style A variety of styles come with KDE and more can be downloaded from http www kde look org This is also where you would enable or disable interface options such as transparent menus showing icons on buttons and tooltips Some styles have more configuration options than others 37 The KDE User Guide Theme Manager This is where you can create and manage themes that are made up of personalized settings They are a combination of desktop background colors KDE widget styles icons fonts and what Screen saver you d like to display This allows you to save your favorite looks and apply them with the click of a mouse button Window Decorations Here you can configure your window decorations You can modify the style as well as place the buttons in custom positions Some window decorations will have more configuration options than others RELATED INFORMATION e If KDE Control Center doesn t have the setting you want you may need to edit a configuration file manually See Section 16 1 for more information about how to do this e If you enjoy modifying the appearance of your KDE desktop you can find plenty of themes and styles at kde look org 5 2 Desktop This is where you will find settings to configure the appearance and behavior of your KDE desktop Behavior Here you can configure the behavior of your desktop This
71. an go back to the last opened folder by clicking on the Back button or go up one folder by clicking the Up button 19 The KDE User Guide 20 The KDE User Guide 2 4 3 The Navigation Panel aka The Sidebar userguide Konqueror lt 2 Location Edit View Go Bar Q000 9 8 E gt Location E Jusr local kde Root Folder T sy Bboot aE dew a ete home Hinitrd Elib E3lost found a mnt opt proc root sbin sys tmp Husr avar f RootFolder gt The Konqueror sidebar The KDE User Guide Navigating through the folders by using the folder view can become impracti cal The sidebar provides shortcuts and special functions that make it easier to find what you are searching for On the left edge of the sidebar you will find a number of buttons each with a different icon Bookmarks As Konqueror the file manager also serves as a very powerful web browser it also has a bookmark functionality Here you will find the same structure as in your Bookmarks menu Devices Next the sidebar provides a list of all known devices on your com puter These devices can be either physical drives such as your hard disk CD ROM drive or floppy disk drive or virtual drives such as remote shares or hard disk partitions History Konqueror will remember the web pages you have visited and list them either by date or alphabetically in a tree structure You can select the
72. ange the Port setting the default is 25 A description of the other options can be found in the full KMail manual Click on OK to close this dialog and then click on the Receiving tab 18 3 2 Receiving Messages To set up an account so you can receive mail press the Add button in the Receiving tab You will then be prompted for the type of your email account most users should select POP3 or IMAP If you wish to use a different system consult the KMail manual You will then be presented with the Add account window First fill in the Name field to name your account You can choose any name you like Lo gin Password and Host should be filled in with the information you gathered earlier You should not usually need to change the Port setting 107 net The KDE User Guide You are now ready to send and receive mail For IMAP just open your folders in the folder tree in KMail s main window KMail then connects to your server and displays the messages it finds For POP3 use File Check Mail 18 4 Testing your Setup First you should send yourself a message to test your configuration To send a message either hit Ctrl N select the New Message icon or select the Message New Message menu item The composer window will appear Fill in the To field with your email address and type something in the Subject field Send the message by selecting Message Send To check your email select File Check Mail In the l
73. ase information like the current song Programs that normally support system tray icons are music players IRC clients organizers In most of these programs you can configure if you want an icon to be shown or not For other tricks and tips with the system tray see the section on Section 2 3 23 3 2 4 Removing Panel Items You can remove applets and other special items from the panel using the arrow on its handle on the applet s left Right click on the arrow and choose Remove applet name 25 The KDE User Guide 3 3 The Taskbar The taskbar is an item on the panel which displays an entry for each window that you have opened You can use the taskbar to switch between windows by clicking on the entry of the window you want to activate The taskbar has entries for windows on each virtual desktop including windows which have been minimized 3 4 Using the Clipboard Very often it s useful to move some text or an object in a program from one place to another It s also very common to need to duplicate some text for example if you re typing the same thing several times The system used for doing this is known as the clipboard There are two slightly different ways to use this system known technically as the selection and the clipboard We ll look at them separately 3 4 1 The Selection This method uses the mouse to copy text from one place to another The method is 1 Select the text you want to copy
74. ba theme e In the User Guide Section 16 2 and Section 28 2 2 e Other Documentation http developer kde org documentation library kdeqt dcop html KControl The control center for the K Desktop Environment You can alter a myriad of different things ranging from themes fonts and screensavers to Internet security and system administration e See chapter 5 e KControl Handbook KHelpCenter The KDE help system is used to provide access to the base UNIX help pages man or info as well as the native KDE documentation pro vided by the KDE documentation team or the application authors You should be able to access all of the KDE application handbooks from here e KHelpCenter Handbook e For information on the KDE Documentation team how to possibly join and help KDE see http kde org documentation RELATED INFORMATION http kde apps org The largest directory of third party KDE applications e As you may have noticed a wealth of information is accessible from the re spective handbooks themselves which can be accessed either by using the help KIO slave in Konqueror that is type help application in the Loca tion toolbar or by selecting it in the KHelpCenter e You can also likely find out quite a bit of information from the KDE website itself at http kde org 46 The KDE User Guide 6 2 Personal Information Management KDE PIM Personal Information Manager is a sub project of KDE and it aims to provi
75. be studied and the program can build regular verb forms and the forms of the most important verb groups by itself Irregular verb forms can be entered by the user e Website http edu kde org kverbos e KVerbos Handbook KVocTrain Another advanced vocabulary training application using the flash card approach Vocabulary files can be downloaded and loaded into the application e Website http edu kde org kvoctrain e KVocTrain Handbook Kiten A Japanese reference and learning tool Words from both English and Japanese can be looked up and filtered using the Edict and Kanjidic dic tionary protocols Other features in Kiten include a few comprehensive search functions a history of searches and a learning section which con tains various different learning modes e Website http edu kde org kiten e Kiten Handbook KLatin A program to help revise Latin There are vocabulary grammar and verb testing sections In addition there is a set of revision notes that can be used for self guided revision e Website http edu kde org klatin e KLatin Handbook 14 2 Mathematics Several applications to help you with Mathematics and Geometry 82 The KDE User Guide KBruch An application with several exercise types in order to enhance your calculating with fractions Different tasks include exercises to find the sum of two fractions the conversion of fractions into the respective deci mal the comparison with less than more than of
76. by your distribution There are several ways to find the list of media devices use whichever one suits you best e Enter media or system media into the Konqueror location bar e Navigate to it by clicking on the Services tab in Konqueror s Navigation Panel then selecting Storage Media e Select Go Storage Media from the Konqueror menus e Click the System desktop icon then from the window that appears click on Storage Media The Storage Media location also known as the media protocol will show all devices which are recognized by KDE including the hard drive and CD and DVD drives as well as USB and Firewire devices provided that your distribu tion is set up correctly to tell KDE about them You can also setup KDE to display a device icon on the desktop To start or configure this feature in the KDE Control Center go to Desktop Behavior and select the Device Icons Tab The device icon action can be used to show both mounted and unmounted devices or to only create an icon when media is detected and automounted only if automount is properly configured by not checking the unmounted boxes 56 The KDE User Guide 8 1 1 Automount With KDE 3 5 and newer devices can be automounted meaning one only has to insert the removable disk KDE will then open an automount prompt asking the user What do you want to do with the media To configure the list of options prompted for devices open the KDE Control Cent
77. cel Entering personal information Name In the field Name enter your name This name will later appear in the newsgroups as sender and can be seen by anyone Filling out the field Name is mandatory Email address The email address you enter here will be used as sender in news articles i e as actual address of the author in conjunction with the real name set in the field Name Filling out the Email Address field is mandatory 20 2 Configuring the news account Now we must tell KNode about where we get the news from or where to send the articles to later on In the list on the right there is an Accounts entry click 112 The KDE User Guide on it and choose the Newsgroup servers tab because we first want to configure the news account the list of accounts is still empty To create a new account click on Add The following dialog appears if New Account KNode Server Name My news account Server news server com Port 119 Hold connection for Timeout X Fetch group descriptions _ Server requires authentication _ Enable interval news checking The New Account dialog Name The Name field can be filled in as you like the text you enter will later be visible in the folder view You could for example enter the name of your Internet Provider for our example we enter the name My News Account 113 The KDE User Guide Server The next field is labelled Server Unlike the field Na
78. cessibility This section is where you can configure options to do with region and locale and also acessibility related options for disabled persons Accessibility Here is where you can configure options for users who have dif ficulty hearing system sounds or using a keyboard You can configure the system bell to use a visual signal such as flashing the screen or inverting screen colors You can also configure keyboard accessibility options such as sticky keys and slow keys Country Region amp Language This module allows you to configure options that are specific to your location such as language currency and date format To make available more languages install the kde i18n packages for your distribution Input Actions Here is where you would configure input actions such as mouse gestures and keyboard shotcuts for launching applications and running commands Keyboard Layout This module is where you would configure Kxkb a key board layout switching utility that uses the X Window System xkb ex tension It allows you to switch between different layouts using a tray in dicator or a keyboard shortcut You can enable disable keyboard layouts 42 The KDE User Guide through this dialog and add more Some of the more powerful features are the ability to configure switching of layouts globally per application or per window Keyboard Shortcuts Here you can configure global KDE keyboard shortcuts There are several predefined shor
79. cessibility 1 0 0 tar bz2 e MD5 e lsm file For more information on the project visit the KDE Accessibility Home Page 15 1 KMouseTool KMouseTool is a KDE program which clicks the mouse for you so you do not have to KMouseTool works with any mouse or pointing device 86 The KDE User Guide KMouseTool KMouseTool will run as a background application after you close this dialog To change the settings again restart KMouseTool or use the KDE system tray Settings Minimum movement 5 Smart drag _ Enable strokes _ Audible click Start with KDE Close Quit RELATED INFORMATION e MouseTool Website http mousetool com e KMouseTool Handbook 15 2 KMagnifier KMagnifier or kmag to use its UNIXQ name is a small utility for Linux to magnify a part of the screen It magnifies the area of the screen around the mouse pointer or optionally a user defined area Additionally it can save a magnified screenshot to disk 87 The KDE User Guide A KMagnifier File Edit View Settings Help o Ak JA WO x KMagnifier Edit View Settings RELATED INFORMATION e Website http kmag sourceforge net e KMag Handbook 15 3 KMouth KMouth is a KDE program which enables people who cannot speak to let their computer speak e g mutal people or people who have lost their voice It has a text input field and speaks the sentences that you enter It also has supp
80. ck Modify Fill in the Your name field with your full name e g John Doe and optionally the Organization field with the appropriate information Next fill in the Email address field with your email address e g john example That is all for this dialog unless you want to use the more advanced features cryptography a signature etc You can find more information about these features in the full KMail manual Click on the OK button to close this dialog and move on to the next configuration page 18 3 Setting up your Account Click on the Network icon to move to the network configuration page It con tains the settings that tell KMail how to send and receive your email messages You will see two tabs on the right hand side Sending and Receiving You need to set up both so let us look at them each in turn 18 3 1 Sending Messages The Sending tab provides a list of ways to send messages The first item in the list is the default way to send messages Using the Add button you can choose between two different ways of sending messages SMTP and Sendmail sendmail here means a local software installation this has a reputation of being difficult to set up so if you do not already have a working sendmail configuration choose SMTP and fill in the Name field with a descriptive name e g My Mail Account and the Host field with the name and domain of your mail server e g smtp provider com You will probably not need to ch
81. cking the K menu and choosing Run Program while you still might prefer the quick keyboard shortcut which is simply Alt F2 e Create a shortcut on the desktop or use Kicker s quick launcher The K menu functions much like the Start menu of Windows however it breaks programs up by what they do Programs on the K menu are broken into category menus such as Multimedia and Office Under these category menus there are subcategory menus such as Sound Video and Graphics Under the subcategory menus lie program launchers which when clicked on launch the associated application Depending on the program there may not be a launcher in the K menu To search your hard drive for more applications click the K menu choose Run Command and type kappfinder In Kappfinder click Scan and the hard drive will be searched for programs Click the checkbox next to each program to be added to the K menu and click Apply and Close The K menu now will have new program launchers under the relevant category menus Launchers to programs may also be placed on the desktop To create a new launcher right click on the desktop and choose Create New Link to Ap plication On the KDesktop properties dialog box type in the name of the program on the General tab You may also wish to choose a custom icon by clicking on the gear icon Click the Application tab and type a short sentence about the program in the Description textbox In the Command textbox type
82. coming events and appointments kdesktop in its turn automatically starts applications stored in KDEHOME Autostart kdesktop will automatically open any files stored in this directory including documents binary files or applications in the form of desktop files The KDE session manager also restores one of the previous sessions A session contains a collection of applications as well as application specific information that reflects the state of the applications at the time the session was saved Sessions are stored in the ksmserverrc configuration file which contains ref erences to application specific state information The application specific state information is saved in KDEHOME share config session The state informa tion of KWin contains the location of the application windows of all the other applications in the session 25 13 Environment variables Some important environment variables used by KDE KDEDIR Has to be set if KDEDIRS is not set and has to point to the root of the KDE installation tree Allows KDE to find its data like icons menus and libraries KDEDIRS Overrides KDEDIR and allows you to specify multiple directories where KDE searches for its data Useful if you want or have to install some programs to a different prefix than the rest of KDE KDEHOME If not set KDE uses kde as the directory where personal data is stored KDEROOTHOME If not set KDE uses root kde as the directory for root s personal data
83. d http kdepim kde org for more informa tion e Kontact Handbook 6 3 Network There are several network related applications in KDE Below is a description of a few of these Kopete A fully featured and advanced IM Instant Messaging client which has a number of protocols including MSN Yahoo and AIM Kopete can fetch display pictures set aliases for particular persons as well as run multiple IM sessions at any particular time Kopete is quite extensible and has a comprehensive plugin system which comes with a searchable History of previous chats statistics on a user s status as well as a note system allowing you to create notes for each contact e Website http kopete kde org e Kopete Handbook KDict A GUI front end to the DICT protocol It enables you to search through dictionary databases for a word or phrase then displays suitable defini tions e KDict Handbook e The DICT Development Group http www dict org bin Dict KGet A manager for your downloads which integrates with Konqueror KGet allows you to group your downloads pause and resume them as well as several other things 48 The KDE User Guide e Website http kget sourceforge net e KGet Handbook RELATED INFORMATION e Several more KDE network applications can be found in the KDE Extragear see Section 7 1 3 under Section 7 1 6 4 Office This includes all applications in the KOffice suite See chapter 23 for a summary of the c
84. de an application suite to manage personal information It has several components but these can all be brought under one application Kontact which is the personal information manager Below is an overview of a few of its popular components that is a few of the applications that integrate into it Kontact This serves as the medium by which the rest of the applications in KDE PIM can integrate with one another All of the applications in KDE PIM can be displayed inside here and you can easily choose which ones to display It also contains a Summary page by which you can get a brief overview of events and information in the other components e Website http kontact kde org e View the handbook by typing help kontact in Konqueror s Location Toolbar or by selecting it in KHelpCenter KMail The mail component KMail comes with full IMAP POP3 and SMTP support Signing and encrypting of emails is permitted and there are many comprehensive anti spam functions available A spell check can easily be used HTML emails can be viewed appropriately and there is an advanced search feature e Website http kmail kde org e KMail Handbook KOrganizer A fully customizable organizer which constitutes as the calen der component KOrganizer provides management of events and tasks alarm notification web export network transparent handling of data group scheduling import and export of calendar files and much more e Website http
85. ded from the Theme Manager subsection of kde look org under the Themes Styles section 12 8 Glossary Background Background wallpaper image or color for the desktop Color Scheme kcsrc Configuration file that indicates what colors to use for certain widgets Icons Images representing applications files devices etc Splash Screen Animated image or screen that displays while KDE loads after logging in Window Decoration Plugins or small programs that instruct the window man ager how to display window frames Style Plugin or a small program that instructs KDE how widgets are displayed KDE Theme kth A file that contains instructions on what settings to use for different GUI components Widgets Basic elements that build up a graphical user interface buttons scroll bars menus tabs etc 78 The KDE User Guide Chapter 13 Konsole Introduction Gardner Bell Extremely brief intro to managing in a shell Emergency procedures killing wild apps etc SSH sessions envars other fun things Some tips and tricks Konsole is a terminal emulator for the X Window System It is essentially based on the DEC s VT100 and many of its succesors Konsole also referred to as a shell is an essential tool on Linux and UNIX based machines for fast and productive work Emergency Procedures On Linux and UNIX based systems every process runs independently in its own memory space so it can t accidentally overwrit
86. der and file structure 29 5 How to setup Kontact clients I connect to my GNU Linux office server PC a sort of black box without monitor and keyboard from 2 Windows 2000 PC with Cygwin X using them as a X Window server in the near future I hope to replace both with 2 mini itx thin clients using the LTSP With this setup every user runs Kontact on the same machine where Cyrus is installed and running localhost To have Kontact work with IMAP there are these steps to complete 167 The KDE User Guide 1 Create an IMAP account on the Cyrus for fake groupware user already previously done 2 Create configure an IMAP account in KMail for login as that user 3 Use kresources to make Kontact components work with data taken from IMAP source 4 Enable groupware functionality and make related subfolders of that IMAP INBOX if not already 5 Enjoy Kontact and shared data through Cyrus IMAP So login to KDE with the first real user account you want to provide group ware functionality to Let s create the IMAP account in KMail Run Kontact and select Mail the KMail component From the menu choose Settings Configure KMail Accounts Receiving tab press the Add but ton You will then be prompted for the type of your email account and select disconnected IMAP not just IMAP Then in the General tab enter the follow ing data Account Name office_gwdata A name that will be used for the
87. device is repre sented by a volume slider and you have basic options such as to mute that particular mixer device e KMix Handbook Noatun A media player capable of playing WAV Ogg Vorbis as well as DivX encoded AVIs and other media formats Noatun features audio effects a six band graphic equalizer a full plugin architecture network trans parency and various look and feels e Website http noatun kde org e Noatun Handbook 50 The KDE User Guide RELATED INFORMATION e Several more advanced KDE multimedia applications can be found in the KDE Extragear under the Section 7 1 see Section 7 1 1 for a list of a few of them 51 The KDE User Guide Chapter 7 KDE Extragear Applications Francis Giannaros These are applications that are directly associated with KDE the project but do not appear and are not shipped with the main KDE distri bution This can be down to a number of reasons but a common case is ei ther down to a duplication of functionality or because they re simply too spe cialised Perhaps the most popular occurence however is that the developers themselves may not want it to appear in the main KDE distribution choosing rather to handle their own release schedules Nevertheless the applications in Extragear are distinguished by KDE and many are increasingly popular 7 1 Available in the KDE Extragear 7 1 1 Multimedia Amarok An advanced and comprehensive music player with the capability to
88. e CDDB database you configured earlier In the screenshot below you can see the contents of the Ogg Vorbis folder It shows all the songs in the Ogg format it even shows their file size But you and I both know that audio CDs don t contain Ogg tracks So what exactly is happening here 61 The KDE User Guide oF ieee Vorbis KONGUETOT Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help Q QO00 00 4 DH SIAR ARABIA E gt Location v audiocd Ogg Vorbis E Audio CD Browser N e The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P ATTA A gt e devices The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of m ff Fonts The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P TheRings P The Rings P a ESN TEEN UERN amp LAN Browser f5 i S Se Print System Browser a i The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of ihe Rings P The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P a Se Se Se The Lord Of The Lord Of The Lord Of The Rings P The Rings P The Rings P Imlelal ole xE Services 18 Items 18 Files 54 1 MB Total 0 Folders All the folders you see under Audio CD Browser are virtual folders They show contents of the CD through different filters so to speak When you open the Ogg Vorbis folder you are actually s
89. e any other processes memory unless of course it has root privileges If a process in KDE crashes due to a bug one should not need to worry about it accessing any other active process To keep track of all system processes use the top command or ps in Konsole Using these utilities will make it much easier to find and kill off rogue pro grams An example of using signals in Konsole Konqueror has crashed leaving behind a running process of nspluginviewer which is taking up 12 of your memory and 10 of your cpu cycles In top use the k command switch to kill the task You will be prompted for the PID and then the signal to send to kill it For more on info on what signals you can send to a running process see the full manual on signals type man signal in a Konsole or go to signal in Konqueror SSH sessions envars other fun things If you are using Konsole for remote administration consider using Konsole s Session feature To use this click on the menu entry Settings Configure Konsole From here choose the Sessions tab and fill in the name for your new session This will now become your default session when you start Konsole 79 The KDE User Guide When Konsole is invoked bash specific commands and KDE specific variables are read and executed from bashrcor bash_profile The preferred con figuration file for user environments is bash_profile the commands print env or env can be used to display all currently se
90. e initiative to create a common plugin infrastructure which allows development of image plugins that can be shared among graphical ap plications in KDE others include Gwenview ShowImg and KimDaBa e Website http digikam org e digikam Handbook Gwenview Another advanced image viewer which can load and save all im age formats supported by KDE as well as being able to display the GIMP xcf image filetype Gwenview can perform a few graphical manipu lations rotate mirroring and has full support for KIO slaves allowing you to use it via FTP Other features also include file management oper ations such as copy paste move and delete e Website http gwenview sourceforge net e Gwenview Handbook ShowlImg A feature rich image viewer written for KDE which can display numerous formats including JPEG PNG animated GIF and MNG It consists of a tree view frame a directory preview frame and a view frame The larger view frame can be exchanged with the smaller di rectory preview frame It can preview and display images from multi ple directories and search for identical images ShowImg also features a full screen mode zooming sorting drag and drop with Konqueror and support for images in compressed archives e Website http www jalix org projects showimg e ShowImg Handbook KimDaBa KimDaBa KDE Image Database attempts to provide an efficient solution for the organization of hundreds or even thousands of imag
91. e office suite It is not limited to word pro cessing spreadsheets or presentations but has also components for image ma nipulation flow charts business report generation database management and project management Because of the flexible component integration smaller utilities like the diagram and chart engine as well as the formula editor are available as stand alone tools As you can see KOffice brings a lot of features that can enrich your office expe rience Its straight forward and KDE like approach in look and feel as well as familiar usability makes KOffice quite useful for daily office work 22 2 Features This list gives a general outline of the KOffice features The KOffice office suite is too large to list every detail 122 The KDE User Guide KOFFICE FEATURES e Fully builds on KDE which makes these technologies available at low costs e Fully integrates into KDE which is vital for business environments e KDE technologies include document location abstraction DCOP scripting parts and plugins e Full Component embedding e Low memory footprint fast startup lightweight Feature complete many components are offered Intuitive good looking and easy to learn user interface e Adheres to standards OASIS OpenDocument file format 22 3 OASIS OpenDocument file format It is important for an office suite to use standards where possible especially for the file format The OASIS OpenDocument file format sp
92. e users home directory and the KDE temporary directory of the user e g tmp kde bastian The following rules makes that the user can no longer open local files that are outside his HOME directory KDE URL Restrictions rule_count 3 rule_l open file false rule_2 open file SHOME true rule_3 open file TMP true rule_i forbids the opening of any local file rule_2 allows opening files under the users own HOME directory rule_3 allows opening files in the KDE temporary directory of the user This is needed by certain KDE applications that first download a file or docu ment to the temporary directory and then open it in an application The redirection option controls whether documents from a certain location can refer either automatically or manually via a hyperlink to a certain other lo cation A set of default rules is present as a general security measure For example documents located on the Internet may not refer to locally stored doc uments For example if we want to give the intranet server www mycompany com the pos sibility to refer to local files we could add the following rule KDE URL Restrictions rule_count 1 rule_l redirect http www mycompany com file true Instead of listing a protocol by name it is also possible to specify a whole group of protocols For that the following groups have been defined local Protocols that access locally stored information
93. earn more about KOffice The application manuals can be accessed by using the documentation KIO Slave in Konqueror that is typing help application into the Location toolbar or by selecting the respective handbook from the KHelpCenter The website is also a good place to find out more it is at http www koffice org 24 2 Internet Resources The primary site on the internet is http www koffice org You will also find information about the user and developer mailing lists as well as additional developer resources The Kexi project has even an additional website which can be found at http www kexi project org 24 3 Plugin development KOffice can easily be extended with plugins Plugin development is not very difficult and can be used to optimize your everyday workflow Such capabil ities are probably very interesting in business environments to make KOffice meet individual requirements You can either take a look at existing plugins or read a general introduction at the developer s site The general KDE TechBase is available at http techbase kde org 126 The KDE User Guide Part VI KDE for Administrators 127 The KDE User Guide Waldo Bastian and Philip Rodrigues 128 The KDE User Guide Chapter 25 KDE Internals 25 1 Overview to be written 25 2 Directory Layout KDE defines a filesystem hierarchy which is used by the KDE environment itself as well as all KDE applications In general KDE stor
94. ecification is an open standard for office applications This format is spreading more and more it is also the same file format OpenOffice org uses which means that file exchange with any user of this office suite is easily possible Adhering to official standards is always a good thing For business environ ments it is even vital to exactly know about their documents KOffice has more components to offer than what is covered by the OASIS spec ification Still all components covered by the specifications actually use the OASIS OpenDocument file format 123 The KDE User Guide Chapter 23 KOffice Components Overview Keep in mind that all these components can integrate very well into each other So basically a spreadsheet can contain anything from charts to presentations reports and even text documents Likewise almost any component can contain almost any other KWord The textprocessing component but it includes many aspects of a desk top publishing application This creates a rather unique mixture of fea tures that makes interesting layouts easily possible e Website http www koffice org kword e KWord Handbook KSpread The spreadsheet component KSpread is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides both table oriented sheets and support for com plex mathematical formulas and statistics Features include Hyperlinks cell data validity checking with configurable warnings actions scripting and specific cell cu
95. eeing the contents of the CD as if it were stored in the Ogg format You can go through the other folders and you ll find MP3 flac and wav representations of the CD s contents You can even see the approximate file sizes when encoded in the various formats So how do we rip and encode the CD I think you can guess the answer by now Just decide which format you wish to rip to open that folder and copy and paste those files in your target folder That s it KDE will start ripping and encoding the files on the fly If you copy any of the files in the Full CD folder you ll be ripping the entire CD as one continuous stream 33270f 5 4 MB Gopying Source audiocd Ogg Vorbis The Lord Of e Breaking Of The Fellowship ogg Destination file home shots Desktop The Lor e Breaking Of The Fellowship ogg rere wre ere 33 1 8 MB of 5 4 MB complete 1 1 file 48 2 KB s 00 01 17 remaining _ Keep this window open after transfer is complete _opentie RELATED INFORMATION 62 The KDE User Guide e The amaroK website at http amarok sf net has the latest news and infor mation about amaroK 8 4 Playing Movies Intro to xine plugin to aRts Alternatives kaffeine kmplayer 63 The KDE User Guide Chapter 9 KDE the Multiuser Desktop 9 1 About Your KDE Account KDE stores information about your personal settings in a few different places The hidden directory kde note the period at the beginning
96. eing able to modify any file on the system Although this means that it is easy to perform administrative tasks without hassle it also means that there are no security restrictions imposed upon it Thus a small typographical error or other mistake can result in irrevocable damage Some of the operating systems that run KDE come with a graphical root login enabled Despite this you should never log in to KDE as root and you should never need to Your system is far more open to attack particularly if you are browsing the Internet as root and you dramatically increase your chances of damaging your system Some Linux distributions have tried to stress this point so much that they have disabled the root account altogether and instead use the sudo model Nevertheless the basic security model in sudo is the same as su and thus they share the same security strengths and weaknesses essentially If you should ever need to run a program with Super User privileges then it is always recommend that you use KDE su From Konsole or from hitting Alt F2 enter kdesu application and the application will be run with the appropriate Super User privileges Even if you have set up your system to use sudo or you are on a distribution that uses sudo such as Kubuntu you should still use KDE su The program will be appropriately modified by the developers to use the correct settings You should not however ever use sudo application to run an applica
97. er and navigate to Peripherals Storage Media Here you can add and remove programs from the list of devices The automount feature will only work if dbus hal and udev are installed and the kernel is properly configured To find out if they are running on your sys tem check the Process Table in KSysguard for hald dbus deamon and udevd KDE does not provide any of these components You must check with you dis tribution RELATED INFORMATION e HOWTO setting up D BUS and HAL with KDE s media ioslave edit A com munity maintained HOWTO on the KDE wiki e The DBus page e http www freedesktop org wiki Software halHAL Hardware Abstrac tion Layer 8 1 2 Mounting If your system does not automount KDE is configured to mount and unmount devices which the current user have permission to mount If a device is mounted as the root partition i e and you login to KDE as a user KDE can not mount or unmount it without being given a higher permission To check a devices mount permission see the etc fstab file To mount and unmount devices manually in KDE one only has to right mouse button click the device icon in media or on the desktop and select Mount or Unmount for removable devices one can also unmount with Safely Remove KDE still requires the device to be setup in etc fstab 8 2 Playing Music Intro to aRts Performance tuning sharing devices 8 2 1 Music Players There are several KDE music players with somewhat over
98. es Having been highly optimized for annotating images KimDaBa can help you locate an image in a matter of seconds e Website http ktown kde org kimdaba e KimDaBa Handbook 53 The KDE User Guide 7 1 3 Network Konversation A fully featured IRC client which supports per channel encod ing downloading and resuming file transfers nick completion and high lighting as well as tight integration with Kontact and the rest of KDE e Website http konversation kde org e Konversation Handbook KMldonkey A KDE frontend for MLDonkey a powerful P2P file sharing tool Highly configurable real time graphical bandwidth and network statis tics and much more e Website http kmldonkey org e KMIdonkey Handbook KNemo Displays for every network interface an icon in the systray Tooltips and an info dialog provide further information about the interface Pas sive popups inform about interface changes and a traffic plotter is also integrated e KDE apps entry http www kde apps org content show php content 12956 7 1 4 Utilities Filelight A simple yet ideal application for graphically displaying where your diskpace is being used Filelight displays this information by represent ing your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented rings e Website http www methylblue com filelight e Filelight Handbook Krecipes A KDE recipe tool that can manage a recipe database with an easy to use interface Full support
99. es all its files in a directory tree with a fixed structure By default KDE uses two directory trees e One at the system level for example opt kde3 e One at the user level in the user s home directory usually kde As a system administrator you can create additional trees Such additional trees can be used for profiles SuSE Linux for example uses e SHOME kde e opt kde3 This is SuSE specific other distributions may use usr or u sr kde3 e etc opt kde3 This was added by SuSE 129 The KDE User Guide If you have the KIOSK Admin tool v0 7 or later installed you can check which directory trees are used with the following command kiosktool kdedirs check KDE and KDE applications look up files by scanning all the KDE directory trees The directory trees are checked in order of precedence When a file is present in multiple directory trees the file from the last tree takes precedence Normally the tree located in the user s home directory has the highest prece dence This is also the directory tree to which changes are written For information about the text plain MIME type the following files are searched e SHOME kde share mimelnk text plain desktop e opt kde3 share mimelnk text plain desktop e etc opt kde3 share mimelnk text plain desktop If a user makes a change the change is written to HOME kde share mimelnk text plain desktop For configuration files the story is slightly d
100. eview Image Caption s My Caption Description This is na very long ndescription Empty lines in configuration files are ignored as are lines that start with a hash mark The hash mark can be used to add comments to configuration files It should be noted that when a KDE application updates a configuration file the comments are not preserved There can be multiple configuration files with the same name in the share config sub directory of the various KDE directory trees In this case the in formation of all these configuration files is combined on a key by key basis If the same key within a certain group is defined in more than one place the key value read from the directory tree with the highest precedence will be used Configuration files under KDEHOME always have the highest precedence If a key in a certain group is defined multiple times in a single file the value of the last entry is used If SHOME kde share config foobar contains MyGroup Color red Shape circle and etc opt kde3 share config foobar contains MyGroup Color blue Position 10 10 the result will be MyGroup Color red Shape circle Position 10 10 If SHOME kde share config foobar contains MyGroup Color red Shape circle MyGroup Color green and opt kde_staff share config foobar contains MyGroup Color purple Position 20 20 135 The KDE User Guide
101. examples are file man fonts floppy internet Common internet protocols such as http and ftp Information about protocols is stored in protocol files stored in KDEDI R share services The Class entry defines the group a protocol is part of grep Class KDED IR share services protocol General rules 156 The KDE User Guide The local protocols may refer to any other protocol It s always allowed to refer to an internet protocol Not all protocols are part of a group fish for example 27 5 Configuration Modules KDE has configuration modules to configure various aspects of the KDE envi ronment Configuration modules appear in the Control Center in the Config uration dialog of an application or in both The proxy configuration module appears in the Control Center but also as part of the Configure Konqueror dialog in Konqueror Individual configuration modules can be started with kemshell4 module To start the Proxy module use kcmshell4 kde proxy desktop kcmshell4 proxy NOTE Not all applications use configuration modules often the configuration dialog is an integral part of the application itself All configuration modules are strictly speaking part of the KDE menu The modules that are visible in the Control Center normally have a deskto p file in SKDEDIR share applications kde and are sorted under the hidden Settings Modules menu by the kde sett ings menu included from kde ess
102. ffect Some IBM laptops for instance have extra keys about the left and right arrows which look like page left and page right 1 Use xev to find the code of the keys In this case they are 233 and 234 2 Choose key symbols There are quite a range of these that are not used by default so many are free You can find the list in usr X11R6 inclu de X11 keysymdef h or its equivalent on your system 3 Create a file in your home directory called Xmodmap and add to it the following keycode 233 Next_Virtual_Screen keycode 234 Prev_Virtual_Screen 4 Run the command xmodmap Xmodmap 97 The KDE User Guide At this point you should be able to run xev again and see that the keys now generate the keysym that you assigned You can now simply assign them to any action as normal RELATED INFORMATION e The xev manpage You can see this by typing man xev into a Konqueror window or by typing man xev into a terminal 16 4 Adding Keybindings for New Actions Most actions in either the desktop or in applications are readily available to assign a keybinding to If the action you want a shortcut for is something you wrote yourself or is otherwise not available you can still assign a shortcut To bring together the two previous sections perhaps you want to assign an otherwise unused key on your keyboard to a script or dcop command Our example here will be to assign the two keys we added in Section 16 3 to go to
103. follows mouse You can also con figure what actions you would like to bind to certain keys and mouse events Window Specific Settings This is an advanced configuration dialog where you can set options for the behavior of specific windows There are many op tions here for the fine tuning of your window layout including what position on the screen you would like certain windows to open to and whether they should be shown on the taskbar or pager You can select windows by application or even by their specific role within an applica tion 5 3 Internet amp Network This section is where you would configure settings to do with internet and networking under KDE Connection Preferences Here you can set advanced networking options such as timeout values for server connects Usually you would leave these options at the defaults unless you really knew what you were doing Desktop Sharing Desktop Sharing allows you to invite someone to share your session with you or can enable you to log in remotely to your machine from another location You would then use a VNC client like KDE s Re mote Desktop Connection application to control your desktop over the network This is extremely useful if you want someone to help you per form a task Here you can create and manage invitations as well as set your security policy for uninvited connections You can also configure whether to show a background image and which port for the service to listen
104. found in a directory index docbook which contains the documentation in the unformatted DocBook format and index cache bz2 which contains the same doc umentation formatted as bzip2 compressed HTML The HTML version is used by KHelpCenter If the HTML version is missing KHelpCenter will regenerate it from the DocBook version but this is a time consuming process 132 The KDE User Guide share icons Under this directory icons are stored Icons are categorized by theme dimension and usage category share mimelnk In this directory desktop files that describe MIME types are stored KDE uses MIME types to identify the type of a file share services This directory contains desktop files that describe ser vices Services are like applications but are usually launched by other applications instead of the user Services do not appear in the KDE menu share servicetypes This directory contains desktop files that describe servicetypes A servicetype usually represents a certain programming interface Applications and Services include in their gt desktop files the servicetypes that they provide share sounds This directory contains sound files share templates This directory contains templates for creating files of var ious types A template consists of a desktop file that describes the file and that includes a reference to a file in the source sub directory The templates in this directory appear in the Create New menu available o
105. g Configuration Files 16 1 1 Introduction 0 0 0 0 00000000008 0G 16 1 2 Backups smi ead ia ea ghee ERG Re Re eo 16 13 Editing ce re crasu he Be ca ae ee eed wae 16 2 Scripting the Desktop 2 0 a 16 3 Adding Extra Keybindings to KDE 16 4 Adding Keybindings for New Actions 16 5 KDebugDialog Controlling KDE s Debugging Output 16 5 1 BasicUsage aa ai ee ee ee 16 5 2 KDebugDialog infullmode 73 73 73 74 75 76 77 LE 78 79 81 81 82 83 84 84 85 86 86 87 88 92 The KDE User Guide IV KDE and the Internet 101 17 Setting up an Internet Connection 102 17 1 Getting online the easy way 0 0 0000 102 17 1 1 A few things you should have ready before you start 102 17 2 The KPPP wizard 0 0 0 0 0 02 0 0000 103 17 2 1 Starting the Wizard 0 0000 103 17 2 2 The Rest of the Wizard 4 105 18 Getting Started with Email 106 18 1 Information you will need before you start 106 18 2 Setting your Identity 0 0 0 0008 107 18 3 Setting up your Account 2 2 ee eee eee 107 18 3 1 Sending Messages 2 2 0 ee eee eee 107 18 3 2 Receiving Messages 2 2 ee ee 107 18 4 Testing yourSetup s ecce ta ee e a ee 108 19 Konqueror 109 19 1 Internet Shortcuts 2 2 deu raae eee eee 109 19 2 Fine Tuning your Browsing Experience
106. g based setup will start for you to continue with On the next window you will be given a choice of Internet Providers that KPPP knows about based on your choice of location in the previous window Again if your ISP is not listed here you will have to click Cancel and do your setup in the Dialog based setup You will now be asked to enter your username and password for your internet connection Please note that for some ISPs this differs from your mail account user name and password so make sure you use the right one Choose Next to continue On the next window you have a chance to enter any special dial prefixes you might have for example if you must dial 0 for an outside line or if you have a prefix you can dial to turn off call waiting Choose Next to continue And that s all If you want to revisit any of your choices you can use the Back and Next buttons to move back and forth through the dialogs When you re done with your settings click the Finish button and you re all done If you need more details you can read the full KPPP manual in the KDE Help Center or by typing help kppp in the Location bar in Konqueror 105 The KDE User Guide Chapter 18 Getting Started with Email Daniel Naber and David Rugge KDE features a powerful and easy to use email client called KMail which allows you to send receive and organize your email quickly and efficiently Let us look at how to set it up If you have any prob
107. ghlighted virtual desktop To select a different desktop press Tab re peatedly while holding down Ctrl The selection moves through the available desktops When the desktop you want to switch to is highlighted release Ctrl 2 3 3 2 Windows and Virtual Desktops You can move windows around your virtual desktops with the To Desktop item in the window menu just select the desktop to which you want to move 17 The KDE User Guide the window You can make the window appear on all desktops with the All Desktops item 2 4 The File Manager userguide Konqueror lt 2 gt Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help eoeoc oe s Annum E gt Location E Jusrilocal kde3 5 src kdebase doc userguide 5 accessibility amarok amarok a window docbook icon png png png 53 B B B base kde browser burning eating applicatio fine tunin cds docb i phics A M 4 c ce y credits desktop email extragear file sharing and licen png docbook applicatio docbook gt B B B font getting glossary groupware index installatio help doc docbook kontact d cache bz2 amarok png 14 3 KB PNG Image T Konqueror with simple settings 2 4 1 Introduction KDE includes a versatile and powerful file manager called Konqueror which allows you to do everything you want with the files st
108. h Application Language Opens a dialog where you can edit the Primary language and Fallback language for this application Help About Kapp This will display version and author information Help About KDE This displays the KDE version and other basic informa tion 179 The KDE User Guide Chapter 33 Glossary of Terms KDE GUI UNIX terms that are worth explaining 180 The KDE User Guide Chapter 34 Troubleshooting Problems Problems that aren t Frozen apps how to kill them Things won t open That scary crash dialog Reporting Bugs More Resources 34 1 Networking and X Misconfigured networking can often be the cause of KDE applications launch ing slowly or in the worst case not launching at all Your X Server has a very powerful client server interface and is very network aware X uses the hostname to create both a unique key for authorization and to figure out where via DISPLAY to send the actual windows it s drawing on screen If your computer doesn t know its own name it will spend inordinate amounts of time trying to look itself up a fate you can avoid by simply teaching your computer what its own name is Check your etc hosts file and ensure there is an entry for localhost that looks something like this at the top of the file after any comments P27 2001 4 Vocal hoist You also should add your computer s fully qualified domain name short name and its usual IP add
109. he Toolbars sub menu from the resulting context menu The same Toolbar context menu accessed by right clicking on the toolbar al lows you to customize other properties of the toolbar e Its orientation so that instead of appearing at the top of the window under the menu bar you can place it on the left right or bottom of the window e Its orientation so that the toolbar floats as a separate window which you can move independently e Its orientation so that the toolbar is squashed into a little flat grip that you can re open by double clicking on it this is subtly different from making the toolbar vanish completely since it it easier to cause it to re appear e The appearance of text alongside underneath or instead of the icons on the toolbar e The size of the icons if they are not supplanted by text 4 4 4 2 Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar The toolbar is intended for actions that you perform often so what do you do if there is some useless icon there like Cut Or what if you really want a cut button on the toolbar but the application doesn t give you one This is where the customize toolbars dialog comes in it give you complete control over the actions that are available on each toolbar Choose Settings Configure Toolbars from the application s menu or Con figure Toolbars from the context menu of the toolbar itself This displays the configure toolbars dialog which consists of a combobox with w
110. he default applications you would like to use for various services Here you can define what Email Client Embedded Text Editor Instant Messenger Ter minal Emulator File Manager and Web Browser to use If you prefer to use Xterm Vim or Mozilla this is the place to specify those preferences File Associations This is where you configure everything to do with file as sociations Here you can select a filetype and choose what applications you would like to be able to open it with You can also select which icon you would like to represent each filetype and whether to show it in an embedded or a separate viewer 40 The KDE User Guide File Manager Here you can configure the behavior of Konqueror in file man ager mode Among the options are fonts and font sizes previews over various network protocols and context menus Konqueror is an extremely powerful and configurable file management tool with a plethora of op tions For more information consult the Konqueror handbook KDE Performance Here are settings related to the memory usage of Konqueror Minimize Memory Usage allows you to control whether separate instances of Konqueror will open or whether all new Konqueror windows connect to the same instance This has the effect of reducing memory usage You can also select whether to pre load Konqueror after KDE startup to re duce start times KDE Resources Configuration Service Manager The Service Manager module displays a static lis
111. he end of the file is reached En tries at the top of the file that are not preceded by a group name belong to the default group The following example shows a configuration file that consists of two groups The first group contains the keys LargeCursor and SingleClick the second group contains the keys Show hidden files and Sort by KDE LargeCursor false SingleClick true KFileDialog Settings Show hidden files false Sort by Name Entries in a group consist of a key and value separated by an equals sign The key can contain spaces and may be followed by options placed in square brack ets The part after the equals sign is the value of the entry Any white space surrounding the equals sign is ignored as is any trailing white space Put more concisely the format is entry value If a value is supposed to include a space at the begin or end then this can be achieved by using a backslash followed by an s There are several other backslash codes here is a complete list e scan be used as space e tcan be used to include a tab e r for a carriage return character e n fora linefeed character new line e to include the backslash itself In the following example the value of the Caption entry starts with two spaces while the Description entry contains three lines of text Linefeeds in backslash notation are used to separate the different lines 134 The KDE User Guide Pr
112. he mouse cursor over the border of the window it is light blue in the screenshot above The pointer will turn into a double headed arrow Click and drag and the edge of the window follows the mouse cursor making the window bigger or smaller If you click on the borders on the top or bottom of the window you can adjust the height on its own If you click on the borders on the left or right of the window you can adjust the width To change both at the same time move the mouse cursor over the corner of the window When the pointer becomes a diagonal double headed arrow click and drag 12 The KDE User Guide Use the leftmost button on the window titlebar to display the window menu Choose the Resize entry and the mouse pointer will become a double headed arrow Move the mouse cursor around to resize and click the left mouse but ton when you are done to release the window e If you cannot see the window border or the button for the window menu you can use Alt and the right mouse button Hold down Alt and drag with the right mouse button The window will resize You just release the right mouse button when you are done If you just want to make a window as big as possible so it takes up the whole screen use the Maximize button which is the second button from the right on the window titlebar Clicking with the left mouse button on this button will make the window as big as possible in both directions while clicking with the middle mouse
113. he session manager determines the lifetime of the session When this process exits the user is logged out 25 11 Background Processes All KDE background services are user specific unlike system daemons they are not shared between users As well as being unique per user they are also unique per X server display The processes are dcopserver Desktop communication kded Generic service daemon Triggers Sycoca database updates when needed keminit Initialization service See Section 25 11 2 for more information klauncher Program launch this is not the Alt F2dialog See Section 25 11 3 for more information 139 The KDE User Guide knotify User notifications See Section 25 11 4 for more information ksmserver Session management See Section 25 12 for more information 25 11 1 kdeinit kdeinit is used to start all other KDE programs kdeinit can start normal bi nary program files as well as kdeinit loadable modules KLMs KLMs work just like binary program files but can be started more efficiently KLMs live in SKDEDIR 1ib kde3 The drawback is that programs started this way appear as kdeinit in the output of top and ps Use top c or ps aux to see the actual program name Sps aux waba 23084 0 2 2 0 23428 11124 7 21 41 0 00 lt lt kKdeinit4 Running waba 23189 O72 2 4 25136 12496 2 15 21 41 0 00 kKdeinit4 klauncher waba 23192 ON 208 255916 A725 2s 21 41 030 0 kdeinit4 kded waba 23203 0 6 3
114. hich you can select which toolbar to customize and two lists of items one of the available actions and one of the actions that are already in use on the toolbar Often there are many many more actions available activate tab 12 for in stance than you would ever want on the toolbar or even that you know exist in the application The customize toolbar dialog can be a learning experience You can drag actions from one list box to the other rearrange the items on the toolbar or change the icon for a selected action This allows you to drag the actions you don t want off of the toolbar and into the list of available actions 33 The KDE User Guide similarly the actions you do want can be dragged into the toolbar Clicking OK in the dialog immediately updates the toolbar with your new preferred actions There are a few special items that can end up in the listbox for the current toolbar e separators which exist in two flavors line separator appears as a line between two action icons separator appears as a larger space between two action icons e lt Merge gt which is a special item that allows plugins and other loadable components of the application to insert their actions into the toolbar as well It is generally not a good idea to remove this since you cannot get it back e ActionList these appear in various flavors there is a viewmode_toolbar one in Konqueror and again these represent lists of actions that m
115. ide aims to provide an overview of the entire KDE experience We assume here that you have a standard working installation of a complete KDE desktop environment and the accompanying packages This book should be your first point of reference for any simple KDE configuration question or to find out how to perform a common task 1 1 What this book aims to be The first place to look and a one stop shop for all questions you have regarding your KDE experience A Quick Start Guide to commonly performed tasks In most cases you do not need to know the details of how to configure every option in an application in order to get down to work You will find step by step guides which will work in most common situations along with links to sources of further information in case you have any problems There are also some tips and tricks showing you the most useful and impres sive features of KDE and ways to save you time and effort 1 2 What this book is not The User Guide is not intended to be a replacement for the application man uals You should turn to the handbook for help with specific program config uration and troubleshooting issues not covered in this book If the answer is outside the scope of this book we will tell you here precisely where to look for further help The KDE User Guide You may also have a variety of third party packages and some of these applica tions are mentioned briefly here but we normally cover only the ap
116. idgets are the basic elements of a graphical user interface such as buttons scrollbars tabs and menus A widget style is a plugin or a small program that instructs KDE how widgets are displayed Since widgets are the very basic parts of an interface they are frequently accessed and must be able to respond very quickly This is why widget styles must come as source code to be com piled or as binary packages to be installed just like window decorations Please refer to your distribution s documentation on how to compile from source or install binary packages Once a widget style has been installed it will be added to the list of available styles in the Style module in the KDE Control Center The Style tab allows you to select a widget style from the list and to configure it if the style has a Configure feature Different styles have different options A preview of the selected style is available at the lower portion of the tab The Effects tab controls different visual effects for some widgets like comboboxes and tooltips The Toolbar tab gives some options on the general appearance of toolbars Additional widget styles can be found in the different KDE subsections of the Themes Styles of kde look org Take note that styles come in source code or binary package forms They are not KDE theme files 12 7 KDE Theme KDE allows you to save the different changes you made to your desktop s ap pearance in one file using the Theme Manager in
117. ifferent If there are multiple con figuration files found in the directory trees with the same name their content is combined The precedence order of the directory trees plays a role here When two files define the same configuration key the file with the highest precedence determines which value is used for the key For example if the following two files exist with these contents SHOME kde share config foobar Color red Shape circle Color blue Position 10 10 The files will be merged to result in Color red Shape circle Position 10 10 25 3 Specifying Directories Environment Variable KDEHOME Example Setting s kde Comment Environment Variable KDEROOTHOME Example Setting s root kde Comment Different variable to prevent root writing to KDEHOME of the user after run ning su Environment Variable KDEDIR Example Setting s opt kde3 usr usr kde3 130 The KDE User Guide Comment Vendor dependent Used by KDE 2 If not set falls back to compiled in default Environment Variable KDEDIRS Example Setting s opt kde3 usr usr kde3 Comment New in KDE3 Can list multiple locations separated by a colon If not set falls back to KDEDIR Don t need to be set defaults work just fine Running KDE2 next to KDE3 Point KDEDIR to KDE 2 and KDEDIRS to KDE 3 A staff member at a university could have the following settings KDEHOME kde3 KDER
118. ight be inserted by plugins Whenever you click on an action in the list of current actions a description of it is shown in the dialog This description will warn you if it is a bad idea to remove the action If you do not like to drag things around there are four buttons in the middle of the dialog which allow you to move the selected action from one list to the other and to move a selected current action up or down in the list There must be a way to restore the default toolbars in an application in order to recover from accidentally deleting an important action like lt Merge gt but I don t know what it is 34 The KDE User Guide Part III KDE Components The KDE User Guide Chapter 5 The KDE Control Center amp Icons Control Center File View Settings Help b search 4 Icons Wf Appearance amp Themes Theme Advanced E Background F Colors m T Fonts J QB Launch Feedback E Screen Saver Sef Splash Screen Crystal SVG Icon Theme by Everaldo com Design Studio Select the icon theme you want to use Name Description amp Style GNOME Default GNOME Theme 1 Theme Manager gt Window Decorations 3 Desktop Internet amp Network amp KDE Components Peripherals LB Power Control amp Regional amp Accessibility Install New Theme A Security amp Privacy Sound amp Multimedia System Administration Help Defaults
119. ile or easily change to a predefined color setting without having to change each window element separately Additional color schemes can be downloaded from the Color Schemes section of kde look org 12 3 Icons An icon theme contains the images used to represent actions files devices and applications Managing icon themes is easily done through the Icons module in the KDE Control Center Simply select the icon theme you want to use and click on Apply to switch to the new theme To install new icon themes all you need to do is to click on Install New Theme and browse to the location of the icon theme archive There is no need to extract the contents of the archive into a directory In fact the Icons module only accepts archived icon themes To re move an icon theme simply select the theme from the list and click on Remove Theme Note that you cannot remove the icon theme that you are currently using You need to switch to some other theme before the current one will be come removable You also cannot remove icon themes that were installed by the administrator root or by your distribution s package manager Other icon themes can be found in the Icon Themes subsection of kde look org 74 The KDE User Guide 12 4 Splash Screen KDE 3 5 Rade E Loading the panel The default KDE splash screen The splash screen is the animated image or screen that is displayed while KDE loads after you log in Each user can have
120. ill need to start by running kttsmgr the KDE Text to Speech manager RELATED INFORMATION e Website http accessibility kde org developer kttsd e KTTSD Handbook 92 The KDE User Guide Chapter 16 Tinkering Under the Hood of KDE 16 1 Hand Editing Configuration Files 16 1 1 Introduction In KDE the configuration files are easy to edit with a simple editor like Kate as the configuration files are text files An example of a text file General AutoSave 1l LastFile var tmp test txt The user specific configuration files are stored in kde share config replace kde with your KDEHOME setting and the global ones are in the share config sub directory of KDE s installation path You can find this path by running the command kde4 config prefix Their filenames typically end in rc without an initial period for example kopeterc WARNING Editing configuration files by hand can risk the stability of your KDE installation Applications usually do not check what they read from the configuration files This means that they can be disturbed by what they get as configuration and might even crash 93 The KDE User Guide 16 1 2 Backups So the first rule is to make a backup of your file before modifying it The backup is better stored outside any kde subdirectory or the corresponding KDEHO ME directory Backups are anyway a good idea in case of a major failure of KDE that would destroy
121. in p imap localhost You are prompted for the cyrus user password so enter it If the user cyrus is correctly authenticated the following lines will appear 166 The KDE User Guide S L01 OK User logged in Authenticated To exit type logout i e dot space logout Now add a user named groupware and set a password for it using your usual system tools It should be in an unprivileged group such as nobody and does not require a login shell or a home directory Now I have to create the user and an IMAP in cyrus also cyradm user cyrus localhost after entering the password for the admin user cyrus you get the prompt localhost gt localhost gt cm user groupware localhost gt lm lists the mailbox only just created user groupware HasNoChildren localhost gt quit You can type help for a list of available commands You can check what has happened with ls l var spool cyrus mail g user groupware total 12 Se 1 cyrus mail A et 29 20855 Cyrus cache Wie Nicyrus mail 55 Oct 29 20350 Cyrus Meader Se ee i cyrus marl 76 Oct 29 20755 cyrus index Now you should be able to connect with an IMAP client as the groupware user and see the INBOX NOTE In the IMAP protocol selecting the mailbox INBOX is a magic word a sort of alias for the above directory structure The client sees INBOX and the IMAP server maps itin the var spool cyrus mail fol
122. ind more information about the options available in this dialog in Section 11 2 Close Ctrl W This menu entry closes the current document If you have made any changes since you last saved the document you will be asked whether you want to save those changes You can choose to Save or Dis card those changes If you didn t really want to close the file just click Cancel Quit Ctrl Q Use this entry to close the program you re using If you have unsaved changes in any files you will be asked whether you want to save them THE EDIT MENU Undo Ctrl Z Use this entry to remove the effect of the last action you per formed in the application For example if you deleted a line of text the Undo menu entry will replace that line Redo Ctrl Shift Z Use this menu entry to perform the last action that you removed with the Undo menu entry For example if as in the example above you had replaced a deleted line of text with Undo the Redo entry would redo the action of deleting the line Cut Ctrl X This menu entry cuts the contents of the current selection to the clipboard See Section 3 4 for more information Copy Ctrl C This menu entry copies the contents of the current selection to the clipboard See Section 3 4 for more information Paste Ctrl V This menu entry inserts the contents of the clipboard in the current document The clipboard contents are inserted where the cursor is currently positioned Select All Ctrl A
123. indows 14 2 3 2 Advanced Window Management 14 23 21 kstatt 2 ad ease e kG es wa woe Booed 14 2 3 2 2 Other Special Window Settings 15 2 3 2 3 The System Tray ee hae are ane weed 15 2 3 2 4 More Complex Uses of ksystraycmd 16 2 3 2 5 Improving Reliability 17 2 3 3 Using Multiple Desktops aoaaa 17 2 3 3 1 Switching Virtual Desktops 17 2 3 3 2 Windows and Virtual Desktops 17 24 The Fil Manager 504 06 ee Face een een cee as 18 2 4 1 Introduction 2 00200000005 18 242 Folders sdas aad oe mik enag aae e Helene eho 19 2 4 3 The Navigation Panel aka The Sidebar 21 DAA JCONS deee ea a te ee ho eR Se e a e 23 2 4 5 Links and Shortcuts aoaaa aaa 23 2 4 6 The Trash ss sadice cesae sirenes ee 23 The Panel and the Desktop 24 3 1 Kicker the KDE Panel 2 00005 24 3 22 Configuring Kicker gt noa ccriassrictssa snme c 24 3 2 1 Customizing the icons on the panel 24 3 2 2 Adding extras and applets 25 3 2 3 TheSystem Tray 0 000000000008 25 3 24 Removing PanelItems 0 25 3 3 The Taskbar lt s 2 444 2444 4 242644 podon eRe a Ee 26 3 4 Using the Clipboard 0 0 0 0 00000 26 3 4 1 The Selection 2 0020002 eee 26 3 4 2 The Clipboatd seres 0484 srini bed eimi 4 26 3 4 3 More Advanced Clipboard Use
124. is focused and then go to Advanced Special Window Settings As you can see from here you change various things from its geometry upon startup to whether it should have a border or not 2 3 2 3 The System Tray Now that we know how to customize the decoration of a window let s take a look at another aspect of the desktop the system tray The system tray is an area in which an application can display a small window It is used to display status information or provide quick access to commands A window that has an item in the system tray usually disappears from the task manager when minimised with the tray icon providing a replacement Normally tray icons are specifically developed as part of an application but as with window deco rations KDE provides a tool for changing this ksystraycmd To begin with we ll take the standard application KCalc and turn it into a system tray application This is acheived with one simple command gt ksystraycmd title st kealie koale The icon shown in the tray is the one specified in the window hints and will be updated if the icon changes The window title is shown as a tooltip if you hold the mouse over the icon ksystraycmd follows standard KDE behaviour so the target window can be shown and hidden by clicking the tray icon and a standard context menu is available rE 15 The KDE User Guide 2 3 2 4 More Complex Uses of ksystraycmd To illustrate the other features of
125. is well configured for IRC Jabber and or MSN and or any other protocol If an email comes in from a contact you know the first thing you have to do is to add it to your address book This can be achieved by right clicking the address and choosing the entry Add to Address Book If you know the nickname which the user uses on for example IRC go to Kopete Go to File Add contact In the wizard select the checkbox at the bottom called Use the KDE address book for this contact and choose Next Select the right Address Book entry for that contact and press Next Now you can set the display name and the group it belongs to for Kopete In the next screen select which protocol should be used if you have set up more than one protocol You can select more than one protocol After that depending on the protocol there will be some other questions which you can answer as you like Although we did specify to choose from the address book Kopete has not au tomatically linked your contact to the address book So select the contact and choose Edit Properties On the General tab check the box labeled Has ad dress book entry Press and select the contact Close these two windows Now go to your addressbook if you select the contact you will see that it shows an extra field Presence followed by the current status This status will auto matically update as soon as the contact goes away offline online and so on Now go to KMail select a
126. k org Please refer to your distribu tion s documentation on how to install these The advantage of using pixmap based window decorations is it is relatively easy to make themes for them by using images and editing a configuration file The tradeoff is a slight loss of performance while this may be unnoticeable on very fast systems To add an IceWM theme select IceWM as the window decoration and click on the Open KDE s IceWM theme folder link in the window decoration descrip tion area This will open a Konqueror window to KDEHOME share apps kwin icewm themes Extract your IceWM theme to this folder The theme will then be added to the list of IceWM themes Select the theme you want to use and click on Apply To add a deKorator theme after you ve installed deKorator select deKorator from the window decorations list and go to the Themes tab Click on Install New Theme and locate your deKorator theme archive Make sure that the version of the deKorator theme matches the deKorator version installed on your system Once the theme has been added select the theme you want to use and click on Set Theme Paths Click on Apply for the changes to take effect Some more window decorations are available at kde look org under the Native KDE 3 x and the Native KDE 3 2 subsections Themes for the IceWM and 76 The KDE User Guide deKorator window decorations have their own subsections under the Window Decorations category 12 6 Style W
127. keytab void setKeytab QString keyboard QSize size void setSize QSize size Here are the options for the first session session 1 o dcop konsole 8954 konsole setFullScreen true This sets Konsole to full screen When there is more than one application object which one should you use Got a reference echo SKONSOLE_DCOP DCOPRef konsole 7547 konsole dcopstart konsole konsole 9058 bin sh konsole dcopstart konsole script session dcop Skonsole konsole currentSession dcop Skonsole session renameSession Local 161 The KDE User Guide session dcop Skonsole konsole newSession dcop Skonsole S session renameSession Remote session dcop S konsole konsole newSession dcop S konsole session renameSession Code dcop S konsole session sendSession cd my work directory 28 2 2 KDialog KDE DIY Building Your Own Tools You can use KDE dialogs from your own scripts to combine the power of UNIX shell scripting with the ease of use of KDE kdialog msgbox You have new mail kdialog title New Mail msgbox You have new mail The KDialog part can be replaced via caption option kdialog title New Mail msgbox You have new mail lt dontagain myfile mykey Saves whether to show again in KDEHOME share config myfile by writing into this file the following lines Notification Messages
128. korganizer kde org e KOrganizer Handbook KAddressBook The contacts component KAddressBook enables you to man age your contacts efficiently and comfortably contacts can be easily ex ported and imported from a plethora of different address book standards and it can be efficiently integrated with Kopete KDE s multi protocol instant messenger Other features include support for all international character sets and advanced search functions e Website http pim kde org components kaddressbook php e KAddressBook Handbook KNotes A handy component which can serve to handle all your digital sticky notes You can have them displayed on your desktop they can be dragged n dropped into emails printed or even be displayed after Kontact is closed down e Website http pim kde org components knotes php 47 The KDE User Guide e KNotes Handbook KNode The newsreader component It is GNSKA The Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval compliant has support for MIME and multiple servers e Website http knode sourceforge net e KNode Handbook Akregator A lightweight and fast program to display news items provided by feeds supporting all commonly used versions of RSS and Atom feeds Useful features include searching in article titles management of feeds in folders and setting archiving preferences e Website http akregator sourceforge net e Akregator Handbook RELATED INFORMATION e See http kontact kde org an
129. lapping feature sets however each is quite different in style 57 The KDE User Guide Noatun Noatun is the default KDE music player It features a highly configurable interface including several styles of playlist man ager and many plugins to provide different GUIs visualizations and other features Noatun is part of the kdemultimedia package Noatun File Go Settings Actions Help OOOO Gary Moore 01 Power Of The Blues mp3 02 30 JuK JuK is a media manager playlist manager and metadata tag ger It is a highly efficient way to manage all your music files make and maintain playlists and maintain the metadata tags in your music It is equally useful as your primary music player or managing playlists and files for use in another application JuK is part of the kdemultimedia package File Edit View Player Tagger Settings Help 000 Q0 e0 E gt Search o Collection List Friendship Feat John McLa Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Too Late Too Late Feat G Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Straight To The Top Feat Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Man With The Cooper Finge Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Hannibal Feat McCoy Tyner Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Samba Pa Ti Thru Every St Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos Silver Sword Feat Flora Pu Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos First Love Feat Narada Mi Carlos Santa Playin With Car
130. lems with this procedure refer to the full KMail manual 18 1 Information you will need before you start Many email settings can vary greatly depending on the setup of your system your ISP s configuration or your local network setup You will need to find out some information before you can start setting up your email Your email address This should be provided by your ISP or system adminis trator Your username and password for your email account The username is often the same as the part before the symbol in your email address but not always check with your ISP Your outgoing email SMTP server name and details Again your ISP should have provided you with this information If not you can try the form s mtp your isp name com Your incoming email IMAP or POP server name and details If you do not have this information to hand you can try imap your isp name com for IMAP or pop your isp name com if you use POP3 Once you have that information you are ready to start setting up KMail Open KMail from the K menu you can find it in the Internet submenu or use one of the methods described in Section 4 1 Once KMail has opened select the menu entry Settings Configure KMail The next sections describe how to use the dialog that appears to set up KMail 106 The KDE User Guide 18 2 Setting your Identity The settings in the Identities page are fairly straightforward Select the default identity and cli
131. lications There are a variety of color schemes installed with KDE by default and you can find others at kde look org You can also create your own Here you can also modify the contrast and choose whether you want your KDE colors to be applied to non kde applications for a more consistant overall appearance Fonts Here you can control the various font settings for KDE applications You can also modify here anti aliasing settings including what range of fonts to exclude from anti aliasing settings Icons This section is where you can manage your icon themes and other set tings related to icons New icon themes can be downloaded from kde look org and installed here Conversely you can remove icon themes by highlighting them in the list and clicking remove You can also set icon sizes for various uses in KDE and effects to apply to icons Launch Feedback This is where you can modify what kind of cursor and or taskbar feedback you d like for launching applications You can also set the duration of this feedback here For example the default setting is for a bouncing cursor with a duration of 30 seconds or when the application has loaded Screen Saver Here you can configure options about your screensaver You can configure the timeout before it starts and whether it requires a password to unlock the screen Splash Screen This is where you can install remove and test the splash screens that display on KDE startup More splash screens c
132. line Here s how If you re using dialup that is connecting to the Internet with a modem con nected to a telephone line you ll want to set up the KDE dialing program KPPP If that sounds complicated don t worry KPPP has an advanced config uration wizard which will usually take the pain out of setting up your dialup connection Take a look at the next two sections for more details If you re using a broadband connection or connecting via a local network things are easier from the point of view of KDE Once you ve set up the con nection with the tools provided by your Linux or UNIX distribution KDE will use the connection automatically 17 1 Getting online the easy way 17 1 1 A few things you should have ready before you start If you have a fairly modern Linux distribution you might find the rest of this document superfluous KPPP comes with a clever little wizard that in many cases can have you up and running with an internet connection in just a few minutes Whether using the wizard or not you should know the following information before you begin e Your ISP modem pool phone number 102 The KDE User Guide e Your username and password for your ISP e Your ISP s DNS servers one is sufficient but two is better Other optional information you should find out to fully access your ISP s ser vices are e The incoming mail server address often pop yourisp com or mail youris p com
133. lines governing what ports can and cannot be opened you will have to use ResLisa to communicate with other hosts on your network Because ResLisa cannot ping entire networks or ad dress ranges you will have to add each host by name to your confiuration file Currently you are able to add up to 64 hosts and these addresses are pingable NOTE ResLisa will only provide the information over a UNIX domain socket i e not over the network The name of the socket is tmp resLISa YourLoginName SO ResLisa can be safely run on the same machine by more than one user 10 2 3 Configuration At startup Lisa first parses the configuration file in the users home directory under HOME 1lisarc If this file does not exist Lisa will then look for a system wide confiuration located at etc lisarc Now for a sample example config uration file PingAddresses HOD ose NOON 07 255 255255 0 2 MoS LOO NO NOAM 8 oO oo 168 200 1 PingNames my_hostl my_host2 resLISa AllowedAddresses 192 168 0 0 25 BroadcastNetwork 192 168 100 0 SearchUsingNmblookup 1 FirstWait 30 second SecondWait 1 SecondWait 60 seconds UpdatePeriod 300 DeliverUnnamedHosts 0 axPingsAtOnce 256 requests at once Hosts by name required for 2S 0 ZOO 2 Oty Zoe 0 also try nmblookup 30 one hundredth s of a Only try once Try twice and wait 0 6 Update every 300 sec s Don t publish unnamed ho Send up to 256 IC
134. lobal mode where you can change the fonts for every user on this computer For the rest there is no difference between those two kind of fonts There is a list of fonts in the center Click on a font to see a preview In the toolbar on the top you have buttons to access the top directory refresh and change the view If you want to you can organise your fonts in multiple directories so that you can easily find them later To install a font click on the Add Fonts button A file open dialog will appear where you can choose your font Alternatively you can drag fonts from Konqueror to the list To remove a font right click on it and choose Delete Configuration anti aliasing kfontinst and kfontview should probably get a mention too since they don t seem to have any existing docs 11 5 Creating Graphics How to create graphics with KDE apps ok maybe not 72 The KDE User Guide Chapter 12 Customizing the Appearance of your KDE Desktop Juan Carlos Torres Changing the appearance of your KDE desktop can be done quite easily and flexibly by either individually controlling different parts of the visual appearance or by using a predefined theme This guide explains the various customizable parts of KDE and how to control their appearance 12 1 Background The desktop background more commonly known as the wallpaper allows you to display certain images on your desktop The settings for the background are found in the
135. los Track Name artist oa Album Cover Track Genre Year Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Rock 2005 Dani nonr Human Revolution Feat Te Carlos Santa Playin With Carlos pole sja ala u fn 5 A Collection List 120 items 10 18 59 00 00 00 00 4 58 The KDE User Guide ha Ae Kaboodle Kaboodle is a one shot player That means it will run play a file and stop Kaboodle is useful for instance if you want to quickly listen to a single file without interupting your current playlist from another media player Kaboodle is part of the kdemultimedia package file usr local kde3 5 Gary Moore 01 Power O X File Edit Settings Help aim Pp ooon A Playing file usr local kde3 5 Gary Moore 01 Power Of The Blues ie amaroK amaroK is a popular third party application You should be able to find packages from your normal distribution source Amarok ch Amarok 1 4 Welcome 0 12 Matthias I 20 01 96 KBit 44 kHz i l Most of the KDE based movie players such as Kaffeine and kmplayer also make useful music players 8 3 Audio CD Ripping in KDE The conventional way of ripping Audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg files is to use a standalone program such as iTunes Winamp or KDE s own KAudioCreator 59 The KDE User Guide But if we stick to conventions where s the fun
136. m wide menu directory files controlled by xDG_DATA_D IRS The user specific changes are stored in HOME 1local desktop directories These are controlled by XDG_DATA_HOME For more information see http www freedesktop org Standards basedir spec Example from applications menu lt Menu gt lt Name gt Art lt Name gt lt Directory gt suse edutainment art gt directory lt Directory gt lt Include gt lt Category gt X SuSE Art lt Category gt lt Include gt lt Menu gt Art is the internal name for this menu suse edutainment art directory de fines the name and icon for this menu and the menu includes all applications that have X SuSE Art listed as a category e g Categories Qt KDE Education X SuSE Art suse edutainment art directory defines the name and icon for this menu 149 The KDE User Guide Desktop Entry Name Art and Culture Icon kcmsystem 26 2 3 Common Pitfalls Applications not in the menu do not exist with regard to other applications or file associations If you remove an application from the menu KDE assumes you don t want to use it When applications are unwanted in the menu either place them in hidden menu or a dedicated menu with NoDisplay true in the directory file 26 2 4 Essential Menus SKDEDIR etc xdg menus applications merged contains kde essential me nu which includes some essential menus that are norm
137. me what you enter here is important The name of the news server is fixed and you should be able to get it from your Internet service provider if you do not know the name of the news server you should get it now without this information you cannot read any news If your Internet service provider doesn t own a news server you can use a public one universities often provide public news servers For our example configuration we enter the name news server com you will of course enter the real name of your news server Port You probably will not need to change this from the default in most cases 20 3 Setting up the mail account Sometimes you need to answer to the author of an article directly without post ing to the newsgroup for example when you want to make a very personal comment or want to correct an error If you want to do this select the Mail Server SMTP tab The following dialog box appears f Configure KNode Setup for Newsgroup and Mail Servers k Newsgroup Servers Mail Server SMTP Identity 0 Use external mailer Port k e Server requires authentication Appearance 2 eS Reading News Encryption D None Posting News e urs sf yu Signing Verifying ki Cleanup Help J Defaults OK Apply Cancel Setting up the mail account 114 The KDE User Guide Server The name address of your mail server as
138. ms the default being sasldb it stores usernames and passwords in the 165 The KDE User Guide SASL secrets file sasldb but also getpwent kerberos4 kerberos5 PAM rimap shadow and LDAP are supported Since I don t want to define users passwords different than the ones that access my Linux box I choose then shadow mechanism so Cyrus will use Linux passwords for authenticate To do so we have to tell sasl to use saslauthd as password authentication method and then setup saslauthd to use shadow or getpwent as the au thentication mechanism OK let s start As root change the Linux password of cyrus user passwd cyrus Enter the password you like and you will remember we will use for this ex ample cyrus as the cyrus administrator password vi etc imapd conf sasl_pwcheck_method saslauthd instead of the default auxprop remove the remark from the line admins cyrus this way you can administer cyrus logging in as cyrus user what a fantasy I have vi etc default saslauthd Uncomment the line START yes otherwise the saslauthd will not start at boot time even if referenced in some etc rex dl and instead of MECHANISMS pam put MECHANISMS shadow this way at the boot a saslauthd a shadow will be executed Once exited from your editor restart sas and cyrus To test IMAP su cyrus S imtest m log
139. n the desktop and in the file browser When a user selects a template from the menu its source file is copied share wallpapers This directory contains images that can be used as back ground picture 25 8 Host specific Directories There are three host specific directories that are usually symlinked to other locations If the directories do not already exist the following symlinks and directories will be created using the Inusertemp utility KDEHOME socket HOSTNAME Usually tmp ksocket SUSER this is used for various UNIX sockets KDEHOME tmp S HOSTNAME Usually tmp kde SUSER this is used for tem porary files KDEHOME cache HOSTNAME Usually var tmp kdecache SUSER this is used for cached files Since both tmp and var tmp are world writable there is a possibility that one of the above directories already exists but is owned by another user In that case the Inusertemp utility will create a new directory with an alternative name and link to that instead 133 The KDE User Guide 25 9 Configuration Files KDE uses a simple text based file format for all its configuration files It con sists of key value pairs that are placed in groups All KDE configuration files use UTF 8 encoding for text outside the ASCII range The start of a group is indicated by a group name that is placed in square brack ets All the key value entries that follow belong to the group The group ends when either another group starts or when t
140. name This file is written into your HOME directory Message Box Each debugging message is displayed in an information dialog which you must OK to continue with the application Shell the default entry Messages are printed to stderr and will appear either in the shell window where the application was started or in xsession erro rs Syslog This sends each debugging message to the system s syslog facility which can perform its own processing of the message None This suppresses the output of this type of message For messages generated by fatal errors it is generally a bad idea to choose None or Syslog since in both cases you most likely will not see the message and the application that encounters the fatal error will vanish without leaving a clue as to why it vanishes Whether or not the application will vanish on fatal 99 The KDE User Guide errors can be controlled by the checkbox abort on fatal errors which is checked by default but you might expect an application to crash in a messy fashion if a fatal error is encountered anyway 100 The KDE User Guide Part IV KDE and the Internet 101 The KDE User Guide Chapter 17 Setting up an Internet Connection Lauri Watts KDE offers a complete Internet experience with all the programs you ll need to make the most of the Web email Usenet and many other In ternet technologies But before you can enjoy KDE s advanced features you ll need to get on
141. ndows so that they overlap other windows or so that you can see the whole window There are three ways to move a window 11 The KDE User Guide e Click the left mouse button on the window titlebar and hold it down Move the mouse cursor and the window moves with it Release the mouse button and the window remains where you left it e Open the window menu using the leftmost button on the window titlebar as displayed below and select Move The mouse cursor moves to the center of the current window and by moving the mouse around you can move the window Once you have moved the window to the position you want click Advanced a Locat To Desktop ttings Window Help CE 3 a Resize E gt Minimize z ja Maximize Shade 2 2 A Ww h Configure Window Behavior lib Close Alt F4 the left mouse button to release it A aM id 6 Items No Files 6 Folders e Hold down Alt and the left mouse button when the mouse cursor is above the window you want to move The mouse cursor changes to a compass and by moving the mouse you can move the window Just release the mouse but ton to release the window This method is particularly useful if the window titlebar has been moved off the screen so you cannot use the other methods 2 3 1 3 Resizing Windows You can make windows bigger or smaller wider or taller in one of two ways Just use whichever you are most comfortable with e Move t
142. neath the menu The toolbar contains icons toolbar buttons that represent commonly used actions and configuration settings The KMail window for instance has a toolbar that contains buttons for New Mes sage Check Mail and several others Each of these actions is something you do often so that s why they have toolbar buttons as well as menu entries New Message is under Message New Message Check Mail is File Check Mail Not everybody agrees on what actions are commonly used though I never use the New Message toolbar button or the menu item I use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl N To ensure that your screen isn t cluttered with things you don t need each toolbar can be customized Additionally you can usually customize which toolbars are displayed and how as well 32 The KDE User Guide 4 4 4 1 Customizing Toolbar Displays The easiest thing to customize with the toolbars of any given application is whether they are displayed at all Most applications have a Settings Toolbars menu where you can select which toolbars are displayed and which are not Konqueror has four toolbars Main Extra Location and Bookmark It can be convenient to turn off the Bookmark toolbar to save screen space To do so click on the Settings menu choose Toolbars and then uncheck the Bookmark Toolbar entry do this just by clicking on the menu item If there is no Settings menu you can also right click on the toolbar itself and choose t
143. net Once again you would generally leave these options at their defaults unless you really knew what you were doing If you do use a proxy server your network administrator will be able to tell you what details to fill in here Samba The Samba Configuration module requires the root or administrator password It is an advanced configuration tool that allows you to con trol Samba s security shares users and printers in an intuitive graphical interface This is a very powerful tool with support for configuring ev erything from simple file and printer sharing to using your Samba server as a Windows NT Domain Controller Service Discovery You can set up services browsing with ZeroConf You can for example browse your local network using multicast DNS Web Browser This module is where you would configure options relating to Konqueror as a web browser The usual options you would expect from a web browser such as cookie configuration cache and history can be found here as well as sections to modify keyboard shortcuts plugins and fonts Wireless Network Here you can set up different profiles for your Wireless card to be able to quickly switch settings if you connect to multiple net works You can select a profile to be loaded on KDE startup 5 4 KDE Components This section is where you can modify advanced KDE options such as file asso ciations and default applications Component Chooser The component chooser allows you to select t
144. ng help kicker in the Location toolbar 4 2 Controlling Programs Standard Toolbar layout Keybindings 4 3 Opening and Saving Files KDE provides a unified way to open or save files via the file dialog In almost every KDE program you will find a File Open and File Save and or Save As entry 29 The KDE User Guide 4 3 1 The File Dialog B gt Open File Kate 1 F 5 Ea Se E susrflocal kde3 5 src kdebase doc userguide Deskto _ accessibility docbook J credits and license docboc P i amarok icon png A Home Folder amarok png T email docbook 5 is a window png extragear applications doc _ Storage Media base kde applications docbook browser fine tuning docbook J file sharing docbook L font installation docbook gt getting help docbook _ glossary docbook amp Network Fold Z burning cds docbook control center docbook E control center docbook roupware kontact docboc 4 group k A VStnaBok anad creating graphics docbook index cache bz2 2 al XI Automatic preview Preview Location desktop png z Qpen Eilter fan Files z Cancel This dialog consists of between three and five areas The top area is where you find the navigation and configuration functions The main area in the middle is where all your files are being displayed as icons This is called an icon view The b
145. nother email and return to the original email in other words reload the current email You can now see behind the email address the current state of your contact If you want to chat with this person just right click the address in KMail and choose Chat With Your Instant Messenger will start a conversation with the contact 119 The KDE User Guide Part V Office 120 The KDE User Guide Raphael Langerhorst 121 The KDE User Guide Chapter 22 Introduction to KOffice 22 1 Overview The KDE project has also created a fully featured office suite called KOffice which adheres to standards and fits very well into the KDE desktop This sec tion was written with version 1 4 of KOffice in mind KOffice is a highly integrated office suite that builds directly on the KDE tech nology This has many advantages in terms of integration features perfor mance familiar look and feel and so on All technologies like DCOP KIO KParts are directly available In particular the KParts technology is extended for the KOffice components to allow very flexible embedding of documents inside documents Because much technology is already present inside KDE itself KOffice is a very lightweight office suite which results in fast application startup and low mem ory consumption This makes KOffice a very suitable office suite for older hardware as well which can save lots of costs in some cases KOffice is also a very feature complet
146. ns from KDEDIRS and profiles as well Used by menu descriptions in XDG_CONF IG_DIRS menus 143 The KDE User Guide 25 14 The kdeinit Mystery kdeinit is used to start all other KDE programs kdeinit can start normal bi nary program f iles as well as kdeinit loadable modules KLMs KLMs work just like binary program files but can be started more efficiently KLMs live in SKDEDIR 1ib kde3 The drawback is that programs started this way appear as kdeinit in the output of top and ps Use top c or ps aux to see the actual program name ps aux grep bastian bastian 26061 0 0 2 2 24284 11492 S ooh gt 0 00 kdeinit Running bastian 26064 0 0 2 2 24036 11524 5 22 lt 0 00 kdeinit dcopserver bastaianm 26066 O20 2 5 26056 12988 2 S elena gt 0 00 kdeinit klauncher bastian 26069 0 4 3 2 27356 16744 S BUA 7 0 00 kdeinit kded bastian 26161 0 2 2 7 25344 14096 5 27AT 0 00 kdeinit ksmserver pastian 26179 ee Sede 25S iG el iene 22 gt 0 00 kdeinit kicker bastian 26192 0ra S20 267716 P5452 2 S opie I gt 0 00 kdeinit klipper paseciamn 2o roo Im shy ASO ais Seite 7 5 2S2 lt 0 00 kdeinit kdesktop As you might have noticed this has another side effect making it difficult to kill a process that is causing trouble killall kdesktop kdesktop no process killed You might be tempted to try killall kdeinit but killing all kdeinit pro cesses will have the effect
147. ns into your desktop Using kstart is easy you simply put kstart and some options before a com mand To begin let s look at how we might use kstart to customize the be haviour of a KCalc window The command we ll use is as follows o o KStart ontop allldesktops kcale With luck the effect this command has should be fairly obvious the kcalc win dow will stay on top of all the others and be visible on every virtual desktop A feature that is less obvious is that this command will work with any NET compliant environment not just KDE We can pass arguments to programs we invoke with kstart as normal for ex ample kstart skiptaskbar desktop 1 xmessage Hello World 14 The KDE User Guide This command displays Hello World with xmessage and ensures that the win dow will be shown on the first virtual desktop and will be omitted from the taskbar The fact that this program is written using the Xt toolkit rather than being a native KDE application does not cause any problem for kstart hope fully this illustrates how kstart can be used to integrate foreign applications into your KDE desktop 2 3 2 2 Other Special Window Settings While you can use kstart to assign particular window settings KDE also al lows you to alter these as well as other similar settings from the program window itself Simply select the leftmost button in the window titlebar or just hit Alt F3 once the window
148. nvolves two applications Desktop Sharing KDE re mote frame buffer a VNC server and Remote Desktop Connection KDE re mote desktop connection a VNC client Desktop Sharing can be used by any user to create and manage invitations Invitations create a one time password that allows the recipient to connect to your desktop By default it is valid for only one successful connection and expires after one hour if not used Incoming connections are handled by the kinetd kded module You can use the command dcop kded kinetd services to see if it is running Desktop Sharing waits for connections on port 5900 by default When an incoming con nection is made a dialog will appear to ask for confirmation by the current user 28 2 KDE DIY Building Your Own Tools 28 2 1 DCOP Desktop COmmunication Protocol DCOP is a lightweight mechanism for inter process communication DCOP allows the user to interact with programs that are currently running KDE supplies two programs to utilitize DCOP dcop a command line program and kdcop a GUI program 159 The KDE User Guide A few notes about using dcop e dcop options application object function arg1 arg2 e Applications that can open more than one window at a time will be listed as lt application gt PID e All the arguments are case sensitve setFullScreen and setfullscreen are two different functions e The regular expression token can be used in the application
149. o force regeneration run touch KDEDIR share services update_ksycoca 26 2 7 KMenukdit KMenukdit is aimed at a single user setup Changes to menu structure are saved to config menus applications kmenuedit menu changes to appli cations aresavedin local share applications and changes to sub menus icon name are saved in local share desktop directories The KIOSK Admin Tool uses KMenuEdit and copies the above changes to profile or system wide locations 26 3 KDE Panel The KDE panel is also known as Kicker It is modular and consists of the fol lowing components e Applets e Application buttons e Special Buttons By default the panel contains the following applets e Pager shows the virtual desktops e Taskbar e System Tray e Clock and the following special buttons e KDE menu 151 The KDE User Guide e Desktop Button Various application buttons are also added space permitting e Home Button e Browser Button e KMail Button 26 4 File Associations File associations associate a file type with an application or applications The type of a file is established by determining its MIME type MIME types known by KDE are stored in KDEDIR share mimelnk and each application s desktop file contains a list of MIME types supported by that application kview desktop MimeType image gif image x xpm image x xbm image jpeg image x bmp image png image x ico image x portable bitmap image x portable
150. of kde is used The KDE User Guide 1 5 Overview or Where to look in the User Guide Here s an overview of what s in the User Guide Part II contains an introduction to the basic use of KDE such as Section 2 3 and the tools that you ll be using in all KDE applications like Section 4 3 If you re new to KDE or even computers in general you will probably find this section helpful Part III explains some important components of a KDE installation and how they fit together KDE s multimedia and networking capabilities are extensive and not covered thoroughly here but there s a taster of both of them in this part of the User Guide At the end of this part you ll find a guide to tweaking KDE just that little bit more in chapter 16 Part IV highlights KDE s suite of Internet applications KDE includes a power ful web browser Konqueror a full featured email client KMail a news reader KNode and many more applications to make your Internet experience easier and more productive This part of the User Guide contains information about setting up these applications Part VI is a reference guide to some KDE features which will be useful to ad ministrators setting up multi user systems This part also has information that may be useful to KDE users with single user systems where configuration files are stored what environment variables affect KDE and so on The KIOSK framework is the KDE system which allows administrators
151. of shutting down all of KDE In effect total destruc tion There are two simple solutions to this kdekillall kdesktop or good old gt Kill 26159 5 kdekillall is part of the KDE SDK package 144 The KDE User Guide Chapter 26 Customizing KDE 26 1 Desktop Icons KDE uses several types of icons e Documents e Links to Websites using desktop file e Links to Applications using desktop file e Devices Disks Partitions amp Peripherals Explicit using desktop file Automatic via devices io slave e Vendor specific e g SuUSE s My Computer 26 1 1 Websites Links to Websites using desktop file Create New File Link to Location URL Change Icon using Properties dialogs The resulting desktop file Desktop Entry Encoding UTF 8 Icon opt kde3 share apps kdesktop pics ksslogo png Type Link URL http www kde org 145 The KDE User Guide 26 1 2 Applications Links to Applications using desktop file Create New File Link to Appli cation You must provide details yourself Drag from KDE Menu Either copy or link creates symlink much easier Desktop Entry Encoding UTF 8 GenericName IRC Client GenericName af Irc Kli t GenericName de IRC Programm GenericName zu Umthengi we IRCO SwallowExec 0 Name KSirc Name af Ksirc Name de KSirc Boiler plate Translated generic description not used
152. ogs that let the user make a choice from a list menu Lets the user select a single item from a list checklist Lets the user select one or more items from a list city kdialog menu Select a city a London b Madrid c Paris d Berlin Scity will a b cor d city kdialog checklist Select cities a London off b Madrid on c Paris on d Berlin off Madrid and Paris will be pre selected The result with Madrid and Paris se lected will be b c If you add the separate output option it will put b and c each on a line of its own making the result easier to process file kdialog getopenfilename HOME file kdialog getopenfilename HOME png jpg Image lt gt Files file kdialog getsavefilename SHOME SaveMe png file kdialog getexistingdirectory HOME 163 The KDE User Guide Chapter 29 Sharing data with Kontact via IMAP Marco Menardi 29 1 Introduction For my small office I was looking for a long time for a PIM solution that let me share data so my secretary and I can share contacts appointments and so on Being a KDE user I ve heard about the Kroupware project and wait its completion But when I saw how complicated is the architecture and setup of the Kolab server 1 0 the server side of the project I gave up waiting for an easier to deploy Kolab 2 0 In any case the Kolab stuff was clearly too much for my needs Fortunately in the K
153. oltips in the section about the Konqueror file manager The KDE User Guide 2 2 2 2 What s This What s This help is usually more detailed than tooltips You can access What s This help in two ways e By pressing the button in the titlebar of the window e By pressing the key combination Shift F1 The cursor will change to a pointer with a question mark next to it Click on the item you want to know about and a small window will pop up displaying information 2 2 3 Mailing Lists Newsgroups and IRC 2 2 3 1 Mailing Lists KDE provides many mailing lists which can provide you with help and guid ance in using and configuring your Desktop Some of the lists you might find useful are The KDE User List This mailing list focuses specifically on OS independent questions and discussions regarding using KDE Operating system specific questions and discussion are off topic here For example the question How do I change the margin size for KWord documents is appropri ate for this list whereas How do I set up my printer using KDE under UnixOS X Y is not Questions asked and discussions here should apply to all KDE users using the applicable KDE software not just those using the same operating system You can subscribe to this list at https mail kde org mailman listinfo kde You can find archives at http lists kde org l kde The KDE Linux List This mailing list focusses specifically
154. ome kind If you make any changes in the dialog box that appears they won t take effect until you click on the OK button in the di alog You can always ignore any changes you made and close the dialog by clicking on the Cancel button Save Ctrl S This menu entry will save any changes you ve made to the file that you are currently working on If this is the first time that you ve saved the file the KDE Save File dialog will appear and ask you for a name and location for the file Save As The Save As menu entry will save the file you re working on with a different name The Save File dialog appears and you can choose a name and location as usual Note that after you save the file with Save 177 The KDE User Guide As you will be working on the new file If you save changes they will be saved under the new filename To make this a bit clearer let s take an example 1 You are working on a file called hello txt that contains the text Hello World 2 You use the Save As menu entry to save the file with the new name newhello txt 3 You add the text Nice to see you to the file and use the Save menu entry to save these changes Now the file newhello txt contains the text Hello World Nice to see you while the file hello txt contains only the text Hello World Print Ctrl P This menu entry displays the KDE Print dialog ready to print the current document You can f
155. omponents 6 5 Graphics KDE has several graphics related applications ranging from PDF viewers to applications enabling you to take screenshots Below is a delineation as well as some related links for a few of them KColorEdit A small and handy application for editing color palettes as well as color choosing and naming Colors can be chosen by giving the RGB hex code by choosing the color from a myriad of different colors in the program or even by grabbing the precise color of any particular thing on your screen e KColorEdit Handbook KPDF An advanced PDF viewer based on xpdf for KDE KPDF contains a number of ways to search through the document standard find dialog thumbnail filter etc and has other features such as hands free reading e Website http kpdf kde org e KPDF Handbook KView An image viewer program which supports a number of different im age filetypes including JPEG GIF PNG TIFF and many others Kview has full integration with KDE and it can be embedded into Konqueror for viewing image files on your diskdrive as well as your FTP site or web server using its URL open support Other features include a few image manipulations such as zoom rotate grayscale and flip e Website http www ph unimelb edu au ssk kde kview e KView Handbook KSnapshot An application for taking screenshots It is capable of capturing images of the whole desktop a single window or a selected region The images can then
156. on desktop Legacy can be removed Translated name as it appears on desktop Desktop Icons Name zu Ksirc MimeType Exec ksirc i m Icon ksirc TerminalOptions Path 0 Type Application Terminal 00 X KDE StartupNotify true X DCOP ServiceType Multi Categories Qt KDE Network Supported MIME types not used on desktop The command line to execute The icon from icon theme or full path Only used if terminal is needed 146 The KDE User Guide Working directory for command More boiler plate Use true if terminal is needed text application Show bouncy cursor disable if it doesn t work Has app started ok Remove if it doesn t work Categories for KDE Menu not used on desktop 26 1 3 The Exec option in desktop files Following the command you can have several place holders which will be replaced with the actual values when the actual program is run f A single file name used when dropping file on icon or with file associa tions F A list of files use for applications that can open several local files at once u A single URL if the app can handle e g FTP or HTTP URLs itself other wise KDE U A list of URLs will download the file first and pass a local file to the app 1 d The folder of the file to open useful if app needs to have file in current working directory D A list of folders not very practical i The icon
157. on questions and discussions regarding using KDE on Linux Questions and discus sions can involve any issue confronting desktop users who run KDE ona Linux system Hence questions such as How do I setup a networked printer for printing from KDE on LinuxDistro X Y are appropriate here If you prefer a list limited to OS independent questions and discussions concerning KDE please use the general KDE mailing list You can subscribe to this list at https mail kde org mailman listinfo kde linux You can find archives at http lists kde org l kde linux The KDE User Guide 2 2 3 2 IRC There is a kde channel on Freenode irc freenode net for support and other general talk about KDE As usual you can access this channel by using any of KDE s popular IRC clients which include konversation KSirc as well as Kopete For more information check the Section 21 3 section 2 2 4 More Resources There are many other resources which you may found useful some of these are listed below dot kde org This website has a searchable KDE news resource where you can find out about a superfluity of innovations in the world of KDE kde look org The paramount resource for KDE icandy including themes win dow decorations wallpapers mouse themes and icons for your KDE desktop Note also that the site contains a howto section on how to install the most common of these wiki kde org The official KDE Wiki From here you can have acce
158. onfigura tion option is made immutable Options can be controlled either on a per entry basis per group of entries or on a file by file basis If a file or group is immutable all configuration options for that file or group are immutable even those options for which the system administrator has no default provided NOTE The support in applications for immutable options may vary from application to ap plication Although the user will not be able to make permanent changes to im mutable configuration options the user may still be presented with an user interface option to make such change 153 The KDE User Guide 27 3 Action Restrictions KDE applications are built around the action concept Actions can be activated in various ways typically via the menu bar one of the toolbars or a keyboard shortcut Save Document is an example of an action If you know the internal action name it is possible to restrict an action When an action is restricted it will no longer appear in the menu bar or toolbar The internal name for the Save Document action is action file_save The lock down framework also provides a set of more abstract restrictions which can be used to disable functionality not covered by a single action An example is the shell_access restriction which disables all functionality that would offer the user access to a UNIX shell Example 27 1 Restrict User Access to Shells In order to prevent the user acce
159. ong list of debugging areas Each area has a check box that you can check or uncheck in order to enable or disable debugging output for that part of KDE The list of debugging areas is sorted numerically not alphabetically so kio 127 comes before artskde 400 The numbers go up to 200000 or so but there are really only 400 areas You don t have to scroll through the entire list to find the area you need though There is a line edit box at the top of the dialog where you can enter a part of the name of the area you want The list of entries that is displayed is filtered to include only those debug areas that contain the text you have entered e g entering k does not filter very much at all but entering kont will show you just the Kontact debugging areas As an even quicker way of enabling or disabling debugging output there are also select all and deselect all buttons which will cause KDE to produce a mountain of debugging output or very little 16 5 2 KDebugDialog in full mode In full mode which is what you get when you start kdebugdialog as kdebugdialog fullmode the same list of debugging areas as in plain mode is available but you can select only one at a time from a drop down box You may then inde pendently set the output for various types of messages Information Warning Error and Fatal Error For each of these types you can choose where the mes sages are sent The choices are File in which case you can enter a file
160. ored on your computer your network and even the Internet There are too many features of Kon queror to describe here so we will just take an overview If you want more de tails about what Konqueror can do take a look at the Konqueror Handbook by selecting Help Konqueror Handbook in the Konqueror menus or alterna tively you can use the help KIOslave in Konqueror by entering help konqueror in the Location Toolbar 18 The KDE User Guide 2 4 2 Folders When you first open Konqueror in file management mode you can see two panes on the right is the folder view on the left is the sidebar The folder view contains icons for each item inside the current folder These items can be folders or files Many file types can be previewed without opening a new application to edit them in To preview a file hold the mouse cursor over the name of the file for about a second a popup window will appear showing the contents of the file and other some useful information like file s size and which user owns the file You can open any item by clicking just once KDE does not use double clicking in its default settings on the icon for the file Folders will be opened in the same window files will either be opened in the appropriate program or the file manager will ask you what program to use For instance if do not have a word processor set up to open Microsoft Word documents the file manager will ask you what to do You c
161. ort for user defined phrasebooks 88 The KDE User Guide KMouth File Edit Phrase Books Settings Help BEG amp 10 w Courteousness Rj How are you tI Personal Sec bi Sut 89 The KDE User Guide m x Initial Configuration KMouth 7 Initial Phrase Book Flease decide which phrase books you need O de 0 of 4 books selected F en 3 of 4 books selected F Courteousness F How are you F Personal O sv 0 of 4 books selected 90 The KDE User Guide Phrase Book KMouth File Edit Help Ua Ul 4 16 x Courteousness How are you J How are you J How do you do J am fine It s a nice day feel nerveless today J feel bored but apart from that am OK J Today my pain is quite strong J really feel bad today Personal Currently Selected Phrase or Phrase Book Text of the phrase It s a nice day Shortcut for the phrase None Custom None RELATED INFORMATION e Website http www schmi dt de kmouth index en html e KMouth Handbook 91 The KDE User Guide 15 4 KTTS Text to Speech KTTS is a KDE application for the conversion of text into audible speech Cur rently since KDE 3 4 you can use KTTS to speak any text from the Klipper the KDE clipboard any text from a plain text file using Kate or otherwise speak any portion of text from a HTML page in Konqueror and much more To get KTTS up and running you w
162. ottom area is where you can edit filename or filter expressions and say Save or Open In addition to that you can add two even more sophisticated areas the Quick Access Navigation Panel and the Preview Panel Next to the three navigation buttons one directory up back and forward and the new folder button there is the bookmarks menu Here you can mark any folder you visit often to find it quickly The wrench icon holds the different functions to sort your files by name date or size and to en able the two extra panels mentioned above Next to it you can type the directory and choose on the very right side the encoding You ll find the icon view in the middle of the dialog You will find most of the navigation functions in the context menu by clicking on the items or the background with the right mouse button The bottom of the dialog consists of the address field holding the file name you chose or typed in and the maybe most powerful tool The filter Here you can make the icon view display only items that match the criteria you define Try filtering files whose names contain air by typing air into the filter field The Quick Access Panel activate it by typing the F9 key on your keyboard or through the wrench icon on top of the dialog provides configurable shortcuts to frequently used locations on your hard drive or even on the Internet There are several preconfigured locations such as your home di rectory Try righ
163. ow frames In order to add a new window decoration you need to compile it from source code If a binary package for your distribution or system is provided you simply need to install it using your distribution s package manager Please re fer to your distribution s manual for instructions on how to do this Once the window decoration has been installed it can be accessed in the Window Dec orations settings in the KDE Control Center In the Window Decoration tab a list of installed window decorations can be seen in the drop down box Simply select the decoration you want to use and click on Apply Different window decorations have different capabilities and settings Play around with the dif ferent options available The Buttons tab allows you to control the buttons on the window titlebar Enable the Use custom titlebar button positions check box in order to rearrange remove or add buttons To add buttons to the titlebar drag an item from the list to the titlebar preview above it To remove a button drag the button from the titlebar preview to the item list Simply drag buttons in the titlebar preview to rearrange them While all window decorations need to be compiled from source code some window decorations can load pixmap based theme files that do not need to be compiled KDE ships with a pixmap based window decoration called the IceWM window decoration Another pixmap based window decoration is deKorator which can be found on kde loo
164. ower right corner of the main window a progress bar will indicate how many messages are being downloaded If you receive the message you just sent then congratulations If however you receive any error messages while testing your setup make sure that your network connection is working and recheck your settings at Settings Configure KMail RELATED INFORMATION e The KMail Handbook has full descriptions of advanced email settings and so on You can read it in the KHelpCenter or by entering help kmail in Konqueror s Location bar e The KMail website at http kmail kde org contains latest news tips and tricks and plenty more 108 The KDE User Guide Chapter 19 Konqueror Intro to the browser 19 1 Internet Shortcuts Internet shortcuts are a really useful feature of Konqueror once you get used to them you ll wonder how you ever lived without them To see what internet shortcuts are open up Konqueror and type gg kde in the Location bar You will go to Google searching for KDE They are many such shortcuts like gg1 Google I m feeling lucky bug bugs kde org and so on To get a full list click on Settings in the Konqueror menu and select Web Short cuts Here you will find a full list of all the shortcuts You can create new ones change existing ones or delete unused shortcuts You can also disable web shortcuts if you don t like them If you set the Default search engine you don t have to t
165. p you find the file you need to edit 16 2 Scripting the Desktop KDE provides a powerful interprocess communication system in DCOP the Desktop COmmunication Protocol Using DCOP you can control a wide range 94 The KDE User Guide of functions in KDE from the command line or from a script written in your favorite scripting language You can also get information out of KDE applica tions for example several KDE media players provide methods to query the player for information about the currently playing track Broadly speaking each KDE application provides one or more DCOP inter faces which in turn provide methods or if you prefer functions that another application can call So the first step in using DCOP is to find the appropriate method for the task The easiest way to do this is using the kdcop frontend to the available DCOP methods Run kdcop from a Konsole or the mini CLI the window which pops up on Alt F2 The kdcop window shows the applications currently running which provide DCOP interfaces using a tree view In general finding the correct method requires a little bit of searching through the tree view but a useful hint is that the interface marked default usually contains the most frequently used functions To test that the function does what we expect double click on the setColor entry To set the color c click on the color selector button and choose a color Set whether the color should be colo
166. pearance amp Themes E Desktop E Internet amp Network Encoding Method E KDE Components m S Peripherals z E B Power Control Vorbis Quality Setting E EE Regional amp Accessibility f Security amp Privacy amp Sound amp Multimedia CDDA Settings File Names Ogg Vorbis Encoder _ Bitrate based Options CDDB Retrieval X Add track information Sound System System Bell J System Notifications System Administration Defaults 8 3 2 Recipe Without further delay let s get down to the business of being cool First pop in the CD you want to rip obviously Next fire up a Konqueror window and 60 The KDE User Guide open the Services tab on the Navigation panel The Navigation panel sits on the left side of the window as shown in the screenshot below If it s not visible you can produce it out of thin air by pressing the magic F9 key Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help QQA ASAA ARa aA m amp E gt Location B tile Z F f Audio CD Browser Devices GF Fonts LAN Browser Print System Browser 17 Items 0 Files 17 Folders Now click on Audio CD Browser and in a few seconds you ll see a lot of folders which you can start browsing If it s taking some time to show anything it s because it s trying to fetch information about the CD from th
167. placed in a corner of the desktop regardless of where they were originally To use this option once again use your middle mouse button on the desktop and then select Unclutter Windows 13 The KDE User Guide 2 3 1 7 Closing Windows When you finish using an application you will want to stop the application and close its window Once again you have the choice of a few options e Click on the rightmost button on the window titlebar If you are editing a document with that application you will be asked whether you want to Save your changes Discard them or Cancel your command to close the ap plication Use the File Quit option on the menubar You will be presented with the same choice of Save Discard or Cancel Right click on the respective window in Kicker the KDE panel and then select Close You will be prompted with an option to save any documents that were being edited Press Alt F4 Once again the confirmation dialog will be shown if you were editing any documents 2 3 2 Advanced Window Management kstart 2 3 2 1 kstart The simplest way to access the advanced window management facilities in KDE is to use a little known utility called kstart which is included in KDE since version 2 1 kstart lets you control the way an application interacts with the window manager The command is usually used to define special behavior for commonly used applications but it can also be useful for integrating non KDE applicatio
168. play MP3 WAV and OGG audio filetypes and others There is not room here to mention all of Amarok s features but by default Amarok can au tomatically fetch cover art embed song lyrics and display aesthetically pleasing visualizations Amarok remains as much of KDE does highly customizable it contains a powerful scripting interface and the context browser can be stylised easily using CSS Amarok also supports several backends including GStreamer xine NMM MAS aKode and aRts e Website http amarok kde org e View the handbook by typing help amarok in Konqueror s Location Toolbar or by selecting it in KHelpCenter if you do not already have Amarok installed and hence do not have the handbook then you can view it online here 52 The KDE User Guide K3b The definitive CD DVD burning application for KDE With K3b you can create data video and audio it comes with plugins for WAV MP3 FLAC and Ogg Vorbis CDs Projects can be saved and loaded CD ripping is supported and you can appropriately make CD DVD copies e Extragear Summary http extragear kde org apps k3b e Website http k3b org e K3b Handbook 7 1 2 Graphics digikam A photo management application which can conveniently organize and import digital photos Features include complete tagging functional ity a plugin system and a fully featured comment system digiKam also makes use of KIPI KDE Image Plugin Interface therefore contributing to th
169. plications 11 3 PDE Biles 4 286544884 Sete cab eed Ges 11 4 Fonts Installing and Configuring 11 5 Creating Graphics 2 0 0 0 2 200000 52 52 52 53 54 54 54 56 56 57 57 57 57 39 60 60 63 64 64 64 65 67 67 67 68 68 69 69 70 12 13 14 15 16 The KDE User Guide Customizing the Appearance of your KDE Desktop 12 1 Background 2 6c Sea eee eA Aw Ae Es 12 gt Colors 24 8 S ws oe Ak Sie we oe Ee ee eee ee 12 3 ICONS e eee eo i See Rack He ee Esk we Ee a Bee 124 Splash Ser n oa raes aae eo ew eae eee ene ee ees 12 5 Window Decorations 0 000 000 eee eee eee 12 6 Style o sce sade obede a ones Pace ea doa se eee amp a 12 7 KDE Theme g onus Se BAe He Poe eB RE Re EBS e 12 38 Glossary ee o04 08 44 eben hae tee Od obs Gey eo Konsole Introduction KDE Edutainment 14 1 Improve your language skills 2 2 2 2 2 000 5 14 2 Mathematics 2 000 0000 cee ee es 14 9 Science 4a a cle Bee bed CRA Ra Ae ee ea wd oes 14 4 Teaching Tools eose cr ee 14 5 Miscellaneous 0 000000 eee eee 14 6 Related Information 0 0 000000 0008 ee Accessibility 15 1 KMouseTool i eunate a a e 2 00000 eee eee 152 KMasmiher p oe a de God Be Oe eS EO eo 15 3 KMouth aes 02555 6442004 Bb obs Beene dee be 15 4 KTTS Text to Speech 2 20 002 eee eee Tinkering Under the Hood of KDE 16 1 Hand Editin
170. plications provided as part of a KDE release This is not a judgment on the value of third party applications and in fact many of them are excellent The User Guide is not specific to a distribution and covers a default KDE installation Your local installation may be customized by your distribution provider or by yourself and so our advice here is generic You may have to adjust paths in order to locate the files that are discussed 1 3 Conventions used in this book We ll use the following formatting conventions to make it clear what we re referring to Type of Text Style Example Text appearing inthe Light gray GUI on buttons etc background Hui Names of keys Bold font Ctrl Menu 5 Menu entries Name gt Menu Item File Quit Key combinations Modifier pressed Key Action Key ce simultaneously y y Text you should enter Bold fixed width font 1s al kde Text you should Italic green font user replace as appropriate 1 4 System Locations You may need to know the following system locations KDE prefix KDE installs into its own folder tree which you can find by run ning the command kde4 config prefix This folder is referred to by the environment variables KDEDIRS and possibly KDEDIR KDE user specific settings The environment variable KDEHOME points to the folder where KDE should find user specific settings If it is not set the default value
171. provided by your Internet service provider or system administrator all you have to do here is enter the mail server s name in the Server field In our example we enter mail server com Port Again you probably will not need to change the Port setting RELATED INFORMATION e The comp windows x kde newsgroup is the main user support group for KDE on usenet You can find other resources for getting help with KDE in Section 2 2 e Gmane provides a usenet frontend to many mailing lists including most of the KDE lists so you can read them with KNode 115 The KDE User Guide Chapter 21 Introduction to messaging Peter Nuttall and Tom Albers The default way to send instant messages in KDE is to use the IM client Kopete This is a multi protocol IM client meaning that it handles several different protocols including MSN Jabber AOL and IRC It also has useful features including support for KAddressBook meta contacts encryption support and lots more 116 The KDE User Guide Kopete File Edit Settings Help FR A wa B Contacts O B ChCh 3 9 wha w O Chris i O Nat W ci Everyone Else 3 14 a St David s 1 20 thi leu 4 Kopete the KDE IM client 21 1 How to get started Start up Kopete from the menu it can normally be found in the Internet folder When it starts up you should see a window with Kopete at the top menus and a tool bar below and then your contacts below You should add some accounts
172. r A with the checkbox Click OK and the background color is set To access the DCOP method from your favorite scripting language you can either use DCOP bindings if available in the kdebindings module or call the dcop command line application For simple usage calling the dcop command line application is sufficient To call a DCOP method on the command line we need to specify the application and interface owning the method the method itself and the arguments in a form suitable for the shell We specify the application interface and method in that order followed by the arguments in the same order that they are shown in kdcop dcop has plenty of other options take a look at the output of dcop help That s enough theory time for an example 95 The KDE User Guide Example 16 1 A Background Color Changing Script with DCOP With the dcop command line application and a little bit of Perl we re going to make a simple script which slowly cycles the desktop background through the spectrum Firstly we look for the appropriate method with kdcop For this example we ll short circuit the searching and go straight to it the method we want is kdesk top KBackgroundIface setColor The arguments and return type of the function are shown in the style of the C language For setColor the argu ments are a color c which specifies the new background color and a boolean true or false value isColorA which specifies whethe
173. r Guide folder in online IMAP so you are not updated when someone adds events you must manually switch to KMail application and click on the Calendar folder In addition at start up when it does read Calendar folders you may see a tremendous flicker and slow data updates Now we have to tell Kontact to use IMAP as the data source for its vari ous components From the K menu choose Run command run kemshe114 kresources In the combo box select Contacts then press the Add button and choose Addressbook on IMAP Server via KMail Then select that new line and press Use as Standard button Do the same for Calendar and Notes Now we have to enable the KMail and as a consequence the whole Kontact groupware functionality 1 Choose from the menu Settings Configure KMail Misc Groupware 2 Check Enable IMAP resource functionality 3 Choose English as Language of the groupware folders this is in case you already have the folders in the IMAP server created by a different pro gram in a different language 4 Now move to Resource folder are in account and select the Inbox sub folder of the office_gwdata folder Leave Hide groupware folders unchecked for now so we can see that happens You can return here and check it once everything is clear 5 When you press OK you are prompted with KMail will now create t he required folders for the IMAP resource as subfolders of Inb ox If you do not want this press No and the I
174. r that klauncher crashed klauncher can be restarted by restarting kdeinit from a console window Make sure that HOME DISPLAY and the various KDEDIR S are set correctly when doing so 25 11 4 knotify The primary task of knotify is to relay sound notifications to the sound server it also provides alternative notification methods 25 12 KSMServer ksmserver is KDE s session manager On startup the session manager launches auto start applications and restores applications from the previous session The applications to auto start are indicated by desktop files in the KDEDI R share autostart directory Whether or not to auto start an application can be made conditional upon some configuration entry determined by the X KD E autostart condition entry in the desktop file The ktip desktop file for example contains X KDE autostart condition ktiprce TipOfDay RunOnStart true This means that the kt iprce configuration file is checked for a RunOnStart entry in the TipOfDay section If no such entry is found true is assumed which means that ktip is one of the applications that is auto started by default Some of the applications auto started by ksmserver are kdesktop The KDE desktop 141 The KDE User Guide Kicker The KDE panel ktip A tip of the day program kwrited A utility to receive system messages sent to the user Klipper A clipboard utility that docks in the panel kalarm A utility that warns about up
175. r the color is the first or second this is useful for setting gradients and so on To use our setColor method on the command line we use the following dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setColor ffffff false To specify the color we used the hexadecimal RGB value as used in HTML Note that it is enclosed in single quotes to protect the from the shell To find the hexadecimal RGB value of a color open any color chooser dialog in a KDE application for example in KDE Control Center Appearance amp Themes Colors select the color you want and use the value given in the HTML text box So that s all we need from DCOP now it s just a case of writing a script around it Here s a very rough implementation Smin 49 Minimum value of R G or B colour Smax 174 Maximum value of R G or B colour Sstep 5 Amount to step colour by on each step Ssleeptime 15 Interval in seconds between each step start Smax Smin Smin colour start while 1 foreach 0 5 my Swhich _ 3 Which colour R G or B to change my Supdown _ 2 Whether to increase or decrease the colour value do if Supdown 0 Scolour which S step if Supdown 1 Scolour which S step my Sdcopcall sprintf dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface gt setColor x x x true n colour system S dcopcall sleep sleeptime while colour which gt S min and S colour
176. rance For more information see the kdm handbook Paths This dialog allows you to configure the default locations where certain important files are kept The Desktop directory contains all the files on your desktop The Autostart directory contains files or links to files that you want run when KDE starts and the Documents directory is the de fault location KDE applications will open or save documents to Sony Vaio Laptop This configuration module allows you to configure features specific to Sony Vaio laptops If you have a Sony Vaio you will have to install the sonypi driver to use this section 44 The KDE User Guide Chapter 6 The Base KDE Applications Francis Giannaros What follows is a brief description of a few of the base KDE applications For more information on any of the applications you should check the links recommended with each respective entry 6 1 Fundamentals Konqueror KDE s file manager web browser FTP client and much more Kon Kate queror is the canvas for all the latest KDE technology from KIO slaves which provide mechanisms for file access to component embedding allowing it to be a universal viewing application capable of displaying various image files as well as documents e Website http konqueror org e View the handbook by typing help konqueror in Konqueror s Loca tion Toolbar or by selecting it in KHelpCenter KDE s advanced multi view text editor Kate is excellent
177. ress if it has a static IP If your IP address is assigned dy namically using DHCP you can simply use the address for the loopback device 181 The KDE User Guide TAT 002 nal bed hal for dhcp Ie Geis Oley AL daifetal 5 Voye AL hal Statie Make sure that your firewall is not so restrictive that it stops packets to the loopback device For example in iptables if the default rule on the INPUT chain for this device is set to anything other than gt accepr this will cause perfor mance problems in X To check this you can type in Siptables save grep lo A MNEU Vat Io ACCEPT The rule A INPUT i lo j ACCEPT should always work unless there are other misconfigured rules Such as a DROP on the OUTPUT chain 34 2 When An Application Will Not Open Sometimes when you start an application it does not open the expected win dow Here are some questions to answer and steps to help you figure out what is wrong Did the application ever start when launched in the same manner If it did for instance you have clicked an icon on your desktop that previously worked then it is unlikely to be a problem with the launcher itself If however you normally start your application from an icon on Kicker and this time started it with a desktop icon then it could simply be that the launcher itself is wrong But I can see the launch notification spinning cursor and taskbar entry Foo 182 The KDE User Guide
178. s 28 21 DCOP sapea ea Oe Bo hae oe ha ees 28 2 2 KDIS sein 6 ae ee Sh ee a a eS Sharing data with Kontact via IMAP 29 1 Introduction eis be SPE eS eS Pee eH 4 29 2 Whatis IMAP ci sis ee 4 4 be eG eee Re 29 3 Kolab or IMAP 2300 ea boa eee EA Ea ewe ed 29 4 How to set up IMAP server Cyrus 00 29 5 How to setup Kontact clients 000 29 6 How to have Read Only Access 2 2 2 202000 29 7 Credits sos tepi epad aad endagi de geaeee ete 29 8 Further Reading oos sea sacco taa ees 10 153 153 153 154 155 157 159 159 159 159 162 164 m gI The KDE User Guide VII More Tools Application Guide for Migrates Dictionary for Migrators The Standard Menu Entries Glossary of Terms Troubleshooting Problems 34 1 Networkingand X anaana aaa 34 2 When An Application Will Not Open Contributing to KDE Credits and Licenses AT Credits c epee be 84 BER SES SAY e eee EMS A Z License sas 3 22 wi eA A Bee eae OS ees Index 11 173 174 176 177 180 181 181 182 183 184 184 186 187 The KDE User Guide List of Tables 302 Sample Tables y ok Pio oe Garde eds Geek Pia ews Abstract A general user guide to KDE Please report any problems with this document to kde doc english kde org The KDE User Guide Part I Introduction The KDE User Guide Chapter 1 Welcome to the KDE User Guide This User Gu
179. s ksystraycmd startonshow icon log tooltip X Log konsole Con log captaon X log N nomenubar notabbar noframe e tail f xsession errors The addition of the startonshow parameter tells ksystraycmd to start with only the tray icon visible like the hidden parameter and to wait until the user activates the tray icon before running the target command We ve also used the quitonhide parameter which tells ksystraycmd to terminate the target app whenever its window is hidden Using both these parameters en sures that our Konsole tray icon doesn t waste resources when we aren t using it Creating and destroying the target window as we do here prevents the stan dard icon and title handling of ksystraycmd from working so we now need to specify the initial icon and tooltip explicitly too 16 The KDE User Guide 2 3 2 5 Improving Reliability In all of our previous examples we ve relied on kstart and ksystraycmd to fig ure out which window we want to affect and unless we say otherwise they assume that the first window to appear is the one we want This policy is usu ally OK because we are starting the application at the same time but it can fail badly when lots of windows are appearing such as when you log on To make our commands more robust we can use the window parameter This specifies the title of the target window The following example uses the window pa rameter to en
180. s are intended to be as useful and usable as possible out of the box but they also offer a wide range of options which you can change to make KDE work for you As well as the settings which affect the whole of KDE see chapter 5 each application has a set of configuration options which you can access using the menu option Settings Configure Application This is the same for all KDE applications which makes it easy to find the configuration dialog for an application On the left of the configuration dialog is a list of sections Clicking on one of these sections displays the configuration page for that section on the right hand side of the dialog You can change these options to fit your preferences When you have made the changes you want you can click on OK to save your changes and close the configuration dialog If you want to see the effect of your changes but not close the configuration dialog click on the Apply button This is useful if you aren t sure about the change you ve made and might want to change back because the dialog is still open ready for you to do so If you decide that you don t want to keep the changes you ve made just click Cancel to close the dialog without saving your changes 31 The KDE User Guide 4 4 2 Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts Most KDE applications offer keyboard shortcuts for the main actions in the ap plication If you find that you don t like the default keyboard shortcuts
181. sic Player The icon will appear on the panel in the space that you right clicked on 3 2 2 Adding extras and applets Kicker can add many types of items as well as application launch icons You can find these items using the same menu as before but this time selecting Add Applet to Panel or Add New Panel The items in the Add Applet window are small programs that can reside on the panel An example of an applet is the Desktop Preview amp Pager which shows a small image of each of your virtual desktops For more information about virtual desktops see Section 2 3 3 You can switch to a different virtual desktop by clicking on its image in the desktop pager You can find information about the other applets available for Kicker in the Kicker manual Just enter help kicker in the Location bar in Konqueror 3 2 3 The System Tray The system tray is where programs that are run but not directly needed are kept Some programs like music players are shown there because you prob ably want to keep them open but so that it does not take too much space on your screen it will put an icon in the system tray When you right click on such an icon a popup menu will appear where you can see some options of the program like play pause stop in a music player When you left click on it the main window of the program will appear If you hover your mouse above the icon a tool tip will appear with some information in the music player c
182. signed for group many to many com munication in discussion forums called channels but also allows one to one communication The kde channel is under Freenode the IRC server which provides an in teractive environment for coordination and support of peer directed projects including and placing particular stress upon those relating to free software and open source projects such as KDE While Kopete has a IRC plugin and handles both channels and nicks well long time IRC users might prefer a client designed just for that role which is what Konversation is It supports features such as granting and taking op status banning easy nick changing special channel support for passwords and invites and other things that the power IRC users expect It also is far better at handling large channels such as debian If you have used another power IRC client before you should have no trouble using Konversation 21 4 Linking email and messaging Did it happen to you You received an email and the first thing you would like to do is to give a reaction on it but not by email So you switch to your instant messaging client and or IRC client and look if that person is online via MSN Jabber or IRC Well KDE 3 3 has made that a lot easier A step by step manual 118 The KDE User Guide The requirements are KMail KAddressBook and Kopete Konversation should do as well Make sure KMail is configured and fully functional for email and Kopete
183. ss to a plethora of information ranging from frequently asked questions and HOWTOs to tips and tricks The wiki should never however be used as a substitute for the respective application s handbook or the official KDE documentation 2 3 Windows How To Work Them 2 3 1 Basic Window Management Each application running in KDE has its own window and some applications may use more than one window You can manipulate these windows in many ways to make your desktop work for you Here is a normal window 10 The KDE User Guide chapter 16 Making Callouts Konqueror Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help QWQWVOB BAAR Aas E gt Location S http ILOn kde org docs markup callouts html l rW r r I vampyr vampyr 4044 Aug 6 19 32 i drwxr xr x 7 vampyr vampyr 4096 Sep 29 17 31 The current directory One directory up in the tree A hidden file indicated by the beginning the name A backup or temporary file indicated by the ending the name A hidden directory which like a hidden file is indicated by the at the start of the name Indicates where a callout is For KDE HTML documentation a small numbered graphic will be placed here and also at the location of the explanation These numbered graphics are links between the two places It is entirely possible to embed the callout elements directly in the text you are describing and this is perhaps the easiest way to do it It isn t
184. ss to a command shell we can restrict the she l1l_access action by adding the following to kdeglobals KDE Action Restrictions shell_access false Since this affects the KDE menu and the available applications we must force an update of the sycoca database touch SKDEDIR share services update_ksycoca Now re login to KDE and check the following points e The K menu e In Konqueror Tools Open Terminal e The Alt F2 run command Full documentation about available actions can be found on http www kde org areas sysadmin A few of the more interesting actions are listed below action options_configure The Configure option from the Settings menu action help_report_bug The Report Bug option from the Help menu action kdesktop_rmb right mouse button mouse button menu on the desk top action kicker_rmb right mouse button mouse button menu on the panel user root Hide all actions or applications that require root access shell_access Hides all actions or applications that provide shell access 154 The KDE User Guide print system Disables the option to select the printing system backend lock_screen Whether the user will be able to lock the screen start_new_session Whether the user may start a second X session see also kdm opengl_screensavers Whether OpenGL screensavers are allowed to be used manipulatescreen_screensavers Permit screensavers that do not hide the entire screen
185. stomization e Website http www koffice org kspread e KSpread Handbook KPresenter The presentation component It can be used to create on screen presentations or to design and print transparencies Features include em bedding images and clip art easy working with objects and the ability to make HTML or XML slideshows e Website http www koffice org kpresenter e KPresenter Handbook Kivio The flowcharting and diagramming component Additional stencil sets can be used for custom needs there is a plugin framework for additional functionality and even UML diagrams are possible 124 The KDE User Guide e Website http www koffice org kivio e Kivio Handbook Karbon14 A vector drawing application Krita The painting and image manipulation component Krita contains both ease of use fun features like guided painting as well as high end fea tures like support for 16 bit images CMYK and even OpenEXR HDR images e Website http www koffice org krita e Krita Handbook Kugar The appropriate component for creating business reports which is ac complished with an advanced designer that it has Features include re port printing in postscript full control of fonts colors text alignment and wrapping as well as open report definition files with the layout stored as XML e Website http www koffice org kugar e Kugar Handbook KPlato The component for project management allowing for the planning
186. sure that a particular konsole window is affected b kstart iconify window kstart_me konsole Caption kstart me e taal f xsession errors Here we ve used the tried and tested technique of specifying a title for both kstart and the target application This is generally the best way to use kstart and ksystraycmd The window argument is supported by both kstart and ks ystraycmd and can be regular expression e g window 0 9 as well as a par ticular title Regular expressions are a powerful pattern matching tool you ll find used throughout KDE 2 3 3 Using Multiple Desktops Sometimes one screen s worth is just not enough space If you use many ap plications at the same time and find yourself drowning in different windows virtual desktops offer the solution By default KDE has four virtual desktops each one of which is like a separate screen you can open windows move win dows around and set backgrounds and icons on each of the desktops If you are familiar with the concept of virtual terminals you will have no trouble with KDE s virtual desktops 2 3 3 1 Switching Virtual Desktops To move to a different virtual desktop you can use Ctrl Tab in the same way as you would use Alt Tab to switch between windows see Section 2 3 1 1 Hold down Ctrl and then press Tab A small popup window appears showing the virtual desktops with one highlighted If you release Ctrl KDE will switch to the hi
187. t everything that you might want quick access to Besides the K icon Menu where you can start applications Kicker is also capable of run ning docked applets like the pager the taskbar or the clock and extensions such as child panels With all these options you will probably want to con figure Kicker so that it works best for you The next section describes some common ways to customize the panel 3 2 Configuring Kicker 3 2 1 Customizing the icons on the panel When you first start KDE kicker displays some icons next to the K menu These can be used to start the applications that they represent To see which appli cation is launched by each icon hold the mouse cursor over the icon until a tooltip a small popup label appears telling you the name of the application These default icons might not represent the applications you use most often so you can remove the ones you do not want and add icons for other applications that you use To remove an icon right mouse button click on the icon and select Remove application name Button in the popup menu that appears To add a new icon right mouse button click on an empty space on the panel and 24 The KDE User Guide follow the menu entry Add Application to Panel This leads you to a copy of the K menu where you can find all of the KDE applications For example to add an icon for the JuK music player follow through the menus to Add Appli cation to Panel Multimedia JuK Mu
188. t s of type Cal endar if not set it to be and also if user Tasks is of type Tasks Now in Calendar you have two available IMAP resources to write against so if you create a new event you are prompted which one use or if you left the local resources available you have 3 You have go to the lower left small window in Calendar the one that shows available resources and uncheck the ones that don t point to groupware directory path see the tail part of each resource path 29 7 Credits I m a newbie and for this howto I ve only provided my time and my will For the knowledge I have really to thank some guys in freenode channels for their competence patience and helpfulness SPECIAL THANKS TO e For the Cyrus IMAP part in cyrus channel protagonist Andy Morgan morgan orst edu plixed Okke Timm okke timm web de e For the Kontact part in kontact channel till Till Adam adam kde org dfaure David Faure faure kde org 171 The KDE User Guide mdouhan Matt Douhan matt fruitsalad org Thank a lot guys Ah and there is also me markit Marco Menardi mmenaz mail com 29 8 Further Reading REFERENCE e KDE http www kde org e Kontact website http www kontact org e Kroupware project http www kroupware org e KDE Community Wiki http wiki kde org e Wine project http www winehq org e Cygwin X project http x cygwin com e LTSP project http www ltsp org
189. t clicking on any item to configure it or to empty space to add anew entry You will be shown a context menu Here you can choose the icon size and to add modify or rename any entry Choose Add En try and you will see a window containing anything you need Type your 30 The KDE User Guide description enter the location or choose it via the dialog opening by clicking on the folder symbol choose a symbol from a vast variety in the symbol dialog opening when you click on the predefined icon usually a simple folder symbol The Preview area activate it by typing the F11 key on your keyboard or via the wrench icon on top of the dialog makes it easy to preview almost any file on your filesystem Images will be displayed as thumbnails Usually also sound files such as MP3 Ogg or Wave Files text files among them raw text PDF and HTML and even video files MPG AVI and so on will be previewed NOTE Note that large files might take a long time to be previewed e g scaled down if they are large images You can disable automatic previews by unselecting Automatic Preview below the preview You can still preview individual files just click Preview You can also disable previews for files above a certain size Go to KDE Control Center choose KDE components File manager go to the Preview and Metafiles tab and change the Maximum Filesize value 4 4 Configuring Programs 4 4 1 Application Configuration KDE application
190. t of services that are started on demand and a second list of services that can be ma nipulated by the user The services in the first list cannot be modified or changed The services in the second list you can enable or disable a service loading at start up and manually start and stop services Session Manager Here you can configure how you would like KDE to handle sessions You can configure KDE to remember your previous session and restore the applications you were using the next time you log in You can also specify individual applications to exclude from being restored or disable restoring sessions on login entirely Spell Checker This module allows you to configure the KDE Spell checker It allows you to modify what spell checker to use what types of error to check for and also what default dictionary to use KDE supports the use of both ASpell and ISpell Vim Component Configuration This module allows you to configure the use of Vim as an embeddable component You need to have a recent version of Gvim or Kvim installed for this You can configure the appearance of the editor as well as which vim binary to use 5 5 Peripherals This section is where you would change settings related to peripheral devices such as keyboards and joysticks Display Here you can modify settings to do with the size orientation and refresh rate of your display and whether you would like these settings to be applied on KDE startup On the Power Control t
191. t variables To set a variable in the shell use VARNAME value For a full list of variables that can be set in KDE see the wiki Some tips and tricks To rename Konsole s session use Ctrl Alt S and enter the new name If you find the need to run any KDE program with root privileges you can use the KDE su command with the c switch from the command line like this kdesu c n PROGRAM using the n switch will prevent KDE from remem bering your passwords RELATED INFORMATION e The Konsole Handbook has much more information about the features avail able in Konsole You can read it in KHelpCenter or by entering help konsole in Konqueror s Location bar 80 The KDE User Guide Chapter 14 KDE Edutainment The KDE Edutainment Project offers children families and teachers some ed ucational programs You can find applications to help you improve your lan guage skills and train your vocabulary like KVocTrain and KWordQuiz or Scientific programs like the very advanced KStars a planetarium and Kig in teractive geometry which will bring you to the edge of knowledge Have fun learning touch typing with KTouch Teachers will find an easy way to make their lessons with KEduca You can find a complete list of KDE educational ep wane on the KDE Edu website What follows is an overview of a few of em View the handbook of each application by typing help lt appname gt in Kon queror s Location Toolbar or by selecting
192. tcut schemes you can use if you are more used to another windowing environment like Windows or Mac OS If you prefer you can customise your own scheme and modifier keys 5 8 Security amp Privacy This section is where you can configure options related to security and privacy such as the use of cryptography enabling the KDE wallet setting your identity and managing caches Crypto This module allows you to configure SSI for use with most KDE ap plications as well as manage your personal certificates and the known certificate authorities KDE Wallet Here you can change your KDE Wallet Manager settings KDE Wallet aims to provide secure storage for passwords and web form data You can group different passwords in different wallets and each one will only be opened with a master password which you should never forget The default wallet is named kdewallet and you can ei ther create a new wallet for your local passwords or accept the default wallet for all data in the Automatic Wallet Selection section KDE programs like Konqueror Kmail and Kopete are fully compatible with the KDE Wallet Manager All of them will ask at least once for per mission to access to actual wallet You can give different access levels such as always allow allow once etc If you want to change that ac cess level you can do it from the Access Control tab by deleting the program entry and selecting a new preference the next time that applica
193. tes or transfer files via the secure FISH layer Root Directory Everything on a UNIX based system is organized in a file system tree This tree must have a root and here it is The Root Directory function is like the Home Directory function The only difference is that every folder is being displayed not only your home directory Services This is somehow the rest Try browsing through the different items If an Audio CD is in your CD or DVD drive you will be able to find 22 The KDE User Guide everything on it and even more in the Audio CD Browser item you can even compress audio files and save them on your hard drive with this function 2 4 4 Icons To select only one icon hold down the Ctrl key and click on the icon you want to select If you want to select more than one icon hold down Ctrl while you click on each of the items you want to select Once one or more icons are selected you can do what you want with them If you want to move or copy items select them and then drag them with the left mouse button down to the desired location When you release the mouse button a menu will come up offering you to Move Copy or Link the selected items You can also Cancel your action Many other actions can be applied to the selected items by right clicking on one of the selected items and choosing the action from the menu which appears The exact contents of this menu depend on the type of files selected so it is called a con
194. text This can be in the same application you got the text from or another application entirely Select Edit Paste Ctrl V 3 4 3 More Advanced Clipboard Use The instructions above describe the default clipboard behavior The Klipper application which you can add as an applet in the panel see Section 3 2 for in structions on how to do this provides some useful clipboard related features like a clipboard history and the ability to change the behavior of the clipboard and selection Take a look at the Klipper Handbook for more information RELATED INFORMATION e You can find more information about Kicker the KDE Panel in KHelpCenter or by entering help kicker in Konqueror s Location bar e The Klipper Handbook has information about the advanced clipboard man agement features in KDE You can read it in KHelpCenter or by entering help klipper in Konqueror s Location bar 3 5 Related Information RELATED INFORMATION e Though some information has been presented here there is a lot more in formation on Kicker tips options tricks and hacks in the Kicker handbook You can access it via the KHelpCenter or by simply entering help kicker in the Konqueror Location toolbar 27 The KDE User Guide Chapter 4 Programs and Documents 4 1 Launching Programs KDE offers a varying number of ways to launch programs You may e Simply select the relevant item in the K menu e Run the program from Konsole or by cli
195. text menu 2 4 5 Links and Shortcuts As already mentioned above you can link files or folders anywhere It means that the linked folder will appear and behave just like the original in another location without consuming additional space on your harddrive So if you for example have a number of documents and only a few are used regularly you can easily group them in a folder and create links in it 2 4 6 The Trash Before a file is deleted in the KDE file manager it will be moved to the Tr ash folder to give you the possibility of getting it back if you deleted it by accident The trash bin will show all deleted items You can select the one to be recovered and move it to its original place as described in Section 2 4 4 If you right click on the trash bin and select Empty Trash Bin the files in it will be deleted permanently RELATED INFORMATION e As mentioned in the introduction the Konqueror Handbook has much more information about the features available in Konqueror You can read it in KHelpCenter or by entering help konqueror in Konqueror s Location bar 23 The KDE User Guide Chapter 3 The Panel and the Desktop Philip Rodrigues 3 1 Kicker the KDE Panel Kicker is the application launcher panel of the K Desktop Environment By de fault it appears along the bottom of the screen and takes up the whole of the width of the screen but this is configurable Kicker is something of a one stop shop for almos
196. the Logo program ming language with several languages currently supported e Website http edu kde org kturtle e KTurtle Handbook KGeography KGeography is a geography learning tool for KDE You can browse the maps by clicking in a map division to see its name and you can also answer several types of questions where the program shows you a map division or a capital for example and you have to guess its name e Website http kgeography berlios de and http edu kde org kgeography e KGeography Handbook Blinken Blinken is a Simon Says game for KDE The player should remember the sequence of lights in the correct order and is then presented with an identical sequence with one extra step e Website http edu kde org blinken e Blinken Handbook 84 The KDE User Guide 14 6 Related Information e The KDE Edu website at http edu kde org has news and information about all the KDE Edutainment applications 85 The KDE User Guide Chapter 15 Accessibility Gary Cramblitt KDEAP the KDE Accessibility Project aims to ensure that KDE as a desktop environment is accessible to all users including those of us with physical disabilities In addition to the accessibility aids in the Control Center KDE has several other accessibility tools which are available in the KDE Accessibility package This package may not be installed on your com puter if it is not you can download it from here e kdeaccessibility 1 0 0 tar gz or kdeac
197. the most specific but working out the line coordinates to use the more precise elements is difficult so this way is acceptable for now Example 16 2 Marking up callouts by embedding directly in text 4 icc Page loaded 2 3 1 1 Switching Between Windows If you want to use a window it must be active A window automatically be comes active when you open it so that the application you opened is imme diately ready to use Only one window can be active at a time The active window is the one into which you can type and can be distinguished from the others because it has a different colored titlebar With the KDE default theme the active window has a light blue titlebar and the inactive windows have gray titlebars When you want to work in a different window you need to make it active There are two ways to do this e left mouse button click on the window that you want to make active The window will become active and will be raised above other windows if it overlaps them e Hold down Alt and press Tab do not release the Alt key A popup dialog appears with a list of available windows one of which is highlighted You can select a different window by pressing Tab again to move through the list all the time holding down Alt When you release the Alt key the window which was highlighted is made active 2 3 1 2 Moving Windows The first way to organize the windows on your desktop is to move them around You can move wi
198. tion with root permissions it can derange permissions of certain configuration files for a program Running a graphical applications as root in general is not a good idea but using KDE su will always be your safest bet with it RELATED INFORMATION e KDEsu Handbook 9 3 Switching Sessions From version 3 3 onwards KDE provides a session management system which allows you to switch between different user account on one computer You can stay logged in and e g let your sister brother wife neigbour or whoever read her or his emails just for a moment Before you had to log off therefore e g close programs or save documents and let her or him log in Now it s almost as easy as switching to another virtual desktop SWITCHING SESSIONS HOW IT WORKS The Switch User Menu The K menu now bears a new entry Rather at the bottom of the menu you will find a Switch User submenu It contains the command to lock the current and start a new session which means that 65 The KDE User Guide your desktop will start the screensaver and after a few seconds can log in with KDM as always The Start New Session entry skips the activation of your screensaver Once you have running more than one session you can either choose to press Ctrl Alt F7 or F8 and so on what is usually configured by default or even more comfortable choose from the list of active sessions at the bottom of the Switch User submenu Switch User with the screensaver If
199. uk e Wrote chapter 21 Steven Robson s a robson sms ed ac uk e Took the screenshots for Section 8 2 Section 8 3 Section 2 4 and chapter 15 Philip Rodrigues phil kde org e Reviewing and proofreading Wrote Section 2 1 Wrote Section 3 4 Wrote Section 4 4 Wrote chapter 32 e Marked up parts of Part VI Deepak Sarda antrix gmail com e Wrote Section 8 3 Robert Stoffers robert_angie ozemail com au e Wrote Section 4 1 185 The KDE User Guide Juan Carlos Torres carlosdgtorres gmail com e Wrote chapter 12 Simon Vermeersch titeuf ph34rus org e Wrote Section 11 4 Lauri Watts lauri kde org e Wrote the outline e Wrote Section 2 2 e Marked up parts of Part VI Christian Weickhmann christian weickhmann gmx de e Wrote Section 2 4 e Wrote Section 9 3 A 2 License This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta tion License 186 Appendix B Index A Accessibility 86 AltF4 14 AltTab 11 13 Applets 25 aRts 57 Audio 57 B Background 6 Ciipboaed 26 History 27 Closing Windows 14 Configuration 31 36 Copying Files 23 Customization 31 36 Cut 26 D Desktop 6 E Email getting started 106 IMAP server 106 POP3 server 106 sending 107 SMTP server 106 testing 108 F File Management 18 File sharing 67 Focus windows 11 Fonts 71 installing 72 previewing 72 The KDE User Guide 187 G ge 109 H Hiding Windows 13
200. ve Interval 25 25 10 KDE Startup Sequence 25 10 1 kdm Always runs as root Uses KDEDIR share config kdmre and etc X11 xdm Xservers The latter contains entries like 0 local usr X11R6 bin X 0 vt07 138 The KDE User Guide Relevant startup files are also X Core section in kdmrc Setup etc X11 xdm Xsetup User enters username amp password Startup etc X11 xdm Xstartup prepare as root Session etc X11 xdm Xsession starts session as user For a KDE session kde or startkde If present xsessionor xinitrce Reset etc X11 xdm Xreset after session finished 25 10 2 The KDE Startup Script startkde The KDE startup sequence starts with the startkde script In most cases this script gets called from the display manager kdm once the user has been au thenticated There are two very important lines in the startkde script LD_BIND_NOW true kdeinit4 kcminit_startup and kwrapper4 lt gt ksmserver SKDEWM The first line starts the kdeinit4 master process The kdeinit4 master process is used to start all other KDE processes It show up in the output of ps au x as kdeinit4 Running The arguments after kdeinit4 are the names of additional processes to be started The indicates that kdeinit4 needs to wait till the process has finished kdeinit4 also starts klauncher and kded The second of the two lines asks kdeinit4 to start the ksmserver session man ager process T
201. y found under SKDEHOME but not in any other directory tree 25 6 Architecture specific Directories Architecture OS and CPU type specific directories etc opt kde3 share config foder Used for KDE executables 1ib Used for KDE libraries 1ib kde3 This directory contains components plugins and other runtime loadable objects for use by KDE 3 x applications 25 7 Shared Directories Shared Not architecture specific can be shared between different archs share applnk desktop files for KDE menu old share applications desktop files for KDE menu since KDE 3 2 share apps Contains application specific data files Each application has a sub directory here for storing additional data files share config Configuration files Configuration files are normally named after the application they belong to plus the letters rc A special case is kdeglobals This file is read by all KDE applications share config session This directory is used by session management and is normally only available under KDEHOME At the end of a session KDE applications store their state here The file names consist of the name of the application followed by a number The session manager ksmserver stores references to these numbers when saving a session in ksmserverrc share doc HTML This directory contains documentation for KDE applica tions Documentation is categorized by language and the application it belongs to Normally at least two files can be
202. ype the shortcut anymore For instance if you set it to Google you can just type kde in the Location bar and it will search Google for KDE In Keyword delimiter you can choose if you want to separate a shortcut with a colon gg kde or a space gg kde A nice tip with Internet shortcuts is that you can use them from the Run Com mand dialog Just open it through the K menu or with Alt F2 and type your shortcut e g gg kde and press Enter It will automatically open Konqueror with a Google search for KDE 109 The KDE User Guide 19 2 Fine Tuning your Browsing Experience Example 19 1 Using your own style for webpages Webpages come in every possible set of colors and fonts and sometimes this doesn t give the best result For example if you have visual difficulties it may be impossible to read certain combinations of background and text col ors Konqueror provides a way to choose your own colors and apply them to all webpages Here s how 1 Open Konqueror and go to Settings Configure Konqueror 2 In the configuration dialog that appears select the Stylesheets page on the left hand side 3 On this page choose Use accessibility stylesheet defined in Customize tab then go to the Customize tab and choose the settings you prefer 4 Close all Konqueror windows you may need to restart KDE to be sure and when you re open them your settings should be applied 110 The KDE User Guide Chapter

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