NepaLinux 2.0(K Desktop Environment) User Manual 1. Logging In
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1. D Courier DejaVu Sans Dejavu EE d fe Dejavu Sans Medium Oblique Bold Bold Oblique Mono HEE D EE HE HE Dejavu Sans Dejavu Sans Dejavu Serif Dejavu Serif Dejavu Serif Oblique Ultralight Bald Bold Oblique Alternatively Il KDE Menu gt Control Center gt System Administration gt Font Installer 2 Click on Administrator mode and provide root password 3 Click on Add Fonts a new window will open Browse the fonts you want to install s Nepali Input System Adding Nepali Romanized Keyboard Layout KDE Main Menu gt Control Center gt Regional amp Accessibility gt Keyboard Layout In Layout Tab check Enable keyboard layouts Now from available layouts select Nepal and click on Add gt gt Now upon clicking on apply you will notice a layout being added right side of the bottom panel m cA 5 Open any text editor and click on the newly added layout It will switch to nepali Now you can input in Nepali SCIM input system In scim input system there are 2 keyboard layout for nepali input Romanized and Traditional Just open any text editor and hit ctrl space A small bar will pop up on the right bottom Now you can choose between Romanized and Traditional layout by clicking and selecting KDE 3 5 fy 3 Romanized NP 9 K 9 Multimedia and Graphics in KDE Multimedia Listening to Audio It can be launched from KDE Menu 5 Multimedia gt X2. ESmu2dkixrsvie4xmn amp ie insect asiel ts aA A O a fon Boe m Z oo Emme l a B Tas x Normal Dutline Notes Handout Slide Sorter ks p Master Pages NepaLinux 2 0 KDE Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Long term Goal iS ec oe Ri eTid B 0 B B ke iA FIAB4 Cb ime a a aa es ed se e Unlike other components of OpenOffice org when you start Impress you are presented with an AutoPilot to start creating your presentation This gives you options to start a presentation with an empty template or even with one of the pre defined templates A preview dialogue is available and once all options are selected and Next is clicked to move on you get a basic presentation Views There are several views in Impress and some have overlapping names but with different functionality Just above the scroll bars you ll notice five buttons that look like what you see below The five options for workspace views are Normal view normal look of the presentation Outline view overlook of the presentation Notes view add speaker notes Handout view how handouts get printed Slide Sorter birds eye view to add change switch slides around All the views can also be accessed via View gt Workspace It is also worthwhile to note that at the bottom left handcorner of your screen where the slide tabs are displayed there are more views to know about You are typically locate
3. Desktop Install New Theme Internet amp Network Remove Theme KDE Components Peripherals Create New Theme Power Control Regional amp Accessibility Customize your theme Security amp Privacy Sound amp Multimedia System Administration Background Colors Screen Saver Help Defaults I Fig Changing the KDE theme To change the KDE theme Go to K menu and click on the Control Center On the Appearance and Themes choose Theme Manager Choose the theme of your choice from the list After choosing a theme click Apply Similarly to install a new theme from outside click on Install New Theme and choose the theme file The other option as we mentioned above is to customize different components like background colors etc After customizing different components click on Create a New Theme enter the required information and click OK Your newly created theme will be added to the list of available themes from where you can choose your theme References http docs kde org development en kdebase userguide index html 7 Publishing with KDE Text Editor in KDE KEdit KWrite Kate are some of the text editors available in KDE Although a full fledged word processor like OpenOffice org Writer is available users can use simple text editors like the ones mentioned above for simple text editing In this section we shall look at using one of the text editors in K
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5. Terminal Emulator and Web Browser to use Peripherals you can change setting related to peripherals such as keyboard mouse display printers etc for example you can change the display setting through this section in the control center Power control This section has a single module Laptop Battery Here you can configure the appearance and behavior 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 Regional amp Accessibility This section is where you can configure options to do with region and locale You can switch your login environment to another language from this section for example Nepali to English and vice versa To change the login environment to English click add language tab and select English then move it up to make it default Your setting will take place next time you login In this section you can also configure keyboard layout The detail about the keyboard layout is explained under the section Font Installation and Keyboard Layout Security amp Privacy This section is where you can configure options related to security and privacy such as the use of cryptography setting your identity and managing caches System Administration As the name implies this co
6. as well as other OpenOffice org compatible documents It can create anything from a simple letter to books with professional layouts making use of styles Start it from the Main Menu by Applications gt Office gt OpenOffice org Writer B untitled OpenOffice org Writer File Edit View Insert Farmat Table Tools Window Help EA PF gt 31 SR mh 4ie i9m vite smu3T5i0 ac Default Lohit Nep 1 5 7 2 CE id SE Sa Bee Fea ali T EE 2 d x43 E Jo dB coe 10 0 11 bee 13 L L L L ala al L ala LL LL LL rt P a 2 mw bud b Pagel 1 Defaut O 100 INSAT STD HYP D Common Functions Functions of the word processor can be controlled via the toolbars located at the top of the screen On the first row file actions like opening and saving can be performed while on the second row changing the font size and style bold underline or italics are located They can also be controlled by the menus that are common through packages File gt New gt Text Document Creates a new empty untitled document for you to work on File gt Open Opens the file File gt Close Closes the document you are working on If changes have been made since your last save you will be prompted to save or discard those changes File gt Save Saves the document you are currently working on Fle gt Save As Saves an updated version of a document in a different l
7. Settings gt Configure Editor For more information on how to use KWrite can be obtained by selecting Help from the menu at the top References Nepali OpenOffice org Nepali OpenOffice org OOo is a complete office suite in Nepali featuring a word processor Writer a spreadsheet application Calc and presentation software Impress Besides these fundamental office applications OOo also includes a vector drawing tool Draw database access program publication of documents in the Portable Document Format PDF and presentations in the Flash SWF format The OOo package is fully inter operable with the Microsoft Office suite Using OpenOffice org As a first step for information it is important to know how the Help system works To get help Help gt Contents Pay attention to the Options where you can get help for the individual components in OpenOffice org Setting up OpenOffice org preferences makes it work the way you want it The entire controls for this are available at Tools gt Options For opening the document whatever you saved in the openOffice org using the MicroSoft Office package always save it in the respective format of the Microsoft package For eg For word file doc format for excel xls and for powerpoint ppt WRITER This 1s a powerful tool for creating professional documents reports newsletters and so on it is a word processor that allows easy integration of charts and pictures
8. add button File Sharing you can share files from one NepaLinux to another NepaLinux using either Samba or NFS Network File System Right Click on the folder that you want to share then click on properties Click on the Share tab Click on Configure File Sharing Type the root password A new window will be shown Click on Add Choose the folder that you want to share Check Share with Samba Microsoft R Windows R Check Writable if you want other users to have write access to the folder otherwise you can leave it so that it will be read only Click Ok You have just shared your folder to other NepaLinux and Windows machines Accessing Shared Folders Open the konqueror and type smb lt ip or hostname gt You may have to provide user name and password depending on the types of share You can acces the share alternatively as Open the Konqueror Click Network Folders Click Samba Sharesss Choose the workgroup that you want to access Wireless card configuration using Ndiswrapper hard disk installation only Ndiswrapper is a tool that emulates the windows wireless driver into the Linux system So you don t have to worry about the Linux driver for the wireless card It supports almost all of the wireless card but for these card you must have the driver for windows system 1 Desktop gt Administration gt Windows wireless Tools 2 Now you are asked to enter the root password 3 Enter the password and click
9. add them into your new AutoFormats In the object toolbar there is an option to set the font colour within the cell There are also options to increase decrease the indents within a cell and in the image below controls for enabling e Currency Percentage e Add Remove significant decimal places These are quick controls and accessing them is as simple as clicking the icons that represent them and automatically the cell will be formatted as stated Not only can the borders be set easily and cell backgrounds too but the alignment of text within a cell can also be set This can be either as top aligned centre aligned or bottom aligned Sorting A big part of dealing with spreadsheets involves a lot of sorting and filtering of data To sort a dataset selecting the active cells then on clicking Data Sort will call a pop up dialogue that has options for sorting the data based on the columns present as well as if the data should be ascending or descending IMPRESS No office suite is complete without a presentation piece and OpenOffice org shows its colours with Impress the presentation piece in the suite To get started with IMPRESS you need to opt the following Main Menu gt Office OpenOffice org Impress or if you already have an OpenOffice org window open its available at File gt New gt Presentation 9 untitled2 OpenOffice org Impress File Edit View Insert Format Tools Slide Show Window Help
10. drop down list If you want to choose any other image of your choice apart from the ones shown in the list click the Open dialog file button on the side of the drop down list After choosing an image click Apply and OK Fonts The fonts used to display on different places like Toolbar Menu Window title Taskbar Desktop etc can be changed as per user s choice v DNS ACON O Gants File View Settings Help Tf Fonts Appearance amp Themes General Arial 12 Choose i Background Fixed width courier New 10 Choose PL Toolbar Arial 12 Choose Menu Arial 12 Choose Screen Saver Splash Screen Window title Arial 12 Choose j j Theme Manager Taskbar Aria up Choose Window Decorations 7 Desktop Desktop Sans Serif 10 Choose Internet amp Network Adjust All Fonts KDE Components Peripherals Power Control R Use anti aliasing for fonts Configure Regional amp Accessibility i IC Force fonts DPI Security amp Privacy Sound amp Multimedia System Administration Date amp Time Font Installer t Help Defaults IBM Thinkpad La Reed dA 4I coved fo coved apo eed secede sosed coord che Fig Changing the display fonts To change the fonts Go to K menu and click on the Control Center On the Appearance and Themes choose Fonts Click Choose to choose from the
11. generally not used to login into system because of the security reasons When users login for the first time users are asked to which language they want their Desktop environment once you set this language it remain as it is To switch the language for example to Nepali environment you have to go through KDE control center For details about it please refer to the section control section Logging out Click on the Main menu and click on Log out User can also select between the options to Turning off restarting and logging out 2 KDE Desktop general overview KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations similar to the desktop environment under MacOS and Windows environment NepaLinux 2 0 KDE consists of koffice suite for office productivity Konqueror for file and web Browser KPPP for configuring Modem and Kmail for mail client Apart from these it includes several other utilities for Multimedia Graphics education and games Main components of Desktop There are three main components on the KDE Desktop The Menu The Panel The Desktop itself The Menu System The main Menu can be accessed by clicking on the Main Menu button located at the extreme lower left hand corner of the Desktop The Menu may be protrayed by one of several icons depending upon the Desktop environmet used Fig Generic K
12. list of fonts and then select their style and size After choosing a font click OK and then Apply Screen Saver Screen saver is the animated screen that is displayed after certain period of time when the user remains idle wc Seen saver Cona Center File View Settings Help EJ Screen Saver Appearance amp Themes SEMI Sawar Background fou Banners amp Pictures H Bl Desktop Distortions E Flying Things E Fractals E Gadgets amp Simulations E Illusions of Depth E Miscellaneous E OpenGL Screen Savers E Rapid Motion i Visit to Flatland Advanced Options Colors Fonts Icons Launch Feedback Screen Saver f Splash Screen Style 3 Theme Manager i Window Decorations Desktop Internet amp Network KDE Components Peripherals Power Control Regional amp Accessibility Security amp Privacy Sound amp Multimedia System Administration Date amp Time Font Installer Help Defaults IBM Thinkpad La g ELM LL ee ee ee ee ee sosea ofh Settings IC Start automatically i i i Fig Changing the Screen Saver To change the screen saver Go to K menu and click on the Control Center On the Appearance and Themes choose Screen Saver Choose from the list of screen savers After choosing the screen saver click Apply Splash Screen Splash screen is the animated screen that is displayed after a user successfully logs in t
13. package and contains many useful features including an array of functions and plenty of charting options It is fully inter operable with Microsoft Excel though the function separators differ in the two packages CALC may be run opting for Applications gt Office gt OpenOffice org Calc or if you already have an existing window of OpenOffice org open File 5 New gt Spreadsheet untitled2 OpenOffice org Calc File Edit View Insert Format Tools Data Window Help E M DIE SR PR 4 m 4ie lmunilvisd mule E Lohit Nepali m po H OOO FSS z m eo o9 3 ox o 8 LEB Po EN T 1F 9f Sheets Sheet1 3 Default 100 STD Spreadsheets contain many rows and columns and each row and column combination is called a cell like Al B4 and so on Upon inputting text into a cell you might realize that the text is wider than the cell allows this can be re sized via right clicking the cell and selecting the Format Cells option Then under the Alignment tab selecting Line Break is what is required Formatting If there is some information that has already been created and the area should be formatted one particular quick and easy option would be to use the AutoFormats available in Calc This is done after selecting the area and then opting for Format gt AutoFormat These are pre defined styles that are available in Calc and if you have created your own particular style you can
14. DE Desktop KWrite Note A text file simply refers to a file which contains pure text printing characters only To start KWrite Go to K menu Click Utilities gt Editors gt KWrite Fig Kwrite text editor in KDE The users can simply type in the KWrite window after the KWrite has started Both the mouse and keyboard can be used to move around in the KWrite window The text can be deleted one character at a time by using the DELETE BACKSPACE key or by selecting the text to be deleted and then pressing the DELETE key to delete a block of text To copy cut and paste the text select a block of text Then click on the Edit option on the top menu bar and select as required Like Edit gt Cut Edit gt Copy Edit gt Paste Similarly the Undo button on the Edit option can be used to undo the latest changes To save the text typed click on the Save As button on the File option on the main menu as File gt Save As Go to the folder where you want to save the file and then give the name of the file In order to find a text string in the file the Find button can be used on the Edit menu Similarly the Replace button can be used to find a text string and replace it with another one An already saved file on the system can be opened by clicking on the Open button on the File on the main menu as File gt Open and by selecting the file to open To change the preferences like fonts colors etc go to
15. DE main Menu button Clicking on this will bring up the menu system as shown Most Used Applications Lock Session Control Center Log Out o Help e Screen Capture Program KSnapshot Debian d E Edutainment d Games d ait Graphics a Internet e Multimedia es Office Settings m system F Utilities 3 Add Remove Programs Control Center a Find Files Folders D Help e Personal Files Home ka s Settings d T4 k Ted System Menu d F 2 3 Run Command if oa 7 is Switch User From Menu system we can start any of the programs installed in our NepaLinux system Note that Menu system consists of main Menu Panel and sub Menu Panel Each entry in the Menu System which has an arrow on its right means that it is an entry point to a sub menu and there can be sub menus within each sub menu The Panel The long bar across the bottom of the desktop screen is called the Panel The Panel contains the Main Menu icon the application launcher icons a notification area and applets Applets Applets are small applications that run on the Panel You can add the Applet to the Panel by right clicking the panel and selecting add applet to the panel Ml Add Applet KDE Panel Detect and end broken processes which consume too much CPU time Settings Control Center modules menu Show Desktop A button that gives quick access to the desktop when Sound Mixer Add to Panel For example to ad
16. MMS XMMS may need additional plug ins to be able to play some of the audio file formats Audio Player Amarok KDE Menu gt Multimedia Audio Player Amarok Status B Stop Vol 40 M Previous M Random Playing VCD and DVD VLC Media can be used to play both audio and video including VCD and DVD You can access the VLC through KDE Menu Multimedia VLC Media Player VLC media player File View Settings Audio Video Navigation Help KDE Graphics Krita is a photo retouching image editing application but above all a paint application that will allow you to create original art on your computer as if you were working with paint and brushes pencils pen and ink Transparent 1024 x 768 Transparent 1280 x 1024 Transparent 1024 x 768 Transparent 1600 x 1200 Use This Template _ Always use this template File Settings Help Transparent 640 x 480 Creates a transparent image of 1024 x 768 pixels White 1024 x 768 White 1280 x 1024 White 1600 x 1200 Open Existing Document White 640x480 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 You can access it as KDE Menu Graphics gt KPDF PDF Viewer KSnapshot An application for taking screenshots It is capable of capturing ima
17. NepaLinux 2 0 K Desktop Environment User Manual 1 Logging In and Logging Out Logging in Graphically Logging Out 2 KDE Desktop general overview The Menu System The Panel The Desktop itself The File Manager 3 Using Common Mass Storage Peripherals Printers Scanner Mass Storage Devices CD ROM Floppy Disk USB mass storage device 4 The KDE Control Center Appearance amp Themes Desktop s Internet amp Network KDE Components Peripherals Power Control Regional amp Accessibility Security amp Privacy 5 KDE and the Internet Konqueror Web Browser Sea Monkey Web Browser Mail Client Kmail Configuring the Modem KPPP IRC Kopete Instant Messenger 6 Customizing the Appearance of your KDE Appearance amp Themes Desktop background Fonts Screen saver Splash screen KDE Themes 7 Publishing with KDE KDE editors Kedit Nepali OpenOffice org Writer Calc Impress OpenOffice Draw OpenOffice Math 8 Fonts installation and Input system Nepali Input system XKB and SCIM Fonts Installation GUI method 9 MultiMedia and Graphics in KDE 10 Networking with KDE Assigning IP address File Sharing Wireless Card configuration using Ndiswrapper 1 Logging in and Logging out Logging in Graphically During the time of NepaLinux Installation users are asked to create at least one user account Users must provide this username and the corresponding password to be able to login into the system the root user is
18. OK 4 Now click on the Install New Drive r Ta Wireless Network Drivers Currently Installed Windows Drivers Ei C onh gure Network i Close 5 Browse the proper inf file for your wireless card Generally from the driver CD of your Laptop Install Driver Select inf file 2 Location Manel 6 After you got the proper inf file click Install Install Driver Select inf file Location 7 Now your wireless card is detected You con configure it as usual as of other Ethernet card from the KDE Menu gt Control panel gt Internet and Network gt Network setting References User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop The United Nations Development Programme s Asia Pacific Development Information Programme UNDP APDIP Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2 KDE User guide docs kde org
19. P 3 Network printer w IPP IPP HTTP Co 3 Other printer type 3 Class of printers 6 select how your computer is connected to the printer the port 7 Once you select the port click Next 8 Select the manufacturer of your printer and then your specific printer from right side 9 Then click Next Network Printer 1 Select network printer and click Next Add Printer Wizard Backend Selection _ Local printer parallel serial USB _ Remote LPD queue C3 SMB shared printer Windows 3 Network printer TCP C Remote CUPS server IPP HTTP Network printer w IPP IPP HTTP D _ Other printer type 3 Class of printers Printer URI Either enter the printer URI directly or use the network scanning facility Metwork scan Subnet 127 0 0 631 3 Select the proper manufacturer and the Model for the Printer s Add Printer Wizard Printer Model selection Manufacturer EPSOM FUJITSU GENERIC GESTETNER HEIDELBERG HITACHI Laserjet 11004 Laserjet 1150 Laserjet 1200 Laserjet 1220 Laserjet 1300 Laserjet 1320 Laserjet 2 IBIM IMAGEN INFOTEC Laserjet 2 w PS LaserJet 2100 Laserlet 100M C PostScript printer Other pt p _ Raw printer no driver needed 4 Click Next and provide the other required information such as printers name location etc Mass Storage Device USB Mass storage device Another popular portable storage medium is the
20. USB mass storage device Flash Drives 128M Removable Media KDE Daemon A new medium has been detected What do you want to do _ Always do this for this type of media As soon as you enter your USB disk this pop up menu appear You can click Open in New Window and browse you USB disk To safely remove your USB disk click System gt Storage Media gt right click USB drive icon and click safely remove As of USB Disk when you enter CD ROM or DVD ROM it will be automatically detected and pop up menu appear in your Desktop Similarly you can access the Floppy Drive from the System gt Storage Media gt Floppy Disk CD DVD Burner K3B K3b is a CD and DVD burning application which provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files copying a CD or DVD Making data CD or DVD and writing ISO To use this k3b start the K3b program from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt K3b me K3b The CD and DVD Kreator File Project Tools Settings Help Ape Od Eme 1 w X X JQSON DVD e 4 ft Q sv Fiter lries T cutecom 0 14 1 4 cutecom 0 14 1 tar gz Desktop Exiinstall fla SPAN ESIPANI The KDE E NN New Audio CD Project Bs Burn CO Image Burn DVD ISO Image In SP 46 GBA GB KSB 0 12 17 4 The KDE Control Center It is a place where you can change a
21. as officially released Et Apr 8 Ryo Zhe 2 Scim devel Adding quirks filed to keyevents Hi Today would like Apr 8 Brendan M Sleight Morphix devel r2484 trunk mmaker utils local prepare templates s Apr 8 olpcnepal group 2new messages in 1 topic digest OLPC Nepal http groups google co Apr 8 yeaa AS want more sardarji Sardar divorce A Sardar and his wife filed an applice Apr 8 me Bal 4 gnome and kde packages Thanks Basanta Ji for the update Regards Bal K Apr 8 Paul Morphix devel Patches for Morphix kernel Hi Alex Had a comment aimed m Apr 7 Francisco Sarmiento 3 linux tot CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Conference Workshop Moving the FOSS Apr 7 olpcnepal group 5 new messages in 3topics digest OLPC Nepal http groups google c Apr 7 battlemasters abstraction statesmanlike chestnut boiled fat self actualized line dance Apr 7 Stephan Peijnik task 6659 Submission of MPP Update of task 6659 project adminis Apr 6 olpcnepal group 12 new messages in 5topics digest OLPC Nepal http groups google Apr 6 Brendan M Sleight Re Morphix devel Morphix cvs SF net SVN morphix 2471 trunk r Apr 6 Contacts w Quick Contacts Search add or invit 6 Basanta shrestha Set sta w Ooty eI ODDO OOOO e c cge ee Page loaded A e E M Gmail Inbox 460 Kk a K Gis u 3A Konqueror as application viewer Konqueror is also a universal viewing application capable o
22. ated support NepaLinux also has its IRC channel in the freenode Now to join the channel type join lt channel name gt for example to join the Nepalinux IRC channel join nepalinux O X nepalinux stnc nepali 0 limit 20 gt T Welcome to nepalinux Ne Channel Edit Users Command Window Settings Help Welcome to nepalinux Nepalinux is http nepalinux org Nepalinux 2 0 was released on Wed 4p Topic for nepalinux Welcome to nepalinux Nepalinux is ht tp nepalinux org Nepalinux 2 0 was released on Wed June 20 0 ChansServ Download it from ftp 202 79 37 177 nepalinux amp have a de pleasant stay k karunakarg T Topic for nepalinux set by ChanSer on Sun Jun 24 08 49 41 2007 i Users on nepalinux nepali karunakarg subir prajol daya tbamr ChanServ de You have joined channel foss nepal nepali prajol subir a tbamr uy nepalinux foss nepal debian nepalinux lt gt foss nepal Configuring the Modem KPPP To configure your modem for Internet access start the Internet Configuration Wizard tool from the Main Menu Kde Main menu gt Internet gt Internel Dial Up Tool KPPP 6 Customizing the Appearance of your KDE Appearance and Themes The appearance of KDE can be customized in different ways It can either be done by changing the theme or by changing the different components like desktop background icons etc Desktop Background The desktop backgroun
23. d which is also known as wallpaper can be changed either by going to the Control Center or by right clicking on the desktop First Method Go to Kmenu and click on the Control Center On the Appearance and Themes choose Background Second Method Right click on the desktop background Choose Configure Desktop Both of these methods will take you to the same point from where you can change the desktop background Sy Le Peceoroune control Gener 72 Bw lxi Eile view Settings Help E gt Search EJ Background g Appearance amp Themes Setting for desktop All Desktops x Ea Background ver r Background amp Colors Tr Fante V5 Mo pictura oe pls TEENS 8 picture KDE 3 5 Default px aunch Feedbac E Screen Saver 5 Slide show i Splash Screen 4 amp Style Theme Manager Window Decorations Position Scaled t Desktop m w Internet amp Network es KDE Components Colors Vertical Gradient Advanced Options H a idein MEE SetNewwalpapers b Power Control Regional amp Accessibility Blending Mo Blending Security amp Preacy H Sound amp Multimedia i LJ System Administration ICj r aptions Fig Changing the background image To change the desktop background Click on the radio button marked Picture Choose from the
24. d in the Slide View same name as above but different functionality since its on a different bar However Master Views are supported and to access this view it is the second button from the left You can have master views of all workspace views 1 e a master view of the slide itself notes and handouts The Layer view allows layering of slides adding and removing and layers can be non printing or non displayed on screen but printing only OpenOffice Draw A drawing application that lets you add edit and align objects incorporate textures include textures and colors and work with layers of objects OpenOffice Math A calculation program that lets you create mathematical formulas Other Word Processors Other free word processors that come with NepaLinux include Abiword and Gedit Ref 1 http www iosn net training end user manual print linux userguide all pdf 2 OpenOffice org user guide 8 Fonts Installation and Input System Font Installation Copy the font you want to install Open Konqueror and type fonts System in the address bar Now paste the file You may be asked to supply root password You might have to logout and login to see the effect fonts System Konqueror Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help QOQQ O00 S040 E Location If fonts System ClearlyL PUA Courier Courier 10 co Courier 10 Pitch Courier 10 Pitch Bold Bold Italic EE HEEEENM CHEER
25. d the Show Desktop applet to the Panel select the Show applet in the applet menu The Desktop The Desktop space refers to the rest of the screen The File Manager KDE includes very versatile and powerful file manager called Konqueror which allow you to do everything with the files stored in the computer If you want more details about what Konqueror take a look at the Konqueror Handbook by selecting Help gt Konqueror Handbook in the Konqueror menus or alternatively you can use the help in Konqueror by entering help konqueror in the Location Toolbar Folders You can open any item by clicking just once on the icon for the file since KDE doesn t use double clicking in its default settings Folder will be opend in the same window or in the appropriate program You can go back to the last folder by clicking on the Back button or go up by clicking the up icon The Navigation Panel aka The Sidebar E daya Prat 0900 0 E gt zq B home daya Ex Root Folder 5 applications Ibin amp Ex boot A8 cdrom amp gs dev amp Hete T Ea initrd 4 3LC MESSAGES amp elib E5lost found amp media d mnt wj Emo ooo packages amp Eg opt Hpo amp eal proc ea rar linux3 51 root sbin lea selinux amp Ex share srv aH sys eal Text_corpus a uiia uu H 3 Fig The ed sidebar Navigating through the folders by using the folder view can become impractical The sidebar provides s
26. f displaying images and documents without having to launch another application Seamonkey Web Browser KDE also includes seaMonkey web Browser KDE Menu gt Internet gt SeaMonkey Web Browser Welcome to NepaLinux SeaMonkey X File Edt View Go Bookmarks bol Window Help E em Br a Ld 4 file usr share nepalinux index html Search 8 4 Home uk Bookrnarks mozilla org mozillaZine mozdev org Mail Client Kmail KMail is a mail client With Kmail you can browse your mail online or you can download your mail and read it offline Follow the steps below to setup Kmail 1 Open KDE Menu Internet gt Mail Client KMail 2 Select POP3 or IMAP in the Account Type 3 Provide your full name email id and organization Name K Local Folders inbox KMail File Edit View Go Folder Message Tools Settings Help wt B elm amp soed eii Folder Unread Total x Unread Tota E Search fF Status E a Local Fo E Subject J Sede i outbox i sent S trash A drafts 4 Searches messages 4 Provide your full email address in the login name field and provide password 5 Provide POP3 server name It is the name of the server where your mails will be collected 6 Provide SMTP server name It is the name of the server through which your mail will be sent out Get this name from your ISP Server Information Incoming server mail lin
27. ges of the whole desktop a single window or a selected region The images can then be saved in a variety of formats including JPG and PNG You can acces the KSnaspshot as KDE Menu gt Graphics gt KSnapshot Screen Capture Program KView An image viewer program which supports a number of different image 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 FIP site or webserver using its URL open support Other features include a few image manipulations such as zoom rotate grayscale and flip 10 Networking with KDE Assigning IP address KDE Menu Control Center gt Network Setting Click Administrator Mode button you are asked to supply root password Select the interface and click on Configure Interface button Select the automatic or manual as of your requirement Configure Device ethO KDE Control Moi 7 O X TCP IP Address 3 Automatic dhcp Manual IP address Activate when the computer starts Cancel Advanced Device Information Description Ethernet Network Device Broadcast 192 168 2 255 Gateway 192 168 2 1 For manual setting provide the IP address and subnet mask You can add Broadcast address and gateway by clicking advance button To provide the DNS address click on Domain Name System tab and add the DNS address by clicking
28. hortcuts 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 History Konqueror will remember the web pages you have visited and list them either by date or alphabetically in a tree structure Home Folder The Home Directory item is in the sidebar s navigation panel You will find your home directory as the first entry Root Folder Everything on a UNIX based system is organized in a file system tree The Root Folder function is lke the Home Folder function The only difference is that every folder is being displayed not only your home directory Network Here you can browse the services provided by other computers on the network The network browser allows you to see a variety of services provided by a computer You can easily browse SMB shares HTTP sites The Trash The file is moved to the Trash folder when you delete the file before it is permanently removed so that there is possibility of getting it back if you deleted it by accident For restoring the file select the file and move it to the original place If you right click in the Trash bin and select Empty Trash Bin then the files will be deleted permanently Reference
29. n also highlight text and or its background like you would with a highlighter and paper and change the font and or background colours all with the icons there Fonts Changing the font size and style bold underline or italics are located in the second row This can be done by highlighting the desired text and clicking the appropriate button Others Writer has a built in spell checker This can be accessed via Tools gt Spellcheck The option to auto spellcheck means that while typing Writer will dynamically check your spelling and if it detects an error it will output a red line at the bottom of the misspelled word Keep in mind that the spell checking is based on the current language that is in use This can be changed via Tools gt Options gt Language Settings gt Languages Nepali Thesaurus can be found by highlighting the word and pressing Ctrl F7 key Accessing word counts in the document is different to most other packages on a default installation of OpenOffice org this can differ with several Linux distributions offerings File gt Properties gt Statistics It is under the Statistics tab that the word counts and other relevant document counts are based On certain vendor modified distributions of OpenOffice org going to the Tools gt Word Count menu will allow the Statistics dialogue box to be displayed automatically CALC This is the spreadsheet component of the OpenOffice org
30. ntains the section to configure administrative tasks such as installing fonts login manager and Date and Time 5 K DE and the Internet Konqueror Konqueror is not just a web browser but is also an advanced File Manager and Universal viewing application Conquer your Desktop Konqueror Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help QQAQG OG BAAR as E gt Location E Starting Points Home Folder CF storage Media Your personal files Disks and removable media Network Folders Trash Shared files and folders Browse and restore the trash 3K Applications Wi ettings installed programs Desktop configuration E Next An Introduction to Konqueror Konqueror as a File Manager Konqueror is an advanced file manger for the K Desktop Environment providing the file management functions ranging from simple cut copy paste operations to advanced local and remote network file browsing File and folder properties can easily be examined and changed and application lunched with a simple click of the left mouse button Konqueror as a web browser Konqueror is an excellent web browser with built in support for JavaScript CSS bidirectional scripts Konqueror is also an excellent full featured FTP client Note Konqueror by default does not support the gmail standard view To support the standard view follow the following steps Konqueror gt Settings gt Configure Konqueror gt Browser Identification
31. ny settings that affect the whole of your KDE environment You can open it from the using the Control Center item in the K menu The settings are divided into several major categories which each contain several 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 Appearance amp Themes Here you will find settings that change the way your KDE desktop and applications look In this section you can change background colors fonts Icons style themes etc Desktop This is where you will find settings to configure the appearance and behavior of your KDE desktop Here you can change behavior multiple desktop setting panels taskbar etc Internet and Network Here you can set the setting for Internet and Network such as IP assignment File sharing etc The detail in this setting will be covered in the Networking with KDE section KDE Components In this section you can modify advance KDE options such as file associations and default applications For example in the file composer section you can define what Email Chent Embedded Text Editor Instant Messenger
32. o the system using any of the graphical user environments GUI What is to be kept in mind is that each user can have a different splash screen as per the user s choice So whenever a user changes the splash screen if takes effect only for that particular user and does not affect the settings of the others KDE 3 5 Loading the panel Fig The default KDE splash screen being displayed To change the splash screen Go to K menu and click on the Control Center On the Appearance and Themes choose Splash Screen Choose the splash screen of your choice from the list you can even test the splash screen After choosing a splash screen click Apply KDE Theme Changing the theme of KDE affects many aspects of one s desktop For example background color style icons fonts screen saver etc A theme can either be chosen from the list of available themes or a new theme can be installed from outside The other option is to customize different components of the appearance and create a new theme of one s own choice TITETITE Manager GOTILTOT Genter File View Settings Help Theme Manager Appearance amp Themes _ Background Theme Colors Choose your visual KDE theme Get new themes HighContrastDark HighContrastDark big loons TEN HighContrastLight Launch Feedback HighContrastLight big Screen Saver KDE Classic Fonts Splash Screen Keramik Plastik Platinurn Window Decorations
33. ocation with a different name from the previously saved version Common Operations To copy text Select the text with the mouse then select Edit gt Copy The selected text is kept in memory for use elsewhere To paste text Find the spot where the text needs to be placed place the cursor there and then select Edit gt Paste To cut text This means that the selected text will be removed from the current location and kept in memory to be placed elsewhere Doing this is exactly like how a copy should be performed except selecting Edit gt Cut instead To undo an action Select Edit gt Undo It will display the command that it is undoing at the moment By browsing the menu there are also keyboard shortcuts located next to it Once more proficient use of the package occurs it is much quicker to use keyboard shortcuts like Control C for Copy and so on Formatting Some of the quick formatting options are bold italics and underline These options are available at the toolbar at the top of the screen Text alignment plays a large role in controlling how portions of the document will look For example an address field at the top of your letter will have such details right aligned while the body and rest of the base text will be left aligned There are four icons that are located next to the bold italics underline icons providing options such as right align centre align left align and justified You ca
34. s KDE online Manual http docs kde org development en kdebase userguide index html 3 Using common Mass storage The more common peripherals include Printer Scanner Mass storage devices We shall be looking at how to access and use the common peripheral mass storage devices Floppy disk drive CD ROM drive USB mass storage device CD RW drive Printer Setup If you have a printer attached to your system you will need to configure and set it up before you can use it properly To do this 1 KDE Menu gt Control Center gt Peripherals gt printers 2 Now click on Administrator mode You are asked to enter the root password 3 At the printer configuration screen click on the Add gt Add Printer Class menu to add and configure a new printer 4 The add new printer wizard will be displayed E Add Printer Wizard Introduction Welcome This wizard will help to install a new printer on your computer It will guide you through the various steps of the process of installing and configuring a printer for your printing system At each step you can always go back using the Back button We hope you ll enjoy this tool The KDE printing team Cancel 5 Select the local printer or Network printer E Add Printer Wizard Backend Selection Local printer parallel serial USB 3 Remote LPD queue SMB shared printer Windows 3 Network printer TCP 3 Remote CUPS server IPP HTT
35. s com np Use secure connection SSL Outgoing server smtp wlink com npl Use secure connection SSL Use local delivery 7 And click on finish Instant Messanger Kopete Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM ICQ MSN Yahoo Jabber IRC Gadu Gadu Novell GroupWise Messenger and more 1 Run Kopete from KDE Menu gt Instant Messenger Kopete kopete WUT Uh eM ET ET WAS Sea Cand d TE HA TaN TAT STA Te AEE AM Protocol to connect to AIM tGadu Gadu Protocol to connect to Gadu Gadu GroupWise Novell GroupWise Messenger aco Protocol to connect to ICQ Protocol to connect to IRC Protocol to connect to Jabber Meanwhile Lotus Sametime Proto Protocol to send SMS messages Kopete test protocol Protocol to send Windows WinPopu Protocol to connect to Yahoo 2 Now select the proper protocol for instant messaging depending upon your mail ID for example if your mail ID is of yahoo select the yahoo protocol 3 Provide the valid user ID and password 4 Now click Next Then after you are connected you are presented with your friends list IRC Client KDE has its own IRC client called Ksirc 1 Run it from KDE Menu gt Internet gt RC Client URC 2 To connect to the required channel click connect gt New server 3 Then select the proper Groups of the channel Freenode is the best channel for free and open source software and other Linux rel
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