Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE, SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 KDE Getting Started Manual
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop provides the tools that Linux* users require in their daily activities. It comes
with an easy-to-use graphical user interface (KDE* desktop) that communicates with the underlying Linux system
to access and manage les, folders, and programs. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop provides an integrated suite
of applications that meet all professional requirements to perform tasks in a business environment. The
OpenOfce.org suite is also included, which allows you to edit and save les in a number of formats. Because
the ofce suite is available for several operating systems, you can use the same data across different computing
platforms.
Getting Started
When you start your system, you are usually prompted to
enter your username and password. If you did not install
your system yourself, check with your system administrator
for your username and password.
After logging in to KDE for the rst time, you see the KDE
desktop, which shows the following basic elements:
Desktop Folder: By default, the desktop folder shows
the contents of its ~/Desktop directory. Whenever you
insert some le into this directory, it appears in this view
too.
Desktop Context Menu: Right-click an empty area on
the desktop to access the context menu for conguring the
appearance of the desktop, adding panels or widgets to the
desktop, conguring your desktop settings, locking the
widgets in their current position, or for leaving the current
session or locking the screen.
Desktop Toolbox: Move your mouse pointer to the icon
in the upper right corner of the desktop to access a menu
that lets you add or lock widgets.
KDE Panel: By default, the panel of your KDE desktop
consists of the Main Menu icon on the left, further widgets
and program icons, and the panel settings icon on the right.
If you hold your mouse pointer over an icon in the panel,
a short description is displayed.
Modifying Desktop Panels
The bottom panel can be customized to suit your individual
needs, and additional panels can be congured to further
personalize your desktop.
To add a new panel, right-click an empty area on the
desktop and select Add Panel. To delete a panel, right-click
a blank space in the panel and select Remove This Panel.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop requires that at least one
panel is left on the desktop.
To add new widget, proceed with Section “Adding and Removing Widgets”.
Adding and Removing Widgets
Widgets are small applications that can be integrated into
your panel:
1. To add a widget to the panel, right-click an empty patch
on the panel, and select Panel Options → Add Widgets.
If these menu items are not available, your desktop elements are probably locked. Unlock them rst as described in Section “Locking and Unlocking Desktop
Objects”.
2. In the dialog box that appears, you can limit the selection of widgets that is shown with the drop-down list
at the top.
3. Select a widget and click Add Widget. The widget appears in your panel.
Starting Programs
Start programs from the Main Menu or from the command
line, using the Run Command dialog or a shell. Additionally,
you can start programs from the desktop or the panel by
left-clicking the respective program icon once.
Using the Main Menu
To open the Main Menu, click the Main Menu icon in the
panel or press Alt + F1. The Main Menu consists of the following elements: a search function at the top and several
tabs at the bottom, providing quick access to the key
functions of the menu. Additionally, the menu displays your
login name and the hostname of your computer.
Favorites shows a default selection of key programs for
quick access, whereas Applications shows all applications
installed on your system. To navigate through the menu
structure, click an entry and use the arrow icons at the right
or the left to switch back and forth. Computer and Recently
Used provide quick access to some frequently used places,
applications, or documents. Leave shows several options
for leaving the session such as logging out, locking the
screen (access can only be regained with a password),
shutting down or restarting the computer.
Using the Run Command Dialog
KRunner is a helper application that lets you quickly start
programs. Apart from that, it offers a search function for
nding applications or locations.
Press Alt + F2 to open the Run Command dialog. Type a
command, for example, dolphin, and press Enter or click
Launch to start the application. The command to start the
application is often (but not always) the application name
written in lowercase.
The Run Command dialog also allows you to use the socalled Web shortcuts dened in Konqueror. With these, you
can send search requests directly to a search engine like
Google*, without opening the browser and visiting the Web
sites before. For more information, refer to Section “Finding
Information”.
Searching for Programs
Both the Main Menu and the Run Command dialog offer a
search function that lets you quickly start programs even
if you do not know the exact application name or command
yet. To search for an application, start typing a command
or part of the application name in the Main Menu Search
eld or the input eld in the Run Command dialog. Each
character you enter narrows down the search.
From the list below the input eld, choose the application
matching your query.
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Handling Media
If you insert a CD or DVD in your respective drive, plug-in
an USB stick or removable hard disk, or any other pluggable
device, the device notier widget opens a small window
notifying you about this. Click on the entry to open it with
Dolphin.
Customizing Your Desktop
You can change the way your KDE desktop looks and behaves to suit your personal preferences.
Locking and Unlocking Desktop Objects
Desktop elements can be locked in their current position
to prevent them from being moved around on the desktop.
As long as the desktop elements are locked, you cannot
add, move, or remove any objects to and from your desktop.
To lock or unlock the desktop elements, click the desktop
toolbox at the upper right corner of the desktop and select
Lock Widgets or Unlock Widgets.
Alternatively, right-click an empty patch on the desktop
and select the respective menu items from the context
menu.
Changing Individual Desktop Elements
In the following, you can nd some examples of how to
change individual desktops elements.
Adding Program Icons to the Desktop
To create a link to an application and place it on the desktop or the panel, proceed as follows:
1. Click the Main Menu button and browse to the desired
application.
2. Right-click and select Add to Desktop from the context
menu that appears. If these menu items are not available, your desktop elements are probably locked. Un-
lock them rst as described in Section “Locking and
Unlocking Desktop Objects”.
3. To change the icon position on the desktop, left-click
the icon and drag it to the desired place.
To delete an icon from your desktop, right-click the program icon and select Remove this Icon.
Adding Widgets to the Desktop
Widgets (or “plasmoids”) are small applications that can be
integrated into your desktop or your panel.
1. To add widgets to you desktop, right-click an empty
patch on your desktop and select Add Widgets.
If these menu items are not available, your desktop elements are probably locked. Unlock them rst as described in Section “Locking and Unlocking Desktop
Objects”.
2. In the dialog box that appears, you can limit the selection of widgets that is shown with the drop-down list
at the top.
3. Select a widget and click Add Widget. The widget appears on your desktop.
4. To position the widget on your desktop, left-click the
widget and drag it to the desired place. To align all
widgets to a grid, right-click an empty patch on the
desktop and select Align Horizontally or Align Vertically.
To remove a widget from your desktop, right-click the
widget and select the Remove... entry.
Conguring Widgets
In order to congure widgets, the desktop elements need
to be unlocked as described in Section “Locking and Unlocking Desktop Objects”.
1. To congure a widget, hover your mouse pointer over
the widget until a translucent frame appears around
the widget, showing a number of symbols.
If the frame does not appear, your widgets are probably
locked. Unlock them rst as described in Section
“Locking and Unlocking Desktop Objects”
2. To change the widget size, left-click the star symbol in
the frame and keep the mouse button pressed while
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moving your cursor across the desktop to scale the
widget size.
3. To rotate the widget in any direction, left-click the arrow symbol in the frame and keep the mouse button
pressed while moving your cursor in a circle across the
desktop. There is a sticky boundary in the horizontal
and vertical positions where you can “clamp” the widget,
if you like. Of course, you can also arrange it in any
tilted position.
4. To change the contents, settings, or properties of a
widget, left-click the wrench symbol in the frame. In
the conguration dialog box that appears, set the options according to your wishes.
Use the X symbol in the frame if you want to close the
widget.
You can customize the KDE Panel according to your preferences: Applications and widgets can be added to the quick
launch area or the system tray in the main panel or in additional panels. Panel elements and additional panels can be
moved to different places or be completely removed at any
time.
• Click on the desktop toolbox (lower right corner, half-
round icon) to open the settings panel. If you cannot nd
the desktop toolbox, it is probably locked. Click on a
widget and choose Unlock Widgets.
• To move panel objects to a different place within the
panel, hover the mouse over the respective widget. The
mouse cursor turns into a crosslines-like form. When you
click on the widget, you can move it to a different position. Click again to x it at this place.
• To change the overall appearance or behavior of the
panel, click on the icons at the borders of the settings
panel. The icons have the form of arrows and you can
change the adjustment of the left and right side. If you
click on one of these icons and drag them inside, the
width of the panel is immediately changed.
The icons in the settings panel have the following meaning:
• To place the panel on different sides of the screen use
the Screen Edge button. Drag and drop it to the preferred
place.
• To change the height of the panel, click the Height button
and move the mouse cursor to the end location.
• If you need additional widgets on your panel, place them
with the Add Widgets... button.
• To prevent the panel and widgets from being moved ac-
cidentally, use Lock Widgets.
• To adjust additional congurations, use More Settings....
• Close the settings panel with the red close button on the
right side.
Changing the Desktop Background
You can change the background colors of your desktop or
select a picture to use as the background.
1. Right-click an empty patch of the desktop and select
Congure Desktop. A conguration dialog appears.
2. Choose from the Type drop-down list, if you want to
use an Image, a Slide Show or None as background rst.
• For an image wallpaper, choose a default wallpaper
from the Picture list. Download and install new wall-
papers with Get New Wallpaper.... To use a custom
picture, click the folder button beneath the list and
select an image le from the le system. Dene the
Positioning of the image.
• To have multiple images appear in a Slide Show mode,
dene the directory from which to select the pictures
and set the interval after which to change the images.
• If you do not want an image or slide show, you can
set a Color as desktop background.
3. Set the other options in the conguration dialog accord-
ing to your wishes and click OK to save your changes
and leave the conguration dialog.
Modifying Personal Settings
Apart from changing individual desktop elements, KDE allows you to personalize your desktop to a very high degree.
Possibilities to adjust the overall appearance and behavior
of your desktop can be found in the Personal Settings
conguration dialog.
Start the Personal Settings from the Main Menu by selecting
Favorites → Congure Desktop .
The General and Advanced tabs provide different categories
of settings. To get an impression of the numerous possibilities, just click a category icon and explore the possibilities
provided there. Performing tasks in some areas of the con-
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trol center requires system administrator (root) permissions.
Change the settings as desired. No changes take effect until
you click Apply. To discard changes in the recent view that
you have not yet applied, click Reset. To reset all items in
the recent view to the default values, click Defaults.
To get back to the start-up view showing all categories
again, click Overview. You can also enter a search string at
the top of the window (for example, Screen Saver) to nd
the category which holds options related to the search
string. Each character you enter in the Search eld narrows
down the search.
Applying Desktop Effects
If your computer supports a 3D graphic card with Xgl, you
can use graphical effects like turning your desktop into a
rotating 3D cube, enabling translucent or transparent windows, zooming in and out of the desktop screen, and using
other window effects, such as shadows, fading, and transformations. If you do not have a 3D graphic card, some effects
may be disabled or reduce the performance of your system.
To congure the effects on your desktop, proceed as follows:
1. Start the personal settings window as described in Section “Modifying Personal Settings”.
2. Select Desktop → Desktop Effects and choose Enable
Desktop Effects.
3. If you like, choose some conguration from Common
Effects
4. Select the effects in the All Effects tab. The info icon
gives you a small explanation. Some effects may have
a conguration dialog for further adjustments.
5. Use Apply to enable the effects permanently.
To enable and use Xgl , you can make use of the following
effects:
• Wrap your virtual desktops around a cube and rotate the
cube to get to another virtual desktop. Rotate the cube
with Ctrl + Alt + → or Ctrl + Alt + ←.
• Fly through the range of virtual desktops without having
to use the pager and select the one to use. To change to
this panel-like view, use Ctrl + Alt + ↓. To scroll to a
desktop left or right of the current one, keep holding
Ctrl + Alt and use → and ←.
• Zoom into certain parts of the desktop. Select the area
to enlarge and right-click while holding the Windows key.
• Show all windows opened on one virtual desktop as if
they were resized so all t in the display at once. Arrange
the windows using Ctrl + Alt + ↑. While holding down
Ctrl + Alt, use the arrow keys to determine the focus.
Using Virtual Desktops
The desktop environment allows you to organize your programs and tasks on several virtual desktops. If you often
run a lot of programs simultaneously, this minimizes the
number of windows to arrange on your screen. You might,
for example, use one desktop for e-mailing and calendaring
and another for word processing or graphics applications.
Moving an Application to Another Virtual Desktop
You can display a running application on one or all virtual
desktops or move it to other desktops.
1. Open the application.
2. Right-click the title bar of the application.
3. Click To Desktop.
4. Select the desktop on which to place the application.
5. To switch between desktops, click the desired desktop
in the pager in the panel.
Adding Additional Virtual Desktops
Some users might need more desktops than provided by
default. To add additional desktops:
1. Right-click the pager in the panel and select Congure
Desktops. A conguration dialog appears where you
can increase or reduce the number of virtual desktops.
You can also change the default names of the desktop.
2. Click OK to apply the changes and to close the conguration dialog.
3. If you want the names of the desktops to appear in the
pager rather than the number, right-click the pager and
select Pager Settings.
4. From the drop-down list, select Desktop Name and click
OK to apply your changes and close the dialog.
Using the File Manager
With KDE 4, Dolphin has replaced Konqueror as the default
le manager, while Konqueror remains the default Web
browser (refer to Section “Browsing the Internet”). To start
Dolphin, click the card box icon in the panel or press Alt +
F2 and enter dolphin.
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Dolphin Main Window
The Dolphin main window consists of the following elements:
Menu Bar: The menu bar holds menu items for actions
like copying, moving, or deleting les, changing views,
starting additional tools, dening your settings, and getting
help.
Toolbar: The toolbar provides quick access to frequently
used functions that can also be accessed via the menu. If
you hover the mouse pointer over an icon, a short description is displayed.
Location Bar: The location bar displays the path to the
current directory. It is available in two versions: one shows
the path to the current directory with icons for every parent
folder in a “bread crumb” view. Click any icon in the bread
crumb view to change to that directory. The second version
of the location bar shows the path to the current directory
as a string of text you can edit.
Panels: By default, Dolphin shows only the Places panel
on the right. It allows quick access to some often used
places like your home directory, the /root directory of
the le system, the trash bin, or removable media. There
are several other panels you can add to the main window.
Display Field (Working Space): The display eld shows
the contents of the selected directory or le. By default,
Dolphin displays the contents of your home directory on
start-up. Clicking a folder or le in Dolphin directly starts
an action: Dolphin loads the le into an application for
further processing or opens the folder.
Status Bar: Shows the le type and size of the currently
selected object and the available disk space .
Managing Files and Folders with Dolphin
To perform actions like copying, moving, creating or deleting les, you need appropriate permissions to the folders
and les involved in your action.
To copy, move, or delete a le or folder, proceed as follows:
1. In order to select one or multiple les and folders in
Dolphin, move your mouse over the icon but do not
click. A green cross appears on the upper-left edge. If
you click on it, the icon is selected. Alternatively, press
Ctrl and click the le or les.
2. Right-click and select Copy or Cut from the context
menu.
3. Navigate to the destination folder in which to insert the
object.
4. To create a new folder at the current location, select
File → Create New → Folder or press F10. Enter a folder
name in the new window and press Enter.
5. To insert the object you copied or cut in Step 2, rightclick the destination folder in the main display eld and
select Paste. The object is copied or moved there.
6. To delete a le or folder, right-click the object in the
main display eld and select Move to Trash from the
context menu. The object is moved to the trash bin.
From there, you can restore it if necessary or delete
the object irretrievably.
To quickly lter for certain lenames in the current directory, press Ctrl + I to add the Filter input eld to the bottom
of the Dolphin main window. Type any part of the lename
you are searching for to see all les in the current directory
containing the search string. For more detailed and advanced searches, press Ctrl + F to use KFind. For more information, refer to Section “Using KFind”.
Conguring Dolphin
Dolphin offers many options to adjust the view and the
overall settings according to your needs and wishes.
Changing the View
1. To switch from the bread crumb view to the editable
version of the location bar, press F6. Enter a path to a
directory by typing it in. After typing an address, press
Enter or click on the background of the breadcrumbs
view.
To delete the contents of the location bar click the
black X symbol on the left. To switch back to the bread
crumb view, press Ctrl + L.
2. To change the view of the currently displayed folder,
either click Icons, Details, or Columns in the toolbar.
Dolphin remembers the selected view for each folder.
Click Split or press F3 to view the contents of the current folder in two separate columns. Now you can
navigate to a different directory in each column and
easily drag or drop objects or compare the contents of
directories.
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3. To make Dolphin also show hidden les, select View →
Show Hidden Files or press Alt + +.
4. To view more details about the les (like access permissions or ownership), select View → Additional Informa-
tion and enable the respective options.
5. To add further directories to the Places panel, drag a
folder from the working space to the Places panel and
drop it there. Right-click and use the context menu to
hide, edit or remove entries from Places.
6. If you want to add more panels to the main window,
select View → Panels and select additional panels such
as Information, Folders, or Terminal.
• The Information panel shows the properties and a
preview of the currently selected le. It also lets you
add comments to the le.
• The Folder panel shows a tree view of the whole le
system and lets you navigate trough all subdirectories
of /root.
• The Terminal panel attaches a command line to the
bottom of the main Dolphin window. Whenever you
click a directory in the display eld, the Terminal
panel also changes to the according directory, so you
can easily switch to the command line for certain
tasks you prefer to execute in a shell.
You can even detach the panels from the main Dolphin
window by clicking the left icon at the top of each panel.
Click the panel's title bar and drag it to another place on
the desktop. To reintegrate the panel into the Dolphin
window again, click the left symbol at the top of the panel
again.
If you want to change Dolphin's overall behavior or view,
select Settings → Congure Dolphin and explore the options
offered in the Dolphin conguration dialog.
1. To use the same view mode for all folders, click View
Modes in the left sidebar. Activate Use Common View
Properties for All Folders on the General tab. Adjust the
options for the individual view modes on the other tabs
according to your wishes and click Apply to save the
changes.
2. If you want Dolphin to show a different default directory on start-up, or if you want to permanently use the
editable location bar instead of the bread crumb view,
change the according options on the General tab.
3. Click OK to save the changes and to close the Dolphin
conguration dialog.
Browsing the Internet
Apart from Konqueror (KDE's default Web browser), SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop also includes the Firefox Web
browser. To start Konqueror or Firefox, press Alt + F2 and
enter konqueror or firefox.
With features like tabbed browsing, pop-up window blocking, and download and image management, both browsers
combine the latest Web technologies. Their easy access to
different search engines helps you to nd the information
you need.
Enter a URL in the location bar to start browsing. To open
a new, empty tab, press Ctrl + T and enter a new URL. To
open a link in a new tab, click the link with your middle
mouse button. Right-click the tab itself to access more tab
options. You can create a new tab, reload one or all existing
tabs, or close them. You can also change the sequence of
the tabs by dragging and dropping them to the desired
position.
Finding Information
Both browsers offer different kinds of search options: you
can nd information on the Web or you can search the
current Web page for keywords.
Searching the Web
1. To start a search on the Web, click the left icon in the
search bar on the right to open a list of search engines,
like Google* or Wikipedia.
2. Select the desired engine and type your search keywords
into the input eld.
3. Press Enter to start the search.
Searching the Current Web Page
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1. To search the current Web page for keywords with
Konqueror, press Ctrl + F to open a Find dialog. Type
your search keyword and press Enter.
2. To search the current Web page with Firefox, press Ctrl
+ F to open a nd bar at the bottom of the window.
Enter your search keyword there and use the buttons
beneath the bar to search in different directions or to
highlight all hits in the text.
Konqueror offers Web shortcuts for quickly searching the
Web. For example, to search the Web for yast using the
Google search engine, just type gg:yast into the Konqueror location bar (or the Run Command dialog) and press
Enter.
Apart from predened shortcuts such as gg for Google or
wp for Wikipedia, you can also dene further, individual
Web shortcuts as described in Section “Conguring Preferences”.
Downloading Files from the Web
If you download a le with Firefox or Konqueror, a dialog
window appears asking you if you want to save the le. In
Konqueror, you then need to specify the location for the
le. Firefox by default saves the le to the folder congured
in the Firefox Preferences and shows your nished downloads
in the Downloads dialog.
To open the downloaded les directly from there, rightclick and select Open. To clean up the history of downloaded les, right-click and select Clear List.
Conguring Preferences
To adjust Konqueror or Firefox to your needs and wishes,
both browsers offer conguration dialogs. In Konqueror,
access the conguration dialog with Settings → Congure
Konqueror. To change the behavior of Konqueror as Web
browser, select one of the Web Browsing categories in the
left sidebar to show the options for the respective category.
For example, you can “hide” Konqueror's real identity and
make Konqueror identify as a different browser (for example, Internet Explorer*) for certain Web sites you visit. To
do so, select Browser Identication, and click New to add a
new, site-specic identication.
You might also want to congure the Web shortcuts you
can use with Konqueror (and the Run Command dialog).
In the Konqueror conguration dialog, click Web Shortcuts
to see which shortcuts are already dened. Click New to
dene new shortcuts. Leave the Konqueror conguration
dialog with OK to apply your changes.
In Firefox, select Edit → Preferences to open the Firefox
Preferences. Click the icons in the upper display eld to access the options for the respective category. For example,
change the default download folder on the Main page, or
adjust the pop-up blocking feature on the Content page.
Click Close to apply the changes.
Managing Passwords
When you enter a password in a KDE application for the
rst time (in KMail or Konqueror, for example), you are
asked if you want to store the password in an encrypted
wallet. If you click Yes, KWallet wizard starts by default.
KWallet is a password management tool that can collect all
passwords and store them in an encrypted le.
To activate KWallet, select Basic Setup and click Next. Select
Yes, I wish to use the KDE wallet to store my personal information and enter a password. This is your master password
to open KWallet. It cannot be recovered if you forget it.
Click Finish to close the wizard. After this initial conguration, you can open your wallet at any time to view, search,
delete, or create entries. Normally you do not need to insert
an entry manually. KDE recognizes if a resource requires
authentication and KWallet starts automatically, prompting
you for the KWallet password.
Whereas KWallet is designed to centrally manage passwords
for several KDE applications, Firefox also offers the ability
to store data when you enter a username and a password
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on a Web site. If you accept by clicking Remember, the
password will be stored on your hard disk in an encrypted
format. Next time you access this site, Firefox will automatically ll in the login data.
To review or manage your passwords in Firefox, click Edit
→ Preferences → Security → Saved Passwords....
E-Mailing and Calendaring
For reading and managing your mails and appointments,
you can use Kontact as your personal information management tool (PIM). Kontact combines KDE applications like
KMail, KOrganizer, and KAddressBook into a single interface.
This gives you easy access to your e-mail, calendar, address
book, and other PIM functionality. Kontact can also manage
multiple e-mail accounts, such as your private e-mail and
your business ones.
Starting Kontact for the First Time
To start Kontact, press Alt + F2 and enter kontact. To
access one of the components, click the corresponding icon
in the left sidebar.
Before you can send or receive mails, you must congure
an e-mail account. When starting KMail for the rst time,
a conguration wizard appears that assists you in setting
up your account: Select the Account Type you want to create
(like IMAP or POP3), enter your Account Information like
name and e-mail address, and enter your Login Information
for the e-mail account. In the last step, enter the Server In-
formation for incoming and outgoing mail and click Finish.
If you want to modify your e-mail account (for example, if
you need to change any ports or want to add a second account), click the Mail icon, then select Settings → Congure
KMail to open the conguration dialog. If you are not sure
about the settings or items to select, consult your Internet
Service Provider or system administrator.
To write a new mail, click the Mail icon in the Kontact main
window and press Ctrl + N to open the mail composer. After
you have nished your mail, click Send to send it immediately. In case you have congured multiple e-mail accounts,
keep the Send button pressed, then select the account from
which you want to send the mail.
Instant Messaging with Kopete
Kopete is an online messenger application that allows multiple partners connected to the Internet to chat with each
other. Kopete currently supports a number of common
messenger protocols, such as AOL* Instant Messenger (AIM),
Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise® Messenger, ICQ, Jabber*, MSN,
SMS, and Yahoo!*. To be able to use instant messaging (IM),
you must register with a provider offering IM services and
congure a Kopete account.
To start Kopete, press Alt + F2 and enter kopete.
To congure an account, proceed as follows:
1. Select Settings → Congure.
2. Choose Accounts and click Add Account.
3. Select your messaging service. Generally, this is mostly
determined by what service your friends are using.
4. Enter your account information. If the messaging services requires registration but you do not have an account for this service yet, click Register New Account.
In the browser window that opens, enter your user data
to register.
5. Switch back to Kopete and enter the data received on
registration with the messaging service. This usually
consists of the nickname or e-mail address and a password. Complete the conguration of your account by
clicking Finish.
If you decided to go online after conguring your account,
you can now add contacts in the main Kopete window.
Otherwise, rst click File → Set Status → Online and enter
your password if you are prompted for it. When you are
connected, click File → Add Contact and select the Kopete
account for which you want to add contacts. Enter the
contact data or search for a contact and click OK.
To view all your contacts, even if they are ofine at the
moment, select Settings → Show Ofine Users.
To start a chat with someone, click the desired contact and
type your message in the lower part of the chatting window.
Press Enter to send the message. The upper part of the
window displays the messages you have sent and received.
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Starting OpenOfce.org
The ofce suite OpenOfce.org offers a complete set of
ofce tools, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, and database components. Because
OpenOfce.org is available for a number of operating systems, you can use the same data across different computing
platforms.
To start OpenOfce.org in the word processor view, press
Alt + F2 and enter oowriter. Alternatively, start OpenOf-
ce.org Writer from the Main Menu. To create a new document, select File → New and choose the type of document
to create. To open an existing document, select Open and
choose the appropriate le from the le system.
Viewing PDF Files and Other
Documents
Documents that need to be shared or printed across platforms can be saved as PDF (Portable Document Format)
les, for example, in the OpenOfce.org suite. View them
with Okular, the default KDE document viewer.
Using Okular Document Viewer
Apart from PDF les, Okular allows you to view a great
number of le formats, such as PostScript, several image
formats, OpenDocument format (ODF), OpenDocument
text (ODT), some eBook formats (ePub), and even Microsoft* Compiled HTML Help (CHM). Okular also provides
support for bookmarks, annotations, form elds and multimedia contents, and rotation of pages.
Start Okular from the Main Menu or press Alt + F2 and
enter okular.
To open a document, select File → Open and choose the
desired le from the le system. Navigate through the
document by using the navigation icons at the top or bottom of the window. Depending on which icon you click on
the navigation panel on the left, the sidebar either shows
a table of Contents, a Thumbnail view of each page, the
Reviews for this le, or your Bookmarks for this le. To lter
for any text listed in the sidebar or the overall document,
enter a string into the input eld at the top of the sidebar.
If you want to select and copy text or images from the le
in Okular, click the Selection icon in the toolbar and select
one of the options from the context menu. Click the Browse
icon to switch back to browsing the document.
Working with Bookmarks and Annotations
With Okular, you can review a document by highlighting
certain text parts or adding annotations or bookmarks that
Okular then attaches to the le in form of metadata. Note
that the annotations and markers you add are not stored
within the document, so you cannot print them or pass
them on to other users.
1. To add a bookmark for a page, click the page in the
sidebar or in the main display eld and press Ctrl + B.
The page is added to the Bookmarks list on the left
sidebar. Right-click the bookmark entry to access a
context menu for going to this bookmark or renaming,
or removing it.
2. To create an annotation for a page, press F6 and select
one of the annotation tools from the toolbar that appears. The annotation is added to the list of Reviews
and is agged with the login name of the user who
created it. Use the icons at the bottom of the sidebar
to group the annotations by page, by author or to show
the annotations for the current page only.
3. To open a pop-up note and add text for an annotation
(or to remove an annotation), right-click the annotation
entry in the Reviews list and select the respective menu
item. The annotations or markers you added are automatically attached to the le, you do not need to save
them.
Searching for Data
KDE provides more than one application for nding data
on your computer or in the le system. One application is
KFind which is described below.
Using KFind
To perform basic and advanced searches, use KFind. Start
it from the Main Menu by clicking Applications → Find
Files/Folders or press Alt + F2 and enter kfind.
Searching by Name
To use a lename (or a part of it) as the search keyword,
proceed as follows:
1. Enter the lename or a part of the lename in the
Named input eld. Use wild cards, such as an asterisk
(*), to indicate missing characters in the lename.
2. Specify the folder in which to search for the le. Either
enter a path to the folder in Look in or click Browse to
locate the folder.
3. To search subfolders, check Include Subfolders.
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4. Click Find to start the search. The results are displayed
in the lower part of the dialog. To directly open the
result, just click it. Right-click it to choose one of the
options from the context menu.
Searching by Contents or Properties
For a more detailed search, you can also specify further
options, such as a text the le must contain or the creation
or modication date of a le.
1. On the Name/Location tab, specify at least the path to
search for the le. You can leave the Named empty.
2. To search for certain contents in a le, click the Con-
tents tab. In Containing Text, enter the word or phrase
the le to nd must contain. This option does not work
for all types of les.
3. To search for properties such as creation or modication date of the le, click the Properties tab and choose
the options you want.
4. Click Find to start the search.
Creating a CD or DVD
If you possess a CD or DVD writer, you can burn les to a
CD or DVD with K3b.
1.
Press Alt + F2 and enter k3b. K3b opens.
2. Click one of the options already listed at the bottom
part of the window (New Data CD Project or New Data
DVD Project) or select Tools from the menu to get a
list of further options.
3. Use the tree view in the top left part of the window to
search for the les or folders to burn. When they appear
in the top right part of the window, drag and drop them
into the Current Projects window.
4. Insert a writable CD into the device then click the Burn
icon.
5. Enter the required information in the Data Project dia-
log. If you are not sure which settings to choose, click
K3b Defaults. This should work well for almost all les.
6. Click Burn.
Managing Your Digital Image
Collection
With digiKam, it is easy to manage your digital images:
download your images from the camera, edit and improve
them, organize them in albums (or ag them with tags for
easy retrieval, independent of folders or albums), and
archive them on CD or export them to a Web image gallery.
digiKam also contains a set of useful batch functions and
plug-ins, allowing you to convert multiple images to various
different formats, rename multiple images, or automatically
improve them with functions such as red eye reduction,
speck removal, and hot pixel removal. Various lter and
effect plug-ins help create works of art from your digital
images.
digiKam is not yet available as a KDE 4 application, but you
can use the KDE 3 version of digiKam on your KDE 4 desktop. To start digiKam, press Alt + F2 and enter digikam.
On rst start-up, digiKam creates a custom folder in which
to store your albums.
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digiKam's main window contains a tree view at the left and
shows thumbnails of the images at the right. For quick access to your images, use the sidebar at the left, which allows
you to switch between different views, sorting the images
according to Albums, Dates, Tags or Searches. To enter
digiKam's viewing and editing mode, double-click an image
thumbnail.
Managing Your Music Collection
KDE's amaroK music player allows you to play various audio
formats, create playlists, import music from an iPod* (or
upload les to your iPod), and listen to streaming audio
broadcasts of radio stations on the Internet. The le types
supported depend on the engine used for amaroK.
amaroK is not yet available as a KDE 4 application, but you
can use the KDE 3 version of amaroK on your KDE 4 desktop. To start amaroK, press Alt + F2 and enter amarok. On
rst start, amaroK launches a First-Run Wizard with which
to dene the folders where amaroK should look for your
music les.
amaroK's main window shows a sidebar on the left providing
different views: your music collection, a context browser,
your playlists, a le browser, etc. The right part of the window shows the current playlist. To play music, just drag and
drop items from any of the sidebar browsers to the playlist
area. Double-click an item in the playlist to start playback.
If your music les are properly tagged (containing at least
information about the artist and album), you can make use
of several nice amaroK features. To automatically fetch the
album cover images from Amazon, select Tools → Cover
Manager and click Fetch Missing Covers. The next time you
play a track from this album, the cover is displayed in the
context browser and on the on-screen display. To learn
more about the artist, switch to the Context browser in the
sidebar. Click the Artist tab to make amaroK search for the
appropriate Wikipedia article, which is then displayed in
the context browser. To view a track's lyrics, click the Lyrics
tab to start a search and display the results.
To congure the use of another engine (or various other
amaroK features), select Settings → Congure amaroK.
Conguring Your System with YaST
Use the YaST Control Center to change the installation and
conguration of your whole system. Administrator (root)
permission is required to open YaST. To open YaST, press
Alt + F2 and enter yast. A dialog opens in which to enter
the root password.
YaST holds various modules for adjusting your system settings. They are subdivided into the following categories:
Software: Use the modules of this category to set certain
options for installation and update and to install or remove
software packages.
Hardware: Use these modules to congure the hardware
of your computer, such as monitor, keyboard, mouse,
printer, or scanner.
System: With these modules, you can change system
settings, such as date, time, or language, and perform tasks,
such as backup or restoration of les.
Network Devices: Use these modules to congure your
network devices, such as network cards, ISDN, DSL, or modem.
Network Services: These modules are for network services and for conguring several clients, such as LDAP and
NFS clients.
Novell AppArmor: Use the modules of this category to
congure the Novell AppArmor application security system.
Security and Users: Here, you can congure security
aspects, such as the rewall options, and create and manage
users and groups.
Virtualization Use this module to install and congure
the XEN hypervisor.
Support: Holds the module for registration, if you want
technical support and updates.
Miscellaneous: Holds several modules that cannot easily be classied into the other module groups. For example,
you can view log les, read the release notes and install
drivers from a vendor CD.
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Logging Out
When you are nished using the computer, you can log out
and leave the system running or restart or shut down the
computer.
Logging Out or Switching Users
Click the Main Menu button on your panel and select Leave
→ Logout. This ends your session but leaves the system
running. To start a parallel session as a different user, select
Leave → Switch User instead.
Restarting or Shutting Down the Computer
Click Leave, then select one of the following options:
Shutdown
Logs you out of the current session, then turns off the
computer.
Suspend to RAM
Pauses your current session without logging out. Your
computer consumes very little power. This mode is used,
if you want to save energy but want to quickly work
again, if necessary.
Suspend to Disk
Suspends your session, using no power until the computer is restarted. The state of your session is preserved,
however, including all applications you have running and
all documents you have open.
Restart
Restarts your computer.
For More Information
This guide gave you a short introduction to the KDE desktop
and some key applications running on it. To discover more,
refer to the KDE User Guide (↑KDE User Guide), and the
other manuals available for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
at http://www.novell.com/documentation/
sled10/.
Find the other manuals available for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop at http://www.novell.com/
documentation/opensuse110 or in your installed system under /usr/share/doc/manual.
To learn more about KDE and KDE applications, also refer
to http://www.kde.org/ and http://www.kde-apps
.org/.
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