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KDE User Guide

Содержание LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE

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Страница 3: ...ng Data on your Computer or in the File System 24 2 5 Accessing Removable Media and External Devices 27 2 6 Using Virtual Desktops 28 2 7 Managing Internet Connections 29 2 8 Exploring the Internet 29 2 9 E Mail and Scheduling 29 2 10 Instant Messaging 30 2 11 Managing Passwords 30 2 12 Opening or Creating Documents with OpenOffice org 31 2 13 Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents 31 2 14 Taking S...

Страница 4: ...ating a PDF File 60 4 3 For More Information 61 5 Accessing Network Resources 63 5 1 General Notes on File Sharing and Network Browsing 64 5 2 Accessing Network Shares 65 5 3 Sharing Folders in Mixed Environments 65 5 4 Managing Windows Files 68 6 Searching with Kerry 73 6 1 Searching Using Kerry 73 6 2 Configuring Kerry 75 7 Managing Print Jobs 77 7 1 Starting Print Jobs in KDE 77 7 2 Monitoring ...

Страница 5: ...9 Controlling Your Desktop s Power Management 87 9 1 Using the Battery Monitor Widget 87 9 2 Saving Power by Using Profiles 89 9 3 Configuring Power Management 90 9 4 For More Information 92 ...

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Страница 7: ...his product GNOME User Guide GNOME User Guide Introduces the GNOME desktop of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop It guides you through using and configuring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks It is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of GNOME desktop as their default desktop Application Guide Application Guide Learn how to use and configure key desktop applications on ...

Страница 8: ...pes of each of the platforms supported by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as a short description of the installation procedure In addition to the comprehensive manuals several quick start guides are available Installation Quick Start Installation Quick Start Lists the system requirements and guides you step by step through the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from DVD or from an ...

Страница 9: ...with this product Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the online documentation and enter your comments there 3 Documentation Conventions The following typographical conventions are used in this manual etc passwd directory names and filenames placeholder replace placeholder with the actual value PATH the environment variable PATH ls help commands options and parameter...

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Страница 13: ... Customizing Your Settings page 37 The following description is based on the default configuration of the KDE 4 desktop shipped with your product If you or your system administrator has modified the defaults some aspects may be different such as appearance or keyboard shortcuts 1 1 Logging In If more than one user account is configured on your computer usually all users must authenticate unless Au...

Страница 14: ...desktops other than KDE are installed you can select which desktop environment to start by clicking the Session Typing menu item at the bottom of the login screen Press Enter to proceed For infor mation on how to log out or switch to another desktop see Section 1 3 Leaving Your System page 11 and Section 1 4 Switching Desktops page 13 Figure 1 1 A KDM Login Screen If your system administrator has ...

Страница 15: ...figured for this kind of authentication the login screen also provides an additional field In this case proceed as follows during login 1 Select the domain from the list 2 Enter your Windows username 3 Enter your Windows password and press Enter 1 2 Exploring the Desktop Components After logging in to KDE for the first time you see the KDE desktop It consists of the following basic elements Figure...

Страница 16: ...ht quick launcher with the main menu icon on the left and further program icons pager desktop previewer taskbar and system tray You can add or remove icons in the panel and customize the appearance of the panel as well as its location on the desktop If you hold your mouse pointer over an icon in the panel a short description is displayed Quick Launcher The quick launcher contains the main menu but...

Страница 17: ...ion 2 5 Accessing Removable Media and External Devices page 27 The integration and handling of desktop objects has changed from KDE 3 x to KDE 4 which now uses a new desktop and panel interface tool called Plasma Plasma supports desktop widgets also called plasmoids similar to Apple s dashboard widgets Learn more about the key desktop objects in the following sections 1 2 1 Locking and Unlocking D...

Страница 18: ...e Kernel version in cluded the current user version number and type of the operating system and the KDE version number SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ships with a number of further tools either graphical or command line tools that you can use to get more detailed information about your system If you need detailed hardware information about your system use the YaST hardware probing described in Sect...

Страница 19: ...view the clipboard contents click the Klipper icon or press Ctrl Alt V The most recent entry is listed on top and is marked as active with a black check mark To insert the active clipboard entry again move the mouse pointer to the target application then middle click For more information see Section 2 3 Moving Text between Applications page 24 KMix Your desktop s default mixer KMix helps you to co...

Страница 20: ...k the clock in the system tray or hove your mouse pointer over the clock You can change the clock settings such as appearance or additional data to be displayed from the context menu available upon right click If you need to update the system time start YaST and select System Date and Time Refer to Section Clock and Time Zone Chapter 3 Installation with YaST Deployment Guide for more information L...

Страница 21: ...e left and switch to the Leave tab Select one of the following options Logout Ends your current session and leaves your system running If not configured other wise in the KDE 4 Personal Settings see Adjusting the Session Handling page 55 the session manager will restore the currently open windows by default next time you log in to KDE Find more information about the session manager and configu rat...

Страница 22: ...stem up again is faster than restoring a session from disk Shutdown Computer Logs you out and turns your computer off Restart Computer Initiates the shutdown process and reboots your computer Instead of selecting the desired boot option in the boot manager you can also select the desired option di rectly just click one of the option below Restart Computer To access most of the options for leaving ...

Страница 23: ...roceed as follows 1 On the login screen click Session Type and select the desktop environment to start 2 Enter a valid username and password A new session on the selected desktop environment starts 3 To switch back again log out from the current desktop and select a different Session Type on the login screen If you do not select a new session type your next session will be of the same type as the ...

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Страница 25: ...action directly a program starts a preview of the file is displayed or the folder is opened To former users of Windows this behavior may be rather unusual If you just want to select one or several objects without any other action press Ctrl then click the object Alternatively alter your mouse settings in the KDE Personal Settings as described in Adjusting the Mouse Settings page 47 2 1 1 Using the...

Страница 26: ...s yet To navigate through the structure click an entry and use the arrow icons at the right or the left to switch back and forth To switch back to the top level hierarchy from anywhere in the structure just click the tab s name or icon Computer Gives quick access to some places often needed such as important system folders home directory network folders and media devices Also allows you to quickly...

Страница 27: ... menu displays your login name and the hostname of your computer This information is useful when you are logged in as a different user or on a remote computer it always shows you which system you are currently working on 2 1 2 Using the Run Command Dialog KRunner is a helper application with lets you quickly start programs Apart from that it offers a search function for finding applications or loc...

Страница 28: ...wrench symbol to explore the full range of KRunner s abilities For example if the Contacts plug in is activated just enter the name of one of your contacts and then press Enter to open KMail and to start typing your mail If the respective plug in is activated you can also use KRunner as calculator or to convert units 2 1 3 Searching for Programs Both the main menu and the Run Command dialog offer ...

Страница 29: ... about Konqueror as Web browser see Chapter 17 Browsing with Konqueror Application Guide To start Dolphin click the card box icon in the panel or press Alt F2 and enter dolphin 2 2 1 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 files changing views starting additional tools defining...

Страница 30: ... the selected directory or file By default Dolphin displays the contents of your home directory on start up Clicking a folder or file in Dolphin directly starts an action Dolphin loads the file into an application for further processing or opens the folder Status Bar Shows the file type and size of the currently selected object and the available disk space 2 2 2 Managing Files and Folders To perfo...

Страница 31: ...s 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 2 4 Finding Data on your Computer or in the File System page 24 2 2 3 Configuring Dolphin Dolphin offers many options to adjust the view and the overall settings according to your needs and wishes Procedure 2 2 Changing the View 1 To toggle...

Страница 32: ...ctory in each column and easily drag or drop objects or compare the contents of directories 3 To make Dolphin also show hidden files select View Show Hidden Files or press Alt 4 To view more details about the files like access permissions or ownership select View Additional Information and enable the respective options 22 KDE User Guide ...

Страница 33: ... 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 Procedure 2 3 Changing Dolphin s Overall Behavior If you want to change Dolphin s overall behavior or view select Set...

Страница 34: ...rd contents click the Klipper icon or press Ctrl Alt V The most recent entry is listed on top and is marked as active with a black check mark If an ex tensive text was copied to Klipper only the first line of the text is displayed To copy an older text fragment from Klipper to an application select it by clicking it move the mouse pointer to the target application then middle click For further inf...

Страница 35: ...r any number of missing characters even zero For example searching for marc can find the files marc marc png and marc_must_not_read_this kwd Searching for mar kwd can find market place kwd and marc_must_not_read_this kwd Question Mark The question mark stands for exactly one character For example searching for mar can find marc but marc cannot find anything if your files are named marc and marc pn...

Страница 36: ...1 Start KFind from the main menu or the command line 2 Click the Name Location tab 3 Specify the name of the file to find in Named 4 Specify the folder in which to search in Look In or click Browse to find the folder 5 Click the Contents tab 6 In File Type specify the type of file to find 7 In Containing Text enter the word or phrase the file you are searching for must contain 8 If you want to spe...

Страница 37: ...ch to the editable version of the location bar as de scribed in Changing the View page 21 Enter media to access any type of drive mounted there If the medium has been detected it is also listed in the Places panel Click the respective entry to show the contents Digital cameras can also be accessed by entering the URL camera into Dolphin s location bar In case your camera is not automatically detec...

Страница 38: ...ch you can disconnect the medium from your computer Eject automatically opens the CD or DVD drive of your computer 2 6 Using Virtual Desktops The desktop environment allows you to organize your programs and tasks on several virtual desktops between which you can switch the pager in the panel see Section 1 2 Exploring the Desktop Components page 5 If you often run a lot of programs simultaneously t...

Страница 39: ...either use Konqueror or Firefox for browsing Konqueror is KDE s default Web browser but SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop also includes Firefox 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 engine...

Страница 40: ...opete press Alt F2 and enter kopete Learn more about Kopete in Chap ter 14 Instant Messaging with Kopete Application Guide 2 11 Managing Passwords When you enter a password in a KDE application for the first time in KMail or Kon queror 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 man ageme...

Страница 41: ... Office Suite Application Guide or view the help in an OpenOffice org program 2 13 Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents Documents that need to be shared or printed across platforms can be saved as PDF Portable Document Format files for example in the OpenOffice org suite View them with Okular the default KDE document viewer Start Okular from the main menu or press Alt F2 and enter okular To open ...

Страница 42: ...ication or to copy it to the clipboard Before creating a new snapshot check if the options in the lower part of the window match your needs For example to automatically capture a dialog window or a certain region instead of the full screen adjust the Capture Mode If you need to take some other actions first like selecting a certain object in the window adjust the Snapshot Delay and choose if to In...

Страница 43: ...ve opened an archive perform various actions Action offers options such as Add File Add Folder Delete Extract View Edit With and Open With Procedure 2 5 Creating an Archive 1 To create a new archive select File New 2 Enter the name of the new archive in the dialog that opens and specify the format using Filter After confirming with Save or by pressing Enter the Ark window shows an empty archive 3 ...

Страница 44: ...the archive only select one or more files by keeping the Ctrl key pressed and click Extract In the following dialog you can still decide to save All Files or the Selected Files Only 4 Enter the path to the Destination Folder select if to Open Destination Folder After Extraction and click OK to extract the files 2 16 Creating CDs or DVDs If you possess a CD or DVD writer you can burn files to a CD ...

Страница 45: ...d listen to streaming audio broadcasts of radio stations on the Internet The file types supported depend on the engine used for amaroK To start amaroK press Alt F2 and enter amarok On first start amaroK launches a First Run Wizard with which to define the folders where amaroK should look for your music files For more information about amaroK refer to Chap ter 23 Playing Music and Movies amaroK Kaf...

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Страница 47: ...ht clicking the object To change the overall appearance and behavior of your KDE desktop use the Personal Settings that in KDE 4 replace the former KDE Control Center The Per sonal Settings offer access to numerous configuration modules and dialogs some of which can also be accessed via the context menu of individual desktop objects 3 1 The Personal Settings The Personal Settings are the central p...

Страница 48: ...shell4 module name to start the desired module Alternatively add the Settings applet to your panel according to the description in Section 3 3 Configuring the Panel page 46 The General and Advanced tabs provide different categories of settings To get an im pression of the numerous possibilities just click a category icon and explore the possi bilities provided there Performing tasks in some areas ...

Страница 49: ...le desktops or to config ure screen saver options Cursor behavior window behavior and the splash screen that appears on KDE start up can also be influenced here Personal Holds settings for changing the default paths to some important directories for your data Desktop Autostart and Documents Allows you to change the default applications like e mail client text editor messenger and Web browser that ...

Страница 50: ... management and Samba In the following sections find examples of how to configure some aspects of your KDE desktop that you might want to customize 3 2 Configuring Desktop Objects Your KDE desktop comes with a predefined set of desktop icons By adding various objects such as folders files or widgets you can create additional icons on your desktop and arrange them as you like Procedure 3 1 Adding P...

Страница 51: ...top Widgets 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 first as described in Section 1 2 1 Locking and Unlocking Desktop Objects page 7 2 In the dialog box that appears you ca...

Страница 52: ...over 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 first as described in Section 1 2 1 Locking and Unlocking Desktop Objects page 7 2 To change the widget size left click the resize symbol in the frame and keep the mouse button pressed while moving your cur...

Страница 53: ...ect Desktop Settings A confi guration dialog appears 2 In the Wallpaper section choose from the Type drop down list if you want to use an Image a Slide Show or a Color as background For an image wallpaper choose a wallpaper from the Picture list Click Get New Wallpapers to download and install new wallpapers To use a custom picture click the folder button beneath the list and select an image file ...

Страница 54: ...art the Personal Settings from the main menu by selecting Favorites Configure Desktop 2 On the General tab select Desktop 3 In the dialog that opens click Screen Saver 4 In the list of screen savers click a screen saver to see a preview in the right side of the dialog 5 Click Setup to adjust options like speed or shapes 6 You can also choose to view a blank screen instead or to let KDE start a ran...

Страница 55: ...more desktops than provided by default 1 Right click the desktop previewer in the panel and select Configure Desktops A configuration 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 close the configuration dialog 3 For the names of the desktops to appear in the desktop previewer ...

Страница 56: ...over the respective panel object for example program icon pager task manager system tray The mouse cursor turns into a crosslines like form Move the cursor to the desired position in the panel then click again to fix the object in the new position 3 To change the panel width click and drag the small arrow icons at the far left and right end of the settings panel 4 To change the panel height click ...

Страница 57: ...t and functions like auto hide click More Settings 10 If all panel changes are according to your wishes close the settings panel with the red close button on the right side 3 4 Configuring KDE Behavior Procedure 3 8 Adjusting the Mouse Settings 1 Open the Personal Settings and select Keyboard Mouse 2 To switch to double clicks to open files and folders select the corresponding option in the Icons ...

Страница 58: ...tcuts especially if they should conflict with other application specific shortcuts 1 Open the Personal Settings and select Keyboard Mouse 2 Click Keyboard Shortcuts 3 Select the KDE Component for which to view or change the shortcuts For exam ple to change the shortcuts for switching between the virtual desktops select the KWin entry from the drop down list To change the shortcuts for locking the ...

Страница 59: ...fault values click Defaults then Apply Procedure 3 10 Changing Default Applications There are certain default applications defined in KDE For example when you click a link to a Web page KDE opens the Konqueror Web browser when you click an e mail address KMail starts 1 To change this behavior and set your preferred Web browser or e mail client as default open the Personal Settings and click Defaul...

Страница 60: ...the terminal window or the instant messenger client 5 When all options are set according to your wishes click Apply Similar to setting the default Web browser or e mail application you can change file associations in KDE File associations determine which application should be used to open a file for example if you want to start a file from Konqueror 1 Open the Personal Settings click the Advanced ...

Страница 61: ...t the program for the file type To change the order of the list entries click the program to move Give it a higher or lower priority by clicking Move Up or Move Down The application listed at the top is used by default when you click a file of this type 4 When all options are set according to your wishes click Apply 3 5 Configuring System and Security Aspects To adjust settings such as time and da...

Страница 62: ... should show the graphical user interface and application interfaces 1 To set your default country options open the Personal Settings and select Regional Accessibility 2 On the Locale tab click Change next to the Country or Region entry In the dialog that opens select the region and country you want to set as default in KDE and click OK Number date and time format are automatically adjusted to the...

Страница 63: ...ear in the new language 7 To switch to another language re sort the languages in the Languages list until the desired language is at the top position and apply your changes Procedure 3 12 Adding Keyboard Layouts If you often need to enter texts in various languages you may want to add different language layouts for your keyboard You can then easily switch layouts when needed 1 To add additional ke...

Страница 64: ... by using the respective keyboard shortcut KDE runs a session manager that starts after your username and password are authenti cated by the login process It lets you save the status of a certain session and return to that status the next time you log in For example it can automatically start the applica tions that you were running in the most recent session or when you manually saved a session It...

Страница 65: ...on is saved KDE au tomatically restores the saved session on each login 3 To start with a fresh session each time you log in select Start with an empty session 4 To change the default options that appear when logging out adjust the respective options in the General and Default Shutdown Options group 5 Click Apply to confirm your changes Procedure 3 14 Starting Programs Automatically Apart from the...

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Страница 69: ...d file from the file 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 file or your Bookmarks for this file To filter for any text listed in the sidebar or the overall document enter...

Страница 70: ... 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 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 flagged with the login name of the user who created it Use the icons at the...

Страница 71: ...PDF File 4 3 For More Information See the homepage http okular kde org of Okular for more information The supported formats can be viewed at http okular kde org formats php Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents with Okular 61 ...

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Страница 73: ...page 65 Sharing Folders in Mixed Environments Using Dolphin or Konqueror configure your files and folders to share with other members of your network Make your data readable or writable for users from any Windows or Linux workstation Learn more about this in Section 5 3 Sharing Folders in Mixed Environments page 65 Managing Windows Files SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop can be configured to integrate...

Страница 74: ...e to detect any available shares or services For broadcasts to work effectively your machine must be part of the same subnet as all other machines it is querying If network browsing does not work on your machine or the detected shares and services do not match with what you expected contact your system administrator to make sure that you are con nected to the appropriate subnet To allow network br...

Страница 75: ...wner of the shares To access network shares or open Dolphin and enter remote in the location bar Dolphin then opens a virtual folder that displays the network share types that you can access Click a network resource type then click the network share to access You might be required to authenticate to the resource by providing a username and password Figure 5 1 Network Browsing 5 3 Sharing Folders i...

Страница 76: ... enabled you are informed about this on the tab To enable file sharing or select the files to share click Configure File Sharing and enter the root pass word 4 To enable or disable file sharing select or deselect Enable Local Network File Sharing Figure 5 2 Enabling File Sharing 5 Select the appropriate sharing option Simple sharing or Advanced sharing 6 To limit the number of users allowed to sha...

Страница 77: ...iled Sharing Options 8 Activate Share with Samba to enable Samba file sharing If needed apply some fine tuning to the Samba options Name Specify a name other than the preset default Public Writable Determine which kind of access to grant others to your share You can grant users full read and write access or limit their access to just reading your shares 9 Apply your settings and leave the file sha...

Страница 78: ...irely or assign the browsing interface to the internal firewall zone Ask your system administrator about how to proceed This procedure is described in more detail in Section Configuring a Linux Client for Active Directory Chapter 5 Active Directory Support Security Guide 5 4 Managing Windows Files With your SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop machine being an Active Directory client as described in Chap...

Страница 79: ...in support Single Sign On which means that to access other Windows resources such as Web servers proxy servers or group ware servers like MS Exchange you do not need to reauthenticate Authentication against all these is handled silently in the background once you provided your username and password on login To access your Windows data using Dolphin proceed as follows 1 Press Alt F2 and enter smb T...

Страница 80: ...round of the Dolphin folder view to open the menu 2 Select Create New Folder 3 Enter the new folder s name when prompted to do so To create a file on the AD server proceed as described in the following example for the Kate text editor 1 Press Alt F2 and enter kate 2 Enter your text Figure 5 6 Editing a Text File with Kate 3 To save the newly created text select Save as 4 Click the Network Folders ...

Страница 81: ...ort as in the following example Web access to your MS Exchange mailbox 1 Make sure that you have a valid MS Exchange account under your current Win dows user identity 2 Request the Exchange server s address from your system administrator 3 Press Alt F2 and enter dolphinhttp address_exchange_server You are logged in to your Exchange account without having to reauthenticate Accessing Network Resourc...

Страница 82: ...Figure 5 8 Accessing MS Exchange through Dolphin 4 Write or read your e mails and log out as usual 72 KDE User Guide ...

Страница 83: ... environment through the Kerry interface Find more about Beagle in Chapter 6 Searching with Beagle GNOME User Guide 6 1 Searching Using Kerry To find data using the Kerry tool follow these steps 1 Press Alt F2 and enter kerry to start Kerry and to open the Kerry Beagle Search window Alternatively open the search window by left clicking on the Kerry applet icon a dog s head in the system tray 2 Ent...

Страница 84: ...sible You can change the sort order before or after the search is completed You can limit the results by date of last modification To show all results regard less of the date of the last modification click Any Date in the right panel You can show items modified today since yesterday this week month or year by clicking the appropriate item in the right panel You can change this before or after the ...

Страница 85: ... 76 for detailed instructions On the Backends tab choose which of the available Beagle back ends should be enabled To disable a back end uncheck it For example if you do not want your Kopete con versations be indexed by Kerry Beagle uncheck the Kopete back end On the Daemon Status tab check the status of Beagle daemon You can stop or start the daemon manually here To use Kerry Beagle Search functi...

Страница 86: ... tray and choose Configure Kerry 2 Click the Indexing tab 3 Click Add in the bottom part Privacy of the tab 4 In the dialog that opens choose a folder not to index by selecting the Folder option Specify the path to the folder in the text field or press the folder button and choose the folder in a file dialog You can also specify files not to index by selecting File name pattern and speci fying the...

Страница 87: ...eshooting If you have problems configuring your printer ask your system administrator An in depth coverage of printer configuration for administrators can be found in Chapter 12 Printer Operation Administration Guide This chapter describes how to set up printers with the KDE Printing Manager After configuring the printer correctly you can address it from any application 7 1 Starting Print Jobs in ...

Страница 88: ...ds and shows three tabs Copies Advanced Options and Additional Tags See Figure 7 1 Starting a Print Job with KPrinter page 78 Figure 7 1 Starting a Print Job with KPrinter The Copies tab determines the page selection all pages of the selected document the currently selected one or a range and the number of copies You may also choose to print only the even or only the odd numbered pages of the sele...

Страница 89: ...with Move to Printer With Restart reprint a document To do this select Filter Toggle Completed Jobs select the desired document and click Jobs Restart Clicking Jobs Job IPP Report shows the technical details of a job Use Jobs Increase Priority and Jobs Decrease Priority to set the priority depending on how quickly you need the document Filter enables you to switch between various printers toggle c...

Страница 90: ...t The status column indicates whether a job is still in the queue currently being printed or already completed Next the size of the document is displayed in kilobytes and number of pages The default priority of 50 can be increased or reduced if necessary Billing information can be cost centers or other company specific information If you right click a job in the list the Jobs menu opens under the ...

Страница 91: ...NT Protect Your KWallet Password If you forget your KWallet password it cannot be recovered Furthermore anyone who knows your password can obtain all information contained in the wallet 8 1 Starting KWallet When you enter a password in a KDE application for the first time in KMail or Kon queror for example you are asked if you want to store the password in an encrypted wallet If you click Yes KWal...

Страница 92: ...page 83 By default all passwords are stored in one wallet kdewallet but you can also add new wallets Once configured KWallet appears in the panel You can also start KWallet manually by pressing Alt F2 and entering kwalletmanager 8 2 Managing Your Passwords To store data in your wallet or view its contents click the KWallet icon in the panel A dialog box opens showing the wallets that are accessibl...

Страница 93: ...ntry then click OK Your new entry is sorted under your folder entry 4 Click the new entry to display it on the right side the folder is initially empty 5 Click Show Contents or Show Values to open an input field where you can enter your new password or values 6 To add a key pair right click the empty input field and select New Entry Type in your password or you key and respective value for that ke...

Страница 94: ...ty 1 If KWallet is already started click the KWallet symbol in the panel and select Configure Wallet Otherwise in the main menu select Configure Desktop and on the Advanced tab click KDE Wallet 2 If KDE wallet subsystem is not yet enabled activate the respective check box at the top 3 By default a wallet is closed when the last application stops using it To increase security you can set a more res...

Страница 95: ...to Another Computer For the most part KWallet resides silently in the panel and is automatically activated if needed However you can copy your wallet files to another computer for example your laptop To simplify this task wallets can be dragged from the manager window to a file browser window This let you easily package a new wallet for transfer to another environment For example a new wallet coul...

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Страница 97: ...o power saving functions suspend modes you can use instead of shutting down the computer completely during breaks 9 1 Using the Battery Monitor Widget If you are using mobile computers like a laptop a widget in your panel displays the battery status and gives you access to power management functions If the Battery Monitor widget is not displayed in your panel by default add it manually For more in...

Страница 98: ...ssion from disk Hibernate Suspend to Disk Pauses your computer without logging you out All your data and the session data is saved to disk before the system is laid to rest It is thus protected against data loss should you loose power in the meantime Waking the system up again is much faster than booting it from scratch To manually suspend your computer use the buttons in the widget or the suspend...

Страница 99: ...ble by default Performance Keep your machine running with full power and full speed to achieve maximum performance Presentation Disable any display power management and screen savers to make sure that your presentation is not interrupted by a blanked display or such like Powersave Apply power management methods to make sure that your machine runs as long as possible when put on battery power inste...

Страница 100: ...utton Access the configuration options from the main menu by selecting Configure Desktop Advanced Power Management Alternatively click the battery monitor icon in the panel and click select Configure Figure 9 2 Power Management Settings To get on overview of your system s power management abilities like supported suspend methods or CPU policies click Capabilities Click the other categories to conf...

Страница 101: ...attery level 5 For detailed information about the available options click Help 6 If all options are set according to your wishes click Apply Procedure 9 2 Configuring Power Management Profiles Apart from the general settings you can adjust the default power management profiles or add new profiles in the Edit Profiles category 1 Click one of the available profiles in the list to view or change the ...

Страница 102: ...9 4 For More Information For detailed and more technical information about power saving functions see Chap ter 17 Power Management Administration Guide 92 KDE User Guide ...

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