Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE 17-03-2009 Bedienungsanleitung

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Desktop

www.novell.com11

March17,2009 KDE User Guide

KDE User Guide

Legal Notice

This manual is protected under Novell intellectual property rights. By reproducing, duplicating or

distributing this manual you explicitly agree to conform to the terms and conditions of this license

agreement.

This manual may be freely reproduced, duplicated and distributed either as such or as part of a bundled

package in electronic and/or printed format, provided however that the following conditions are ful-

lled:

That this copyright notice and the names of authors and contributors appear clearly and distinctively

on all reproduced, duplicated and distributed copies. That this manual, specically for the printed

format, is reproduced and/or distributed for noncommercial use only. The express authorization of

Novell, Inc must be obtained prior to any other use of any manual or part thereof.

For Novell trademarks, see the Novell Trademark and Service Mark list http://www.novell

.com/company/legal/trademarks/tmlist.html. * Linux is a registered trademark of

Linus Torvalds. All other third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. A trademark

symbol (®, ™ etc.) denotes a Novell trademark; an asterisk (*) denotes a third party trademark.

All information found in this book has been compiled with utmost attention to detail. However, this

does not guarantee complete accuracy. Neither Novell, Inc., SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, the authors,

nor the translators shall be held liable for possible errors or the consequences thereof.

Contents

About This Guide vii

Part I Introduction 1

1Getting Started with the KDE Desktop 3

1.1 LoggingIn............................ 3

1.2 Exploring the Desktop Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.3 Leaving Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.4 Switching Desktops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2Working with Your Desktop 15

2.1 StartingPrograms......................... 15

2.2 Using Dolphin File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3 Moving Text between Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.4 Finding 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 InstantMessaging......................... 30

2.11 Managing Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

2.12 Opening or Creating Documents with OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . 31

2.13 Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2.14 Taking Screen Shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

2.15 Displaying, Decompressing, and Creating Archives . . . . . . . . . . . 33

2.16 Creating CDs or DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

2.17 Viewing and Managing Digital Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

2.18 Managing Your Music Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

2.19 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3Customizing Your Settings 37

3.1 The Personal Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3.2 Conguring Desktop Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3.3 Conguring the Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

3.4 Conguring KDE Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

3.5 Conguring System and Security Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Part II Managing Files and Resources 57

4Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents with Okular 59

4.1 ViewingPDFFiles......................... 59

4.2 Annotating a PDF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

5Accessing 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

6Searching with Kerry 73

6.1 Searching Using Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

6.2 ConguringKerry......................... 75

7Managing Print Jobs 77

7.1 Starting Print Jobs in KDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

7.2 Monitoring Print Jobs in KDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

8Managing Passwords with KWallet Manager 81

8.1 StartingKWallet ......................... 81

8.2 Managing Your Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

8.3 Adjusting KWallet Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

8.4 Copying Your Wallet to Another Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

9Controlling Your Desktop’s Power Management 87

9.1 Using the Battery Monitor Widget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

9.2 Saving Power by Using Proles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

9.3 Conguring Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

9.4 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

About This Guide

This manual introduces the KDE 4 desktop of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop. It

helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users who want to make ef-

cient use of KDE in everyday life.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. This

includes additional documentation that is available on the system as well as documen-

tation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest docu-

mentation updates, refer to http://www.novell.com/documentation or to

the following section.

1 Available Documentation

We provide HTML and PDF versions of our books in different languages. The following

manuals for users and administrators are available on this product:

GNOME User Guide (↑GNOME User Guide)

Introduces the GNOME desktop of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. It guides you

through using and conguring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks. It is

intended mainly for end users who want to make efcient use of GNOME desktop

as their default desktop.

Application Guide (↑Application Guide)

Learn how to use and congure key desktop applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Desktop. This guide introduces browsers and e-mail clients as well as ofce appli-

cations and collaboration tools. It also covers graphics and multimedia applications.

Deployment Guide (↑Deployment Guide)

Shows how to install single or multiple systems and how to exploit the product

inherent capabilities for a deployment infrastructure. Choose from various approach-

es, ranging from a local installation or a network installation server to a mass de-

ployment using a remote-controlled, highly-customized, and automated installation

technique.

Administration Guide (↑Administration Guide)

Covers system administration tasks like maintaining, monitoring and customizing

an initially installed system.

Security Guide (↑Security Guide)

Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network se-

curity aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software

like Novell AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which les the program

may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects informa-

tion about any security-relevant events.

Virtualization with Xen (↑Virtualization with Xen)

Offers an introduction to virtualization technology of your product. It features an

overview of the various elds of application and installation types 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 ISO image.

Linux Audit Quick Start

Gives a short overview how to enable and congure the auditing system and how

to execute key tasks such as setting up audit rules, generating reports, and analyzing

the log les.

Novell AppArmor Quick Start

Helps you understand the main concepts behind Novell® AppArmor.

Find HTML versions of most SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop manuals in your installed

system under /usr/share/doc/manual or in the help centers of your desktop.

Find the latest documentation updates at http://www.novell.com/

viii KDE User Guide

documentation where you can download PDF or HTML versions of the manuals

for your product.

2 Feedback

Several feedback channels are available:

• To report bugs for a product component or to submit enhancements requests, please

use https://bugzilla.novell.com/. If you are new to Bugzilla, you

might nd the Bug Writing FAQs helpful, available from the Novell Bugzilla home

page.

• We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other

documentation included 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 lenames

•placeholder: replace placeholder with the actual value

•PATH: the environment variable PATH

•ls,--help: commands, options, and parameters

•user: users or groups

•Alt,Alt +F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as

on a keyboard

•File,File >Save As: menu items, buttons

•Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a

chapter in another manual.

About This Guide ix

Dieses Handbuch passt für folgende Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andere Novell Software Handbücher

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - GNOME Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - GNOME... Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell IFOLDER 3.X - SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE... Service-Handbuch

Novell

Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - COMMAND LINE UTILITIES REFERENCE 10.3... Kurzanleitung

Novell

Novell GROUPWISE 8 - MONITOR Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell POLICY IN DESIGNER 3.5 - 09-18-2009 Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 Installationsanleitung

Novell

Novell GROUPWISE 7 - LIBRARIES AND DOCUMENTS Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell ZENWORKS APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION - V8.0.3 INTEGRATION AND STREAMING... Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell GROUPWISE 8 - LINUX-MAC CLIENT Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - COMMAND LINE UTILITIES REFERENCE 10.3... Programmierhandbuch

Novell

Novell GROUPWISE 7 - POST OFFICES Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - DEVELOPMENT CLIENT REFERENCE... Service-Handbuch

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 11 - HIGH AVAILABILITY Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell LOGIN SCRIPTS - 08-2008 Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell ENHANCED SMART CARD METHOD 3.0.1 - INSTALLATION... Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - PREBOOT SERVICES AND IMAGING REFERENCE 10.3... Kurzanleitung

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP1 - ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION... Handbuch

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - START-UP GUIDE... Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell APPARMOR 1.2 Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell IDENTITY MANAGER DRIVER FOR ID PROVIDER 3.6.1 -... Bedienungsanleitung

Novell

Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - START UP GUIDE... Bedienungsanleitung

Beliebte Software Handbücher anderer Marken

COMPRO

COMPRO COMPROFM Bedienungsanleitung

Muratec

Muratec OFFICEBRIDGE ONLINE Bedienungsanleitung

Oracle

Oracle Contact Center Anywhere 8.1 Bedienungsanleitung

Adobe

Adobe 65007312 - Photoshop Lightroom Handbuch

Avaya

Avaya NULL One-X for RIM Blackberry Bedienungsanleitung

HP ProLiant BL420c Bedienungsanleitung

PS Audio

PS Audio PowerPlay Betriebsanleitung

Brady

Brady LOCKOUT PRO 3.0 Service-Handbuch

Avaya

Avaya Interaction Center Bedienungsanleitung

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Silver Edition Handbuch

Oracle

Oracle Application 9i Bedienungsanleitung

Acer

Acer RDM Bedienungsanleitung

Canon

Canon Vixia HF21 Bedienungsanleitung

Canon

Canon ZR950 Bedienungsanleitung

Samsung

Samsung Auto Backup Bedienungsanleitung

Polycom

Polycom Vortex EF2201 Montage- und Bedienungsanleitung

Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c Bedienungsanleitung

Lexmark

Lexmark Apps Service-Handbuch