<tip category="KDE|General">
<html>
<P>
There is a lot of information about KDE on the
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE web site</A>. There are
also useful sites for major applications like
<A HREF="http://www.konqueror.org/">Konqueror</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/">KOffice</A> and
<A HREF="http://www.kdevelop.org/">KDevelop</A>.
</P>
<br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/places/user-desktop.png">
</center>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General|I18N">
<html>
<p>
KDE is translated into many languages. You can change the country and
language with the System Settings by selecting "Regional and Language".
</p>
<p>For more information about KDE translations and translators, see <a
href="http://l10n.kde.org/">http://l10n.kde.org</a>.
</p>
<br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/preferences-desktop-locale.png">
</center>
</html>
</tip>




<tip category="KDE|Win2Unix">
<html>
<p>
The program Klipper, which is started by default and resides in the
system tray, keeps a number of text
selections around. These can be retrieved or even (in the case of
URLs, for example) be executed.</p>

<p>You can find more information about using Klipper in <a
href="help:/klipper">the Klipper Handbook</a></p>
<br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/klipper.png">
</center>
</html>
</tip>




<tip category="KDE2|Desktop">
<html>
<p>
Double-clicking on the titlebar of any window "shades" it, which means
that only the titlebar stays visible. Double-clicking the titlebar a
second time will make the window visible again.<br>
Of course, you can change this behavior within the System Settings.
</p>
<p>For more information about ways to manipulate windows in KDE, take
a look at <a href="help:/khelpcenter/userguide/windows-how-to-work.html">the KDE User Guide</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Desktop">
<html>
<p>
You can cycle through the windows on a virtual desktop by holding the
Alt key and pressing Tab or Shift+Tab.</p><br>
<center><img src="oxygen/48x48/places/user-desktop.png"></center></p>

<p>For more information, see 
<a href="help:/khelpcenter/userguide/windows-how-to-work.html">the KDE
User Guide</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>





<tip category="KDE|General">
<html>
<p>The KDE project was founded in October 1996 and had its first release,
1.0, on July 12, 1998.</p>
<p>You can <em>support the KDE project</em> with work (programming, designing,
documenting, proof-reading, translating, etc.) and financial or
hardware donations. Please contact <a
 href="mailto:kde-ev@kde.org">kde-ev@kde.org</a>
if you are interested in donating, or <a
href="mailto:kde-quality@kde.org">kde-quality@kde.org</a> if you would
like to contribute in other ways.</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="KDE|Win2Unix">
<html>
<p>KDE provides some shortcuts to change the size of a window:</p>
<table><tr>
<th>To maximize a window...</th>	<th>click the maximize button...</th>
</tr><tr>
<td>...full-screen,</td>		<td>...with the left mouse button</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>...vertically only,</td>	<td>...with the middle mouse button</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>...horizontally only,</td>	<td>...with the right mouse button</td>
</tr></table>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>You can stay up to date with new developments in KDE and releases
by regularly checking the web site <A
 HREF="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</A>.</p>
<BR>
<center><img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/konqueror.png"></center></p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
KDE is based on a well-designed C++ foundation. C++ is a programming
language well suited to desktop development. The KDE object model
extends the power of C++ even further. See
 <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/">http://techbase.kde.org/</a>
for details.</p><br>
<center><img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/konqueror.png"></center>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>
You can use Konqueror to <strong>browse through tar archives</strong>,
even compressed ones. You can extract files simply by dragging them
to another place, e.g. another Konqueror window or the desktop.</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="General|Help">
<html>
<P>
KDE's help system can display not only KDE's own HTML-based help, but
also info and man pages.</P>
<p>For more ways of getting help, see <a
href="help:/khelpcenter/userguide/getting-help.html">the KDE User
Guide</a>.</p>

<br>
<center><img src="oxygen/48x48/actions/help-contents.png"></center>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="General">
<html>
<P>If a toolbar is not large enough to display all buttons on it, you can
click on the small arrow at the far right end of the toolbar to see
the remaining buttons.</P>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
If you need to kill some time, KDE comes with an extensive collection
of games.</p><br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/categories/applications-games.png">
</html>
</tip>



<tip category="Keyboard">
<html>
<p>
If you know its name, you can <strong>execute any program</strong> by pressing
<strong>Alt+F2</strong>
and entering the program name in the command-line window provided.<p>
<br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/kde.png">
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Keyboard|Konqueror">
<html>
<p>
You can <strong>browse any URL</strong> by pressing
<strong>Alt+F2</strong> and entering the URL in the
command-line window provided.
</p><br>
<center>
<img src="oxygen/48x48/places/network-workgroup.png">
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Konqueror|Keyboard">
<html>
<p>If you are using Konqueror and want to type another location into
the location field below the toolbar to get there, you can clear the
whole field very quickly with the black button with a white cross
to the left of the "Location" label and start typing.</p>
<p>You can also press Ctrl+L to clear the location field and place the
text cursor there.</p>
</html>
</tip>




<tip category="Keyboard|Desktop">
<html>
<p>
If you cannot access the titlebar, you can still <strong>move a window</strong>
on the screen by holding the Alt key, clicking anywhere into the window
and "dragging" it with the mouse.</p><br>
<p>Of course, you can change this behavior in the System Settings.</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Keyboard|Desktop">
<html>
<p>
You can <strong>resize a window</strong> on the screen by holding the Alt key,
right-clicking anywhere into the window and moving the mouse.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
KDE's mail client (KMail) provides seamless <strong>PGP/GnuPG
 integration</strong>
for encrypting and signing your email messages.</p>
<p>See <a href="help:/kmail/pgp.html">the KMail Handbook</a> for
instructions on setting up encryption.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
You can find KDE developers all over the world, e.g., in Germany,
Sweden, France, Canada, USA, Australia, Namibia, Argentina, and even in
Norway!</p>
<p>
To see where KDE developers can be found, take a look at <a href="http://worldwide.kde.org">worldwide.kde.org</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
KDE's CD player, KsCD, accesses the Internet CD database freedb to provide you
with title/track information.
</p>
<p>Full details of KsCD's functions are available in <a
href="help:/kscd">the KsCD Handbook</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>




<tip category="LookNFeel">
<html>
<p>
You can change the color of the window titlebars by clicking on the title bar of the
example window in the <em>Appearance</em> module within the System Settings.
</p>
<p>You can use the other aspects of the example graphic to further customize the appearance of KDE on your computer.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="LookNFeel">
<html>
<p>
The difference between window manager styles and old-fashioned themes is
that the former even reflect window titlebar color settings from the
System Settings and might implement different features.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>If you want to know when <b>the next release</b> of KDE is planned,
look for the release schedule on <a
 href="http://techbase.kde.org/">http://techbase.kde.org</a>. If you only
find old release schedules, there will probably be some weeks/months of
intensive development left before the next release.</p><br>
<center><img src="oxygen/48x48/apps/konqueror.png"></center>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Desktop">
<html>
<p>
Under the <em>"B II"</em> window decoration, the title bars
automatically move by themselves so they are always visible. You can
edit your title bar decoration by right clicking on your title bar and
selecting "Configure Window Behavior...".</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Keyboard">
<html>
<p>If you do not like the default completion mode (e.g. in Konqueror), you
can right-click on the edit-widget and choose a different mode, e.g.
automatic or manual completion. Manual completion works in a similar
way to
completion in a UNIX shell. Use Ctrl+E to invoke it.
</p>
</html>
</tip>




<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>If you want to contribute your own "tip of the day", please send it to
<a href="mailto:kde-doc-english@kde.org">kde-doc-english@kde.org</a>, and we will be happy to
 include
it in the next release.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>
If you drag a file from Konqueror or from the desktop to Konsole, you
will have the choice between pasting the URL or entering that folder.</p>
<p>
Choose the one you want, so you do not have to write the entire path
in the terminal window.</p>
</html>
</tip>



<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>
You can add your own "Web Shortcuts" to Konqueror by selecting
Settings->Configure Konqueror->Web Shortcuts. Click "New..." and
complete the fields.
</p>
<p>For further instructions, and details about the advanced features
available with Web Shortcuts, see <a
href="help:/konqueror/enhanced-browsing.html">the Konqueror Handbook</a>.</p>
<p align="right"><em>Contributed by Michael Lachmann and Thomas Diehl</em></p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Win2Unix">
<html>
<p>
Each UNIX user has a so-called Home folder in which his or her
files as well as user-dependent configuration files are saved. If you
work in a Konsole window, you can easily change to your home folder
by entering the <b>cd</b> command without any parameters.
</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Win2Unix">
<html>
<p>
You might wonder why there are very few (if any) files whose
names end in <code>.exe</code> or <code>.bat</code> on UNIX
systems. This is because filenames on UNIX do not need an
extension. Executable files in KDE are represented by the gear icon
in Konqueror. In the Konsole window, they are often colored red
(depending on your settings).
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KDE|Win2Unix|General">
<html>
<p>
If you want to make your desktop look more interesting, you can find
additional themes, widget styles, window decorations and more at <a href="http://kde-look.org/">kde-look.org</a>.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KDE|Win2Unix">
<html>
<p>
Did you know that you can use the middle mouse button to paste
text? Try selecting some text with the left mouse button and click
elsewhere with the middle mouse button. The selected text will be
pasted at the click position. This even works between different programs.
</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
If you need to calculate a distance on the screen, the program
<em>kruler</em> can be of great help.</p>
<p>
Furthermore, if you need to look closely at the ruler to count single
pixels, <em>kmag</em> may be very useful. (It is not part of the KDE base
installation but needs to be installed separately. It might already be
available on your distribution.) <em>kmag</em> works
just like <em>xmag</em>, with the difference that it magnifies on the fly.
</p>
<p align="right"><em>Contributed by Jesper Pedersen</em></p><br>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Multimedia">
<html>
<p>
You can associate sounds, pop up windows, and more with KDE events. This can be configured
from the System Settings by selecting Notifications.
</p>
</html>
</tip>






<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
KDE is a fully network transparent environment: you can use network
URLs in any KDE application. For example, you can enter a URL like
ftp://www.server.com/myfile in the KWrite Open dialog, and KWrite will
open the file and save changes back to the FTP server when you click
on 'Save.'
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Network">
<html>
<p>
You can use Konqueror to access your files on any server that you have
ssh access to. Just enter fish://<em>username</em>@<em>hostname</em> in
Konqueror's location bar.
</p>
<p>
In fact, all KDE applications support fish:// URLs - try entering one
in the Open dialog of KWrite, for instance.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail">
<html>
<p>
KMail, the KDE email client, has built-in support for several popular
spam filtering apps. To set up automatic spam filtering in KMail,
configure your favorite spam filter as you like it, then go to
Tools->Anti-spam wizard in KMail.
</p>
<p>
For more information, look at <a
href="help:/kmail/the-anti-spam-wizard.html">the KMail Handbook
Anti-Spam Wizard chapter</a>.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KWin">
<html>
<p>
You can make a window go below other windows by middle-clicking on its titlebar.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>
KDE applications offer short "What's This?" help texts for many
features. Just click on the question mark on the window titlebar, and
then click on the item you need help on. (In some themes, the button
is a lowercase "i" instead of a question mark).
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KWin">
<html>
<p>
KDE supports several different window focus modes: take a look in the
System Settings under Window Behavior. For example, if you
use the mouse a lot, you might prefer the "Focus follows mouse" setting.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>
Konqueror can continuously scroll webpages up or down: just press
Shift+Up Arrow or Shift+Down Arrow. Press the key combination again to
increase the speed, or any other key to stop the scrolling.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General|Help">
<html>
<p>You can use Konqueror's help:/ kioslave to have quick and easy
access to an application's handbook by typing <b>help:/</b>, directly
followed by the application name, in the Location bar. So, for example
to view the handbook for kwrite simply type help:/kwrite.</p> 
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>Konqueror's Web Shortcuts feature lets you submit a query directly
to a search engine without having to visit the website
first. For example, entering <b>gg:konqueror</b> in the Location bar and
pressing Enter will search Google for items relating to Konqueror.</p>

<p>To see what further Web Shortcuts are available, and to make your
own, from Konqueror just select Settings->Configure Konqueror... which
will open the Settings dialog box, and then just click on the Web
Shortcuts icon.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="accessbility">
<html>
<p>KDE is always looking to improve its accessibility, and with the
launch of KTTS (KDE Text-to-Speech) you now have the power to convert
strings of text into audible speech. </p>

<p>KTTS is constantly improving, and currently provides support to
speak all or any portion of plain text files (as viewed in Kate), HTML
pages in Konqueror, text in the KDE clipboard, as well as speech of
KDE notifications (KNotify).</p>

<p>To start the KTTS system, you can either select KTTS in the KDE
menu, or hit Alt+F2 to run a command and then type <b>kttsmgr</b>. For
more information on KTTS, check the <a href="help:/kttsd" title="KTTSD
Handbook">KTTSD Handbook</a>.</p>

</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>Though KDE is a very stable desktop environment, programs may
occasionally freeze or crash, particularly if you are running the
development version of a program, or a program made by a
third-party. In this case, you can forcibly kill the program if need
be.</p>

<p>Pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+Esc</b> will bring up the skull-and-crossbones
cursor, and once you click on a window with it the program will be
automatically killed. Note, however, that this is an untidy way of
shutting down the program which may result in data being lost, and
some partner processes may still remain running. This should only be
used as a last resort.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Kontact">
<html>
<p>KMail is KDE's email client, but did you know that you can
integrate it -- along with other programs -- to bring them all under
one roof? Kontact was made to be a Personal Information Management
suite, and it integrates all components under it seamlessly.</p>

<p>Other possible programs to integrate with Kontact include
KAddressBook (for handling Contacts), KNotes (for keeping notes),
KNode (to keep up-to-date with the latest news), and KOrganizer (for a
comprehensive calender).</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>By pressing F4 in Konqueror you can open a terminal at your current
location.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="General">
<html>
<p>Although KDE will automatically restore your KDE programs that were
left open after you logged out, you can specifically tell KDE to start
particular applications on start up; see the <a
href="help:/khelpcenter/faq/configure.html#id2574142" title="Autostart
FAQ">FAQ entry</a> for more information.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Kontact">
<html>
<p>You can integrate Kontact, KDE's Personal Information Management
suit, with Kopete, KDE's Instant Messenger client, so that you can
view contacts' online status, as well as respond to them easily from
KMail itself. For a step-by-step guide, check <a
href="help:/khelpcenter/userguide/integrated-messaging.html"
title="Integrated Messaging">the KDE User Guide</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Kontact">
<html>
<p>By entering <b>kmail --composer</b> in Konsole you can
have KMail only open up the composer window, so that you do not have to
open the entire email client when you only want to send an email to
someone.</p>
</html>
</tip>





<tip category="Konqueror">
<html>
<p>While tabbed browsing in Konqueror is very useful, you can take
this one step further if you choose to have a split view in order to
view two locations at the same time. To access this feature, in
Konqueror select Window->Split View, with either Top-Bottom or
Left/Right, depending upon your choice.</p>

<p>This setting will also only apply to a particular tab, rather than
all tabs you have, so you can choose to have the split view for only
some of the tabs where you might think it is useful.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="Keyboard">
<html>
<p>
You can let KDE turn the <b>NumLock</b> ON or OFF at startup.
</p>
<p>
Open the System Settings, select Keyboard &amp; Mouse and make your
 choice.
</p>
<p>
<hr><br><br>
<i>This is the last tip in the tips database. Clicking "Next" will take you back to
 the first tip.</i>
</p>
</html>
</tip>
