System Settings

Control center for KDE software and workspaces.

Features

• Control Center for global KDE platform settings
• Customize and manage your desktop in one convenient location
• Search function helps narrow down probable settings

Search

System Settings has a search function to help in hunting down a setting. Simply type in a keyword in the Search field in the toolbar and System Settings will display modules that contain the keyword and hide those that don't. System Settings modules can also be reached through KRunner.

Searching for "key".

Categories

Common Appearance and Behavior

Account Details
	Configure your user information, password and paths. You can also configure your Social Desktop providers.
Application Appearance
	Configure your applications style, colors, icons, fonts and emoticons.
Application and System Notifications
	Configure the notifications you want to receive from the system, and from applications
File Associations
	Set default actions and icons for different types of files.
Locale
	Language, numeric, and time setting for your particular region. Allows you to apply translation (locale) to whole KDE Desktop or change spellchecker parameters.
Personal Information
	Configure the resources used to manage your address book, calendar, and notes
Shortcuts and Gestures
	Configure keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures.

Workspace Appearance and Behaviour

Desktop Effects
	Configure desktop effects such as window animations, transparency, or the desktop cube.
Workspace Appearance
	Configure the appearance of windows, cursors, and the desktop.
Accessibility
	Settings to help users who have difficulty hearing audible cues, or who have difficulty using a keyboard.
Default Applications
	Set the default applications for common tasks, such as browsing the web, writing email, or managing files.
Search Desktop
	Settings for the desktop search engine.
Window Behaviour
	Configure task switching, and how windows respond to mouse actions.
Workspace Behaviour
	Settings for overall workspace behaviour and virtual desktops.

Network and Connectivity

Bluetooth
	Set up connections to your Bluetooth devices.
Network Settings
	Preferences for your network connections and proxy settings.
SSL Preferences
	Manage SSL certificates.
Sharing
	Settings for sharing files with Windows machines over a network.

Hardware

Device Actions
	Configure which actions are available when a new device is connected to your machine.
Digital Camera
	Settings for connecting to your digital cameras.
Display and Monitor
	Configuration of your monitor(s) and screensaver settings.
Information Sources
	Configuration of hardware for network, remote control, and modems.
Input Devices
	Configure your keyboard, mouse and joystick.
Power Management
	Global settings for the power manager.
Removable Devices
	Configure automatic handling of removable storage media.
Multimedia
	Configure the handling of audio CDs

System Administration

Actions Policy
	Configure policies for trusted actions in the system.
Date & Time
	Settings for date and time.
Font Installer
	Install, manage, and preview fonts.
Global Policy Configurations
	Configure global settings for system policies.
Login Screen
	Configure the login manager (KDM).
Permissions
Software Management
	Get and remove software, and manage automatic updating of software.
Startup and Shutdown
	Configure your system behavior when starting up or shutting down.

Mouse Gestures

Note

This section has been moved to System Settings/Shortcuts and Gestures. We shall leave the content here as well for some time to make it easier to move your translations.

KDE SC version 4.4.4

The place where you start is "System Settings -> Input Actions"

Enabling mouse gestures

In the bottom left corner of the window there is a Settings button. Make sure that the Gestures checkbox is checked. Set the timout as you see fit. The mouse button might be different for you, I chose 3 for using the right mouse button. If you want input actions to be enabled automatically, check the "Start the input Actions daemon on login" above.

Creating the Mouse gestures actions group

Right click on the left pane (in an empty area under the list of action groups) and choose New Group, rename that group to "Mouse Gestures" and check the checkbox attached to its name.

Creating a new mouse gesture

From now on I will assume that the new group is called "Mouse Gestures". Right click on Mouse Gestures and choose New -> Mouse Gesture Action (here there are three options but I didn't manage to work with "Send Keyboard Input") using "Command/URL" or "D-Bus Command" you will need to create a gesture and bind an action to it.

To create the gesture

Click on your New Action and select the Trigger tab. in the bottom of the screen there is an Edit button (click it). In the box that just opened draw your gesture using the left mouse button.

To bind an action

if you chose Command/URL simply enter that command/url under the Action tab at the Command/URL field.

Examples using Command/URL

Close window

This command will let you close the next window you mouse click on.

Note

wmctrl may not support your Window Manager.

Command/URL: wmctrl -c :SELECT:

to close the active window

Command/URL: wmctrl -c :ACTIVE:

Translate clipboard content

This command will display a translation of the current clipboard content.

• Required for this are:
  • xclip
  • libtranslate

Command/URL: kdialog --title "Translation" --msgbox "`xclip -o | translate -f en -t he -`"

Replace 'en' and 'he' with the desired source and destination language, if you are not sure, a full list of language codes is available from the ISO 639-2 list.

Examples using D-Bus

If you chose D-Bus, here are few examples.

Finding out what to fill where, is done with the help of the "Launch D-Bus Browser", using that browser you can find what method you wish to call in what application object. Using D-Bus we need to fill some fields, the field name will be regular and the content italic.

Runner

This will display the Runner dialog.

Remote Application: org.kde.krunner

Remote Object: /App

Function: org.kde.krunner.App.display

Audacious next/previous/pause/play/stop/repeat track

Remote Application: org.mpris.audacious

Remote Object: /Player

Function: org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Next (replace Next with Prev/Pause/Stop/Play/Repeat)

Audacious PlayPause track

If not playing will play, if playing will pause.

Remote Application: org.mpris.audacious

Remote Object: /org/atheme/audacious

Function: org.atheme.audacious.PlayPause

Klipper manually invoke action menu

display the actions pop-up. (I am using that to search and translate words)

Remote Application: org.kde.klipper

Remote Object: /klipper

Function: org.kde.klipper.klipper.showKlipperManuallyInvokeActionMenu