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 form 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 enging. Window Behaviour
Configure taks switching, and how windows respont 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 af 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
- KDE SC version 4.4.4
The place where you start is ""
Enabling mouse gestures
In the bottom left corner of the window there is a button. Make sure that the 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 , 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 and choose (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 and select the tab. in the bottom of the screen there is an button (click it). In the box that just opened draw your gesture using the left mouse button.
To bind an action
if you chose simply enter that command/url under the tab at the field.
Examples using Command/URL
Close window
This command will let you close the next window you mouse click on.
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
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