Tutorials
If you are a system administrator who is rolling out new or managing existing KDE deployments in their organization, you should definitely look at the KDE System Administration section.
Getting Started
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Some common tasks explained |
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The Jargon File explains some of the words that you may be unfamiliar with. |
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Creating keyboard shortcuts |
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Open a console |
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Access another computer's display |
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Mouse pointer settings for large displays |
Localization Settings
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Change the language and the numeric, currency and time formats used by Plasma |
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Entering "special characters" - characters that are not on your normal keyboard |
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Kimpanel Build a plasmoid for controlling input methods |
Plasma
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Plasma Tips & Tricks |
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KRunner is an amazingly useful utility, launched either by Alt + F2, or by a right-click on the desktop, and selecting 'Run Command'. Now learn some of its uses |
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Learn how to configure the Plasma panel |
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Learn how to Create a look and feel package |
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Using with small screens (eg. Netbooks) Discusses several issues where screen space is at a premium |
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Color Management Enabling color management |
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Keyboard actions Configuring keyboard actions |
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Using Other Window Managers with Plasma Learn how to change the Window Managers used by Plasma. |
File Management
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Discover Dolphin |
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File System Navigation |
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Archive Management in Dolphin |
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Transfer files from and to a server using ftp, sftp, webdav and the like |
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Adding an entry to the Create New menu of file browsers |
Web Browsers
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Mousegestures for all Browsers |
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Browser configuration for Firefox. Learn how to make Firefox uses the standard Open and Save dialog. |
Kontact
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KMail tutorials |
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KOrganizer tutorials |
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Akregator tutorials |
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How to use Office365.com with Kontact |
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How to use Kolab with Kontact |
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How to use Nextcloud with Kontact |
KOffice
These tutorials are obsolete and need to be updated for calligra. If you know about how to use calligra, please help.
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Basic Layout is a tutorial that creates a leaflet with various images and explaining text using KWord's frames technology. Several text frames and image frames will be created and positioned on the page. |
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A Second Layout experiments with placing, grouping and moving images within a text area. |
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A third Layout builds a page for a photo album. |
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Using the Artistic Text Shape is a tutorial that shows how to get started with the artistic text shape that all KOffice applications provide. |
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KWord Manual Tutorial on basic concepts of working in a frame-based environment, and detailed guides for all your WP needs. |
Multimedia
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MIDI in Linux |
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Burn an Audio Cd with K3b |
Graphics
Klipper
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How to search in phone books using Klipper |
Marble
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Installing Marble on a Nokia N900 |
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Setting up Offline Routing on a Nokia N900 |
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Route Planning and Guidance Mode on a Nokia N900 |
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GPS Tracking |
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Map Theme Configuration |
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Using Bookmarks |
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Searching Places |
Kde Connect
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Usefull commands for KDE Connect |
Development
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How to get php documentation up to date in Quanta |
Advanced
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Modify your system defaults |
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Using a single database for KDE programs |