
This section offers some tips for using and customizing the desktop.
The easiest way to run programs automatically when KDE starts is to use the Session Management feature of KDE. KDE can be set up to be exactly right with every login.
Choose ->->-> from the Advanced tab on the top and then the Advanced User Settings section. Click the button on the right. Ensure that the checkbox is enabled.
Another method to start programs automatically with login is to copy the desktop entry of the application from
/usr/share/applications
to the~/.kde/Autostart
directory.
It is possible to login a user automatically when the computer boots. This is not recommended for most computers, as it is not secure and may allow other users access to private information.
Go to System Settings by going to ->->. Under the Advanced tab, select the Login Manager.
Click on the and enter the proper user password to gain administrator privileges.
Select the tab. Check the Enable Autologin and select the user to autologin from the drop-down menu and select an appropriate time delay.
Procedure 3. Restart KDE via keyboard
Ensure that the system has the ability to restart KDE via the keyboard.
Open System Settings by going to ->->.
Select the icon.
Select the checkbox that is labeled "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace restarts the xserver".
Press the button and close out of System Settings.
Save and close all open applications.
Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Sometimes it can be useful to start a program manually, such as when the program does not have an entry in the menu. This is easy to do with the KRunner application.
Open KRunner application by pressing Alt-F2
Enter the name of the program to run, and press the Enter key.
Open System Settings by going to ->->. In the System Settings window, select the Keyboard & Mouse option.
Under the Keyboard section, locate the subsection titled NumLock on KDE Startup, enable the checkbox. Click on to save the settings.
The change will take effect with the next log-in to KDE. To test it right away, turn off NumLock and restart KDE (see the section called “Restart KDE without rebooting the computer”).
Firefox is not installed by default, so in order for this to work, Firefox must be already installed. Please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for more information on installing applications.
Konqueror is able to handle help:/ URLs by default. Firefox is also able to handle these the same way. The Firefox configuration must manually edited for this to work properly. The following procedure will assist with this configuration.
Start Firefox by choosing left ->->->.
In the address bar, type
about:config
and press the Enter key.->. Type
click on the list and selectnetwork.protocol-handler.external.help
as the Preference Name andtrue
as the Value. Press the button when complete.->. Type
click again on the list and selectnetwork.protocol-handler.app.help
as the Preference Name andkhelpcenter
as the Value. Press the button when complete.
Kubuntu comes with the KDE Menu Editor, so menus can be customized and entries added for applications that don't automatically appear after they are installed. To add, remove, or modify an entry, use the following procedure.
Open KDE Menu Editor by clicking on Kickoff Application Launcher icon (the KDE Menu) and choosing . If the Kicker is locked, KDE Menu Editor can be opened by pressing Alt-F2 and typing
kmenuedit
followed by pressing the Enter key.In KDE Menu Editor's left-hand pane, choose the submenu the new entry should appear in.
Choose -> or press the button. In the New Item window, choose a Name. Then add the Description, Comment, and Command. Select the icon by clicking on Icon. The Command will usually be the package name, Name is what will appear on the menu, and the Comment will appear in the tooltip that appears near the menu entry. Icons are chosen from
/usr/share/icons/icon_theme
directory by default, or can be chosen from any directory.
To change the order of menu entries, click and drag the entry in the KDE Menu Editor window.
This section describes how to install extra fonts from the Kubuntu archives.
For international fonts, install the following packages (please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for help on installing extra applications):
xfonts-intl-arabic
xfonts-intl-asian
xfonts-intl-chinese
xfonts-intl-chinese-big
xfonts-intl-european
xfonts-intl-japanese
xfonts-intl-japanese-big
xfonts-intl-phonetic
For Microsoft TrueType core fonts, install the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package.
For Ghostscript fonts, install the gsfonts-x11 package (please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for help on installing extra applications).
Individual fonts can be installed easily by opening
Konqueror and typing fonts:/
into the location bar. The font can then be installed, either system-wide or for
personal use, by dragging and dropping into the respective folders.