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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

	How to Install KDE neon
	How to install KDE software
	How to install Flatpaks
	Some common tasks explained
	The Jargon File explains some of the words that you may be unfamiliar with.
	Creating keyboard shortcuts
	Open a console
	Access another computer's display
	Change the color of the blue folder icon
	Mouse pointer settings for large displays

Localization Settings

	Change the language and the numeric, currency and time formats used by Plasma
	Entering "special characters" - characters that are not on your normal keyboard
	Input Method Panel Build a plasmoid for controlling input methods

Plasma

	Plasma Tips & Tricks
	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
	Learn how to configure the Plasma panel
	Learn how to Create a look and feel package
	Using with small screens (eg. Netbooks) Discusses several issues where screen space is at a premium.
	Enabling Color Management in KWin.
	How to configure keyboard actions for specific keys.
	Learn how to Use Other Window Managers with Plasma.
	How to manually enable Transparency And Blur.

File Management

	Discover the various functionalities of the Dolphin file manager
	How to manage compressed files in Dolphin using Ark for Archive Management
	Transfer files from and to a server using ftp, sftp, webdav and the like
	How to add an entry to the Create New menu

Web Browsers

Create mouse gestures for use with any browser

Kontact

	Learn how to manage your e-mail with KMail
	How to sync your information using KOrganizer
	Here is how to set up your favorite RSS in one place with Akregator
	How to use Office365.com with Kontact
	How to use Kolab with Kontact
	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.

	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.
	A Second Layout experiments with placing, grouping and moving images within a text area.
	A third Layout builds a page for a photo album.
	Using the Artistic Text Shape is a tutorial that shows how to get started with the artistic text shape that all KOffice applications provide.
	KWord Manual Tutorial on basic concepts of working in a frame-based environment, and detailed guides for all your WP needs.

Multimedia

	How to work with MIDI synthesizing on Linux
	How to burn an audio cd using K3b

Graphics

	Photo Tutorial 1-1: Levels adjust This tutorial explains how to use Levels Adjust tool to quickly adjust brightness in your pictures using digiKam.
	Photo Tutorial 1-2: Curves adjust This tutorial explains how to use the Curves Adjust tool to quickly fix differences in brightness in your pictures using digiKam.
	Photo Tutorial 1-3: White Balance This tutorial explains how to use the White Balance tool to quickly fix levels of white in ambient lighting using digiKam.
	Photo Tutorial 1-4: Brightness/Contrast/Gamma + Hue/Saturation/Lightness This tutorial explains how to adjust several aspects of your picture more thoroughly using digiKam.
	Photo KDE Tutorial 1-5: Perspective Adjustment This tutorial explains how to correct the position and perspective of your pictures using digiKam.
	An impressive amount of digiKam tutorials are hosted in userbase.

Klipper

How to search in phone books using Klipper

Marble

	Installing Marble on a Nokia N900
	Setting up Offline Routing on a Nokia N900
	Route Planning and Guidance Mode on a Nokia N900
	How to create GPS Tracks using a mobile or GPS-enabled device
	How to switch map themes and visualization
	Using Bookmarks to mark your favorite places
	Searching for places and points of interest

KDEConnect

Compilation of useful commands for KDE Connect

Development

	Build your first KDE C++ Application with KDevelop on Kubuntu
	How to get php documentation up to date in Quanta

Advanced

	Modify your system defaults
	Using a single database for KDE programs
	Create your own mouse cursor theme

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