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
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 | |
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 | |
Kimpanel 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 | |
Color Management Enabling color management | |
Keyboard actions How to configure keyboard actions for specific keys | |
Using Other Window Managers with Plasma Learn how to use other Window Managers with Plasma. | |
How to manually enable Transparency And Blur. |
File Management
Web Browsers
Create mouse gestures for use with any browser | |
Browser configuration for Firefox. Learn how to make Firefox use the standard Open and Save dialog. |
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
MIDI in Linux | |
How to burn an audio cd using K3b |
Graphics
Klipper
How to search in phone books using Klipper |
Marble
KDEConnect
Usefull commands for KDE Connect |
Development
How to get php documentation up to date in Quanta |
Advanced
Modify your system defaults | |
Using a single database for KDE programs |