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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Input Method Panel 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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Enabling Color Management in KWin. |
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How to configure keyboard actions for specific keys. |
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Learn how to Use Other Window Managers with Plasma. |
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How to manually enable Transparency And Blur. |
File Management
Web Browsers
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Create mouse gestures for use with any browser |
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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.
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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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How to work with MIDI synthesizing on Linux |
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How to burn an audio cd using K3b |
Graphics
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Photo Tutorial 1-1: Levels adjust This tutorial explains how to use Levels Adjust tool to quickly adjust brightness in your pictures using digiKam. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Photo KDE Tutorial 1-5: Perspective Adjustment This tutorial explains how to correct the position and perspective of your pictures using digiKam. |
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An impressive amount of digiKam tutorials are hosted in userbase. |
Klipper
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How to search in phone books using Klipper |
Marble
KDEConnect
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Compilation of useful commands for KDE Connect |
Development
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Build your first KDE C++ Application with KDevelop on Kubuntu |
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Advanced
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Modify your system defaults |
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Using a single database for KDE programs |
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Create your own mouse cursor theme |