Using Virtual Desktops - Novell SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 KDE Quick Manual

Changing the Desktop Background
You can change the background colors of your desktop or
select a picture to use as the background. Because KDE of-
fers virtual desktops (see Section "Using Virtual Desktops"),
you can apply these changes to one or all of your virtual
desktops.
1. Right-click an empty patch of the desktop and select
Configure Desktop. A configuration dialog appears.
2. In Settings for Desktop select the virtual desktops to
which the changes should apply.
3. If you want a different picture as the background, click
Picture and select one of the pictures provided by the
list. To use a custom picture, click the folder button
beneath the list and select an image file from the file
system.
4. Click Slide Show to have multiple images appear in a
slide show mode.
5. If you do not want a picture on the background, click
No picture.
6. From the Options group, click the left button below
Colors to select the color for your background. For a
multicolor background, set Colors to an option other
than Single Color and click the right button below to
select a second color.
7. Click Apply then OK to close the configuration dialog.
Using the KDE Control Center
Apart from changing individual desktop elements, KDE al-
lows you to personalize your desktop to a very high degree.
Find more settings to adjust the overall appearance and
behavior of your desktop in the KDE Control Center. There,
you can also change fonts, keyboard and mouse configura-
tion, regional and language settings, parameters for your
Internet and network usage, and more.
Start the Control Center from the main menu by selecting
Personal Settings or press Alt + F2 and enter kcontrol.
The sidebar provides different categories with a subset of
settings each. To get an impression of the numerous possi-
bilities, just click a category icon and explore the possibilities
provided there.
For an overview of all categories, switch to a tree view.
Change the view by selecting View → Mode → Tree View.
Clicking an item displays the corresponding settings on the
right. Change the settings as desired. No changes take effect
until you click Apply. Reset all items on the page to the
default values by clicking Default. Performing tasks in some
areas of the Control Center requires system administrator
(otherwise known as root) permissions.

Using Virtual Desktops

The desktop environment allows you to organize your pro-
grams and tasks on several virtual desktops. If you often
run a lot of programs simultaneously, this minimizes the
number of windows to arrange on your screen. You might,
for example, use one desktop for e-mailing and calendaring
and another for word processing or graphics applications.
Moving an Application to a Virtual Desktop
You can display a running application on one or all virtual
desktops or move it to other desktops.
1. Open the application.
2. Right-click the title bar of the application.
3. Click To Desktop.
4. Select the desktop on which to place the application.
5. To switch between desktops, click the desired desktop
in the desktop previewer in the panel.
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