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  • Page 1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop www.novell.com KDE User Guide March 17, 2009...
  • Page 2 That this manual, specifically for the printed format, is reproduced and/or distributed for noncommercial use only. The express authorization of Novell, Inc must be obtained prior to any other use of any manual or part thereof. http://www.novell For Novell trademarks, see the Novell Trademark and Service Mark list .com/company/legal/trademarks/tmlist.html.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents About This Guide Part I Introduction 1 Getting Started with the KDE Desktop Logging In ......Exploring the Desktop Components .
  • Page 4 2.18 Managing Your Music Collection ....2.19 For More Information ..... . . 3 Customizing Your Settings The Personal Settings .
  • Page 5 9 Controlling Your Desktop’s Power Management Using the Battery Monitor Widget ....Saving Power by Using Profiles ....Configuring Power Management .

  • Page 7: About This Guide

    Internet. For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest docu- http://www.novell.com/documentation mentation updates, refer to or to the following section.
  • Page 8 Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network se- curity aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software like Novell AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which files the program may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects informa- tion about any security-relevant events.

  • Page 9: Documentation Conventions

    • To report bugs for a product component or to submit enhancements requests, please use https://bugzilla.novell.com/. If you are new to Bugzilla, you might find the Bug Writing FAQs helpful, available from the Novell Bugzilla home page. • We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation included with this product.

  • Page 11: Part I Introduction

    Part I. Introduction...

  • Page 13: Getting Started With The Kde Desktop

    Getting Started with the KDE Desktop This chapter assists you in becoming familiar with the KDE desktop of your SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop. If you have not yet installed your system, refer to Chapter 3, Installation with YaST (↑Deployment Guide) or to Installation Quick Start (↑Installation Quick Start).
  • Page 14 start your system. If you did not set up your system and your user account yourself, check with your system administrator for your username and password. The appearance of the login screen depends on the product you use and on the desktop environment installed on your system.

  • Page 15: Exploring The Desktop Components

    NOTE: Connecting to an Active Directory Server To access shared network resources, you can also authenticate a KDE client machine against an Active Directory server. For further details, refer to Chap- ter 5, Accessing Network Resources (page 63). If your machine is configured for this kind of authentication, the login screen also provides an additional field.
  • Page 16 Desktop icons represent files, directories, ap- Desktop Icons and Desktop Folder plications, functions, and removable media, like CDs or DVDs. Click an icon on the desktop to access its associated program or application. By default, your desktop icons are shown in a Desktop Folder, a transparent region of the screen showing the contents of the Desktop folder in your home directory.
  • Page 17 By default, all started applications and open windows are displayed in Taskbar: the taskbar, which allows you to access any application regardless of the currently active desktop. Click to open the application. Right-click to see options for moving, restoring, or minimizing the window. This rightmost part of the panel usually holds some smaller icons, System Tray: including the system clock displaying time and date, the volume control, and several...

  • Page 18: Desktop Icons

    Find how to add, remove and configure widgets and change numerous desktop elements Chapter 3, Customizing Your Settings (page 37). 1.2.2 Desktop Icons By default, the Desktop Folder showing the contents of the ~/Desktop folder, displays the following icons by default: My Computer The My Computer icon is very useful for viewing the most important information about your hardware, network status, disks (hard disks, removable media, and ex-...
  • Page 19 Figure 1.4 Panel: Quick Launch Area Main Menu Icon Opens the main menu, similar to the Microsoft* Windows start menu. Device Notifier Icon Informs you about recently plugged or inserted devices such as USB sticks, external hard disks, cameras, CDs, or DVDs. For more information, refer to Section 2.5, “Accessing Removable Media and External Devices”...
  • Page 20 openSUSE Updater Helps you keeping your system up to date. When you connect to the Internet, the openSUSE Updater automatically checks whether software updates for your system are available. The applet icon changes color and appearance depending on the availability of updates for your system. For detailed information about how to install software updates with openSUSE Updater and how to configure openSUSE Updater, refer to Chapter 1, YaST Online Update (↑Administration Guide).

  • Page 21: Leaving Your System

    ments or how change the overall appearance and behavior of your desktop, refer to Section 3.1, “The Personal Settings” (page 37). If you would like to start working with your desktop now, continue reading at Chapter 2, Working with Your Desktop (page 15).
  • Page 22 If more than one desktop environment is installed on your system, you can also choose to switch to another desktop for the new session as described in Section 1.4, “Switching Desktops” (page 13). Hibernate This menu item is only available if your computer provides power management functionality.

  • Page 23: Switching Desktops

    1.4 Switching Desktops If more than one desktop environment is installed on your system (for example, KDE and GNOME, or KDE 3.5.x and KDE 4), you can choose to switch to another desktop when logging in again (or when logging in as a different user). To do so, proceed as follows: 1 On the login screen, click Session Type and select the desktop environment to start.

  • Page 25: Working With Your Desktop

    Working with Your Desktop After having being introduced to the desktop, you can now start to work with your desktop. 2.1 Starting Programs You can start programs either from the main menu or from the command line, using the Run Command dialog or a shell. Additionally, you can start programs from the desktop or the panel by left-clicking the respective program icon once.
  • Page 26 The following tabs are available: Favorites Shows a default selection of key programs for quick access. Applications Shows all applications installed on your system. The function-oriented menu structure makes it easy to find the right application for your purpose even if you do not know the application names yet.
  • Page 27 Recently Used Lists the most recently opened programs and files. To reopen a program or file, just click the entry. To remove all recently used programs or files from the list, right-click below the respective heading and select Clear Recently Used Applications or Clear Recently Used Documents.
  • Page 28 If you want to start an application as a different user (for example, as root), click the wrench icon in the Run Command dialog. Activate Run as Different User, enter the user's password and press Enter . The Run Command dialog also allows you to use the so-called Web shortcuts defined in Konqueror.

  • Page 29: Using Dolphin File Manager

    From the list below the input field, choose the application or object matching your query. 2.2 Using Dolphin File Manager With KDE 4, Dolphin has replaced Konqueror as the default file manager, while Kon- queror remains the default Web browser. For more information about Konqueror as Web browser, see Chapter 17, Browsing with Konqueror (↑Application Guide).
  • Page 30 The toolbar provides quick access to frequently used functions that can Toolbar: also be accessed via the menu. If you hover the mouse pointer over an icon, a short description is displayed. The location bar displays the path to the current directory. It is Location Bar: available in two versions: one shows the path to the current directory with icons for every superordinate folder in a “bread crumb”...
  • Page 31 4 To create a new folder at the current location, select File > Create New > Folder or press F10 . Enter a folder name in the new window and press Enter . 5 To insert the object you copied or cut in Step 2 (page 20), right-click the desti- nation folder in the main display field and select Paste.
  • Page 32 modes. Click Split or press F3 to view the contents of the current folder in two separate columns. Now you can navigate to a different directory in each column and easily drag or drop objects or compare the contents of directories. 3 To make Dolphin also show hidden files, select View >...
  • Page 33 5 To add further directories to the Places panel, drag a folder from the working space to the Places panel and drop it there. Right-click and use the context menu to hide, edit or remove entries from Places. 6 If you want to add more panels to the main window, select View > Panels and select additional panels such as Information, Folders, or Terminal.

  • Page 34: Moving Text Between Applications

    2.3 Moving Text between Applications To copy text to the clipboard and insert it again, former MS Windows users automati- cally try the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V , which often works in Linux as well. Copying and inserting texts is even easier in Linux: to copy a text to the clipboard, just select the text with the mouse then move the mouse cursor to the position to which to insert the text.

  • Page 35: Finding Files

    Figure 2.1 Finding Files with KFind 2.4.1 Finding Files To perform a search for certain filenames, proceed as follows: 1 Start KFind from the main menu or command line. 2 Click the Name/Location tab to perform a basic search. 3 Specify the name of the file to find in Named. You can use the following wild cards: Asterisk The asterisk (*) stands for any number of missing characters (even zero).
  • Page 36 You can combine those two wild card symbols in any search term. 4 Specify the folder to search in Look In or click Browse to find the folder you want. Select Include Subfolders to also search all subfolders starting from your specified folder.

  • Page 37: Accessing Removable Media And External Devices

    2.5 Accessing Removable Media and External Devices If you insert removable media (such as CDs or DVDs) in your computer's drive, or connect external devices such as USB sticks, external hard disks, media players or digital cameras, these are usually automatically detected. In KDE 4, a panel widget in- forms you about recently plugged or inserted devices.

  • Page 38: Using Virtual Desktops

    Another way to access detected media is to click the My Computer icon on your desktop. The detected devices are listed in the Disk Information section. NOTE: Removing Media Safely If you want to remove or disconnect a medium from your computer, make sure that the data on the medium is currently not accessed by any application or user.

  • Page 39: Managing Internet Connections

    4 Select the desktop on which to place the application. 5 To switch between desktops, click the desired desktop in the pager in the panel. Some users might need more desktops than provided by default. Learn how to add ad- ditional desktops in Adding Additional Virtual Desktops (page 45).

  • Page 40: Instant Messaging

    easy access to your e-mail, calendar, address book, and other PIM functionality. KMail can also manage multiple e-mail accounts, such as your private e-mail and your business ones. To start Kontact, press Alt + F2 and enter kontact. Before you can send or receive mails, you must configure an e-mail account. When starting KMail for the first time, a configuration wizard appears that assists you in setting up your account.

  • Page 41: Opening Or Creating Documents With Openoffice.org

    2.12 Opening or Creating Documents with OpenOffice.org The office suite OpenOffice.org offers a complete set of office tools including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, and database components. Because OpenOffice.org is available for a number of operating systems, you can use the same data across different computing platforms.

  • Page 42: Taking Screen Shots

    2.14 Taking Screen Shots With KSnapshot, you can create snapshots of your screen or individual application windows. Start the program from the main menu or by pressing Alt + F2 and entering ksnapshot. On start-up, KSnapshot already takes a snapshot of the screen and displays it as preview.

  • Page 43: Displaying, Decompressing, And Creating Archives

    2.15 Displaying, Decompressing, and Creating Archives To save space on the hard disk, use a packer that compresses files and directories to a fraction of their original size. The application Ark can be used to manage such archives. It supports common formats, such as zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2, lha, and rar. Start Ark from the main menu or from the command line with ark.

  • Page 44: Creating Cds Or Dvds

    4 To remove a file from the archive, select the file and click Delete. 5 If all files to be archived are displayed in the window, just close Ark. Ark auto- matically compresses everything into the previously selected archive format and saves the archive.

  • Page 45: Managing Your Music Collection

    in slide show mode. When browsing JPEG images with EXIF information, Gwenview automatically rotates them according to the EXIF Orientation tag. For managing and editing your digital images, digiKam is the right choice: download your images from the camera, edit and improve them, organize them in albums (or flag them with tags for easy retrieval, independent of folders or albums), and archive them on CD or export them to a Web image gallery.
  • Page 46 • To report bugs or add feature requests, go to http://bugs.kde.org/. KDE User Guide...

  • Page 47: Customizing Your Settings

    Customizing Your Settings You can change the way your KDE desktop looks and behaves to suit your own personal tastes and needs. There are several ways to influence the look and feel of the KDE desktop depending on the scope of changes to make. For users, the following options are available: •...
  • Page 48 Figure 3.1 Personal Settings TIP: Starting Individual Modules You can also start individual modules of the Personal Settings from the shell or by adding a special applet to your panel. To start modules from a shell, enter kcmshell4 --list to get a list of all modules available.
  • Page 49 Change the settings as desired. No changes take effect until you click Apply. To discard changes in the recent view that you have not yet applied, click Reset. To reset all items in the recent view to the default values, click Defaults. To get back to the start-up view showing all categories again, click Overview.

  • Page 50: Configuring Desktop Objects

    L to lock the screen). You can also install personal or systemwide fonts here and configure your sound system. On the Advanced tab, find the following categories: Advanced User Settings Use this category to configure options like encoding or which database to connect for track listings of audio CDs, to configure your digital camera, or to change the settings for KWallet (the KDE password management tool).
  • Page 51 If your desktop objects are not locked, you can also just drag items from the main menu onto the desktop and drop them there to create a link to this application or folder. 3 To change the icon position on the desktop, left-click the icon and drag it to the desired place.
  • Page 52 4 To position the widget on your desktop, left-click the widget and drag it to the desired place. To align all widgets to a grid, right-click an empty patch on the desktop and select Align Horizontally or Align Vertically. To remove a widget from your desktop, right-click the widget and select the Remove... entry.
  • Page 53 4 To change the contents, settings, or properties of a widget, left-click the wrench symbol in the frame. In the configuration dialog box that appears, set the options according to your wishes. Use the X symbol in the frame if you want to close the widget. Procedure 3.4 Changing the Desktop Background You can change the background colors of your desktop or select a picture to use as the background.
  • Page 54 3 Set the other options in the configuration dialog according to your wishes and click OK to save your changes and leave the configuration dialog. Procedure 3.5 Configuring the Screen Saver SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop comes with predefined screen saver settings that you can adjust.
  • Page 55 7 Under Settings, determine after how long a time of inactivity the screen saver should start and whether a password is required to unlock the screen after the screen saver has started. 8 Click OK to apply the changes and close the configuration dialog. Procedure 3.6 Adding Additional Virtual Desktops Some users might need more desktops than provided by default.

  • Page 56: Configuring The Panel

    3.3 Configuring the Panel You can customize the KDE panel according to your preferences: Applications and widgets can be added to the quick launch area or the system tray in the main panel or to additional panels. Panel elements and additional panels can be moved to different places or be completely removed at any time.

  • Page 57: Configuring Kde Behavior

    The icons in the system tray usually belong to applications running in the background. Therefore you can only remove those icons if you close the re- spective application (right-click the icon and select Quit). 8 To prevent the panel and widgets from being moved accidentally, use Lock Widgets.
  • Page 58 4 To change the default values of double-click intervals or the distance that the pointer moves over the screen on movement of the mouse, adjust the settings on the Advanced tab. 5 Click Apply to apply the changes and close the configuration dialog. Procedure 3.9 Modifying KDE Keyboard Shortcuts KDE comes with a set of predefined keyboard shortcuts.
  • Page 59 5 To change or add a shortcut, select the respective list entry and in the dialog that opens, select Custom. 6 Click the wrench icon to switch to the input mode. 7 Press the desired key or key combination. If this shortcut cannot be accepted or in case of conflict with another existing shortcut, a notification shows.
  • Page 60 3 To change the e-mail client: 3a In the list of components, select Email Client. 3b Select Use a different email client and click the browse button. 3c A dialog showing the main menu structure opens. Select the e-mail client to set as default and click OK.

  • Page 61: Configuring System And Security Aspects

    ple, to modify the application for *.png files, enter png in Find File Type or File Name Pattern. 3 In the Known Types list, click the file type to open the setting dialog for this file type. You can change the icon, the filename patterns, description, and the order of the applications.
  • Page 62 installed on your computer, you can also select different languages in which KDE should show the graphical user interface and application interfaces. Procedure 3.11 Adjusting Regional Settings To adjust settings such as time and date format, number format, or currency, select the desired country as the default country in KDE.
  • Page 63 4 If more than one language is installed on your system (as secondary languages with YaST) and you want to change the graphical interface of KDE to a different language, click Add Language on the Locale tab. This opens a list of languages currently installed on your system.
  • Page 64 4 If you added several layouts, you can change the sorting order with the help of the up and down arrow buttons. 5 Use the Switching Options tab to adjust the options for switching between the keyboard layouts. For example, you can define keyboard shortcuts for switching. After having confirmed your changes with Apply, you can change between dif- ferent keyboard layouts by clicking the country flag in the panel or by using the respective keyboard shortcut.
  • Page 65 NOTE: Saving and Restoring Applications You cannot save and restore applications that Session Manager does not manage. For example, if you start the vi editor from the command line in a terminal window, Session Manager cannot restore your editing session. Procedure 3.13 Adjusting the Session Handling 1 To change the session handling options, open the Personal Settings and on the Advanced tab, click Session Manager.
  • Page 66 3 Click Apply to confirm your changes. When logging in the next time, the appli- cations and scripts should start automatically. KDE User Guide...

  • Page 67: Part Ii Managing Files And Resources

    Part II. Managing Files and Resources...

  • Page 69: Viewing Pdf Files And Other Documents With Okular

    Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents with Okular Apart from PDF files, Okular allows you to view a great number of file formats, such as PostScript, several image formats, OpenDocument format (ODF), OpenDocument text (ODT), some eBook formats (ePub), and even Microsoft* Compiled HTML Help (CHM).

  • Page 70: Annotating A Pdf File

    the annotations and markers you add are not stored within the document, so you cannot print them or pass them on to other users. Figure 4.1 Okular Viewing a PDF File 4.2 Annotating a PDF File With Okular, you can review a document by highlighting certain text parts or adding annotations or bookmarks that Okular then attaches to the file in form of metadata.

  • Page 71: For More Information

    Figure 4.2 Annotating a PDF File 4.3 For More Information http://okular.kde.org See the homepage of Okular for more information. The supported formats can be viewed at http://okular.kde.org/formats.php. Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents with Okular...

  • Page 73: Accessing Network Resources

    Accessing Network Resources From your desktop, you can access files and directories or certain services on remote hosts or make your own files and directories available to other users in your network. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop offers various different ways of accessing and creating network shared resources: Network Browsing Your file managers, Dolphin or Konqueror, let you browse your network for shared...

  • Page 74: General Notes On File Sharing And Network Browsing

    NOTE: Network Share Support in Dolphin Dolphin is KDE 4's default file manager and most of the network functions described in this chapter are already integrated. However not all of them might work flawlessly—if in doubt, try using Konqueror instead. 5.1 General Notes on File Sharing and Network Browsing Whether and to which extent you can use file sharing and network browsing on your...

  • Page 75: Accessing Network Shares

    5.2 Accessing Network Shares Networking workstations can be set up to share folders. Typically, files and folders are marked to let remote users access them. These are called network shares. If your system is configured to access network shares, you can use your file manager to access these shares and browse them just as easily as if they were located on your local machine.
  • Page 76 refer to Chapter 24, Samba (↑Administration Guide). After Samba is installed, configure Samba file sharing with Dolphin as follows: 1 Open Dolphin. 2 Select Home Folder, right-click the window background and then select Properties from the context menu. 3 In the Properties dialog, click the Share tab. When file sharing is not yet gener- ally enabled, you are informed about this on the tab.
  • Page 77 click Choose Group, and select the appropriate group from the list in the window that opens. Click OK to close that window. 7 In the file sharing dialog, add the folder to share to the list of shared items by clicking Add at the bottom of the dialog and specifying the folder's exact path.

  • Page 78: Managing Windows Files

    Figure 5.4 Shared Folder To revoke the share, enter the file sharing dialog again and remove the folder from the list of shared items. The folder then appears without a globe icon. Other members of your network can reach your share by entering smb:/ in the location bar of Dolphin and clicking the appropriate workgroup icon and hostname.
  • Page 79 Viewing Windows Data with Dolphin Use Dolphin to display the contents of your Windows user folder just as you would for displaying a Linux directory. Create new files and folders on the Windows server. Manipulating Windows Data with KDE Applications KDE applications, such as the Kate text editor, allow you to open files on the Windows server, manipulate them, and save them to the Windows server.
  • Page 80 3 Click the Users folder and select your personal user folder icon. The contents of your My Documents folder are displayed. To create folders in your Windows user folder using Dolphin, proceed as you would when creating a Linux folder: 1 Right-click the background of the Dolphin folder view to open the menu.
  • Page 81 Figure 5.7 Saving a File to a Remote Windows Folder 5 Navigate to your Windows folder. 6 Enter the filename and click Save. The file is saved on the Windows server. Make use of Dolphin's Single-Sign-On support, as in the following example—Web access to your MS Exchange mailbox: 1 Make sure that you have a valid MS Exchange account under your current Win- dows user identity.
  • Page 82 Figure 5.8 Accessing MS Exchange through Dolphin 4 Write or read your e-mails and log out as usual. KDE User Guide...

  • Page 83: Searching With Kerry

    Searching with Kerry Kerry is a KDE front-end for the Beagle search tool, which indexes your personal in- formation space to help you find whatever you need. You can use Kerry to find docu- ments, e-mails, Web history, IM/ITC conversations, source code, images, music files, applications, and much more.
  • Page 84 of Mars, Venus, or both. To exclude search terms, use a minus symbol (–) in front of them. For example, Mars -Venus finds all data containing any occur- rence of Mars but without any occurrence of Venus. To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes.

  • Page 85: Configuring Kerry

    6.2 Configuring Kerry You can configure Kerry by right-clicking its icon in the tray and choosing Configure Kerry or by clicking Configure in Kerry's main window. The configuration dialog has four tabs. On the Search tab, you can change the Default result sort order, Maximum number of results displayed on one page, or shortcuts for activating Kerry Beagle Search.
  • Page 86 5 Press OK. 6.2.2 Preventing Files and Directories from Being Indexed To exclude some folders or files from being indexed by Kerry, follow these steps: 1 If the Kerry Beagle configuration dialog is not open yet, right-click the Kerry icon in the tray and choose Configure Kerry. 2 Click the Indexing tab.

  • Page 87: Managing Print Jobs

    Managing Print Jobs Printers can either be connected to your system locally or accessed over a network. There are several ways to set up a printer in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop: with YaST, or on the command line. There are also desktop tools in KDE or GNOME for setting up printers but we recommend to use YaST for this task.
  • Page 88 TIP: Sending Files to a Printer without Opening the Application You can also start KPrinter manually by pressing Alt + F2 and entering kprinter. This is useful if you want to print one or several files without starting the application to view or edit the file. The KPrinter dialog then addi- tionally includes the Files tab, where you can determine the files to print.

  • Page 89: Monitoring Print Jobs In Kde

    7.2 Monitoring Print Jobs in KDE Start KJobViewer from the main menu or with kjobviewer from the command line. A window like that in Figure 7.2, “Monitoring Print Jobs with KJobViewer” (page 79) opens, listing all the print jobs queued on your printer. As long as your print job is not active, you can edit it.
  • Page 90 The icons in the toolbar correspond to the functions you can access by way of the menu. Display a help text explaining the function by holding the mouse pointer over one of the icons. The job list consists of eight columns. The job ID is automatically assigned by the print system to identify the various jobs.

  • Page 91: Managing Passwords With Kwallet Manager

    Managing Passwords with KWallet Manager Remembering all the passwords for protected resources to which you need to log in can be problematic. KWallet remembers them for you. KWallet is a password manage- ment tool that can collect all passwords and stores them in an encrypted file. With a single master password, open your wallet to view, search, delete, or create entries.

  • Page 92: Managing Your Passwords

    To activate KWallet, select Basic Setup and click Next. Select Yes, I wish to use the KDE wallet to store my personal information and enter a password. This is your master password to open KWallet. It cannot be recovered if you forget it. Click Finish to close the wizard.
  • Page 93 Figure 8.1 The KWallet Manager Window Procedure 8.1 Adding New Entries to Your Wallet 1 To manually add new passwords (or maps) to KWallet, select the subfolder to which to add an entry in the tree folder at the left. 2 To add a new password, right-click a Passwords entry and select New from the context menu.

  • Page 94: Adjusting Kwallet Settings

    1 Open KWallet Manager and right-click the wallet for which to change the pass- word. 2 Select Change Password. 3 Enter your new password twice. 8.3 Adjusting KWallet Settings By default, you define the settings for KWallet password manager with the help of a wizard when you use KWallet for the first time.

  • Page 95: Copying Your Wallet To Another Computer

    4 By default, KWallet stores all passwords in one wallet named kdewallet. To store local and network-related passwords in different wallets, activate Different wallet for local passwords. Click New to create an additional wallet, if needed. 5 To remove the KWallet icon from the panel, deactivate Show manager in system tray.

  • Page 97: Controlling Your Desktop's Power Management

    Controlling Your Desktop’s Power Management In KDE 4, you can control power management functions supported by your system with just a few clicks on the desktop. You can choose between various power manage- ment profiles to match the tasks your system is facing. The Personal Settings hold a Power Management category, allowing you to configure detailed settings as described Section 9.3, “Configuring Power Management”...
  • Page 98 Figure 9.1 Battery Monitor Widget Which suspend modes and power profiles are available, depends on the power manage- ment abilities of your system and the profiles defined in the Personal Settings. The following suspend modes are widely available: Sleep (Suspend to RAM) Pauses your computer without logging you out.

  • Page 99: Saving Power By Using Profiles

    You can configure your system to automatically switch into a suspend mode after certain events like closing the lid (if you are using a laptop) or after a period of that time that the system has been idle. Refer to Section 9.3, “Configuring Power Management”...

  • Page 100: Configuring Power Management

    9.3 Configuring Power Management KDE 4 lets you adjust a number of power management settings: for example, when to trigger notifications or warnings, which power profile to use when running on battery, what to do when closing the laptop lid or pressing the power or sleep button. Access the configuration options from the main menu by selecting Configure Desktop >...
  • Page 101 Procedure 9.1 Configuring General Settings 1 In the General Settings category, decide if the screen should be locked after a suspend action, so that the user needs to type in his password when the machine resumes after a suspend. 2 Configure which notification or warnings you want to receive for certain events like low battery status, or if you want suspend actions to be executed at once or only after a certain time interval.

  • Page 102: For More Information

    9.4 For More Information For detailed and more technical information about power saving functions, see Chap- ter 17, Power Management (↑Administration Guide). KDE User Guide...

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