Customizing With The Kde Control Center - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual

Section 4.2: Customizing with the KDE Control Center
If you do not see a theme you like, you can find more themes at
http://gtk.themes.org, a repository for themes. To install a theme, download
a theme from the website, then select the
the dialog which opens, scroll to the name of the file you downloaded
(which will probably be in your login directory, named something like
New_theme.tar.gz ). Left-click on the file name, then click the
button. Your new theme will appear in the
You can select a font other than the default in the
click on the activated font box. A new dialog box opens where you select a different font to appear on
such desktop items as the menu and Tasklist.
You can also customize the panel and select a screensaver here. Click on the applicable topic on the
left of the screen and make the choices you want. Customizing the panel and the screensaver is simple
and the icons and dialog boxes explain the necessary steps clearly.

4.2 Customizing with the KDE Control Center

You can start the KDE Control Center from either the Main Menu K icon (
) or from the panel, by clicking on the KDE Control Center icon, which looks like:
Center
4.2.1 Changing the Background
To change your desktop background in KDE, open the KDE Control Center, click on Look and Feel
and then on Background. The Background category of the KDE Control Center will look like Figure
4–5, The Background Category in the KDE Control Center.
More Themes Are Available
User Font
Install new theme
section.
Available Themes
section. Click on
Main Menu
button. In
OK
, then
Use custom font
=>
Control
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