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Page 3: Table Of Contents
What's New in OpenOffice.org 3.0? ....Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org ....
Page 4 Creating a New Document ..... Using Formatting and Styles in Calc ....4 Further OpenOffice.org Modules Using Presentations with Impress .
Page 5 1 0 Encryption with KGpg 10.1 Why Signing and Encrypting? ....10.2 Generating a New Key Pair ....10.3 Exporting the Public Key .
Page 6 14.4 For More Information ..... . 1 5 Instant Messaging with Pidgin 15.1 Configuring Accounts ..... . . 15.2 Managing Your Contacts .
Page 7 1 9 Transferring Data From the Internet 19.1 ASCII vs. Binary Transfers ..... 19.2 Connecting to a Remote Server ....19.3 Transferring Files .
Page 8 Part VI Multimedia 2 3 Playing Music and Movies: amaroK, Kaffeine and More 23.1 Mixers ......23.2 Playing Music Files .
Page 9 Part VII Appendix 2 8 Help and Documentation 28.1 Using the KDE Help Center ....28.2 Using GNOME Yelp ......28.3 Browsing Man and Info Pages From Your Desktop .
Page 11: About This Guide
The manual is subdivided into the following parts: OpenOffice.org Novell Edition Introduces the OpenOffice.org suite, including Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math. Learn which additional features are included in the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org. Information Management Get to know the e-mailing and calendaring software provided by your product.
Page 12 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 Application Guide...
Page 13 Novell AppArmor Quick Start Helps you understand the main concepts behind Novell® AppArmor. Find HTML versions of most SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop manuals in your installed system under /usr/share/doc/manual or in the help centers of your desktop.
Page 14: 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 15: Part I Openoffice.org Novell Edition
Part I. OpenOffice.org Novell Edition...
Page 17: The Openoffice.org Office Suite
Microsoft Office, then save them back to this format, if needed. This chapter contains information that applies to all of the OpenOffice.org modules and gives an overview of the features specific to the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org that is shipped with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop.
Page 18: What's New In Openoffice.org
1.3 Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop includes the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org. The Novell edition includes several enhancements that are not yet included in the standard edition: Excel VBA Macro Interoperability: OpenOffice.org Novell edition eases the migration of many macros from Microsoft Excel.
Page 19: Compatibility With Other Office Applications
You can also use the standard edition of OpenOffice.org rather than the Novell edition. If you install the latest version of OpenOffice.org, all of your Novell edition files remain compatible. However, the standard edition does not contain the enhancements made in the Novell edition.
Page 20 invested in interoperability, occasionally there are still formatting issues. If you have problems with your documents, consider opening them in the original application and resaving them in an open format such as RTF for text documents. In case of migration problems with spreadsheets however, it is advisable to re-save them as Excel file and use this as intermediate format (with CSV format you would lose all cell formatting and CVS sometimes leads to incorrect cell type detection for spreadsheets).
Page 21 6 Review the summary of the actions to perform, then start the conversion by clicking Convert. When everything is done, close the Wizard by clicking Close. The amount of time needed for the conversion depends on the number of files and their complexity.
Page 22: Starting Openoffice.org
1.5 Starting OpenOffice.org To start the OpenOffice.org suite, press Alt + F2 and enter ooffice. The OpenOf- fice.org window opens. In the selection dialog, choose the module you want to open or which file type you want to create. If any OpenOffice.org application is open, you can start any of the other applications by clicking File >...
Page 23: Signing Documents
confirmed your password, your file will be saved. Next time a user opens the file, he will be prompted for the password. To change the password, either overwrite the same file by selecting File > Save As or select File > Properties and click Change Password to access the password dialog. 1.7 Signing Documents You can digitally sign documents to protect them.
Page 24 Figure 1.1 Customization Dialog in Writer Procedure 1.1 Customizing Toolbars 1 In the customization dialog, click the Toolbar tab. 2 From the Toolbar drop-down list, select the toolbar you want to customize. 3 Select the check boxes next to the commands you want to appear on the toolbar, and deselect the check boxes next to the commands you do not want to appear.
Page 25 Procedure 1.2 Showing or Hiding Buttons in the Toolbar 1 Click the arrow icon at the end of the toolbar you want to change. 2 Click Visible Buttons to display a list of buttons. 3 Select the buttons in the list to enable (check) or disable (uncheck) them. Procedure 1.3 Customizing Menus You can add or delete items from current menus, reorganize menus, and even create new menus.
Page 26: Changing The Global Settings
Procedure 1.5 Customizing Events OpenOffice.org also provides ways to assign macros to events such as application startup or the saving of a document. The assigned macro runs automatically whenever the selected event occurs. 1 Click Tools > Customize > Events. 2 Select the event you want to change.
Page 27 in both Calc and Writer. The Application column in the table shows where each setting category is available. The following table lists the settings categories along with a brief description of each category: Table 1.2 Global Setting Categories Settings Category Description Application OpenOffice.org...
Page 28: Using Templates
Settings Category Description Application OpenOffice.org Includes the settings related to the vector Draw Draw drawing module, such as the drawing scale, grid properties, and some print options. OpenOffice.org Provides a single dialog to set special print Math Math options for formulas. OpenOffice.org Provides dialogs to set and edit connections Base...
Page 29: For More Information
OpenOffice.org comes with a set of predefined templates, and you can find additional templates on the Internet. For details, see Section 1.11, “For More Information” (page 15). If you want to create your own templates, this requires a little bit of up-front planning.
Page 30 OpenOffice.org Online Help Menu Extensive help on performing any task in OpenOffice.org. http://support.openoffice.org/index.html Official OpenOffice.org support page. provides manuals, tutorials, user and devel- oper forums, users@openoffice.org mailing list, Frequently Asked Questions, and much more http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ 0600MG-MigrationGuide.pdf OpenOffice.org Migration Guide. Provides information about migrating to OpenOffice.org from other office suites, including Microsoft Office.
Page 31: Openoffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Writer is a full-featured word processor with page and text formatting capabilities. Its interface is similar to interfaces for other major word processors, and it includes some features that are usually found only in expensive desktop publishing applications.
Page 32: Creating A New Document
Notes from different users are displayed in different colors and also show editing date and time. The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org includes additional features available also in Writer, like enhanced fonts, support of certain file formats or GroupWise integration. For more details, refer to Section 1.3, “Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org”...
Page 33: Sharing Documents With Other Word Processors
Figure 2.1 An OpenOffice.org Wizard Enter text in the document window as desired. Use the Formatting toolbar or the Format menu to adjust the appearance of the document. Use the File menu or the relevant buttons in the toolbar to print and save your document. With the options under Insert, add extra items to your document, such as a table, picture, or chart.
Page 34: Formatting With Styles
2.4 Formatting with Styles OpenOffice.org uses styles for applying consistent formatting to various elements in a document. The following types of styles are available: Table 2.1 About the Types of Styles Type of Style What it Does Paragraph Applies standardized formatting to the various types of paragraphs in your document.
Page 35 2.4.1 Opening the Styles and Formatting Window The Styles and Formatting window (called the Stylist in earlier versions of OpenOf- fice.org), is a versatile formatting tool for applying styles to text, paragraphs, pages, frames, and lists. To open this window, click Format > Styles and Formatting. Figure 2.2 Styles and Formatting Window OpenOffice.org comes with several predefined styles.
Page 36 paragraph, place the cursor anywhere in that paragraph and double-click the desired paragraph style. TIP: Docking the Style and Formatting Window By default, the Styles and Formatting window is a floating window; that is, it opens in its own window that you can place anywhere on the screen. To make it appear always in the same part of the Writer interface, you can dock the Styles and Formatting window.
Page 37 2.4.4 Changing a Style With styles, you can change formatting throughout a document by changing a style, rather than applying the change separately everywhere you want to apply the new for- matting. 1 In the Styles and Formatting window, right-click the style you want to change. 2 Click Modify.
Page 38: Working With Large Documents
2.5 Working with Large Documents You can use Writer to work on large documents. Large documents can be either a single file or a collection of files assembled into a single document. 2.5.1 Navigating in Large Documents The Navigator tool displays information about the contents of a document. It also lets you quickly jump to different elements.
Page 39 2.5.2 Using Master Documents If you are working with a very large document, such as a book, you might find it easier to manage the book with a master document, rather than keeping the book in a single file. A master document enables you to quickly apply formatting changes to a large document or to jump to each subdocument for editing.
Page 40: Using Writer As An Html Editor
same name, the master document will use the formatting specified for that style in the first document you import. 2.6 Using Writer as an HTML Editor In addition to being a full-featured word processor, Writer also functions as an HTML editor.
Page 41: Openoffice.org Calc
OpenOffice.org Calc Calc is the OpenOffice.org spreadsheet and data plotting module. Spreadsheets consist of a number of sheets, containing cells which can be filled with elements like text, numbers, or formulas. A formula can manipulate data from other cells to generate a value for the cell in which it is inserted.
Page 42: What's New In Calc
Higher Number of Columns Per Calc Sheet Instead of only 256 columns per spreadsheet, OpenOffice.org can now handle 1024 columns per spreadsheet. The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org includes the following additional features available in Calc: Variable Formula Syntax Support (Calc A1, Excel A1, and Excel R1C1) Accessible from the Options dialog: Click Tools >...
Page 43: Creating A New Document
Protecting Sheets Allows you to protect sheets and the contents of locked cells with a password. Click Tools > Protect Document > Sheet to access the available options. Changing Source Data Ranges of DataPilots Allows you to change the source data range of a DataPilot after the table has been created.
Page 44 you will probably find it useful to create styles for your own frequently used formatting preferences. Procedure 3.1 Creating a Style 1 Click Format > Styles and Formatting. 2 In the Styles and Formatting window, click either the Cell Styles or the Page Styles icon.
Page 45: Further Openoffice.org Modules
Powerpoint users, as long as you save your presentations in Powerpoint format. 4.1.1 What's New in Impress? The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org allows you to use 3D transitions for your slides. Access the available transitions by selecting Slide Show > Transitions. 4.1.2 Creating a Presentation You can either create a new presentation from scratch, without any preformatted slides, or use an existing template or presentation for your new document.
Page 46 and templates the same way other OpenOffice.org modules do. See Section 1.10, “Using Templates” (page 14) for more information about templates. A wizard leads you through the options available for creating new presentations. 1 Start OpenOffice.org Impress directly or in OpenOffice.org, click File > New > Presentation.
Page 47: Using Master Pages
8 If all options are set according to your wishes, click Create. The presentation opens, ready for editing. 4.1.3 Using Master Pages Master pages give your presentation a consistent look by defining the way each slide looks, what fonts are used, and other graphical elements. Impress uses two types of master pages: Slide Master Contains elements that appear on all slides.
Page 48 When you have created all of the slide masters you want to use in your presen- tations, you can save them in an Impress template. Then, any time you want to create presentations that use those slide masters, open a new presentation with your template.
Page 49: Using Databases With Base
4.2 Using Databases with Base OpenOffice.org includes a database module: Base. Use Base to design a database to store many different kinds of information, from a simple address book or recipe file to a sophisticated document management system. Tables, forms, queries, and reports can be created manually or using convenient wizards. For example, the Table Wizard contains a number of common fields for business and personal use.
Page 50 Setting Up the Database Table Next, define the fields you want to use in your database table. 1 In the Table Wizard, click Personal. The Sample tables list changes to show the predefined tables for personal use. If you had clicked Business, the list would contain predefined business tables. 2 In the Sample tables list, click Addresses.
Page 51 6 Click Next. 7 Make sure each of the fields is defined correctly. You can change the field name, type, whether the entry is required, and the maximum length of the field (the number of characters that can be entered in that field).
Page 52: Creating Graphics With Draw
(page 15) for more information. 4.3.1 What's New in Draw? The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org allows you to import Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg) and WordPerfect Graphics (*.wpg). Select File > Open and use the Filter drop- down list to view which file formats can be opened.
Page 53: Creating Mathematical Formulas With Math
4.3.2 Creating and Inserting Graphics Procedure 4.1 Creating a Graphic 1 Press Alt + F2 and enter oodraw to open OpenOffice.org Draw. 2 Use the toolbar at the bottom of the window to create a graphic. 3 Save the graphic. To embedd an existing Draw graphic into an OpenOffice.org document, select Insert >...
Page 54 can be imported into other documents. Math functions can be inserted into other OpenOffice.org documents like any other graphic object. NOTE Math is not a calculator. The functions it creates are graphical objects. Even if they are imported into Calc, these functions cannot be evaluated. Application Guide...
Page 55: Part Ii Information Management
Part II. Information Management...
Page 57: Kontact: E-Mailing And Calendaring
Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring Kontact combines the functionality of a number of KDE applications into a convenient, single interface for personal information management. These applications include KMail for e-mail, KOrganizer for the calendar, KAddressBook for contacts, KNode for newsgroups, and KNotes for notes. Kontact integrates easily with the rest of the KDE desktop and connects to a variety of groupware servers.
Page 58 Figure 5.1 The Kontact Summary View Mail The folder area to the left contains a list of your mail folders (mail boxes) indicating the total number of messages and how many are still unread. To select a folder, simply click it. The messages in that folder appear in the top right frame. The number of messages in that folder is also shown in the status bar at the bottom of the application window.
Page 59: Mail
Calendar The calendar view is divided into a number of frames. By default, view a small calendar of this month and a week view of the current week. Also find a list of to- dos, a detailed view of the current event or to-do, and a list of calendars with the status of each.
Page 60 Figure 5.2 The Kontact Mail Component 5.2.1 Configuring Identities KMail can manage multiple e-mail accounts, such as your private e-mail and your business ones. Creating separate identities for your different e-mail accounts allows you to associate different sender addresses, cryptography settings and signatures with each of them.
Page 61 Cryptography Set the keys to use for signing and encrypting messages. For the encryption to work, first create a key with KGpg, as described in Chapter 10, Encryption with KGpg (page 99). Advanced Enter a default reply-to and a default blind carbon-copy address, choose a dictionary, select the folders for draft, sent messages, and templates, and define by which sending account the messages should be sent.
Page 62: Composing Messages
2b If you have selected POP3, IMAP or disconnected IMAP, enter username, password and hostname. Depending on the chosen account type, configure additional parameters such as the mail checking interval, the hiding folders, security settings, and others. 2c If you selected local mailbox or maildir mailbox, enter the folder location. 2d Proceed with OK.
Page 63 When you are finished composing your message, send it immediately with Message > Send or move it to the outbox with Message > Send Later. If you send the e-mail, the message is copied to sent-mail after having been sent successfully. Messages moved to the outbox can be edited or deleted.
Page 64 encrypting the contents of your e-mails make sure that they can only be read by the recipient. KMail supports both the signing and encryption of e-mails. Set up KMail for signing and encrypting e-mails: 1 Generate a key pair as described in Section 10.2, “Generating a New Key Pair”...
Page 65 and the recipient can verify the signature by the public key attached to your message. Sending Encrypted Mails Use encryption on your e-mails whenever you want to make sure that only the recipient can read the contents. To be able to exchange encrypted e-mails with another party, get the appropriate public key and use it to encrypt your message.
Page 66 5.2.6 Importing E-Mail from Other Mail Programs To import e-mail from other applications, select File > Import Messages from the mail view in Kontact. It currently features import filters for Outlook Express, the mbox for- mat, e-mail text format, Pegasus Mail, Opera, Evolution, and more. The import utility can also be started separately with the command kmailcvt.
Page 67: Contacts
If your filters do not act as expected, monitor them with Tools > Filter Log Viewer. When logging is enabled in this dialog, it shows how messages are processed by your filters and can help locate the problem. 5.3 Contacts The contacts component uses KAddressBook.
Page 68 using an e-mail, select File > New Contact in the address component. Both methods open a dialog in which to enter information about the contact. In the General tab, enter basic contact information, such as name, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. Categories can be used to sort addresses. Details contains more specific information, such as birthday and spouse's name.
Page 69: Calendar
The wizard then adds the available re- sources to Kontact. Kontact can access multiple address books, such as shared ones offered by Novell GroupWise or an LDAP server. Select View > Address Books to view the current address books.
Page 70: Scheduling An Event
Figure 5.4 The Kontact Calendar 5.4.1 Scheduling an Event Add a new event or meeting with Actions > New Event. Enter the desired details. Under Reminder, specify the exact time (minutes, hours, or days in advance) when the attendees should be reminded of the event. If an event recurs, specify the appropriate interval. Another way to create an event at a specific point in the calendar is to double-click the corresponding field in one of the program's calendar views.
Page 71: Kontact For Groupwise Users
5.4.2 Adding Calendars IMPORTANT: Groupware Calendars The best way to add groupware resources is with Groupware Wizard, a separate tool. To use it, close Kontact then run groupwarewizard in a command line or from the Office group of the KDE menu. Select the server type, such as SLOX, GroupWise, or Exchange, from the list offered then enter the address and authentication data.
Page 72 1 Start Kontact and open the calendar view (KOrganizer). 2 Click on Add. You find this button on the lower left corner. 3 Choose Novell GroupWise Server and proceed with OK. 4 Enter your name, URL, user and password. The URL is your GroupWise server, for example https://groupwise.example.com:7191/soap.
Page 73: For More Information
5.5.3 Tips for GroupWise Users This section contains hints to help GroupWise users work with some of the differences between GroupWise and Kontact: Contact Information You can add your GroupWise Messenger and e-mail contacts to your Kontact contact information. Then you can create an e-mail or open an instant messaging session with that contact by right-clicking the name in the Contact view.
Page 75: Evolution: E-Mail And Calendaring
Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring Evolution™ makes the tasks of storing, organizing, and retrieving your personal infor- mation easy, so you can work and communicate more effectively with others. It’s a highly evolved groupware program, an integral part of the Internet-connected desktop. Evolution can help you work in a group by handling e-mail, addresses, and other contact information, and one or more calendars.
Page 76: Starting Evolution For The First Time
6.1 Starting Evolution for the First Time Start the Evolution client by clicking Computer > Evolution, or by typing evolution in a terminal window. 6.1.1 Using the Setup Assistant The first time you run Evolution, it creates a directory called .evolution in your home directory, where it stores all of its local data.
Page 77 • Select a server type in the Server Type list. The following is a list of available server types: Novell GroupWise: Select this option if you want to connect to Novell® GroupWise®. Novell GroupWise keeps e-mail, calendar, and contact information on the server.
Page 78 There are no configuration options. Remote Configuration Options If you have selected Novell GroupWise, IMAP, POP, or USENET News as your server, you need to specify additional information. 1 Type the hostname of your e-mail server in the Hostname field.
Page 79 Section “Receiving Mail Options” (page 65). Receiving Mail Options After you have selected a mail delivery mechanism, you can set some preferences for its behavior. • Section “Novell GroupWise Receiving Options” (page 66) • Section “Microsoft Exchange Receiving Options” (page 67) •...
Page 80 Section “Standard Unix Mbox Spool or Directory Receiving Options” (page 70) Novell GroupWise Receiving Options If you select Novell GroupWise as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following options: 1 Select if you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail.
Page 81 Microsoft Exchange Receiving Options If you select Microsoft Exchange as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following options. 1 Select if you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail. If you select this option, you need to specify how often Evolution should check for new messages.
Page 82 2 Select if you want Evolution to use custom commands to connect to Evolution. If you select this option, specify the custom command you want Evolution to use. 3 Select if you want Evolution to show only subscribed folders. Subscribed folders are folders that you have chosen to receive mail from by subscribing to them.
Page 83 When you have finished, continue with Section “Sending Mail” (page 71). USENET News Receiving Options If you select USENET News as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following options: 1 Select if you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail.If you select this option, you need to specify how often Evolution should check for new mes- sages.
Page 84 MH-Format Mail Directories Receiving Options If you select MH-Format Mail Directories as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following options: 1 Select if you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail.If you select this option, you need to specify how often Evolution should check for new mes- sages.
Page 85: Smtp Configuration
3 Select if you want to store status headers in Elm, Pine, and Mutt formats. 4 Click Forward. When you have finished, continue with Section “Sending Mail” (page 71) Section “Sending Mail” (page 71). Sending Mail Now that you have entered information about how you plan to get mail, Evolution needs to know about how you want to send it.
Page 86: Time Zone
support, so clicking this button is not a guarantee that available mechanisms actually work. 2b Type your username in the Username field. 2c Select if you want Evolution to remember your password. 3 Select if you use a secure connection (SSL). 4 Click Forward.
Page 87: Using Evolution: An Overview
Microsoft Outlook* and versions of Outlook Express after version 4, use proprietary formats that Evolution cannot read or import. To import information, you might want to use the Export tool under Windows*. Before importing e-mail from Netscape*, make sure you have selected File > Compact All Folders.
Page 88: Menu Bar
Figure 6.1 Evolution Window Menu Bar The menu bar gives you access to nearly all of Evolution features. Folder List The folder list gives you a list of the available folders for each account. To see the contents of a folder, click the folder name and the contents are displayed in the e-mail list.
Page 89: Message List
Search Tool The search tool lets you search for e-mails either in the current account or in all accounts. You can filter e-mails, contacts, calendar entries and tasks using different criteria. The Search tool can also save frequently used searches and save these in a search folder. Message List The message list displays a list of e-mails that you have received.
Page 90: The Shortcut Bar
Some content relates to other components of Evolution and some, especially those in the File menu, relates to the application as a whole. Anything related to a file or to the operations of the application usually falls File: under this menu, such as creating things, saving them to disk, printing them, and quitting the program itself.
Page 91: Folder Management
mail tool shows any remote e-mail storage you have set up, plus local folders and search folders. If you get large amounts of e-mail, you might want to create more folders than just your Inbox. You can create multiple e-mail folders, address books, calendars, task lists, or memo lists.
Page 92 You can also rearrange folders and messages by dragging and dropping them. Any time new e-mail arrives in a e-mail folder, that folder label is displayed in bold text, along with the number of new messages in that folder. 6.2.3 E-Mail Evolution e-mail is like other e-mail programs in several ways: •...
Page 93: The Calendar
If you find the preview pane too small, you can resize the pane, enlarge the whole window, or double-click the message in the message list to have it open in a new win- dow. To change the size of a pane, drag the divider between the two panes. As with folders, you can right-click messages in the message list and get a menu of possible actions, including moving or deleting them, creating filters or search folders based on them, and marking them as junk mail.
Page 94: The Contacts Tool
6.2.5 The Contacts Tool The Evolution contacts tool can handle all of the functions of an address book or phone book. However, it’s easier to update Evolution than it is to change an actual paper book, in part because Evolution can synchronize with Palm OS* devices and use LDAP direc- tories on a network.
Page 95: Groupwise Linux Client: E-Mailing And Calendaring
Page For the latest version of the GroupWise user guide and for extensive GroupWise admin- istration documentation, go to the GroupWise 7 area on the Novell Documentation Web site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7). This user guide is also available from the GroupWise client by clicking Help > User Guide.
Page 96: Online Help
At GroupWise Cool Solutions, you’ll find tips, tricks, feature articles, and answers to frequent questions. In the Main Window, click Help > Cool Solutions Web Community or go to http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag. 7.1.3 Online Help Complete user documentation is available in Help. In the Main Window, click Help >...
Page 97: Synchronizing A Handheld Computer With Kpilot
Synchronizing a Handheld Computer with KPilot Handheld computers are in widespread use among users who need to have their schedules, to-do lists, and notes with them everywhere they go. Often users want the same data available on both the desktop and the portable device. This is where KPilot comes in—it is a tool to synchronize data on a handheld with that used by the KDE applications KAddressBook, KOrganizer, and KNotes, which are part of Kontact.
Page 98: Conduits, Communication And Synchronization
Groups. Search for the uucp group, select Edit and add all those users that are al- lowed to use the handheld. Proceed with Ok and Finish. The easiest way to set up the connection is by using the configuration assistant. Do the following: 1 Start KPilot and select Settings >...
Page 99: Conduits Used By Kpilot
KPilot environment. Independent KDE applications are available for all functions except the file installer. For communication between the handheld and the different desktop programs, KPilot relies on conduits. Conduits are external programs that perform synchronization actions. KPilot itself is the program that oversees any data exchange between the two computer devices.
Page 100: Synchronizing With Korganizer
Calendar (KOrganizer) This conduit is responsible for syncing the appointments (events) of the handheld. The desktop equivalent is KOrganizer. ToDos (KOrganizer) This conduit is responsible for syncing to-do items. The desktop counterpart is KOrganizer. Time Synchronization Enabling this conduit adjusts the handheld's clock to that of the desktop computer during each sync operation.
Page 101: Managing Todo Items And Events
8.4.1 Managing your Calendar Appointments KPilot allows you to sync your appointments and display them in KOrganizer. By de- fault, KPilot uses the standard KOrganizer file. However, this is not always a good idea. If save your appointments into a different file, you can easily switch on or off the cal- endar in KOrganizer and make it distinguish it from other sources.
Page 102: Configuring The Kaddressbook Conduit
3 Select in the To do Destination the entry Calendar file. Point it to the file that you have created in Step 2 (page 87). The next time you synchronize your todos, it will be saved into the above file. 8.5 Configuring the KAddressBook Conduit Initially, it should be sufficient to enable the KAddressBook conduit without changing...
Page 103: Working With Kpilot
8.6 Working with KPilot Synchronizing the data of KDE applications with those of the handheld computer is easy. Simply start KPilot then press the HotSync button on the cradle or cable to initiate the sync operation. Figure 8.2 The Main Window of KPilot 8.6.1 Backing Up Data from the Handheld To do a full backup, select File >...
Page 104: For More Information
The two built-in KPilot viewers can be used for a quick lookup of addresses or memos, but they are not designed to actually manage this data. The KDE applications mentioned above are much more suited for these tasks. 8.6.2 Installing Programs on the Handheld The File Installer module is an interesting and useful tool for the installation of handheld programs.
Page 105: Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices With Gnome Pilot
Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices with GNOME Pilot GNOME Pilot lets you integrate your GNOME desktop with handheld computers. You can use it to set up and perform synchronization between PDAs and your GNOME desktop. The gnome-pilot package, along with the optional conduits in evolution-pilot, allows you to move information between your handheld device and your GNOME desktop.
Page 106 9.1.1 The GNOME Pilot Setup Assistant The setup assistant guides you through getting your handheld device ready to synchronize with your desktop system. 1 Click Computer > More Applications > System > GNOME Pilot. Proceed with Forward to start the GNOME Pilot Setup Assistant. 2 Describe your handheld's cradle in the Device Settings dialog box.
Page 107 3 Decide, if you need to syncronize your data on your PDA. Proceed with Forward. Depending on your selection, press the hotsync button on your PDA. If you have previously used synchronization software with this PDA, it will al- ready have a synchronization ID that your desktop can get from it. If you have not, you can set the username and ID on the PDA from your desktop.
Page 108 9.1.2 Adding or Editing a Handheld Entry The PDAs tab lists the handheld devices you have configured. If you have not used the Pilot Settings tool before, you will not have any items in this list, and the tool will open a new window to walk you through the process of creating one.
Page 109 • Timeout: Specifies the amount of time to try to connect to the system, in seconds. If there is no communication between the desktop and the handheld for this many seconds, the system will stop trying. • Device: In most cases, /dev/pilot is fine. Other possible values are /dev/ ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 for serial cradles.
Page 110: The Pilot Applet
Not all conduits will have all of these actions. The list of possible actions includes the following: • Disabled: Do nothing. • Synchronize: Ensures that data is the same in both places, copying new data from the pilot to the desktop, and from the desktop to the computer. •...
Page 111 • Preferences: Click this item to select what happens when you click the applet, and whether to display notices in dialog boxes. Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices with GNOME Pilot...
Page 113: 0 Encryption With Kgpg
Encryption with KGpg You can sign or encrypt data with KGpg, a graphical user interface for GnuPG. This program helps you to generate and manage all needed keys. Use its editor function for the quick creation and encryption of files or use the applet in your panel to encrypt or decrypt by dragging and dropping.
Page 114: Generating A New Key Pair
Software developers sign their software so you are able to check its integrity. Even if you have the software from an unofficial server, you can verify the package with the signature. Encrypting You might have sensitive information you want to protect from other parties. En- crypting helps you to transform data and make it unreadable for others.
Page 115 Figure 10.1 KGpg: Creating a Key Enter a name, an e-mail address, and, optionally, a comment. If you do not like the de- fault settings provided, also set the expiration time for the key, the key size, and the encryption algorithm used. To generate a standard key, just confirm your settings with NOTE: Expert Mode If you are an experienced user, use the Expert Mode to define more options.
Page 116 Figure 10.2 KGpg Main Window: Key Management The main window shows the keys that belong to your key ring: your own key and the keys from other persons that you have already imported. As GnuPG uses a more sophis- ticated implementation of key pairs, for each user name, several sub keys are displayed but these can be neglected for the purpose of this chapter.
Page 117: Exporting The Public Key
10.3 Exporting the Public Key After generating your key pair, make the public key available to other users. This enables them to use it to encrypt or sign the messages or files they send you. For example, if you want to encrypt a message for user tux, you encrypt it using tux' public key. To decrypt the message, tux uses his private key.
Page 118 Server Dialog” (page 105). The procedure is similar to the procedure for exporting keys already described. 10.4.1 Signing Keys Keys can be signed like every other file to guarantee their authenticity and integrity. If you are absolutely sure an imported key belongs to the individual specified as the owner, express your trust in the authenticity of the key with your signature.
Page 119: The Key Server Dialog
10.4.2 Trusting Keys Normally, you are asked by the corresponding program whether you trust the key, or rather, whether you assume it is really used by its authorized owner. This happens each time a message needs to be decrypted or a signature has to be checked. To avoid this, edit the trust level of the newly imported key.
Page 120 10.5.1 Importing a Key from a Key Server By means of the Import tab in the key server dialog, import public keys from one of the Internet-based key servers. Select one of the preconfigured key servers and enter a search string (e-mail address of the communication partner) or the ID of the key to find. When you click Search, your system connects to the Internet and searches the specified key server for a key that matches your specifications.
Page 121: Encrypting Your Data
Figure 10.4 Exporting a Key to a Key Server 10.6 Encrypting Your Data After you have generated your key pair, exported your public key and imported public keys from others, you can also send or receive encrypted mails. Refer to Section 5.2.5, “Signing and Encrypting E-Mails”...
Page 122 or decrypt the current clipboard object, not all entries that clipboard tools like Klipper store for you. 10.6.2 Encrypting and Decrypting from a File Manager KGpg is also integrated into file managers like Dolphin or Konqueror. In the file man- ager, encrypted files are designated with the suffix .asc.
Page 123: For More Information
10.7 For More Information For comprehensive background information about the encryption method, refer to the http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/index GnuPG project pages at .en.html. Encryption with KGpg...
Page 125: 1 Encryption With Passwords And Encryption Keys
Encryption with Passwords and Encryption Keys The GNOME Passwords and Encryption Keys program is an important component of the encryption infrastructure on your system. With the help of this program, you can create and manage PGP and SSH keys, import and export PGP and SSH keys, share your keys with others, back up your keys and keyring, cache your passphrase, and en- crypt and decrypt the clipboard.
Page 126: Signing And Encryption
11.1 Signing and Encryption Signing means attaching electronic signatures to e-mail messages or even software to prove its correct derivation. To keep someone else from writing messages using your name, and to protect both you and the people you send them to, you should sign your mails.
Page 127 2 Click Key > Create New Key. 3 Select PGP Key, then click Continue. 4 Specify your full name, e-mail address, and comment, if needed. 5 Click Advanced key options to specify the following advanced options for the key. Encryption Type Specifies the encryption algorithms used to generate your keys.
Page 128 11.2.2 Creating Secure Shell Keys Secure Shell (SSH) is a method of logging into a remote computer to execute commands on that machine. SSH keys are used in key-based authentication system as an alternative to the default password authentication system. With key-based authentication, there is no need to manually type a password to authenticate.
Page 129: Modifying Key Properties
11.3 Modifying Key Properties You can modify properties of existing OpenPGP or SSH keys. 11.3.1 Editing OpenPGP Key Properties The descriptions in this section apply to all OpenPGP keys. 1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys. 2 Double-click the PGP key you want to view or edit.
Page 130 Specifies the length, in bits, of the key. The longer the key, the Strength: more security it provides. However, a long key will not compensate for the use of a weak passphrase. A unique string of characters that exactly identifies a key. Fingerprint: Created: The date the key was created.
Page 131 Adding a User ID User IDs allow multiple identities and e-mail addresses to be used with the same key. Adding a user ID is useful, for example, when you want to have an identity for your job and one for your friends. They take the following form: Name (comment) <e-mail address>...
Page 132 2 Double-click the PGP key you want to edit (or select the key, then click Properties in the toolbar). 3 Click the Details tab, then click Subkeys. 4 Use the button to on the left of the dialog box to add, delete, expire, or revoke subkeys.
Page 133 5 Click Close. 11.3.2 Editing Secure Shell Key Properties The descriptions in this section apply to all SSH keys. 1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys. 2 Double-click the Secure Shell key you want to view or edit (or select the key, then click Properties in the toolbar).
Page 134: Importing Keys
5 Click Close. 11.4 Importing Keys To import keys: 1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys. 2 Click Key > Import. 3 Select a file containing at least one ASCII armored public key. 4 Click Open to import the key. You can also paste keys inside Passwords and Encryption Keys: 1 Select an ASCII armored public block of text, then copy it to the clipboard.
Page 135: Signing A Key
1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys. 2 Select the keys you want to export. 3 Click Edit > Copy Public Key. 11.6 Signing a Key Signing another person's key means that you are giving trust to that person. Before signing a key, carefully check the key's fingerprint to ensure that the key really belongs to that person.
Page 136: Encryption Preferences
5 Click Sign. 11.7 Encryption Preferences Functionality of the Password and Encryption Keys tool can be customized. Possible options are described in this section. 11.7.1 Password Keyrings You can use password keyring preferences to create or remove keyrings, to set the default keyring for application passwords or to change unlock password of a keyring.
Page 137 5 Set Location where to save the new keyring. Set and confirm its Password and click Create. To change unlock password of an existing keyring, click on the keyring in the list and press Change Unlock Password. You have to provide the old password to be able to change it.
Page 138 LDAP keyservers are less common, but use the standard LDAP Keyservers: LDAP protocol to serve keys. ldap://keyserver.pgp.com is a good LDAP server. You can Add or Remove keyservers to be used using the buttons on the left. To add a new keyserver, set its type, host and port, if necessary. 3 Set whether you want to automatically publish your public keys and which key- server to use.
Page 139: 2 Taking Notes With Basket
Taking Notes with BasKet BasKet is a note-taking application that allows you to collect and sort all kind of data. It helps with writing down your ideas, making to do lists, and allocating your contacts. You can sort the data in hierarchies and share it with other people. If needed, you can even protect some of your baskets with passwords.
Page 140: Working With Baskets
Figure 12.1 Basket in Use NOTE: Saving your Baskets There is no need to save your work. It is saved automatically. To assure a clearly arranged structure, you may want to create sibling baskets or sub- baskets as well. You can do this by selecting Basket > New > New Sub-Basket. The sub-basket appears one level down the parent basket.
Page 141 12.2.1 Filling and Personalizing your Baskets To insert notes into baskets, just right-click the area on the right side and choose the type of data you need to add. You can import screen shots or colors picked from the screen into your baskets. For a screen shot, select Insert > Grab from screen. To select a screen color, use Insert >...
Page 142: Finding Data
You can move a note within a group of notes by selecting Note > Move Up. If you want to move a note from within a group of notes outside it, select Note > Move On Top. 12.2.2 Importing and Exporting Baskets If you worked with other note-taking applications in the past and do not want to lose the collected information, import these files to BasKet.
Page 143: For More Information
• The icon on the right applies a filter to every basket. The numbers in the basket tree on the left indicate how many notes match your search options. The lock icon indicates that the basket is currently locked, so has not been searched.
Page 145: 3 Taking Notes With Tomboy
Taking Notes with Tomboy Tomboy is a GNOME desktop application for taking notes that gives you the ability to organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Among other things, it can help you collect and sort all kind of data, write down your ideas, make to do lists, and allocate your contacts.
Page 146: Creating Notes
13.1 Creating Notes To create a new note, click the Tomboy Notes icon ( ) in your GNOME Panel, then select Create New Note. Figure 13.1 A New Tomboy Note To edit the note, click the content area, then use the keyboard to add and remove content. The first line of the note contains its title.
Page 147: Searching All Notes
13.2 Searching All Notes To get an overview of all your notes, click , then select Search All Notes. By default, the Search All Notes dialog box displays your notes in the order they were last modified. Click the Note or Last Changed column headings to change the sort order. Click the column heading a second time to toggle between ascending and descending order.
Page 148: Linking Notes
13.3 Linking Notes You can link notes in Tomboy by highlighting text in your current note, then clicking the Link button in the toolbar. This creates a new note and underlines the note's title in the current note. For example, if your current note contains the phrase “resume,” you can select this text, then click Link to create a new note with the title “resume.”...
Page 149: Accessing Your Notes
13.4 Accessing Your Notes To access your notes, click the Tomboy icon ( ) on the GNOME panel, then select one of the notes you recently viewed or created from the menu, or search for older notes (see Section 13.2, “Searching All Notes” (page 133) for more information).
Page 150 Strikeout Puts a line through the selected text. To add a strikeout, select the text you want, then select the Strikeout option from the Text drop-down menu. You can also press Ctrl + S after selecting text. Highlight Puts a yellow background around the selected text. To add a highlight, select the text you want, then select the Highlight option from the Text drop-down menu.
Page 151 Find in This Note Lets you search for text within the current note. Selecting this option causes a Find bar to open at the bottom of the note. To open the Find bar using the keyboard, press Ctrl + F . Enter the text you want to find.
Page 152: Exporting Notes To Html
Increasing Indentation To increase the line indentation in a bulleted list, select Increase Indent from the Text drop-down menu, or press the Tab key. Decreasing Indentation To decrease the line indentation in a bulleted list, select Decrease Indent from the Text drop-down menu, or press Shift + Tab .
Page 153: Printing Notes
13.8 Printing Notes Select the Print option on the Tools drop-down menu to print the current note. You will be presented with the standard GNOME print dialog box. 13.9 Configuring Tomboy Preferences To modify preferences for Tomboy, right-click the Tomboy icon ( ) on the GNOME panel, then select Preferences.
Page 154 Figure 13.4 Tomboy Editing Preferences The Editing preferences include the following: Spell check while typing Underlines misspellings in red, and provides suggestions in the right-click context menu. Highlight WikiWords Creates links for phrases ThatLookLikeThis. Clicking the link creates a new note with the title corresponding to the link text.
Page 155 13.9.2 Hotkey Preferences The Hotkeys tab of the Preferences dialog lets you set global key combinations to per- form different functions in Tomboy. To set key combinations, the Listen for Hotkeys checkbox must be selected. Press Alt + H to toggle this option on or off. Figure 13.5 Tomboy Hotkey Preferences The Hotkey preferences include the following: Show notes menu...
Page 156 13.9.3 Synchronization Preferences The Synchronization tab of the Preferences dialog lets you share notes, announce notes, receive announcements, and get notes from other instances of Tomboy. This can be useful, for example, if you want to work on a single set of notes in separate instances of Tomboy running on your desktop and your laptop.
Page 157 Clear Clears your current synchronization settings. If you choose to clear your synchro- nization settings, you might have to synchronize your notes again when you save new settings. To synchronize your notes, click Tools > Synchronize Notes in any open note. 13.9.4 Add-ins Preferences The Add-ins tabbed page lets you enable and configure Tomboy add-ins (formerly called plugins).
Page 159: Part Iii Communication And Collaboration
Part III. Communication and Collaboration...
Page 161: 4 Instant Messaging With Kopete
Instant Messaging with Kopete Kopete is an online messenger application allowing multiple partners connected to the Internet to chat with each other. Kopete currently supports all common messenger protocols, such as AOL* Instant Messenger (AIM), GroupWise® Messenger, ICQ, Jabber*, Lotus* Sametime, MSN, SMS, and Yahoo!*. 14.1 Configuring Kopete Before you can chat with your friends, you need to create an account: 1 Open Kopete by pressing Alt + F2 and entering kopete.
Page 162: Chatting With Friends
After you have configured your account you need to add contacts to chat with them. If you have already created an account on another PC, this data is imported and automat- ically added to your contact list after login. To manually create a contact entry, click File >...
Page 163 Figure 14.1 Chat Window If you want to see your previous chat session, select a contact and go to Tools > Latest History. This menu item shows your chat sessions with this person. Alternatively you can select Edit > View History. This opens a window where you can see an overview of all contacts and there saved messages.
Page 164: Customizing Kopete
14.3 Customizing Kopete Kopete offers numerous options to customize it according to your needs. Find some examples in the following sections. 14.3.1 Adding Groups Grouping contacts in your list can give a better overview. Click File > Create New Group. Name the group and confirm this with OK. A new folder appears in the contact list that can be used to store the desired contacts.
Page 165 14.3.2 Using an Identity Kopete can manage several accounts, which is helpful if you have friends using different messenger protocols. Each account can be associated with a different identity. This is useful for privacy or business reasons and if you do not want to reveal your name. To create a new identity, proceed as follows: 1 In Kopete, select Settings >...
Page 166 Figure 14.3 Notification Dialog in Kopete 3 Go to the Custom Notification tab and select Contact Gone Online. 4 Decide which action should be executed for this event: Play a Sound, Show a Message in a Popup, Log to a File, Mark Taskbar Entry, or Run Command. 5 Click OK to confirm your settings.
Page 167: For More Information
14.3.4 Configuring Kopete Plug-ins Kopete offers some nice extensions for you chat sessions which can be accessed from Settings > Configure Plugins. For example, you can auto replace text, encrypt outgoing messages, highlight text if the message contains some interesting words, render LaTeX formulas, or translate messages.
Page 169: 5 Instant Messaging With Pidgin
Instant Messaging with Pidgin Pidgin (formerly called Gaim) is an instant messaging (IM) client that allows you to connect to multiple accounts simultaneously. Chat live with your contacts in one tabbed interface, regardless of which IM system they use. Pidgin supports the following instant messaging protocols: AOL* Instant Messenger (AIM), Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, GroupWise Messenger, ICQ, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS/OCS), MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Yahoo!*,...
Page 170 2 To add or edit an account from there, select Accounts > Manage Accounts. 3 In the Accounts dialog, click Add to add a new account or select an existing ac- count and click Modify. 4 On the Basic tab, select the protocol. The dialog to add or modify accounts differs for each protocol, depending on what setup options are available for that protocol.
Page 171: Managing Your Contacts
15.2 Managing Your Contacts Use the Buddy List to manage your contacts, also known as buddies. You can add and remove buddies from your Buddy List, and you can organize your buddies in groups so they are easy to find. After your accounts are set up, all buddies who are online appear in your Buddy List.
Page 172: For More Information
visible to others. To change your status, click the drop-down list at the bottom of the Buddy List and select another option. To open a chat session, double-click a buddy name in the Buddy List. The Chat screen opens. Type your message, then press Enter to send it. Each chat session you open appears as a tab in the Chat screen.
Page 173: 6 Using Voice Over Ip With Ekiga
Using Voice over IP with Ekiga Modern telecommunication means far more than just making a phone call. It is also about exchanging text messages and sometimes even video conferencing. Roaming enables you to be reachable under one phone number all across the world. Ekiga brings these features to your Linux desktop, allowing you to communicate over broadband Internet.
Page 174 1 Enter your full name (name and surname). 2 Enter your ekiga.net account data or choose not to sign up with ekiga.net. To add other accounts later, configure them using Edit > Accounts. 3 Enter your Ekiga Call Out Account data or choose not to sign up with ekiga.net.
Page 175: The Ekiga User Interface
16.2 The Ekiga User Interface The Ekiga user interface has several tabs available. The first tab is the Contacts tab, the second is the Dialpad and the last one is the Call History. In addition to this, there is a Call Panel available, that can display pictures and videos of local or remote web- cams.
Page 176 Table 16.1 Keyboard Shortcuts for Ekiga Ctrl Sequence Description Ctrl + O Initiate a call with the current number. Hang up. Ctrl + N Add a contact to your address book. Ctrl + B Open the Address Book dialog. Hold the current call. Transfer the current call to another party.
Page 177: Making A Call
16.3 Making a Call Once Ekiga is configured appropriately, making a call is straightforward. 1 Start Ekiga using the menu or the command line. 2 Enter the SIP address of the party to call at the SIP address prompt. The address should look like: •...
Page 178: Using The Address Book
Panel Applet Normally, the Ekiga panel applet would run silently without giving any notice of its existence. This changes as soon as a call comes in. The main window of Ekiga opens and you hear a ring sound on your headset or speakers. Once you have noticed an incoming call, just click Accept to answer the call then start talking.
Page 179 For information about the support of the H323 teleconferencing protocol in Linux, see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/H.323. This is also a good starting point when searching for projects supporting VoIP. To set up a private telephone network, you might be interested in the PBX software Asterisk http://www.asterisk.org/.
Page 181: Part Iv Internet
Part IV. Internet...
Page 183: 7 Browsing With Konqueror
Browsing with Konqueror Konqueror is a modern Web browser, but can also be used as a file manager. However, to manage your files and directories, it is recommended to use Dolphin. If you start the browser with the icon in the panel, Konqueror opens with the Web browser profile. As a browser, Konqueror offers tabbed browsing, the possibility of saving Web pages with graphics, Internet keywords, bookmarks, and support for Java and JavaScript.
Page 184: Tabbed Browsing
http://www load a Web page, enter its address in the location bar, for example, .opensuse.org. Konqueror now tries to reach the address and displays the page. Entering the protocol at the beginning of the address (http:// in this case) is not strictly required.
Page 185: Profiles
17.3 Profiles Section 17.1, “Tabbed Browsing” (page 170) described how to handle tabs in Konqueror. You can save your tabs with URLs and the position of the window in a profile. This differs from the session management already mentioned. With profiles, your saved tabs are at hand without the intensive start-up time of session management.
Page 186 17.5.1 Using the Search Bar Konqueror contains a search bar where you can choose from many search engines. If you want to search for a specific term, proceed as follows: 1 Locate the search bar in Konqueror. It is on the right side after the location bar. 2 Click the icon inside the search bar.
Page 187: Bookmarks
Procedure 17.2 Creating New Web Shortcuts 1 Go to the search bar, click the icon, and select Select Search Engines. 2 Make sure that Enable Web Shortcuts is activated. 3 Click New. 4 Create a new Web shortcut: 4a Assign your Web shortcut a name in Search Provider Name. 4b Enter the search URI.
Page 188: Java And Javascript
To create a new bookmark in Konqueror, click Bookmarks > Add Bookmark. Any bookmarks added previously are included as items in the menu. It is a good idea to ar- range the bookmark collection by subjects in a hierarchical structure, so that you do not lose track of the different items.
Page 189: Enabling Advertisement Blockers
17.8 Enabling Advertisement Blockers Some Web pages open annoying advertisements. With the help of Konqueror, these windows can be blocked. Proceed as follows: Procedure 17.3 Blocking Advertisements 1 Select Settings > Web Browsing > AdBlock Filters in Konqueror. 2 Activate Enable Filters. 3 Enter an expression for the Web page to filter.
Page 191: 8 Browsing With Firefox
Browsing with Firefox Included with your SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop is the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. With features like tabbed browsing, pop-up window blocking, and download and image management, Firefox combines the latest browsing and security technologies with an easy to use interface. Using tabs you can view more than one Web page in a single window.
Page 192 Figure 18.1 The Browser Window of Firefox 18.1.1 The Smart Location Bar When typing into the location bar, an auto-completion drop-down menu opens, showing the addresses matching what you have typed. The phrase that is matched is highlighted with bold letters. The drop-down menu shows all matching addresses, bookmark and page titles and tag names from your browsing history and your bookmarks list.
Page 193 To toggle between page and text zoom, choose View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only. To zoom in or out either use the mouse wheel while holding the Ctrl key, or use Ctrl + + and Ctrl + - . Reset the zoom factor with Ctrl + 0 18.1.3 Tabbed Browsing If you often use more than one Web page at a time, tabbed browsing makes it easier to switch between pages.
Page 194: Finding Information
18.1.4 Using the Sidebar Use the left side of your browser window for viewing bookmarks or the browsing his- tory. Extensions may add new ways to use the sidebar as well. To display the sidebar, select View > Sidebar and select the desired contents. 18.2 Finding Information There are two ways to find information in Firefox: use the search bar to search the In- ternet with a search engine and the find bar to search the page currently displayed.
Page 195: Adding Smart Keywords To Your Online Searches
Figure 18.2 Manage Search Engines Some Web sites offer search engines that you can add directly to the search bar. Whenever you enter such a Web site, the icon to the left of the search bar turns blue. Click on the icon and select the “Add” entry from the menu. Adding Smart Keywords to Your Online Searches Firefox lets you define your own smart keywords: abbreviations to use as a URL shortcut for a particular search engine.
Page 196: Managing Bookmarks
Using smart keywords is not restricted to search engines. You can also add a smart keyword to a bookmark (via the bookmark's properties). For example, if you assign nov to the Novell home page bookmark, you can open it by just typing nov into the location bar.
Page 197 Add a bookmark by clicking on the star in the location bar. The star will turn yellow to indicate the page is bookmarked. Clicking once will save the bookmark in the Un- sorted Bookmarks folder under the page title. Double clicking on the star opens a menu which lets you choose a location where to save the bookmark and lets you enter a name and tags.
Page 198 To open the Library, click Bookmark > Organise Bookmarks. The library window is split into two parts: the left pane shows the folder tree view, the right pane the subfolders and bookmarks of the selected folder. Use Views to customize the right pane. The left pane contains three main folders: History Contains your complete browsing history.
Page 199 18.3.2 Tags Tags offer a convenient way to file a bookmark under several categories. You can tag a bookmark with as much terms as you want. For example, to access all sites tagged with suse enter suse into the location bar. Whats more, a smart bookmark folder for each tag is automatically created in the tags folder of the library.
Page 200: Live Bookmarks
18.3.4 Live Bookmarks Live bookmarks display headlines in your bookmark menu and keep you up to date with the latest news. This enables you to save time with one glance at your favorite sites. Live bookmarks update automatically. Many sites and blogs support this format. A Web site indicates this by showing an orange icon in the right part of the location bar.
Page 201 A smart bookmark folder based on your browsing history dynamically changes as you surf the Web. Every time you browse a site that matches the search term, it gets “added” to your smart bookmark. For this reason, it is recommend- ed to use search terms as specific as possible.
Page 202: Using The Download Manager
18.4 Using the Download Manager Keep track of your current and past downloads with the help of the download manager. It automatically opens every time you download a file. To manually start the download manager, click Tools > Downloads. While downloading a file, a progress bar indicates the download status.
Page 203 indicates which identity information is available and whether communication is encrypt- ed or not: Gray The site does not provide any identity information and communication between Web server and browser is not encrypted. This is fine as long as you do not exchange sensitive information with this site.
Page 204: Password Management
Figure 18.4 The Firefox Page Info Window 18.5.2 Password Management Every time you enter a username and a password on a Web site, Firefox offers to store this data. A new toolbar on top of the page opens asking you whether you want Firefox to remember the password.
Page 205: Customizing Firefox
To protect your passwords from unauthorized access, you can set a master password that is required when managing or adding passwords. Open the Security tab on the Preferences dialog and check Use a Master Password. If you are also using the GNOME Keyring or the KDE Wallet to store other passwords, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop lets you manage these together with the Firefox pass- word manager via CASA (Common Authentication Service Adapter).
Page 206: Session Management
Figure 18.5 The Preferences Window Session management By default, Firefox automatically restores your session—windows and tabs— only after it has crashed or after a restart when having installed an extension. However, it can be configured to restore a session every time it is started: Open the Preferences dialog as described in Section 18.6.1, “Preferences”...
Page 207 data. Select Tools > Clear Private Data or press Ctrl + Shift + Del and choose which data to delete. To automatically delete private data every time you close Firefox, open the Preferences window as described in Section 18.6.1, “Preferences” (page 191) and go to the Privacy tab.
Page 208 extensions are available for Firefox. With the add-ons manager you cannot only install new extensions, but also disable, enable, or delete them. It also finds updates to installed extensions. If you do not like the standard look and feel of Firefox, install a new theme. Themes do not change the functionality, only the appearance of the browser.
Page 209: Printing From Firefox
In order to activate freshly installed extensions or themes, Firefox needs to be restarted via the Restart Firefox button in the add-ons manager. Restarting the browser with this button ensures that the complete session will be restored. Managing Add-ons The Add-ons Manager also offers a convenient interface to manage extensions, themes, and plugins.
Page 210: Opening Mhtml Archives
Content The Microsoft Silverlight technology is a platform for rich internet applications featuring interactive animations, vector graphics and audio-video playback. Novell has developed an open source implementation of Silverlight called Moonlight. Moonlight not only provides development tools for Silverlight applications, but a browser plugin for Firefox as well.
Page 211 http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Menu+reference Main Menu reference: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Options+window Preferences reference: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Keyboard Keyboard shortcuts: +shortcuts Browsing with Firefox...
Page 213: 9 Transferring Data From The Internet
Transferring Data From the Internet GNOME FTP (gFTP) is a multithreaded file transfer client. It supports FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, and FSP protocols. Futhermore, it allows to transfer files between two remote FTP servers via FXP. To start GNOME FTP, press Alt + F2 and enter gftp.
Page 214: Ascii Vs. Binary Transfers
19.1 ASCII vs. Binary Transfers There are two common ways of transferring files via FTP: ASCII and binary. ASCII mode transfers files as text. ASCII files are .txt, .asp, .html, and .php files, for example. Binary mode transfers files as raw data. Binary files are .wav, .jpg, .gif, and mp3 files, for example.
Page 215: Setting Up An Http Proxy Server
Figure 19.2 gFTP File Transfer To download files, select the files you want to download in the remote list of files, then click the left arrow button. The progress of each download is listed in the field in the middle of the window. If the transfer is successful, the files appear in the directory listing on the left.
Page 216: For More Information
3 Click the HTTP tab, and enter the same proxy server information as above in that dialog box. 4 Click OK. 19.5 For More Information You can find more information about gFTP at http://www.gftp.org. Application Guide...
Page 217: Part V Graphics
Part V. Graphics...
Page 219: 0 Manipulating Graphics With The Gimp
Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP The GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a program for creating and editing raster graphics. In most aspects, its features are comparable to those of Adobe Photoshop and other commercial programs. Use it to resize and retouch photographs, design graphics for Web pages, create covers for your custom CDs, or almost any other graphics project.
Page 220: Starting The Gimp
Unlike raster graphics, vector graphics do not store information for all individual pixels. Instead, it uses geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons. Vector images can be scaled very easily and image files can be smaller. The disadvanage of vector graphics is that it is not good at representing complex images with many dif- ferent colors such as photographs.
Page 221 The menu bar in the top of the window provides access to all image functions. Alterna- tively, access the menu by right-clicking the image or clicking the small arrow button in the left corner of the rulers. File offers the standard file options, such as Save and Print. Close closes the current image.
Page 222: Getting Started
bent arrow symbol to the upper right of the boxes. Use the black and white symbol to the lower left to reset the colors to the default. Under the toolbox, a dialog shows options for the currently selected tool. If it is not visible, open it by double-clicking the tool's icon in the toolbox.
Page 223: Opening An Existing Image
is opened. A resolution of 72 pixels per inch corresponds to common screen display. It is sufficient for Web page graphics. A higher resolution should be used for images to print. For most printers, a resolution of 300 pixels per inch results in an acceptable quality.
Page 224: Saving Images
In the xsane dialog, use the sliders to set desired gamma, brightness, and contrast values. These sliders are not available in binary mode. Changes are visible in the preview im- mediately. Once all settings have been made, click Scan to scan the image. 20.4 Saving Images No image function is as important as File >...
Page 225: Editing Images
Although very popular in the past for graphics with transparency, GIF is less often used now because of license issues. GIF is also used for animated images. The format can only save indexed images. See Section 20.5.7, “Image Modes” (page 218) for information about indexed images.
Page 226 Cropping an Image Cropping an image works like cutting the edges off a piece of paper. Select the crop tool from the toolbox (it resembles a scalpel) or with Tools > Transform Tools > Crop. Click a starting corner and drag to outline the area to keep. A rectangle showing the crop area will appear.
Page 227: Selecting Parts Of Images
In the dialog that opens, enter the new size. By default, the width and height maintain the same proportions as the current image. To change this, click the chain icon. After adjusting the size, determine how the existing image should be positioned in comparison to the new size.
Page 228 mouse button where the segment should start and press it again where the segment should end. Fuzzy Select (Magic Wand) This tools selects a continuous region based on color similarities. Set the maximum difference between colors in the tool options dialog in Threshold. By Color Select With this, select all the pixels in the image with the same or similar color as the clicked pixel.
Page 229: Applying And Removing Color
20.5.3 Applying and Removing Color Most image editing involves applying or removing color. By selecting a part of the image, limit where color can be applied or removed. When you select a tool and move the cursor onto an image, the cursor's appearance changes to reflect the chosen tool. With many tools, an icon of the current tool is shown along with the arrow.
Page 230 The color selector defaults to selecting a color by hue, which is usually easiest for a new user. To select by saturation, value, red, green, or blue, select the corresponding radio button to the right. The sliders and number fields can also be used to modify the currently selected color.
Page 231: Adjusting Color Levels
Retouching Images—The Clone Tool The clone tool is ideal for retouching images. It enables you to paint in an image using information from another part of the image. If desired, it can instead take information from a pattern. When retouching, it is usually a good idea to use a small brush with soft edges. In this way, the modifications can blend better with the original image.
Page 232: Undoing Mistakes
20.5.5 Undoing Mistakes Most modifications made in The GIMP can be undone. To view a history of modifica- tions, use the undo dialog included in the default window layout or open one from the image window menu with Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Undo History. The dialog shows a base image and a series of editing changes that can be undone.
Page 233: Printing Images
in RGB then convert to indexed right before saving. If you save to a format that requires an indexed image, The GIMP offers to index the image when saving. 20.5.8 Special Effects The GIMP includes a wide range of filters and scripts for enhancing images, adding special effects to them or making artistic manipulations.
Page 234: For More Information
20.7 For More Information The following resources are very useful for users of The GIMP. They contain much more information about The GIMP than this chapter. If you want to use The GIMP for more advanced tasks, you should not miss these resourses. •...
Page 235 • There is a whole IRC network dedicated to The GIMP and GNOME desktop envi- ronment—GIMPNet. You can connect to GIMPNet with your favourite IRC client by pointing it at irc.gimp.org server. The #gimp-users channel is the right place to ask question about using The GIMP.
Page 237: 1 Managing Your Digital Image Collection With Digikam
Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam Managing digital photographs in Linux is very straightforward. KDE's digiKam downloads your images directly from your camera. It helps you organize and manipulate your images to get the best possible result to present to others. The application includes several useful plug-ins that can convert your images to various different formats.
Page 238: Configuring Your Camera
Colors Use this tab to access color management-related data and to analyze the histograms associated with your images. Comments/Tags Use this tab to assign comments, tags or ratings to your images. Tag Filters Use Tag Filter to filter the amount of images displayed in the main view using tagging information.
Page 239: Downloading Pictures From The Camera
1. USB Mass Storage If your camera can be switched to a USB mass storage device, select this option. After you connect the camera to the USB port of your computer and turn the camera on, the new USB device is automatically detected and mounted.
Page 240 Figure 21.2 Downloading Pictures from a Camera TIP: Renaming Images Mass renaming of your images comes in handy if your camera's filenames are not meaningful enough for your purpose. Provide a unique prefix, add an op- tional date, and let digiKam provide a sequence number. Select all images to download from the camera by pressing the left mouse button or by clicking individual images with Ctrl pressed or by using one of the select modes provided by the Images menu at the bottom of the download window.
Page 241: Managing Albums
21.3 Managing Albums digiKam creates a folder called My Albums by default to hold all of your images. You can move your images to subfolders later. The albums can be sorted by directory layout, by collection name set in the album properties, or the date that the albums were first created (this date can also be changed in the properties of each album).
Page 242 For example, assume that you took several pictures of your friend, Joe, and distributed them across various albums. Now you are looking for an easy way to generate an overview of all pictures ever taken of Joe. Using digiKam's tags, proceed as follows for this scenario: 1 Select Tag >...
Page 243: Creating Powerful Search Filters
Figure 21.3 Display Tagged Images Only The Tag Filter in the rightmost edge of the main window limits the number of images displayed for the current album to those marked by the tag or tags selected here. 21.5 Creating Powerful Search Filters Any image collection soon becomes unmanageable if you do not find a means to search for the images you need and find them without much of a hassle.
Page 244: Exporting Image Collections
The following example illustrates how to create an Advanced Search using rating or tag information to search for images: 1 Select Tools > Advanced Search from the main menu. 2 Select the first search criterion. In this case, select Rating+Equals+5 Stars to search for all images that have been rated with five stars.
Page 245 To save your image collection to CD or DVD, proceed as follows: 1 Choose the album you want to export and select Export > Archive to CD/DVD. 2 Make your adjustments in the Create CD/DVD Archive dialog using its various submenus.
Page 246: Viewing And Editing Images
1 Get an account for an external Web site to host your gallery. 2 Select Export > Remote Gallery Sync and provide URL, username, and password for the external site when asked for them. digiKam establishes a connection to the site specified and opens a new window called Gallery Export. 3 Determine the location of your new album in the gallery.
Page 247 • Use the zooming options to zoom in or out or to fit the image view to the window size you are using. Use the looking glass icon to selectively zoom into a particular area of the image. • Flip the image clockwise or counter-clockwise. •...
Page 248 21.7.2 Manipulating Color Settings The Color menu allows you to manage all kinds of different color-related settings. Its capabilities range from simple auto correction mechanisms to full-blown color manage- ment via color profiles: Auto Color Correction If aiming for a straightforward color and exposure correction of your image, try this option.
Page 249 Depth Determine the color depth (in bit). Transform 8-bit into 16-bit images and vice versa. Color Management Color management via ICC color profiles helps you maintain color fidelity across multiple output devices (camera, display, printer). Levels Adjust Use this option to control multiple levels and to check the resulting image in just one tool.
Page 250 21.7.3 Fixing and Tweaking Your Images Use the Enhance menu to address a number of common defects related to digital im- agery: Blur , Sharpen Tweak the sharpness of your image or smooth it. Red Eyes Reduce or eliminate red eyes caused by use of a flash. Inpainting “Heal”...
Page 251 2 Use the mouse cursor to select the area to which to apply the fix. 3 Select Enhance > Inpainting or press Ctrl + E . 4 Determine the method to use to remove the artifact: • Choose one of the preset options (Remove Small Artifact, Remove Medium Artifact, or Remove Large Artifact) and proceed with Step •...
Page 252 21.7.4 Applying Image Transformations To scale or rotate an image, use the Transform menu: Rotate, Flip, Free Rotation Rotate your image to a certain degree. Rotate rotates by multiples of 90 degrees. With Free Rotation, specify any angle you want. Crop, Aspect Ratio Crop Crop your image.
Page 253 None Specify a free crop of the image using the X, Width, and Y, Height sliders. Custom Select a custom ration of width versus height instead of using one of the preset values. X:Y Ratio These ratios match most of the common paper sizes used to print photographs. Pick the one that suits your purpose best.
Page 254 Figure 21.6 Creating a Custom Crop Using Aspect Ratio Crop 21.7.5 Applying Filters and Effects You can select from a variety of basic effects and filters to apply to your images to give them a more artistic or over-the-top look: Raindrops Apply raindrop effects to your image.
Page 255: Useful Tools
Distortion Effects Apply various strange distortion effects, such as fish eyes, to your image. Determine type, level, and repetition. Add Film Grain Add film grain to your image to give it a rough look. Blur Effects Blur your image to simulate the image being out of focus or to mimic any kind of movement that was not there when you took the image.
Page 256: Batch Processing
plicates, you get a split screen showing both images and can select one of them for deletion to eliminate the duplicate. Create Calendar Create a simple calendar using a standard layout by just selecting the images to use and by selecting paper size and fonts. RAW Image Converter digiKam supports converting images from various vendor-specific RAW formats to common image formats such as JPEG or PNG.
Page 257: Troubleshooting
6 Click Start to initiate the transformation. digiKam informs you about the progress and the success of the transformation. Figure 21.8 Batch Processing: Solarizing Images 21.10 Troubleshooting Although SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and digiKam support a broad range of cameras, you might occasionally hit one of the following problems when using your digital camera with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop: Downloading Images from Your Camera Fails If downloading your images fails no matter which protocol you have chosen (PTP...
Page 258: For More Information
Your Camera is not Officially Supported by digiKam Try gphoto2 --list-cameras and the information at http://www .gphoto.org/ to obtain more information about the status of your camera's support by Linux. If the camera is not listed there, remove the storage medium from the camera and use a card reader device (either an external or internal one).
Page 259: 2 Managing Your Digital Image Collection With F-Spot
Managing Your Digital Image Collection with F-Spot F-Spot is a management tool for your collection of digital images tailored for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to assign different tags to your images in order to cat- egorize them and offers various image editing options. For example, you can remove red-eye, crop, and adjust brightness and colors.
Page 260 Figure 22.1 F-Spot Main Window Thumbnails of your images are displayed in the right part of the window, and detailed information for a selected image is displayed in a sidebar to the left. By default, your photos are displayed in reverse-chronological order, so your newest photos are always at the top.
Page 261: Importing Photos
Icon Description Browse The Browse mode allows you to view and search your entire collection or tagged subsets of it. You can also use the time line to search images by creation date. Edit Image This mode allows you to select one image and do some basic image processing.
Page 262 Figure 22.2 Importing Images into F-Spot By default, F-Spot copies your photos to the /Photos directory in your home directory. You can change the directory F-Spot uses by clicking Edit > Preferences. If all the photos you are importing are from a particular event, or if they have some other characteristic in common, you can create a tag for them so you can easily find them at a later time.
Page 263: Downloading Pictures From Your Camera
22.2 Downloading Pictures from Your Camera You can import new images from your digital camera by connecting it to the USB port of your computer. The type of camera is detected automatically. When you import photos from your camera, F-Spot makes copies of them so that you can clear your camera's memory.
Page 264: Getting Photo Information
4 When the photo transfer is complete, click OK. The photos are added to your catalog. 22.3 Getting Photo Information When you select an image, some basic statistical information is displayed in the lower- left part of the window. This includes the filename, its version (copy or original image), the date of creation, size, and the exposure used in creating this particular photo.
Page 265: Searching And Finding Photos
a group of selected images, press Control and select the images. Right-click for the tag menu and select the matching category. You can also use the following methods to tag photos: • Drag and drop a photo onto a tag. •...
Page 266 Figure 22.3 Show Find Bar in F-Spot To find photos that are tagged with more than one tag, select the first tag in the tag view (or drag the tag onto the Find bar), then drag the second tag and drop it on top of the first.
Page 267: Exporting Image Collections
Figure 22.4 Type-to-find Search 22.6 Exporting Image Collections F-Spot offers a range of export functions for your photo collections: Section 22.6.1, “Generating a Website Gallery” (page 253), Section 22.6.2, “Exporting Photos to CD” (page 254), Section 22.6.3, “Exporting Photos to a Folder” (page 255), and Section 22.6.4, “Posting to a SmugMug, Flickr, 23hq, Zooomr, or Picasa Web Albums Account”...
Page 268: Exporting Photos To Cd
PennAve [http://pennave.sourceforge.net/] is another dynamic photo gallery application. It is designed to be used in conjunction with F-Spot to organize and manage your photos. 1 Select the photos you want to export. 2 Click Photo > Export > Export to Web Gallery. 3 Select a gallery you want to export your images to, or click Add to add a new gallery.
Page 269: Exporting Photos To A Folder
3 Assign a name to your image disk, then select the writing speed. 4 Click Write to start the CD writing process. 22.6.3 Exporting Photos to a Folder 1 Select the photos you want to export. 2 Click Photo > Export > Folder. 3 Choose from the following export methods: Exports your photos to an interactive Web- Create standalone web gallery:...
Page 270: Basic Photo Editing
Exports your photos as files within directories, without Save the files only: putting them into a gallery. Create gallery using “Original”: Exports your photos ready for use with Jakub Steiner's Original Photo Gallery [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ original.php] software. 4 Click Export. 22.6.4 Posting to a SmugMug, Flickr, 23hq, Zooomr, or Picasa Web Albums Account If you use SmugMug [http://www.smugmug.com/], Flickr...
Page 271 When you edit a photo, a new copy (called a version) is created, so your original photo is never altered. After your first edit to a photo, subsequent edits modify the same ver- sion. If you want to create multiple versions of a photo (for example, with different cropping or coloring), click Photo >...
Page 272 Function Description down list. See the description of the Remove Red- Eye function for details on making a selection on your photo. After you make your crop selection, click the Crop icon beneath the photo to finalize the crop. If you are working with the original photo, cropping creates a new version of your photo.
Page 273 Function Description and automagically crops the resulted image so that you always see a perfect rectangle. Sharpening one region of a picture while blurring Soft Focus all the rest is a way to emphasize a particular area and grab attention. The soft focus effect is a way to emulate a lens that allows shooting with a short distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus.
Page 274: Sharing Photos
4 (Optional) If you want to edit another photo, use the arrow keys on the toolbar at the right to switch to a new photo. 5 To exit the edit mode, click Browse on the toolbar. Professional image editing can also be done with The GIMP. For more informa- tion, see Chapter 20, Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP (page 205).
Page 275: Printing Photos
3 Select a size for your photos. 4 Click Create Mail. Your default e-mail program opens, with your photos attached to a new mail message. 22.8.2 Printing Photos 1 Select the photos you want to print. 2 Click Photo > Print. 3 Select the print options you want, such as the printer you want to use or the page orientation, then click Print to print your photos.
Page 277: Part Vi Multimedia
Part VI. Multimedia...
Page 279: 3 Playing Music And Movies: Amarok, Kaffeine And More
Playing Music and Movies: amaroK, Kaffeine and More During installation, YaST normally identifies and configures the sound cards of your computer automatically. Otherwise (or if you installed a new sound card), start YaST and configure the sound card manually in the Sound module. For details, refer to Sec- tion “Setting Up Sound Cards”...
Page 280 The default KDE mixer application is KMix. If the mixer icon (a loudspeaker symbol) is not visible in the panel of your desktop, press Alt + F2 and enter kmix or start the mixer from the main menu. By default, clicking the KMix icon in the system tray shows the master controller with which to increase or decrease the overall volume.
Page 281: Playing Music Files
23.2 Playing Music Files In Linux, find a variety of programs for playing music files, such as Ogg Vorbis, or WAV files. Ogg Vorbis is a free audio compression format that is now supported by the majority of audio players and even portable MP3 players. The file types supported by the applications depend on the engine used.
Page 282: Quick Start
Figure 23.2 The amaroK Media Player Quick Start On start-up, amaroK scans the folders that are part of your collection for music files. Although you can use amaroK without building a collection, it is recommended to do so, because most of the powerful, advanced features are only available with an existing collection.
Page 283 either click the Repeat or Random icons in the amaroK status bar several times to switch mode or select the desired Mode from the main amaroK menu. The Sidebar Browsers Context With this tab, view information and statistics related to the track currently being played.
Page 284 IMPORTANT: Sharing Playlists with Other Players Save playlists in m3u format, so you can share them with any other players using this format. Smart Playlists offer various views of your collection, such as tracks never played, newest tracks, or tracks by genre. For example, to create a random playlist from your collection, select 50 random Tracks and drag the entry to the playlist area.
Page 285 covers of all albums. To filter the covers displayed, click an individual artist in the tree view or enter a term in the input field at the top of the window. Use View to toggle be- tween displaying all albums, albums with covers, or albums without covers. There are three different methods for assigning covers to the albums: Automatically Assign Covers amaroK can automatically fetch all missing covers displayed in the main windows...
Page 286 The amaroK Tray Icon Like other KDE applications, amaroK adds an icon to the KDE system tray. You can use this icon to control a large number of amaroK's features. Hovering the mouse pointer over the icon displays information about the track currently played, by scrolling the mouse wheel simultaneously you can reduce or increase the playback volume.
Page 287: Handling Audio Cds
23.3 Handling Audio CDs There are many ways to listen to your favorite music tracks. Either play a CD or play digitized versions of them. The following section features some CD player applications as well as some applications that can be used for digitizing audio CDs. For information about how to create your own CDs, refer to Chapter 26, Burning CDs and DVDs With K3b...
Page 288 23.3.2 Compressing Audio Data: Ripping Audio compression can be handled by various tools. The following sections feature a command line approach to encoding and playing audio data as well as some graphical applications capable of audio compression. Command Line Tools for Encoding and Playback of Audio Data Ogg Vorbis (package vorbis-tools) is a free audio compression format that is now supported by the majority of audio players and even portable MP3 players.
Page 289 To start Konqueror, press Alt + F2 and enter konqueror. Start the ripping process by inserting the CD into the CD-ROM drive and entering audiocd:/ in the Location bar. Konqueror then lists the tracks of the CD and some folders. To keep uncompressed audio data on your disk, just select the .wav files and drag them into another Konqueror window to copy them to their final destination.
Page 290: Playing Movie Files
23.4 Playing Movie Files You can choose between several movie players shipped with your SUSE Linux Enter- prise Desktop. Kaffeine, for example, can be run with several back-ends, such as Xine and MPlayer. To start Kaffeine, press Alt + F2 and enter kaffeine. The formats you can view with Kaffeine depends on the back-end (by default, Xine is used).
Page 291: Troubleshooting
23.5 Troubleshooting In case you do not get any audio output, check the following: Sound Card Configured? Check if your sound card is properly configured with YaST. For more information, see Section “Setting Up Sound Cards” (Chapter 5, Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST, ↑Deployment Guide).
Page 293: 4 Playing And Managing Your Music With Banshee
Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee Banshee™ is a GNOME media management and playback application that lets you import CDs, sync your music and video collection to an iPod* or other digital audio player, play music directly from an iPod (or other digital audio player), create playlists with songs from your library, create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library, and subscribe to, download, and listen to your favorite podcasts.
Page 294: Listening To Music
Figure 24.1 Banshee Media Player 24.1 Listening to Music To listen to music, Banshee needs to know what is available to listen to. You can listen to music in your library, which means that you will need to import music from an ex- ternal source such as a file, folder, or CD, or you can listen to music directly off a CD.
Page 295: Playing Your Music
Figure 24.2 Import Music Library 1 In Banshee, click Media > Import Media. 2 Select an import source. 3 Click Import Media Source. 24.1.2 Playing Your Music To play a song, simply select the song in the library and click the play button in the upper left corner.
Page 296: Ripping Your Music
Music Recommendations Banshee automatically recommends music that you might like, based on the currently playing song. It finds artists and popular songs that people with similar musical tastes enjoy. Figure 24.3 Banshee Music Recommendations If you do not want to receive recommendations, click View, then deselect Show Recom- mendations.
Page 297: Listening To Internet Radio
2 Select the CD title in the source list on the left, then click Import CD in the upper right corner. 24.1.4 Listening to Internet Radio You can use Banshee to listen to Internet radio stations and streaming audio. Add your own stations.
Page 298 Figure 24.4 Internet Radio Stations in Banshee Adding a New Internet Radio Station 1 Right-click Radio in the source list, then click Add Station. Application Guide...
Page 299: Listening To Podcasts
2 Enter the stream details in the Add new radio station dialog box, then click Save. The new station is added to your list. 24.1.5 Listening to Podcasts Banshee lets you subscribe, download, and listen to your favorite Podcasts. Podcasting is a form of audio blogging where users subscribe to a feed of shows and the shows's episodes are downloaded and managed for offline listening.
Page 300: Managing Your Music Library
Figure 24.5 Podcasts in Banshee Right-click Podcast in the source list to update a podcast, subscribe to other podcasts, or find new podcasts. 24.2 Managing Your Music Library Banshee gives you several ways to organize your music. You can create playlists, which allow you to put similar songs together, and you can sort and rate songs.
Page 301: Creating Smart Playlists
the options on the Edit menu to remove or delete songs and rename or delete playlists. You can sort a playlist by clicking the title of the column. Click the column again to reverse the sort. You can also right-click Music Library, then click Sort Playlists. You can edit the name of the artist, album, and title, as well as the track number and track count.
Page 302: Using Banshee With Your Digital Audio Player
Banshee automatically updates all smart playlists when a change is made to your music library. If you import new songs, Banshee checks to see if they match any of your available smart playlists. When applicable, Banshee also updates your smart playlists if you just listened to a song or updated a song's metadata.
Page 303 player. Instead of having to use separate applications to get support for your audio de- vices, Banshee gives you integrated support and lets you copy your music to or from your device, no matter what format the music is in. 24.3.1 Playing Music from your Digital Audio Player To play music from your digital audio player, simply plug your player into your system.
Page 304 To view or change device properties, right-click your device, then select Device Prop- erties. From there, you can view various pieces of information. For example, if you have an iPod, you can update the owner's name. Figure 24.8 Banshee iPod Device Properties 24.3.2 Adding Music to Your Digital Audio Player To add tracks to your player, simply drag the tracks you want from your Music Library...
Page 305: Creating Audio And Mp3 Cds
Vorbis, MP3, and AAC), and it will be transparently transcoded before it is sent to your digital audio player. To remove tracks, select your device in the list of sources, right-click the song you want to delete, then click Delete from <device_name>. 24.3.3 Copying Music on Your Digital Audio Player to Banshee Banshee supports importing music from your digital audio player to your music library.
Page 306: Sharing Your Music
3 Click Burn. Brasero start where you can set additional options. For more infor- mation about Brasero, see Chapter 27, Burning CDs and DVDs With Brasero (page 313). You can track the status of the burn in the bottom left corner of Banshee. A message box appears when the burn is complete.
Page 307: Configuring Banshee Preferences
24.6 Configuring Banshee Preferences 1 Click Edit > Preferences. 2 Choose from the following options in the General tab: Music Library Lets you specify a music folder location. This location is used when you import music. Click Copy files to music folder when importing to place a copy of the files you import in your Banshee music folder.
Page 308 Use error correction when importing The error correction tries to work around problem areas on a disk, such as surface scratches, but can substantially slow down the time it takes to import. In the Extensions tab enable or disable features such as Cover Art Fetching or Internet Radio.
Page 309: 5 Playing Videos With Totem
Playing Videos with Totem Totem is the default movie player for the GNOME desktop. Totem provides the follow- ing multimedia features: • Support for a variety of video and audio files • A variety of zoom levels and aspect ratios, and a full screen view •...
Page 310 Figure 25.1 Totem Movie Player Start Up Window 25.1.1 Opening a Video or Audio File 1 Click Movie > Open. 2 Select the files you want to open, then click Add You can also drag a file from another application (such as a file manager) to the Totem window.
Page 311 25.1.2 Opening a Video or Audio File By URI Location 1 Click Movie > Open Location. 2 Specify the URI location of the file you want to open, then click Open. 25.1.3 Playing a DVD, VCD, or CD To play a DVD, VCD, or CD, insert the disc in the optical device of your computer, then click Movie >...
Page 312 To move to next movie or song To move to the next movie or song, click Go > Next Chapter/Movie, or click the button. To move to previous movie or song To move to the previous movie or song, click Go > Previous Chapter/Movie, or click the button.
Page 313 25.1.6 Showing or Hiding Controls To hide Totem window controls, click View > Show Controls to deselect the Show Controls option. To show the controls on the Totem Movie Player window, right-click the window, then select Show Controls.If the Show Controls option is selected, Totem Movie Player shows the menubar, time elapsed slider, seek control buttons, volume slider, and statusbar on the window.
Page 314: Modifying Totem Movie Player Preferences
25.1.8 Choosing Subtitles To choose the language of the subtitles, click View > Subtitles, then select the subtitles language you want to display. To disable the display of subtitles, click View > Subtitles > None. By default, Totem Movie Player chooses the same language for the subtitles that you use on your computer.
Page 315: Display Preferences
Figure 25.2 Totem General Preferences General Preferences include the following: Networking Select network connection speed from the Connection speed drop-down list box. TV-Out Select No TV-out if you have no TV-out connection (this option is selected by default if you don't have a TV-out interface). Select TV-out in fullscreen by Nvidia (NTSC) if you want TV-out connection in NTSC, or select TV-out in fullscreen by Nvidia (PAL) if you want TV-out connection in PAL.
Page 316 Figure 25.3 Totem Display Preferences Display Preferences include the following: Automatically resize the window when a new video is loaded Select this option if you want Totem Movie Player to automatically resize the window when a new video is loaded. Visual Effects You can choose to show visual effects when an audio file is playing, select the type of visualization you want to show, and the visualization size.
Page 317 Figure 25.4 Totem Audio Preferences Playing Videos with Totem...
Page 319: 6 Burning Cds And Dvds With K3B
Burning CDs and DVDs With K3b is a comprehensive program for writing data and audio CDs and DVDs. Start the program from the main menu or by entering the command k3b. The following sections brief you on how to start a basic burning process to get your first Linux-made CD or DVD.
Page 320 Figure 26.1 Customizing the Burning Process The Writing tab has various settings for the burning device, the speed, and the burning options. The following options are offered here: Burn Medium The detected medium and writer are displayed under this pop-up menu. If you have more than one writer installed, choose which one you want to use here.
Page 321 because the writer does not perform any data corrections. For DVDs, there are two modes available: auto or DAO. It is recommended to select Auto, because it allows K3b to use the most suitable settings. Do not use the DAO mode if you want to create multisession DVDs.
Page 322: Creating An Audio Cd
ered the best suited method. The Multisession Mode is used to append data to an already written but not finalized medium. After adjusting all settings to your needs, start the actual burning process using Burn. Alternatively, save these settings for future use and adjustment with Save. 26.2 Creating an Audio CD Basically, there are no significant differences between creating an audio CD and creating a data CD.
Page 323: Copying A Cd Or Dvd
26.3 Copying a CD or DVD Select Tools > Copy Medium..In the dialog that opens, choose Source Medium and Burn Medium as shown in Figure 26.2, “Copying a Medium” (page 309). The writing options discussed are also available here. An additional function enables the creation of several copies of the CD or DVD.
Page 324: Creating A Multisession Cd Or Dvd
you downloaded from the Internet with the MD5 sum provided by the source of the image. If the sums are different, the image has not been downloaded correctly. Choose the medium and writer to use in Burn Medium. Select the speed of writing. Set your preferences, such as number of copies in Settings.
Page 325: For More Information
After a successful burning process, you have created a multisession disk. As long as the media contains enough space, you can append more sessions if you like. Finish disks with Finish Multisession only if you are sure you do not need any new sessions or the space is occupied.
Page 327: 7 Burning Cds And Dvds With Brasero
Burning CDs and DVDs With Brasero Brasero is a program for writing data and audio CDs and DVDs. Start the program from the main menu or by entering the command brasero. The following sections brief you on how to start a basic burning process to get your first Linux-made CD or DVD. 27.1 Creating a Data CD or DVD After starting Brasero for the first time, the main window appears as shown in Fig-...
Page 328: Creating An Audio Cd
The project view appears. Drag and drop the desired directories or individual files either from your file manager or by clicking on Add. To show your directory structure directly in Brasero, select View > Show side panel. Save the project under a name of your choice with Project >...
Page 329: Copying A Cd Or Dvd
3 Click Burn to open the Disc burning setup dialog box. 4 Specify a drive to write to. 5 Click Properties to adjust burning speed and other preferences. When burning audio CDs, choose a lower burning speed to reduce the risk of burning errors. 6 Click Burn.
Page 330: Creating A Multisession Cd Or Dvd
27.5 Creating a Multisession CD or Multisession discs can be used to write data in more than one burning session. This is useful, for example, for writing backups that are smaller than the media. In each session, you can add another backup file. The interesting part is that you are not only limited to data CDs or DVDs.
Page 331: Part Vii Appendix
Part VII. Appendix...
Page 333: 8 Help And Documentation
(Yelp) provide central access to the most important documentation resources on your system in searchable form. These resources include online help for installed applications, man pages, info pages, and the Novell/SUSE manuals delivered with your product. Learn more about your desktop's help center in Section 28.1, “Using...
Page 334: Using The Kde Help Center
Man Pages and Info Pages for Shell Commands When working with the shell, you do not need to know the options of the commands by heart. Traditionally, the shell provides integrated help by means of man pages and info pages. Read more in Section “Man Pages” (Chapter 6, Help and Documen- tation, ↑System Analysis and Tuning Guide) and Section “Info Pages”...
Page 335 Contents Presents a tree view of all available information sources. The help center addresses various target groups, such as users, administrators, and developers. Click the book icons to open and browse the individual categories. Under the heading Administra- tion, for example, you can also browse man (manual) and info (information) pages associated with command line programs.
Page 336: Using Gnome Yelp
5 When you have set the options according to your wishes, click Search. The search results are then displayed as a list of links in the display field and can be navigated with mouse clicks. Procedure 28.2 Generating a New Search Index 1 To create a new search index, select Settings >...
Page 337: Browsing Man And Info Pages From Your Desktop
Figure 28.3 Viewing a Man Page With Konqueror 28.4 Additional Help Resources In addition to the online versions of the Novell/SUSE manuals installed under /usr/ share/doc, you can also access the product-specific manuals and documentation on the Web. For an overview of all documentation available for your product check out...
Page 338 If you are searching for additional product-related information, you can also refer to the following Web sites: • openSUSE Wiki English [http://en.opensuse.org] and http://www .opensuse.org • SUSE Support Database [http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB] • Novell Technical Support Knowledgebase [http://www.novell.com/ support/] • Product Support Community Resources [http://support.novell.com/ forums/index.html] •...
Page 339: 9 Getting To Know Linux Software
Getting to Know Linux Software Linux* comes with a wealth of applications, often offering more than one solution to specific needs. The difficulty is finding the application that suits your needs best. The next few sections introduce some of the most powerful Linux counterparts of common Windows software.
Page 340: Office Applications
29.1 Office Applications This section features the most popular and powerful Linux office and business software solutions. These include office suites, databases, accounting software, and project management software. Table 29.1 Office Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application Office Suite Microsoft* Office OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOf-...
Page 341: Word Processing
29.1.1 Office Suites OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a stable open source equivalent to Microsoft Office including a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a database manager (Base), a presen- tation manager (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), and a formula editor for generating mathematical equations and formulas (Math).
Page 342 http:///www and it can handle large amounts of texts. For more details, see .koffice.org/kword/. 29.1.3 Spreadsheets Calc Calc is the spreadsheet and data plotting module of the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice suites. It is easy to learn and offers a wide range of features. For more http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html details, see http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice.
Page 343 Microsoft PowerPoint, MagicPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress documents. For more details see http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/. 29.1.5 Data Plotting Calc Calc (page 328). Gnuplot Gnuplot is a very powerful and portable command line controlled data plotting software. It is also available for MacOS and Windows platforms. Plots created by Gnuplot can be exported to various formats, such as PostScript, PDF, and SVG, http://www allowing you to process these plots easily.
Page 344 http://www.openoffice definitions, reports, and forms. For more details, see .org/product/base.html http://www.sun.com/software/ star/staroffice. Gnome-DB GNOME-DB provides a unified data access architecture to GNOME. It is useful for any application that accesses persistent data. It consists of a data abstraction layer (Libgda), a database widget library and a database front-end (Mergeant). For more details, see http://www.gnome-db.org/.
Page 345 GnuCash GnuCash is a software tool to control personal and business finances. It enables users to keep track of income and expenses and it is also used to manage bank ac- counts, and stock portfolios. For more details, see http://www.gnucash.org/. 29.1.8 Project Management Planner Planner is a project management tool for the GNOME desktop aiming to provide...
Page 346: Network
http://freehackers.org/ documents and HTML files. For more details see ~tnagy/kdissert/. 29.2 Network The following section features various Linux applications for networking purposes. Get to know the most popular Linux browsers and e-mail and chat clients. Table 29.2 Network Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application...
Page 347 Firefox Firefox is a Web browser that runs on various platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Its main features include customizable searches, pop-up blocking, RSS news feeds, password management, tabbed browsing, and some advanced http://www.mozilla security and privacy options. For more details, see .org/products/firefox/ or read Chapter 18, Browsing with Firefox...
Page 348 Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is the e-mail client of the Mozilla suite. It is also available http://www for Microsoft Windows and MacOS. For more details, see .mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/. 29.2.3 Instant Messaging / IRC Clients Empathy Empathy is an instant messenger tool for the GNOME desktop. It consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client.
Page 349: Multimedia
Skype Skype is an application for several platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac Os X) that can be used for phone calls over the Internet with a good sound quality and with end-to-end encryption. When using Skype, configuring the firewall or router is not necessary.
Page 350 Task Windows Application Linux Application CD Ripper WMPlayer KAudioCreator, Sound Juicer Audio Player Winamp, Windows Media amaroK, XMMS, Rhythm- Player, iTunes Video Player Winamp, Windows Media Kaffeine, MPlayer, Xine, Player XMMS, Totem, RealPlayer Audio Editor SoundForge, Cooledit, Auda- Audacity city Sound Mixer sndvol32 alsamixer, Kmix...
Page 351 banshee-project.org/ or read Chapter 24, Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee (page 279). Grip Grip is a CD-player and ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabil- ities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers. For more details, see http://www.nostatic.org/grip/.
Page 352 XMMS The X Multimedia System 2 (XMMS2) is an audio player for Linux systems that http://wiki.xmms2 supports audio and video formats. For more details, see .xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page/. 29.3.2 CD Burners Banshee See above for Banshee (page 336). Brasero Brasero is a disc-burning program for the GNOME Desktop allowing users to burn http://projects audio and data CD/DVDs on the fly.
Page 353 http://www supports ripping to many audio codecs. For more details, see .burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer. 29.3.4 Audio Editors Audacity Audacity is a digital audio editor application. It's cross-platform allows users to mix tracks, apply effects to them, and export the results to WAV or Ogg Vorbis. For more details, see http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.
Page 354: Graphics
Rosegarden Rosegarden is a free music composition and editing environment. It features an http:// audio and MIDI sequencer and a score editor. For more details, see rosegardenmusic.com/. 29.3.7 Video Creators and Editors Kino Kino is an easy and reliable digital video editor with export to many formats. The program supports many basic video editing and assembling tasks.
Page 355 Task Windows Application Linux Application Professional Graphic Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop The GIMP, Krita Editing Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, The GIMP Creating Vector Graph- Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, OpenOffice.org Draw, Freehand Inkscape, Dia SVG Editing WebDraw, Freehand, Adobe Inkscape, Dia, Kivio Illustrator Creating 3D Graphics 3D Studio MAX, Maya, POV- POV-Ray, Blender,...
Page 356 .digikam.org/ or read Chapter 21, Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam (page 223). Eye of Gnome (eog) Eye of Gnome is an image viewer application for the GNOME desktop. For more details, see http://projects.gnome.org/eog/. f-spot f-spot is a flexible digital photograph management tool for the GNOME desktop. It lets you create and manage albums and supports various export options like HTML pages or burning of image archives to CD.
Page 357 KolourPaint KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for the KDE desktop. You can use it for tasks such as painting or drawing diagrams and editing screen shots, photos, and icons. For more details, see http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/. KPovmodeler KPovmodeler is a POV-Ray front-end that integrates with the KDE desktop. KPovmodeler does not require a detailed knowledge of POV-Ray scripting because translates the POV-Ray language in an easy-to-understand tree view.
Page 358: System And File Management
http://http://www and accurate color correction. For more details, see .hamrick.com/vsm.html. 29.5 System and File Management The following section provides an overview of Linux tools for system and file manage- ment. Get to know text and source code editors, backup solutions, and archiving tools. Table 29.5 System and File Management Software for Windows and Linux Task...
Page 359 Adobe Reader Adobe Reader for Linux is the exact counterpart of the Windows and Mac versions of this application. The look and feel on Linux are the same as on other platforms. The other parts of the Adobe Acrobat suite have not been ported to Linux. For more http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain details, see .html.
Page 360 GNU Parted GNU Parted is a command line tool for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. If you need to create space for new operating systems, use this tool to reorganize disk usage and copy data http://www.gnu.org/ between different hard disks.
Page 361 Nautilus Nautilus is the default file manager of the GNOME desktop. It can be used to create folders and documents, display and manage your files and folders, run scripts, write http://www.gnome data to a CD, and open URI locations. For more details, see .org/projects/nautilus/ or read Section “Managing Folders and Files with Nautilus”...
Page 362: Software Development
Xpdf Xpdf is lean PDF viewing suite for Linux and Unix-like platforms. It includes a viewer application and some export plug-ins for PostScript or text formats. For more details, see http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/. 29.6 Software Development This section introduces Linux IDEs, toolkits, development tools, and versioning systems for professional software development.
Page 363 http:// included in the standard Linux distributions. For more details, see ximbiot.com/cvs/. Eclipse The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments that can be extended with custom plug-ins. The base distribution also contains a http://www full-featured Java development environment. For more details, see .eclipse.org.
Page 364 MonoDevelop MonoDevelop is an open source integrated development environment for the Linux platform, primarily targeted for the development of software that uses both Mono and Microsoft .NET framework. MonoDevelop integrates features similar to that of Eclipse and Microsoft's Visual Studio such as Intellisense, source control inte- http:// gration, and an integrated GUI and Web designer.

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Part I Openoffice.org Novell Edition

1 The Openoffice.org Office Suite

2 Openoffice.org Writer

3 Openoffice.org Calc

4 Further Openoffice.org Modules

Part II Information Management

5 Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring

6 Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring

7 Groupwise Linux Client: E-Mailing and Calendaring

8 Synchronizing a Handheld Computer with Kpilot

9 Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices with GNOME Pilot

10 Encryption with Kgpg

1 Encryption with Passwords and Encryption Keys

2 Taking Notes with Basket

3 Taking Notes with Tomboy

Part III Communication and Collaboration

4 Instant Messaging with Kopete

5 Instant Messaging with Pidgin

6 Using Voice over IP with Ekiga

Part IV Internet

7 Browsing with Konqueror

8 Browsing with Firefox

9 Transferring Data from the Internet

Part V Graphics

20 Manipulating Graphics with the GIMP

1 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with Digikam

2 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with F-Spot

Part VI Multimedia

3 Playing Music and Movies: Amarok, Kaffeine and more

4 Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee

5 Playing Videos with Totem

6 Burning Cds and Dvds with K3B

7 Burning Cds and Dvds with Brasero

Part VII Appendix

8 Help and Documentation

9 Getting to Know Linux Software

Quick Links

Troubleshooting

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