Tips & Tricks for Your Daily Work
Fortune Cookies
Everyone can make an omelette with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
Nearly everyone can use &kde;; this is why the developers made it. There are no cryptic switches with which to cope, and few configuration files you need edit in ASCII style. However, there are some ways you can do your work more elegantly, saving you time for the truly important things, like &ksirtet;.
Shortcut Table
&Alt;Tab or &Alt;&Shift;Tab
Cycle through the windows
&Ctrl;Tab or &Ctrl;&Shift;Tab
Cycle through your desktops
&Alt;F2
Mini Command line
&Alt;F3
Window Menu
&Alt;F4
Close the current window
&Ctrl;F{1..8}
Switch to a specific desktop
&Ctrl;&Alt;Esc
Window destroyer (every window you click on will be destroyed). Press this key combination again to cancel the killer cursor.
&Ctrl;&Alt;Backspace
This exits &kde; (without saving!) Use this as a last resort
&Ctrl;&Alt;Numpad +
Cycles to the next screen resolution. You need to configure this in your &X-Server; configuration for it to work.
&Ctrl;&Alt;Numpad -
Cycles to the previous screen resolution. You need to configure this in your &X-Server; configuration for it to work.
Mouse Techniques
Note these are defaults only, and you can customise them to your liking.
Clicking on the border or the titlebar
Left
Activates and raises the window.
Middle
Lowers the window
Right
Shows the Window menu if the window is active, otherwise activates the window.
Doubleclick on the window title
Shades the window (rolls it up
so only the titlebar is visible).
Drag on the titlebar
Moves the window around.
Drag on corners or edges
Resizes the window.
&Alt;Left Button
Moves the window around.
&Alt;Middle Button
Raises the window.
&Alt;Right Button
Resizes the window in the direction you drag the mouse.
Click on the Icon on the top left
Close the application
Click on the Sticky Button
toggles sticky
Clicking on Maximise
Left
Maximises the window
Middle
Maximises only vertically
Right
Maximises horizontally