Useful tipsReading documentation in &tde;Pop up the Run Command window (&Alt;F2 by
default) and type:
man:command for man pages. It
even unpacks on the fly if the man pages are gzipped.info:command for info
pages.help:kdeappname for &tde;
application help pages.You can enter any of these in the Location text
box in &konqueror;.Uou can use the &tde; Help Center. Start the &tde; Help Center by selecting Help from the TDE menu. Once the &tde; Help Center has loaded, the window on the left will contain an entry called
Unix manual pages. Select that entry to browse through all the installed manual pages on your
system.Move or resize windows quicklyTo move a window, use &Alt;left mouse
button. &Alt;right mouse
button will resize the window. Last but not least, &Alt;middle mouse button
raises/lowers the window. The &tde; Control Center
allows you to change these mouse bindings. Please refer to
Windows, How To Work Them in the Trinity user guide for more information.Killing windows in &tde;There is a standard keybinding (&Ctrl;&Alt;&Esc;)
that changes the mouse pointer to a skull & crossbones cursor. Click that cursor on a
window to kill it. The keybindings are viewable/changeable from the
&tde; Control Center.
Using this option kills the program forcibly. Data might be lost,
and some processes related to the program might remain active. Use only as a
last resort.What if something is so wrong that I can't even get the skull
& crossbones cursor? How do I get out of a total lockup?These kind of locks tend to occur when an application locks up
while it has a so called mouse/keyboard grab. When that
happens you can try to select a virtual text console with &Ctrl;&Alt;F1 and login. With the
following command you will get a list of all running processes:ps | moreBy killing the process that has the mousegrab, your desktop will
come to life again. Unfortunately you can't see which process that is,
so you will have to find out through trial and error. To kill a process
use:killpidHere pid is the process id of the
process, which is the first number on each line reported by
ps .You can switch back to the desktop with &Ctrl;&Alt;F7 (or
F8 through F9 depending on your
operating system) to see if things work again. When you press
&Alt;Tab you should get a
response from the window manager. If not, you need to get back to the
text console and try to kill another process.