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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
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"dtd/kdex.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
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<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
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]>
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<article lang="&language;">
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author>
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<author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2002-02-13</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.00.00</releaseinfo>
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<keywordset>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>KControl</keyword>
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<keyword>key bindings</keyword>
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<keyword>bindings</keyword>
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<keyword>shortcuts</keyword>
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</keywordset>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="key-bindings">
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<title>Shortcuts</title>
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<sect2 id="key-bindings-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>While most of the functionality offered by &tde; can be accessed
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using a simple <quote>point and click</quote> interface, many people
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prefer using the keyboard for some tasks. Pressing something like
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<keycombo action="simul"> &Ctrl;<keycap>F</keycap></keycombo> is often
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just faster than moving your hands off the keyboard to the mouse,
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opening the <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu and selecting
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<guimenuitem>Find</guimenuitem>.</para>
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<para> As different people have different preferences about keyboard
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shortcuts, &tde; offers full customization of <quote>key
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bindings.</quote> A key binding or shortcut is a combination of an
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action with a key or a combination of keys.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="key-bindings-use">
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<title>Use</title>
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<para>In the Shortcuts control module you'll see a list of <quote>key
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schemes,</quote> a list of key bindings in the currently selected
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scheme and a frame where you can customize the currently selected key
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binding. Also, you'll see a tab for <guilabel>Global
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shortcuts</guilabel> and one for <guilabel>Application
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shortcuts</guilabel>.</para>
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<sect3 id="key-bindings-use-globapp">
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<title>Global Shortcuts and Application Shortcuts</title>
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<para><guilabel>Global shortcuts</guilabel> and <guilabel>application
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shortcuts</guilabel> work just the same. Actually, in a certain way
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application shortcuts are <quote>global</quote> as well. The only
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difference is:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><quote>Global shortcuts</quote> are shortcuts for
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actions that make sense even when no application is opened. These
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shortcuts usually refer to actions like switching desktops, manipulating
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windows etc.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><quote>Application shortcuts</quote> refer to actions
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that are often available in applications, such as Save, Print, Copy
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etc.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Please note, that the application shortcuts configured here are
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<emphasis>only</emphasis> the standard actions often found in
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applications. Most applications will define their own actions as well,
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for which you have to customize key bindings using the application's
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key bindings dialog.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="key-bindings-use-confkeys">
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<title>Configuring Key Bindings</title>
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<para>Configuring key bindings is pretty easy. In the middle of the
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key bindings control module you'll find a list of available
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actions. If there's a key binding configured for that action you'll
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find it right next to it. Just select the action you want to
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configure.</para>
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<para>After you've selected an action you'll notice that most of the
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controls below the action list are enabled. There you can configure a
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combination of keys or maybe no key binding at all for the selected
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action.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><guilabel>No key</guilabel>: the selected action will not
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be associated with any key.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><guilabel>Default key</guilabel>: the selected action
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will be associated with &tde;'s default value. This is a good choice
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for most actions, as &tde; comes with reasonable key bindings we have
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thought about.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><guilabel>Custom key</guilabel>: if this option is
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enabled, you can create a key combination for the selected
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action. Just select any modifiers (&ie; &Shift;, &Ctrl;, or &Alt;) and
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then select a key: just click on the key symbol and after that press
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the key you want to assign to this key combination.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>As with all control modules, your changes won't take in effect
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until you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> or
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<guibutton>Apply</guibutton>. Click <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> to
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discard all changes.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="key-bindings-use-confschemes">
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<title>Configuring Schemes</title>
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<para>A key binding scheme is a set of key bindings that you can
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select by name. &tde; comes with several pre-defined key binding
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schemes. In addition to these bundled schemes, you will always see a scheme named
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<guilabel>Current scheme</guilabel> that represents the set of key
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bindings you are using right now (&ie; not the current settings you
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are playing with, but what you've been using up to now).</para>
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<para>When you are playing with the key bindings for the first time
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you don't have to be afraid of changing the default bindings: &tde;
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won't let you overwrite the defaults, so you can always switch back to
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the factory presets. By choosing <guilabel>Current scheme</guilabel>
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you can return to the set of key bindings you've been using up to
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now. However, be careful not to select a scheme when you've made
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changes to the key bindings you don't want to lose.</para>
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<para>When you are satisfied with a set of key bindings you've
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created, you may want to save them to a scheme of your own, so that
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you can still experiment with the bindings and always return to a
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certain scheme. You can always do this by clicking on the
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<guibutton>Add</guibutton> button. You will be prompted for a name
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and then the new scheme will appear in the key schemes listbox. You
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can remove your own schemes again by selecting a scheme and clicking
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the <guibutton>Remove</guibutton> button. Click the <guibutton>Save
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changes</guibutton> button to save any changes you have made to the
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currently selected scheme. Note that you can not remove or save
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changes to <guilabel>KDE default</guilabel> or to <guilabel>Current
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scheme</guilabel>.</para>
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<important><para>If you want to save your changes while a read-only
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scheme is selected, you always have to add a new scheme first! If you
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select one of your own schemes because you want to save the changes to
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that one, the control module will switch to the key bindings of that
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scheme, discarding your changes.</para></important> </sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Modifier Keys</title>
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<para>Different keyboards offer different sets of modifier keys. A
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&Mac; keyboard, for example, does not have a &Ctrl; key, and instead
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has an <keycap>Option</keycap> key. Here you can see what the
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available modifier keys for the current keyboard are.</para>
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<para>If you enable <guilabel>Macintosh keyboard</guilabel> the list
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of modifiers will change.</para>
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<para>If you have enabled the &Mac; keyboard, you can further enable
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<guilabel>MacOS-style modifier usage</guilabel>, to make &tde; behave
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more like &MacOS;.</para><!-- FIXME: well, that's rather non-explanatory, more here would be good -->
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<para>Finally, you can change what a keypress sends to the &X-Server;
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in the <guilabel>X Modifier Mapping</guilabel> section. A common
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example is to reconfigure the <keycap>Caps Lock</keycap> key, which is
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rarely used, to be another &Ctrl; key. This is especially nice if you
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are a touch typist, as <keycap>Caps Lock</keycap> is much easier to
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reach than either of the &Ctrl; keys on a standard keyboard.</para>
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<!-- FIXME: what exactly is going on here... -->
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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