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<chapter id="tips">
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<title>Useful tips</title>
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<qandaset>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Reading documentation in &tde;</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Pop up the <guilabel>Run Command</guilabel> window (<keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> by
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default) and type:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>man:<replaceable>command</replaceable></command> for man pages. It
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even unpacks on the fly if the man pages are gzipped.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>info:<replaceable>command</replaceable></command> for info
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pages.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>help:<replaceable>kdeappname</replaceable></command> for &tde;
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application help pages.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>You can also enter any of these in the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> text
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box in &konqueror;.</para>
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<para>Or you can use the <application>&tde; Help Center</application> if you are using &tde;
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2. Simply start the <application>&tde; Help Center</application> by clicking on the icon (the blue
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book with the yellow key) on the toolbar. Once the <application>&tde; Help Center</application> has
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loaded, the window on the left will contain an entry called
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<guilabel>Unix manual pages</guilabel>. Click once on this entry, and
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you can browse through all the installed manual pages on your
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system.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Move or resize windows quickly</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>To move a window, use <keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<mousebutton>left</mousebutton></keycombo> mouse
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button. <keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<mousebutton>right</mousebutton></keycombo> mouse
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button will resize the window. Last but not least, <keycombo
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action="simul">&Alt;<mousebutton>middle</mousebutton></keycombo> mouse button
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raises/lowers the window. The <application>&tde; Control Center</application>
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allows you to change these mouse bindings.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Killing windows in &tde;</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>There is a standard keybinding (<keycombo
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action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;&Esc;</keycombo>)
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that gives you a skull & crossbones cursor. Click that cursor on a
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window to kill it. The keybindings are viewable/changeable from the
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<application>&tde; Control Center</application>.
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<caution><para>Using this option kills the program forcibly. Data may be lost,
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and some processes related to the program may remain active. Use only as a
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last resort.</para></caution>
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<!-- fixme: use only if necessary; processes might remain --></para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>What if something is so wrong that I can't even get the skull
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& crossbones cursor? How do I get out of a total lockup?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>These kind of locks tend to occur when an application locks up
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while it has a so called <quote>mouse/keyboard grab</quote>. When that
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happens you can try to select a virtual text console with <keycombo
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action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo> and login. With the
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following command you will get a list of all running processes:</para>
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<screen><userinput> <command>ps</command> <option>-aux</option> | <command>more</command></userinput></screen>
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<para>By killing the process that has the mousegrab, your desktop will
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come to life again. Unfortunately you can't see which process that is,
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so you will have to find out through trial and error. To kill a process
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use:</para>
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<screen><userinput> <command>kill</command> <option>-9</option> <replaceable>pid</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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<para>Here <replaceable>pid</replaceable> is the process id of the
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process, which is the first number on each line reported by
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<command>ps</command> <option>-aux</option>.</para>
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<para>You can switch back to the desktop with <keycombo
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action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>F7</keycap></keycombo> (or
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<keycap>F8</keycap> through <keycap>F9</keycap> depending on your
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operating system) to see if things work again. When you press
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<keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>Tab</keycap></keycombo> you should get a
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response from the window manager. If not, you need to get back to the
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text console and try to kill another process.</para>
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<para>Good candidates to kill are: the application you were working
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with, &kicker;, &klipper; and &kdesktop;.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Switching window managers on the fly in &tde; 1.x</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>If you want to switch your window manager on the fly, type the
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following into a terminal window: <command>kwmcom
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go:<replaceable>blackbox</replaceable></command>. This switches to
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Blackbox, but you can substitute any window manager you like.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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-->
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</qandaset>
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</chapter>
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