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126Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet Table 6-7 (continued) Menu EntryWhat You FindRun CommandThe Run Command dialog box, which is similar to the one covered in the earlier section The Run Application tool. Start New SessionA secondary GUI login, which is great if you need to let someone log in for a moment to do something without having to shut off all your programs. Lock ScreenThe same as the Lock Screen menu item discussed in Table 6-1. LogoutThe chance to End Session Only (log out), Turn Off Computer (shut down), or Restart Computer (restart). SuSE KDEFigure 6-8 shows you the default SuSE KDE desktop. If you put many of thesethe KDE desktops side by side, you would notice a lot of similarities. As withKnoppix, SuSE is set up for you to open desktop items with a single-click ratherthan a double-click in many cases, which is default KDE behavior but not usedby Mandrake, Linspire, or Xandros. Figure 6-8: The SuSE9.2 defaultKDEdesktop.

The Workspace Switcher. (See the earlier section The Panel. ) The tinyarrows to the left and right of the Pager bring up the Pager context menu, which you can use to move and configure this tool. The network connection status tool. The MandrakeOnline launcher, for keeping your system current (see Chapter 12). The master volume control, which launches the KDE audio mixer (see Chapter 18). The KDE Organizer calendar tool. The screen adjustment tool. The KDE CD player (see Chapter 18). The amaroK audio player (see Chapter 18). The Kaffine media player (see Chapter 18). The clock applet, which also has tiny arrows next to it to allow you topull up its configuration menu. Mandrake s main menu is detailed in Table 6-7. Many of these contents maybe familiar if you have read the GNOME and other KDE sections in this chap- ter. As usual, exactly what you find here depends on the software you selectedwhen you installed Mandrake. Table 6-7The Mandrake 10.1 Main Menu s ContentsMenu EntryWhat You FindOfficeWork-related utilities such as word-processors. InternetInternet-related tools, like IRC and FTP clients. MultimediaGraphical, sound, and video tools. SystemConfiguration-related tools and utilities. More ApplicationsLess popular but just as important programs, including software development tools, games, text editors, and financial tools. HomeThe Konqueror file manager open to your home directory scontents. FindThe search interface. Recent DocumentsA menu of the documents you opened most recently through your file manager. (continued) 125Chapter 6: Checking Out Those Desktops10_

124Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet Mandrake KDEThe default Mandrake desktop is shown in Figure 6-7. From top to bottom, the desktop icons you might see on your default installation are Home:The Konqueror file browser with the contents of your account shome directory. Welcome: The Welcome To Mandrake Linux utility. Floppy:The Konqueror file browser with the contents of your floppydisk, if you have one in your floppy drive. Trash:The KDE trash can. It works similarly to the GNOME trash can. (see the earlier section, Playing with desktop icons. ) The contents of the Panel are, from left to right: The main menu star icon. Instantly minimize or maximize every window on your desktop. The Emacs text editor. The command-line terminal. The system configuration program. The tiny little up arrow to the right of the system configuration programopens the task bar menu, which lets you slide the section of your Panel thatshows the icons for open programs in order to make room for more Panelshortcuts. Next is the task bar itself, where you see a box for each programyou have open. After the task bar appears, again from left to right, you seeFigure 6-7: The defaultMandrake10.1 KDEdesktop.

The VirusSafe icon (see Chapter 13). The SurfSafe icon (see Chapter 13). The volume controller. The battery level indicator if you re using a laptop. A top/bottom pair of icons. The top is the Lock Screen tool (refer toTable 6-1). The bottom is the End Linspire Session tool where you canselect whether you want to Logout, Shutdown, or Restart. The QuickRestart option is an automated logout that logs you right back in. The clock and calendar applet. A right-facing arrow that lets you contract your Panel so that you canuse the rest of your screen s real-estate. When you click the main menu icon (the fancy L on the left of your Panel), you see the menu items shown in Table 6-6. Table 6-6The Linspire 4.5 Main MenuMenu EntryWhat You FindProgramsAll the applications on your system. My DocumentsYour default document saving directory. SettingsYour system settings. SearchA tool to search your filesystems. LindowsHelpAndSupportAll the Linspire help options, the same as you find if you click the Help icon on the Panel. Recent DocumentsThe documents you opened most recently through your file manager. Run CommandThe Run Command dialog box, which is similar tothat covered in the section The Run Applicationtool. Configure PanelPanel configuration options (see Chapter 15). Terminate ApplicationA cool program that finds and stops a program that has hung and is just sitting there, frozen. Lock ScreenThe same as the Lock Screen menu item dis- cussed in Table 6-1. Logout/QuickRestartThe same logout utility used in the Linspire Panel. 123Chapter 6: Checking Out Those Desktops10_

122Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet Table 6-5 (continued) Icon NameWhat It LaunchesWeb BrowserOpens the Linspire Internet suite to its Web browser (see Chapter . CNROpens the browser to the Click N Run Warehouse (see Chapter 12). Looking at the Linspire Panel, you see, from left to right: The Linspire main menu. The Linspire help menu, which has a number of help options available. The Konqueror file manager (see Chapter 10). The Click N Run Warehouse, Web browser, and e-mail client (see Table 6-5). The GAIM instant messenger (see Chapter 9). The Desktop icon, which instantly minimizes everything. The task box section (see the earlier section, The Panel ). The CNR icon again. Figure 6-6: The defaultLinspire 4.5 KDEdesktop.

Linspire KDEThe default Linspire desktop is shown in Figure 6-6. From top to bottom, thedesktop icons you see on your default installation are shown in Table 6-5. Some of these icons are similar or identical to what you find in Knoppix KDE, and others depend on what hardware you have on your system (such as theCD-RW/DVD-ROM item in the table). Table 6-5The Linspire 4.5 Desktop IconsIcon NameWhat It LaunchesMy ComputerThe Konqueror file manager with a list of places in your computer including your desktop, documents, programs, network shares, and your system (the base directory of your computer s filesystem). My DocumentsThe Konqueror file manager with your My Documents directory. Network BrowserThe Konqueror file manager with your network shares, if you have any available. CD-RW/DVD-ROMThe Konqueror file manager with the contents of your CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or whatever you have if you haveone inserted; otherwise, the session this icon opens isempty. This icon is named according to what kind of drive you have. FloppyThe Konqueror file manager with the contents of the floppy disk inserted if you have one inserted. Other- wise, the session this icon opens is empty. Even if you don t have a floppy drive, this icon appears. PrintersThe KDE Printer Control Module. (See the Printing section for more information.) TrashThe KDE trash can. Its works similarly to the GNOME trash can, which I cover in the earlier section Playingwith desktop icons. Internet Connection ToolsOpens the Konqueror file manager to a collection of various connection tools. (For more detail, see Chapter 8.) MailOpens the Linspire Internet suite to its e-mail program (see Chapter 9). (continued) 121Chapter 6: Checking Out Those Desktops10_

120Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet When you open the Knoppix main menu, you re faced with an impressiveamount of software when you consider that it s all got to run off of a singleCD-ROM. This main menu includes Recently Used Applications:The recent programs you opened using the menu so that you don t have to go digging for them again. Development:Software development tools. Editors:Various text editors. Edutainment:Educational games. Emulators:Software used to emulate other platforms. Games:Lots of games. Graphics:Image editors. Help:The help menu. Internet:Internet-related software. KNOPPIX: Knoppix-specific menus. Multimedia:Sound, video, and other multimedia software. Office:Various office productivity programs. OpenOffice.org 1.1.2:The OpenOffice.org office suite (see Chapter 17). Settings:Various system settings. System:System and administration tools. Toys:Silly but fun stuff. Utilities:More interesting tools. Find Files:The search program. Help:The help interface. Home:The Konqueror file manager open to your home directory. WINE:The Windows software handler (see Chapter 19). Bookmarks:Bookmarks you ve set in your Web browser(s). Quick Browser:Quick way to open various points in your filesystem inKonqueror (see Chapter 11). Run Command:An interface for starting programs by hand. Lock Screen:The same as the lock screen application in Table 6-2. Logout:Log out of your account, reboot the machine, or shut it down.

Table 6-4The Knoppix 3.6 Panel IconsIconWhat It OpensMain MenuThe Knoppix main menu. Knoppix MenuA special menu with just the Knoppix-specific items, which contains the same entries as the main menu. KNOPPIX menu. Window ListPops up a menu helping you to organize your desktop windows. Show DesktopMinimizes or maximizes all open programs. Personal FilesOpens the Konqueror file browser to your home directory s contents. Terminal ProgramOpens a command-line window. Web BrowserOpens the Konqueror program, which also serves as a Web browser. Mozilla BrowserOpens the Mozilla Web browser. Open OfficeOpens the OpenOffice.org Writer word processor (see Chapter 17). Workspace SwitcherLets you pretend to have four different monitors, by running different programs in different workspaces. You can move programs from one workspace to another by clicking the down arrow in their upper left corner and selecting To Desktop. TaskbarContains an entry for each program you currently have open. KLaptop appletIf you re using a laptop, the KLaptop applet shows if your laptop is plugged in or not and what its battery level is. Language appletShows you what language you are set to and lets you change languages. See Chapter 15 for more on applets. Monitor Settings appletLets you change your screen resolution and other displayinformation. KMix appletLaunches the KDE mixer (see Chapter 18). Time and Date appletShows you the time and day. The right-facing arrows to the left and right of the Panel allow you to contractit to the left or right, so you can use the extra screen real-estate. 119Chapter 6: Checking Out Those Desktops10_

118Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet Knoppix KDEThe default Knoppix desktop is shown in Figure 6-5. From the top to bottom, the desktop icons you see (with some variations depending on what drivesyou have on your machine) include Trash:Where you put those files that you aren t quite sure yet that youwant to delete. CD-ROM:If you have a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, it likely appearsnext. You can click this icon to open the Konqueror file manager (seeChapter 10) to the contents of your CD-ROM. Floppy Disk:Even if you don t have a floppy drive, this icon appears. Youcan click this icon to open the Konqueror file manager (see Chapter 10) to the contents of your floppy disk. Hard Disk Partition [hda1]:You have one of these icons for each harddrive partition on your system. Chapter 11 makes it more clear how totell them apart. KNOPPIX:Click to open Konqueror to information about Knoppix. At the bottom of your screen is your panel if you came here from the GNOME Basics, earlier in this chapter, note that KDE has only one panelcompared to GNOME s two. Table 6-4 details the Knoppix panel s contents. Figure 6-5: The defaultKnoppix 3.6 KDEdesktop.

Computer:Opens the Nautilus file manager (see Chapter 10) with a listof your CD-ROM drive(s), hard drive(s), and more. Home:Opens the Nautilus browser (Chapter 10) with your home directory s contents displayed. Trash:A GNOME shortcut that opens the Nautilus file manager to theTrash folder, which contains files that you dragged into it because youweren t sure if you wanted to delete them or not. To use the trashcan, drag into it any files you want to delete. Later, if you resure that you want to be rid of them, you can empty the trash in one of threeways: Empty the entire contents by right-clicking the trashcan icon and choos- ing Empty Trash from the context menu. When asked for confirmation, click Empty. Open the trashcan by double-clicking the icon. Then delete the entirecontents of the trashcan by choosing File.Empty Trash. Open the trashcan by double-clicking the icon. To delete an individualitem from the Trash, right-click it to pull up the Trash context menu, andchoose Delete From Trash from the pop-up menu. When asked whetheryou re sure, click the Delete button to finish the job. You can select more than one item by holding the Ctrl key to individuallyselect them even if they re not next to each other; holding the Shift keyto select a range of items; or left-clicking and then dragging to collect allthe items that are in a box together. Another way to remove items from the trashcan is to delete them manu- ally from ~/.Trash. KDE BasicsKDE, the Y, is the default in most of the distributions covered here. Therefore, I break out sections for each of the distributions so that you can see the dif- ferences and find your way around. I skip Fedora here because I m only cov- ering default desktops (Fedora, Mandrake, and SuSE all give you the option ofchoosing between GNOME and KDE if you installed both), and instead focuson Knoppix, Linspire, Mandrake, SuSE, and Xandros. All the distributions share similarities, yet each one is organized in a uniqueway that its particular vendor or project group feels makes the most sensefor their user base. To find out more about KDE, visit the main KDE Web site, at www.kde.org. 117Chapter 6: Checking Out Those Desktops10_