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1. Desktop 10 Desktop 20 Screen Saver Display Fig Multiple Desktops Screen Savers The next configuration option in the Configure KDesktop dialog window will let us setup our screen saver Choose this option by clicking on the Screen Saver tab located on the left side of the dialog window and you will see a window that looks like this Screen Saver Settings aes Screen Saver Background J fi Banners amp Pictures uy fi Desktop Distortions Behavior f Flying Things 2 E Fractals a fi Gadgets amp Simulations Multiple Desktops i Illusions of Depth a Miscellaneous Screen Saver H Rapid Motion _ om Eal imrit te Clatinanea Display Advanced Options x Start automatically After 10 min S C Require password to stop Fig Screen Saver The first thing you will notice will be a long list of different types of screen savers If you click on the little sign next to any of these it will show another list of that particular type of screen saver like this Screen Saver Setting S Background ERN saver a ID a oy L gt EE SP G p Ei illusions of Depth z kaii fi Miscellaneous AEAN TOE Anemone 7 if Clock Multiple Desktops Juggle P P Noseguy La Pacman Polyominoes F l SAREMA UEL Pong a Advanced Options
2. Fig Server Information In this box we will enter the names of the servers that will be sending and receiving your mail for you Your ISP should have provided you this information so just type in the name of your POP server this one retrieves your mail and then your smtp server this one delivers your mail If for some reason you would like to use a secure connection you can mark the box next to Use secure connection SSL This will require you to configure SSL which is beyond the scope of this article When finished click Next Login Information Login name example lt Back Next gt Cancel Fig Login Information As you can see from the figure above our next dialog box is for your login information You probably chose your own login name and password and your ISP approved it so you should have this information at hand Go ahead and enter your login name first and then your password KMail will use this information to gain access to your ISP s pop server to bring your mail to your computer and also to send your mail through your ISP s smtp server Once this information is entered click next and you should see KMail main screen as seen below Local Folders inbox KMail File Edit View Go Folder Message Tools Settings Help MSG SQ amp SEARCH STATUS ANY STATUS SEARCHES pf i O MESSAGES Fig KMail Main Window Optionally once you have reached the main window you can use Conf
3. url L m O Fal L eJepepnN Se LEAD Techno created 09 25 modified 09 2 Searches Tags siojoD Fig digikam Photo Manager To be able to use your digital camera with digikam connect the camera to your computer switch the camera to the image display mode and turn it on If your Camera is detected as a mass storage device ex sdal a New Medium Found window will be displayed on your desktop along with an icon If this does not happen when you plug your camera in and turn it on then you will need to setup the camera model and port using the setup interface Try and see if digikam can auto detect the camera if not you can set the camera model and port manually Camera Configuration digikam Camera List a Camera Title Medion MD 5319 Directory Browse Medion MD 6000 Medion MD 6126 rCamera Port Type Medion MD 9700 Micromaxx Digital Camera Microsoft Zune Minolta Dimage V Camera Port Path Minton S Cam F5 Note only for serial port camera Mitek CD10 NONE Mitek CD30P Mounted Camera Camera Mount Path MTP Device Note only for USB IEEE mass storage camera Mustek gSmart 300 Fe Mustek gSmart 350 Mustek gSmart mini Mustek gSmart mini 2 ar To set an USB Mass Storage camera Mustek gSmart mini 3 Le which appears like a removable drive please Mustek VDC 3500 use Mounted Camera from camera list Nexxtech Mini Digital Camera To set a Generic PTP USB Device Nick Click
4. New Folder Konqueror Enter folder name New Folder Clear ox Cancel Copy Files and Folders If you want to make a copy of a file you will have to place the copy in another folder as you cannot have two files with the same name in the same folder To copy a file right click on the file in the view pane to select it Then select Copy To from the drop menu as seen below CA Open in New Window 2 Open in New Tab ef Cut Ctrl X 3 Copy Ctrl C Rename F2 Move to Trash Delete Open With Preview In Actions Compress Copy To i Move To Properties i Fig Copy To After selecting Copy To you will see another drop menu that lists your entire file system Choose where you want the file to be copied to and select Copy Here Home Folder a Root Folder Current Folder Browse Fig File System drop menu Copy Here w Add Wiki Images ALLERGIC TO chapter2 Partl1 pics Chapter2 Part2 pics Chapters pics FebruaryMag i MAG i NUG stuff USerguidepics Fig Copy Here Another method is to right click the file which will bring up the same drop menu seen above You can also click on the file in the view pane to select it and then select from the menu bar at the top Edit gt Copy File This will open a dialog box where you can type in the path to the folder to where you want to move the file to or click on the browse folder and navigate to it as seen bel
5. You can control the XMMS player using the graphical knobs and buttons displayed In addition you can select the source of the audio files to play To do this right click on the XMMS player and from the pop up menu select Play File to select the audio file to play If you want to be able to play an audio file from the Internet select Play Location and enter the Internet location of the file Playing VCD and DVD There are several excellent applications readily available for you to use to play VCD and DVD media Here we shall look at two of them Kaffeine and Mplayer These can also play CD and digital audio music files Kaffeine The Kaffeine application may be used to play VCD and DVD You can start Kaffeine from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Video gt Kaffeine The Kaffeine user interface is highly intuitive as it resembles a normal VCD DVD player with all the basic control knobs and buttons n Kaffeine Player File View Player Playlist Settings Help Kaffeine Player 0 8 4 E He v af 1 Play Playlist 2 Audio CD encoding 3 Play Audio CD 4 Play DVD a im GF 5 Play VCD Fig Kaffeine Control Panel To play a VCD place the VCD into the CD ROM drive and click on the Play VCD button on the Kaffeine control panel To
6. O Images O Sound Files O Text Files O Video Files O Web Archives Lel Display Fig File Icons E You can configure how the desktop behaves here Background General File Icons Device Icons lt q W Show device icons Behavior Device Types to Display if FH Audio CD H Blank CD Fl Blank DVD ro F Camera aS F DVD Video Disk O Mounted 5 Floppy S H Mounted Camera E Fl Mounted CD ROM EF Mounted CD Writer F Mounted DVD EF Mounted Floppy O Mounted Hard Disk Volume O Mounted Hard Disk Volume EF Mounted NFS Share Fl Meaunted Remnawahle Medium Fig Device Icons Multiple Desktops Screen Saver Display Multiple Desktops The Multiple Desktop tab allows you to increase or decrease the number of virtual desktops that are available in your Taskbar To change the number of desktops you can use either the slider or the up and down arrows located to the right of the slider Each time the number increases or decreases you will add or subtract 4 more virtual desktops re You can configure how many virtual desktops there are Background Behavior Desktop Names Desktop 1 Desktop 1 Desktop 11 Desktop 2 Desktop 12 ae Desktop 3 Desktop 13 Multiple Desktops E Desktop 4 Desktop 14 Desktop 5 Desktop 15 Desktop 6 Desktop 16 Desktop 7 Desktop 17 Desktop 8 Desktop 18 Desktop 9 Desktop 19
7. The method is to use the My Computer icon located on the Desktop Double click on the My Computer icon and it will display all the system devices as well as the file system 1 SOTO ET e Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help 0 0 aAa Anm A ah S m Applicatio Home Print Remote Storage Trash Users ns Folder System Places Media Folders Fig Accessing System Devices and File system in KDE The Floppy Disk Drive While most of the work is done using the hard drive system and user data are stored on the hard drive sometimes you may want to transfer or copy files to another PC One convenient way to perform this provided that the file sizes are not too large is to use a floppy disk or diskette Diskettes are very useful as a portable storage medium for small files 1 44Mb or less Mounting and Using the Diskette Before a diskette can be used you have to perform an operation called mounting the diskette This is to let the system know that you are going to access and use the diskette in the floppy drive The KDE desktop environment uses a series of background processes to accomplish various tasks Mounting drives is handled by the Media process Simply click on the Storage Media icon in the System My Computer folder and the Media task will be shown A A 4 E 1 2 10G 11G 8 4G Floppy Media Media Media Media Media Media Drive
8. What do you want to do Medium type Unmounted Removable Medium _ oper in New Window Fe adigikam Mount and Download ee Nothing C Always do this for this type of media Configure O J Cancel Fig Removable Media dialog This will mount the USB thumb drive and add a thumb drive icon on the desktop Double clicking on this will mount the USB thumb drive add a thumb drive icon on the desktop and list out the files and folders in the thumb drive under the File Manager You can then treat it like another folder to read and write files and folders After finishing with the thumb drive you will need to unmount it by right clicking on the thumb drive icon on the desktop and selecting Safely Remove before removing it from the USB port The CD RW Drive While the CD ROM drive is very useful as a portable storage medium due to its high capacity and low cost it suffers from the disadvantage that it is a read only medium To overcome this many PCs are sold nowadays with drives which enable you to record data onto CD R CD recordable and CD R W CD rewritable disks The former refers to a CD medium which allows you to record to it only once while with a CD R W disk it is possible to rewrite data to it multiple times Note While a CD R W drive supports both CR R and CD R W functionalities the CD medium that you utilize determines whether you can write data to it only once CR R or multiple times CD RW So
9. gt Spellcheck The option to auto spellcheck means that while typing Writer will dynamically check your spelling and if it detects an error it will output a red line at the bottom of the misspelled word Keep in mind that the spell checking is based on the current language that is in use This can be changed via Tools gt Options gt Language Settings gt Languages Accessing word counts in the document is different from most other packages on a default install of OpenOffice org this can differ with several Linux distributions offerings File gt Properties gt Statistics It is under the Statistics tab that the word counts and other relevant document counts are based On certain vendor modified distributions of OpenOffice org going to the Tools gt Word Count menu will allow the Statistics dialogue box to be displayed automatically The AutoCorrect Tools gt AutoCorrect options have replacement tables so that CDs really are valid and will not be changed to Cd for instance There are also word completion options very useful as the software starts thinking for you and settings to make them more user friendly The Navigator is a yet another useful tool get this via hitting the F5 key or clicking its icon on the main toolbar especially when dealing with larger documents It supports jumping to bookmarks notes any particular object and even creates a table of contents on the fly based on the styles that
10. Gorilla Vector Theme Gorilla SVG v1 4 Original Theme by Jimmac Conver HighContrast SVG High contrast scalable icons with bl Install New Theme Help Defaults ras Cancel Fig Icon Theme Window Go ahead and choose an icon theme by clicking on any of the listed themes Pay attention to the three icons located above your theme list As you click on each theme you will notice these icons change to show you how they will look on your desktop When you find one that you like click on the Install New Theme button The Advanced tab offers you the ability to set effects for your Default Active and Disabled icons You can also choose to animate your icons and change the pixel size Now we can move onto Colors Colors The Colors Dialog window gives you many choices of color themes to choose from Inactive window File Edit Standard text link followed link Selected text Push Button Widget Color Standard Background H Color Scheme CagQinx Modern CERedmond 2000 2E Redmond 95 ma Redmond XP Shade sorted column in lists Save Scheme Contrast Low x Apply colors to non KDE applications Help Defaults Cancel Fig Colors Dialog Window As we seen with the Icon window above you can again see the effects of your choices at the top of the window When you find the one you want click on the Save Scheme button Exercises Experiment with
11. Here you can configure the name of your POP3 mail server You can also configure whether you want the mail to be deleted from the POP3 server after downloading them into your computer Usually you will want them to be deleted and so you should ensure that the Leave messages on server box is not checked Outgoing Server SMTP This is where you can configure the outgoing mail server which will process your outgoing mail All other Configuration The account configuration affects only the account in question to enable you to configure multiple email accounts each with possibly its own servers The global configuration affects the entire mail subsystem To access the global configuration select Edit gt Preferences Under this configuration you can set global preferences which will affect all the accounts configured by you in Thunderbird These will include the look and feel of Mail itself the way messages are displayed format for sending etc Chapter 10 Using the Open Office Suite Introduction OpenOffice org OOo is a complete office suite featuring a word processor Writer a spreadsheet application Calc and presentation software Impress Besides these fundamental office applications OOo also includes a vector drawing tool Draw allows database access allows the publishing of documents in the Portable Document Format PDF and presentations in the Flash SWF format The OOo package is almost completely inter
12. Remote Access gt KPPP Connect to Login ID Password Fig KPPP Internet Dial up Tool Select the Configure button Click on the New button You ll be prompted to Create a New Account You could try the Wizard to set up your system but if you live in the United States the wizard will not find any ISP s You ll need to use Manual Setup but that s not difficult The Add button will prompt you to enter the phone number of the ISP Internet Provider If you need to use an area code and or a dialling prefix to reach the ISP you should enter them in the box provided otherwise just enter the telephone number Enter the name you want this connection to be known by usually the name of the ISP is used this is is just a nickname provided by you so that you can recognize this connection Enter the login name and the password in the boxes provided _ New Account KPPP Connection name Phone number Authentication PAP CHAP x Store password Callback type Customize pppd Arguments Fig Filling in the ISP Provider Information Don t worry about the IP Settings tab Most ISP s assign IP addresses automatically Dynamic IP If not you ll need to contact your ISP and get the information from them Then just enter your IP address and related information by sele
13. amp Communications j System Menu 2 Drawing Run Command Presentations f Switch User Puls hang af Lack Session Spreadsheets Tasks Management E Time Management Word processors T T T r T T T T T T Fig Main Menu and Sub menu Clicking once on a menu entry will cause an application associated with it to be launched i e executed The Panel The long bar across the bottom of the desktop screen is called the Panel The Panel contains the Main Menu icon the application launcher icons a notification area and applets Fig The Panel Installed by default are several application launcher icons on the Panel Clicking on one of these will run an application Commonly accessed applications can be added to the Panel and those that are less frequently used can be taken off The notification area holds alert icons so that the user can be alerted to critical messages Applets are small applications that run on the Panel These usually perform useful and informative tasks like setting the sound level of the sound card monitoring whether the system software needs an update etc The Workspace Switcher The graphical desktop can be regarded as a workspace drawing an analogy with the working area on a real physical tabletop Programs are run documents displayed and files opened on the workspace To cut down on workspace clutter and to enable the user to organize his her workspace more efficiently the graphical desktop environ
14. beste bred a acl mimrer inn poaa ak Lh pmagrapalil ig hap E li 5 ni Arrange Flip a _ Grow Object Frame Picture Those were jast quick controls Toget full contrel wiag the Permak meai bital Gonia ae ar a here 4 4 h siviees ea eS ene ee Fig Format Menu Styles Consistency throughout a document is important It was earlier said that writing books using OpenOffice org is possible So there must be a way to handle long and large documents in a consistent fashion with similar fonts for headings sub headings text and other attributes within a document OpenOffice org includes a powerful feature known as styles and this is accessed via the Stylist you can access this by hitting the F11 key or clicking its icon on the main toolbar Notice the floating window which is most likely active at the Default style By right clicking on the style there are options to modify the style or create new custom ones By going to the modify option the style can be customized via many varying attributes including spacing alignment font emphasis colour and many more Once suitable styles have been pre defined in the document they can be used on existing text just by selection and double clicking on the style name Just a little bit more Now that the gist of the Writer package has been covered there s just a little more to know Writer has a built in spell checker This can be accessed via Tools
15. exercise Click Next A type of chart is to be chosen Common charts include pie chart line graphs or even bar graphs it all depends on the information being represented Select the defaults and create a chart You should now see a bar chart created Now that a chart has been created it is not static in the sense that it cannot be edited you can control each and every aspect of how the chart looks Double click the chart and you will now go into edit mode Notice the toolbar by the left hand side of your screen has changed This is in direct response to it being in edit mode and a lot of properties can be changed here There are plenty more features like data filtering scenario creation and goal seek which once you get more advanced with spreadsheet know how you will end up making use of Impress No office suite is complete without a presentation piece and OpenOffice org Shows its colours with Impress the presentation piece of the suite To start it it is available at Main Menu gt Office gt Presentations gt OpenOffice org Impress or if you already have an OpenOffice org window open its available at File gt New gt Presentation Presentation Wizard Type Empty presentation w From template w Gpen existing presentabon F preview Do not show this wizard again Help Cance lt lt Bac Fig OpenOffice org Impress Unlike other components of OpenOffice org when you start Impress you are
16. while the body and rest of the base text will be left aligned This is all controlled by the four icons that are located next to the bold italics underline icons providing such options as right align centre align left align and justified When text is justified it looks exactly like what you re reading now a more professional end to end stretch of the text Let s switch to the end of the toolbar and notice that the options there including providing a paragraph background which is good for highlighting a paragraph or several paragraphs of text in colours that you choose You can also highlight text like you would with a highlighter and paper and change the font colours all with the icons there Aligning text by indenting it is also another feature available as part of the object toolbar Left right alignment of text is provided and if text is already entered and you want to left align it selection of text or having the cursor at the paragraph must happen first before text is indented Those were just quick controls To get full control using the Format menu is ideal Controls are more varied here File Edt Wew rsert Fgrmat Table Jools Window Help i im GeoPiec ee ee eee D i ew 2 ars 0 he options there inclucirep Tegeig ting i Pare raph ome Sect am aler ay bo Big a tarie aos pt change the fowl onlouns all with E Styles and Formattirg Fill H dutaFermal Mbh ae pee Lie ahb eck
17. E America US Eastern Time Africa NE Help Cancel Fig Setting the Date and Time Click on the Apply button after all is done to enable the new date and time You can check for the new date and time by resting your mouse over the clock time applet display on the Panel at the bottom of the screen If the time is correct click on the OK button You can also change the appearance of your clock by right clicking on the clock time applet display on the Panel and choose Type This will give you four choices Digital is the default Plain Analog and Fuzzy Exercises Practice setting the date and time Practice changing the appearance of the desktop clock Chapter 3 Files and Folders The File System One of the most powerful features of a modern computer system is the ability to store data in a form which can be easily retrieved and transported or copied across to other computer systems or media Data created and accessed by a user in the computer is stored in what is called a file This concept of an electronic file to store electronic data mimics the physical world usage of a file to store data written on paper This mimicry is carried further by the organization of these electronic files into electronic folders or directories Like a physical folder an electronic folder can contain many files A folder may also have sub folders or sub directories Note We shall be using the terms folder and directory interchangeabl
18. MPlayer Graphic Images Access Very often it is useful if we are able to view graphic image files on their own or in thumbnail fashion if there are many of them It is also useful if there are simple tools available which will enable us to manage these image files e g catalog and classify them and recall them for viewing In this section we shall look at several tools available on your system which provide some of these functionalities File Manager The File Manager itself provides a simple and convenient means to access and view image files To view an image file from the File Manager move your mouse pointer over the file and a larger thumbnail picture will appear To view the file full size double click on it Another convenient way of viewing when you have a lot of files in a folder is to select the View Mode gt Photobook option from the View menu selection Bookmarks Tools Settings Window Help reQOQC0 00 28 ar 1290 RA E gt Location home papawoob eyecandy PCLinuxOS Main MyPCLinuxOS Extra PCLinuxOS HardWare DB Lortal Linux Portal LinF X com Graphics O Q Home Folder me 2 cool Add Wiki Images 4 Desktop Documents pe vdrip data T ge ISOS g linux in schools erda Sennen multiple desktops p eMusic oe lk a e NUG stuff Pclinuxos 2007 j pclinuxos 2007fina mt Pictures awa gt we Shared om s F p tm p i F ai P 7 S i y A TuxMag a Se i l WFH F HE imga 401
19. Outbox Sent Drafts and Trash There is also a Templates folder You can create a new folder by right clicking on Local Folders selecting New Folder and enter the Folder name You can move and copy mail messages between folders by right clicking on the message in the Subject Window and selecting Move to Folder or Copy to Folder Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird has been around a few years now and has evolved into an awesome desktop e mail application Below are a few features from the Thunderbird website Advanced Folder Views Thunderbird 2 offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders whether by favorites recently viewed or folders containing unread messages As always you can also set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests Thunderbird 2 also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar Message Tagging Thunderbird 2 allows you to tag messages with descriptors such as To Do or Done or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email Message History Navigation Thunderbird 2 offers message history navigation that allows you to click forward and back much like in your Web browser You can now quickly toggle between messages and folder views Improved Search Thunderbird 2 feat
20. Setup Test Display x Settings x Start automatically After 10 min js Require password to stop Help Defaults OK Apply Cancel Fig Screen Saver Types There are far too many types to cover in this howto so you will have to experiment and look at them until you find one that you like This window works just like the background window did Click on a screen saver and a thumbnail small picture will be displayed in the monitor to the right of your selection You will also notice a Setup button and a Test button below the list of screen savers Some screen Savers require extra information so that you can make them work exactly as you wish which is what you would use the Setup button for The Test button will bring up the screen saver in full screen mode so that you can see what it will look like when it starts There are two other options in this window The first is whether or not you want to have the screen saver start automatically and if so how long after there is no activity Simply use the up and down arrows to set the number of minutes The second option allows the screen saver to effectively lock your desktop To unlock the screen saver you will have to enter your password into the box that will pop up when you try to go back to your desktop There also is an Advanced Options button under the monitor where your thumbnails are displayed It allows you to start your screen saver by
21. This is your opportunity to review the information and check for any errors If everything looks good go ahead and click Finish Fig Processing When you clicked Finish the window above will appear and when the processing is finished it will ask you for your password Enter your password and if you want to check the box that will save your password Press the Enter Return key on your keyboard and you will then receive any mail that you have on your mail providers server Using Mozilla Thunderbird s Inbox Thunderbird File Edit View Go M ssage Tools Help i oie ral Bet Mail Write Address Book All Folders a i lt Subject Sender 3 Local Folders a inbox gt Unsent 0 Trash Expense fhe lemm hurbi n aps w supported by Merila a gieba comunity eran biher i make the hnimal s beier place hrenom For tegueriy mkd questions fips ond general help viet Thunderbird Falp Dernier Far preduel ionratan widil the Thoumckerb ir Horne Piga Unread O Total O The default startup screen has three main sections left panel displaying mail boxes and folders right main mail display panel top panel containing the main menu bar and buttons The left panel displays in a tree directory format the email accounts that have been configured for the system and the mailboxes under it The Local section contains the folders and messages that are not from any of the accounts created and associated with an Internet e
22. access using the Internet a high speed link in required For the personal or home user broadband xDSL technologies make this possible DSL is an acronym used for the family of DSL Digital Subscriber Line technologies which enable high speed data transmission through telephone lines There are different types of DSL and they include ADSL SDSL IDSL Collectively these are known as DSL ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line is commonly used for the home xDSL Cable Internet Configuration There are two main types of DSL configuration in use and most ISPs use either one of these DHCP over Ethernet PPoE over Ethernet Usually if you have to use a login id and password for your broadband DSL connection then you should be using the PPoE configuration DHCP over Ethernet Linux has been called The Broadband OS because it is very good at detecting and using Ethernet as it s main networking capability The Quick Start way to set up both DSL and Cable Internet is to plug the Ethernet cable which looks like a phone cable but with 5 strands of wire instead of 3 into your modem s Ethernet port and the other end of the cable into your computer s Ethernet port Most modern day flavors of Linux will autodetect an active Ethernet connection and assign it to the device name ethO eth1 and so on If there is more than one Ethernet interface for your computer the ethX numbers will increase For this configuration what is needed is
23. account locally As we did in KMail earlier we will be setting up a POP3 e mail account If you need guidance setting up one of the other types of accounts there is plenty of answers in the Help tab located at the top of the window or at the Mozilla Thunderbird website Choose Email account as in the figure above and then click Next Account Wizard Each account has an identity which is the information that identifies you to others when they receive your messages Enter the name you would like to appear in the From field of your outgoing messages for example John Smith Your Name test Enter your email address This is the address others will use to send email to you for example user example net Email Address test nc rrcom X Cancel Back g Next Fig Identity Our next window will be where we establish our identity In the box next to Your Name you need to type in the name that you would like others to see when they receive mail from you The next box is the one where you will enter your e mail address When you have finished click Next _ Account Wizard TX Server Information Select the type of incoming server you are using POP O IMAP Enter the name of your incoming server for example mall example net Incoming Server pop servernc mcom Uncheck this checkbox to store mail for this account in its own directory That will make this account appear as a top level a
24. action that it performs is agreeable it is displayed on the right of the dialogue select Next to move on Now you are allowed to input numbers Assuming the AVERAGE function was chosen in the number 1 field for example there are options to either enter a function or select a range of cells Use select a range of cells and now a different dialogue pops up and you can use the mouse cursor to select a range of cells Click on OK and you re done That is a very easy way to build a formula which requires no prerequisite knowledge about what formulas exist in Calc Sorting A big part of dealing with spreadsheets involves a lot of sorting and filtering of data To sort a dataset selecting the active cells then clicking Data gt Sort This will produce a pop up dialogue that has options for sorting the data based on the columns present as well as if the data should be ascending or descending Charting Converting data into information is a process usually accomplished well by creating graphs and charts It is a lot easier to infer based on visual graphics rather than lots of numbers Calc provides a charting wizard that will allow this to be automated rather easily with a lot of predefined settings Select the cells that are to be charted and then go to Insert gt Chart The range is pre selected and certain options are provided like where the resulting chart is just leaving the pre selected options will be good for the
25. and or personal folder To manage and organize your bookmarks you can select the Organize Bookmarks item in the drop down menu ee ee ee Aeokmarks Manager eS FILE EHT Yew HELP i ey a NEW BOOKMARK NEW FOLDER HEW SEPARATOR Mo HAHE a k PaL Ma My A HTTPS WWW D JooMmM HITRiJCOML CLUB HITTAS WWW Po POeoa comMm OFFER O ATI HTTARVW WW F FREE HATIOHAL HALL HITR www H HALLPASS DE B JAH AIT WWW aMYSre HTT HOH Em O FERREW oO coMP OLE aa LOCATION DESCRIPTION r Ti OBJECTS Fig The Bookmark Manager Pop up Window The bookmarks can be organized into folders by dragging and dropping them into the desired folder New folders can be created by clicking on the New Folder button at the top Folders can have a name and description To separate and group together related folders a separator line can be drawn by selecting the New Separator button The Tools button enables you to navigate and use specific tools and add ons in Firefox The Help button contains the Firefox help files arranged in user friendly web page style and format The Side Bar Under the View button you will find an option to add a side bar The Side Bar is displayed on the left of the main display panel This side bar can display your History or your Bookmarks for quicker access The side bar can be turned on off by selecting from the main menu at the top View gt Sidebar The Main Display Panel This is the are
26. and then on More Applications Documentation and then KDE Help Center After the KDE Help Center opens choose KDE User Manual and scroll down to III KDE Components gt 6 The Base KDE Applications gt Graphics and then scroll down to Kooka Exercises Perform a scan of an entire photograph containing several people or objects Using the same photograph as for the previous exercise this time perform the scan for only the image of one person or object Chapter 6 Accessing the Internet The Internet has revolutionized information usage and dissemination It has made the global village a reality whereby almost anyone any where in the world is reachable if the person has an Internet connection The most common way to get Internet connectivity is by using the PC be it at home in the place of work the community hall or even a cybercafe In this chapter we shall examine some of the more common methods in which a PC can gain access to the Internet The Internet Service Provider ISP For a personal or home user before you can access the Internet you will need to Sign up with an Internet Service Provider ISP The ISP usually has a network which is connected to the Internet by a permanent telecommunication link i e one can view the ISP s network as part of the Internet The ISP provides the necessary networking infrastructure to enable you to connect to its network Thus once your PC successfully connects to the ISP s network it can
27. are being used Calc This is the spreadsheet component of the OpenOffice org package and contains many useful features including an array of functions and plenty of charting options It is fully inter operable with Microsoft Excel though the function separators differ in the two packages Lian nggi pagi tome bi TEEL Eie Edit Yew Insert Format Joos Dats Wiriow Help TEET RECRE TEES Fig OpenOffice org Calc To start this it is available via Main Menu gt Office gt Spreadsheets gt OpenOffice org Calc or if you already have an existing window of OpenOffice org open File gt New gt Spreadsheet Spreadsheets contain many rows and columns and each row and column combination is called a cell like A1 B4 and so on Upon inputting text into a cell you might realize that the text is wider than the cell allows for this can be re sized via right clicking the cell and selecting the Format Cells option There under the Alignment tab selecting Line Break is what is required Formatting Like other parts of OpenOffice org Calc also comes with the Stylist But let s get around to understanding the various differing formatting options available in this component of the package If there is some information that you have already created and the area should be formatted one particular quick and easy option is to use the AutoFormat function available in Calc This is done after select
28. box that looks like this Change the background settings Eg Background Setting for desktop All Desktops Behavior Multiple Desktops Background O No picture Picture eyeofgod 7 Ira O Slide show Screen Saver e Display Options Position Scaled Colors Single Color hd T E EERE EE ETT EEEE Advanced Options LZ W Get New Wallpapers Blending No Blending al Help Defaults Cancel Fig Configure KDesktop To change the background image click on the Background tab on the left Next click on the Picture image selector dialog Choose an image from the dialog As you select each image a thumbnail small picture will be displayed in the monitor to the right of your selection Change the background settings g g g Background Setting for desktop All Desktops Z Background att No picture Behavior ee Picture eyeofgod S pene Ce Sea of Conero Multiple Desktops e Sle Soft Green iS Stelvio Options Sunshine After The Rain Screen Saver Time For Lunch Totally New Product Colors Single Triple Gears We Are Gear Won Ton Soup iste is ele Blending No Bler Position Scaled Display Advanced Options Get New Wallpapers Help Defaults OK Cancel Fig Selecting a New Background image If you want to choose an image from another directory cli
29. contents of the global virtual folder are shown i e all the pictures in the camera You can choose to see the actual folders on the camera by unselecting Hide Folders in the View menu This will show the folders on the camera the topmost folder being the global virtual folder Clicking on a folder will show the contents of the folder in the thumbnailview x z rem z reems os a m Images found S A BE ENA ET R i WE ea dscf2433 jpq dscf2435 jpq Sa Liadoig e os i dscf2436 jpq dscf2440 jpq Fig digiKam Camera Client ShowFoto Image Viewer The showFoto image viewer is a powerful tool for viewing and organizing graphic image files To start this application perform Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Graphics gt showFoto File Edit Image Fix Transform View Filters Settings Help aa a aea g ty a F File Properties Folder home papawoob eyecandy Modified 09 29 06 11 30 03 pm Size 85 7 KB 87 779 Owner papawoob papawoob Permissions rw rw rw Image Properties Type JPEG image Dimensions 901x675 0 61Mpx Compression unavailable Bits Depth unavailable Color Mode Color sioj0 gt O Pyepejeyw Setedoig Use Windows A pus friends jpg 1 of 1 zoom 49 94 901x675 0 61Mpx Fig showFoto Image Viewer View The simplest way to view an image is to double click on the name of the image and it will be displayed in full You can also navigate to the ne
30. detection will be run When it is finished you will be presented with a window that looks like this Add a new printer The following printer was auto detected The configuration of the printer will work fully automatically If your printer Was not correctly detected or if you prefer a customized printer configuration turn on Manual configuration Printer on parallel port 0 O Manual configuration Cancel Previous Fig Detected Printers By clicking Next the detected printer will automatically be configured for you You also have the option to configure your printer manually yourself but this option should be used only if you know all the specifics necessary or if your printer was not found during the auto detection process If you choose manual configuration and click Next a new window will appear Select the manufacturer of your printer and then scroll down to find your specific printer When you click Next you will be taken to a screen that will show you the default settings for the selected printer Clicking Next again will allow you to name your printer or you can go with the default name Click Next one more time and you will be asked if you want to make this printer the default printer for your system Choose Yes or NO and click Next again You will now see a window where you can print either a text or photo test page Go ahead and try one or the other or both and see if your printer is configured correctly Afte
31. each of the following desktop preferences Themes Fonts Styles cons Colors Using the Desktop The Desktop provides a useful metaphor for a modern office work environment So on the Desktop we find that the applications that we want to run can easily be started or launched and the information and data that we need can easily be located Running Applications Applications that we can run from the Desktop are to be found either from the Main Menu and sub menus therein or as icons on the Panel and the Desktop itself To run an application from the Main Menu open up the menu or sub menu and click on the application listed in the menu bar To run an application from the Panel click once on the icon representing the application To run an application from the Desktop itself double click on the icon representing the application Sometimes it is more handy to have an application as an icon on the Panel or Desktop where you can launch it more easily by just clicking on it rather than in the Main Menu especially if it is buried deep within several sub menus To achieve this open the Main Menu and select the application item listed in it by clicking with the right mouse button Click on the Add Item to Main Panel and a copy of the application icon will be placed on the Panel To make a link of the application on the Desktop click with the right mouse button and select Add Item to Desktop and the application icon will be pla
32. everyone Now that you know a little about this wonderful application lets move on to set it up You can find Thunderbird by going to the menu Menu gt Internet gt Mail gt Mozilla Thunderbird The first time you open Thunderbird you will see a window like the one below Cancel Fig Import Wizard In this window you can choose to import your mail address book preferences and account settings from another e mail client if you have one If Thunderbird detects any other e mail clients it should list them in this window Simply choose which one you want to import from and click Next If you chose one the next window you would see would inform you if the importation was successful or not If it was a success then you would click Next This will bring up the next window which looks like the one below New Account Setup In order to receive messages you first need to set up a Mail or Newsgroup account This Wizard will collect the information necessary to set up a Mail or Newsgroup account If you do not know the information requested please contact your System Administrator or Internet Service Provider Select the type of account you would like to set up RSS News amp Blogs O Gmail O Newsgroup account Cancel Next Fig Account Wizard The Account Wizard is where you can setup your e mail account s RSS news feeds Newsgroup accounts and even use Thunderbird to manage your Gmail
33. finished using the computer and want to power it off you will have to perform a system shutdown To shutdown at the Main Menu perform a logout Then at the graphical login screen select the Turn Off Computer option You will also have the option to Restart Computer End Session for papawoob Turn Off Computer Restart Computer Cancel Note It is very important that a proper system shutdown is performed You should not just turn off the power switch of the computer to shut it down Failure to observe this may lead to system software and data corruption and failure Chapter 2 Using the Desktop Basic Desktop Customization The desktop can be customized to your preferences and tastes in a variety of ways Here we will explore some basic customizations More details can be obtained by clicking on Main Menu gt More Applications gt Documentation gt KDE Help Center After the KDE Help Center opens choose KDE User Manual and scroll down to IIT Kde Components Desktop Background The background image displayed on the desktop can be changed by running the Background application Just right click on the desktop and select Configure Desktop 4 Create New t 7 Paste Clipboard Contents Ctrl V fz Icons F7 Windows i Refresh Desktop a Configure Desktop fa Switch User gt E Lock Session Log Out papawoob Fig Right Click Menu After clicking on Configure Desktop you will see a dialog
34. first and then press the DELETE key on the keyboard Copy Cut and Paste Text can be edited by marking it first and then selecting Cut or Copy from the buttons at the top Cutting will result in the marked text being copied into a storage buffer and then deleted from the editing window while Copying will result in just a copy of the text being copied into the storage buffer without the deletion of the original text The text cut copied in this way can then be pasted into another part of the document by moving the mouse to the desired location and selecting the Paste button at the top Another way of invoking these functions is to click on the Edit option on the top menu bar and selecting the desired function e g Edit gt Cut Edit gt Copy Edit gt Paste Undo After performing an editing function e g deleting a block of text you can undo the action by clicking on the Undo button at the top The Undo function can also be invoked using the Edit menu selection at the top Saving Text The text typed in can be saved by clicking on the File option on the main menu bar at the top and selecting File gt Save As Move to the folder you want to save the file in and enter the name of the file to Save Find and Replace The Find button can be used to locate a text string By default this search is not case sensitive and will also locate the text if it is part of a word These default options can be changed from t
35. just to obtain the IP configuration parameters using DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol To set up your DSL connection click on your PCLinuxOS Control Center PCC icon in your panel and enter your Root password Next choose the Network amp Internet tab and then choose Setup a new network interface LAN ISDN ADSL You will then see a screen like the one below os CLinuxOs Control Center etc mcc conf fon Jocalhost i File Options Help gl New Connection _ Choose the connection you want to configure iy eee Satellite DVB Cable modem DSL ISDN Wireless GPRS Edge 3G Bluetooth Dial Up Networking Analog telephone modem POTS Cancel Fig New Connection Select Ethernet connection in the select device type screen and click on the Forward button A screen showing the detected Ethernet card s on your system is displayed as seen below a wPCLinuxOs Control Center etc mce conf on Jocalhost sa File Options Help rg New Connection r om Ethernet Select the network interface to configure nVidia Corp nForce2 MCP Networking Adapter 3Com Corp 3c900B TPO Etherlink XL TPO IEEE 1394 IPv4 Driver IPv4 over 1394 as per RFC 2734 Cancel Previous Next Fig Select Ethernet Device Screen Select the correct Ethernet network interface You usually have only one Ethernet card installed on the system Click on the Next button The default is to select your IP automatica
36. list of options Choose Open in New Window and whatever data is on the CD will be displayed in a new window If it is an audio music CD it will be auto mounted and then the default KDE CD player KsCD will open on your desktop and begin playing the music on the CD A new medium has been detected What do you want to do Medium type Unmounted CD Writer PF Open in New Window Copy CD with K3b MM Do Nothing Always do this for this type of media Fig New Medium Detected The File Manager can then be used to access the files and folders on the CD If the CD ROM is a read only medium you can only read the contents of the CD and not write to it After using the CD you will need to unmount it before you take it out of the CD ROM drive To unmount the CD right click on the CD icon on the desktop and select Unmount This will unmount the CD and the CD icon will disappear from the desktop It is now safe to remove the CD The USB Mass Storage Device Another popular portable storage medium is the USB mass storage device sometimes also known as a thumb drive Like the floppy diskette you can read and write to a thumb drive but it has the advantage of storing much more data than a diskette Thumb drive devices of capacities 128MB up to 8GB are common To access the thumb drive place it in the USB slot port provided and a window will open on the desktop Choose Open in New Window A new medium has been detected
37. moving your mouse into a particular corner and leaving it there Your choices can be seen below Screen Corner Actions Top left Top right No Action No Action Bottom left Bottom right No Action No Action M Screen Saver Priority OK Cancel Fig Advanced Options Display The last tab in the Configure Kdesktop window is the Display tab There are three tabs in this window Size amp Orientation Monitor Gamma and Power Control We will only explore the Size amp Orientation and Power Control tabs The only thing on this page that is of interest to this howto is the Screen size resolution tab This adjusts the size of everything on your desktop including the icons fonts Taskbar etc The Kde desktop will default this setting to the largest resolution that your monitor can handle In the screenshot below you will see that mine is set to 1280x1024 If you click on the arrow next to this setting you will see a list of resolutions that are available for your monitor The smaller the number the larger everything will appear Choose one and then click Apply The desktop will go blank for a moment and then you will see your desktop in the new resolution with a dialog box asking whether or not you want to accept this new resolution If you want to accept it then use your mouse to click on the accept button Note Do not try this if you are running any 3D effects If you would like to
38. play a DVD place the DVD into the DVD drive and your movie should start playing If it does not then right click on the DVD icon on your desktop and choose Play DVD with Kaffeine The volume control can be adjusted by clicking on the volume control button Kaffeine is a very powerful multimedia application with many features It can also play audio CDs as well as digital audio files Note to be able to play encrypted DVDs you will need to install libdvdcss and win32codecs from the repositories using Synaptic You will need to check to see if the use of these libraries is legal as it is considered illegal to use this in certain parts of the world MPlayer MPlayer is a popular movie player for Linux In addition to being able to play VCD and DVD it is also able to handle a wide variety of audio and video file and streaming data formats Hence it is useful to use Mplayer as the universal multimedia player The Mplayer GUI can be started from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Video gt MPlayer On start up the main Mplayer control screen and the Mplayer video output screens are displayed FILE m 00 00 00 7 00 00 00 yi 0 00 bal 50 0096 LX 1 Sr Bl Fig Mplayer Control Screen MPlayer Video d la ks i is F j l i i ko S o F i i i i ko N w F BD TAN a W EEE oo k k i J d Fi 1 i i i a Fa hy a F r p fj 1 4 he F k Fa Fi ii 1 m Lo F 1 Fi F jn i iy ka
39. presented with a Presentation Wizard to start creating your presentation This gives you options to start a presentation with an empty template or even with one of the pre defined templates A preview dialogue is available and once all options are selected and Next is clicked to move on you get a basic presentation Presentaton Backgrownds EA Dark Biure with Orange SUbhe Accents Select an output medi Sr reen E Pewew Helo Cance ac Back ext gt gt Fig Impress Wizard for a new presentation After choosing your background click on Create and you will see the Presentation Main Page as seen below a LLEI ITELE ro Eile Edit Yew ner Format Took a warms Help Eo E amp ae F i TAE pam ee ee Eler 5 E oaar efpir aes Ji coor Omer JU H Morea Gotine Mores Mangoot Side Sater Click to add title Click bo add best Fig Presentation Main Page Template Management If a big portion of time is going to be spent giving presentations its very professional to have the presentation look like each other in the form of a template same logo position copyright notices etc Once a template is created or downloaded from the Internet you manage templates via the File gt Template gt Organize Slide Design A quick way to get slides done is via the Presentation buttons located at the top right of the window 9 Slide Slide Design Slide Show F
40. right click on the floppy icon on the desktop and select Unmount This will unmount the diskette and the floppy icon will disappear from the Desktop Once this has happened you can safely remove the diskette from the floppy drive Note It is important that you unmount the diskette before removing it from the floppy drive especially if it has been mounted for writing Failure to do so may result in incomplete data being written to the diskette and corruption of the file system on the diskette Formatting the Diskette Before a diskette can be used it has to be formatted first This will create the directory structures and other information needed for the system to keep track of where the data is stored on the diskette You need to format a diskette once only You can subsequently format it again after using it for some time but re formating will result in the loss of the original contents of the diskette KFloppy does not come with the default install You can install it and several other useful utilities by opening the Synaptic Package Manger and installing kdeutils To format a diskette you can use the KFloppy formatter selection from the Main Menu Main Menu gt System gt Configuration gt Hardware gt Utilities gt KFloppy Size 3 5 1 44MB a File system DOS Formatting Quick format O Zero out and quick format Full format x Verity integrity x Volume label KDE Floppy Program
41. ry F i k s W gt ee i Fig Mplayer Video Screen The control screen enables you to control the operations of Mplayer while the video screen displays any video that is being played In addition right clicking with the mouse when it is inside either the control or video screens will also bring up a menu for controlling the use of Mplayer The Mplayer control screen enables you to perform the following start stop and pause play go to the next and previous stream jump to the first and last tracks adjust the sound balance adjust the volume and mute select files to play set up a playlist set the video and audio equalizer configure preferences exit the Mplayer application All of the above functions are represented by intuitive knob dial and button icons on the control screen making it very easy to use Mplayer To play a VCD place the VCD in the CD ROM drive move the mouse over the control screen or video screen and right click it Select VCD gt Open disk To play a DVD perform the above for VCD but instead select DVD gt Open disk The size of the video screen can be controlled by right clicking on the mouse and selecting normal size double size or full screen When you are in the full screen mode to return to normal size right click on the mouse and select normal size Exercises Play an audio CD using the KsCD Player Play an audio digital music using Amarok Play a VCD or DVD using Kaffeine and
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43. the menus that are common through packages File gt New gt Text Document creates a new empty untitled document for you to work on File gt Open opens the selected file File gt Close closes the document you are working on If changes have been made since your last save you will be prompted to save or discard those changes File gt Save saves the document you are currently working on File gt Save As Saves an updated version of a document in a different location with a different name from the previously saved version Common Operations For operations while writing it is common to want to select a lot of text copy it maybe cut it from its current location and paste it elsewhere or even undo an action All this is possible with the office suite and such options are available at the Edit menu A few common options are iy Ra Tei Eile Edit VeA ase Format Table eden ae Unda ena Alt BackSpece We p d det SIT ee E P 7 f pF Spm Delete pen T fadh E L a im 0 Fasie Comev h updated veewun of a deum ona dhn Paste Spectal Cirle Stitte e fro fir the pews hr renee E Zahi All Cit Changes Compare Document ir he mE Find amp Kapika CiritF Hawgetor Fa AutoTett Soi lela heaping alate Eachan Dalsia edt twill Tent ry oo aii hm wha tar Emed ao k H dt Wij do iii display ir 4 Pormnattlmeg 3 Fig Common operations To copy text select
44. the text with the mouse then select Edit gt Copy Now the selected text is kept in memory for use elsewhere To paste text find the spot where the text needs to be placed place the cursor there and then select Edit gt Paste To cut text this means that the selected text will be removed from the current location and kept in memory to be placed elsewhere Doing this is exactly like how a copy should be performed except select Edit gt Cut instead To undo an action Select Edit gt Undo It will display the command that it is undoing at the moment By browsing the menu there are also keyboard shortcuts located next to it Once more proficient use of the package occurs it is much quicker to use keyboard shortcuts like Control C for Copy and so on Formatting Formatting text is as important as writing the text and Writer provides many formatting options including the Stylist Individually you can also format the character current selected item or even a whole word the paragraph or even the page JE Normal 4 Bitstreamverasent fiz A4A foo Soe s B y Fig Part of the Formatting toolbar Writer Some of the quick format options include bold italics and underline These options are available at the toolbar at the top of the screen Text alignment plays a large role in controlling how portions of the document will look For example an address field at the top of your letter will have such details right aligned
45. 00aLE Web Images Viieo News Maps Gmail more T iGoogle Signi Google GOOGLE SEARCH I M FEELING LUCKY Aaea Aves eng Programs Gud ness ours Aboul angle DUILL i be DONE be al a A e le i d le El ey eee ee ee eee FFF Fig A Search Engine The basics of using current search engines is essentially keyword matching and so it is important to be able to identify appropriate keywords so that your search is more efficient and false hits are minimized The keywords entered should be as specific as possible in order to get better results More details on how to use each particular search engine are available on their respective websites and they should be consulted so that you can make efficient use of them Example In this section we shall show an example of how to use a Search engine In this example assume that we have heard from a friend that she has been diagnosed with a foot condition in which her forefoot is in pain and there is numbness as a result of poor blood circulation in one of the toes We also remembered her telling us that the doctor named the condition as Freiberg disease or some name which sounds like that since the telephone line was not too clear Initially we try entering the following keywords foot pain in the search engine feat pain Google Search Mozilla Firefox F met Bat VIEW HISTORY BOOKMARKS TOOLS HELP O o O 3 O C HTT Www qo0eLE cOMSEARCHTHL ENE JGOC Goode Web Ima
46. 7 Items No Files 7 Folders Fig Storage Devices Disk access is done by double clicking on the My Computer icon on the desktop Double clicking on the Storage Devices icon will open the window seen above Next double click the Floppy Drive icon This will mount the floppy and add a floppy icon on the desktop Double clicking on this will list out the files and folders in the floppy under the File Manager as seen below ALLERGIC TO One Item No Files One Folder Fig Mounted Floppy Once you have successfully mounted the diskette and listed out its directory contents under the File Manager you can treat it like another folder to read and write files and folders to However you have to bear in mind some differences between the floppy diskette folder and the normal folder you have been working with The diskette has a very low storage capacity compared with the hard disk a floppy diskette typically will have about 1 44 MB of storage capacity only In contrast a hard disk will have at least a few hundred MB of storage capacity at the minimum If the write protect tab on the diskette is enabled then the diskette can be used for reading only i e you can read the contents of the files on it only You cannot write to the files and so you cannot modify and or create new files or folders After using the diskette you will need to unmount it before you take the diskette from the floppy drive To unmount the diskette
47. After the KDE Help Center opens choose KDE User Manual and scroll down to II The File Manager KDE User Manual gt The File Manager To start using the File Manager Konqueror double click on the home directory icon on the desktop or in the panel This should be named Home and look like this Fig Home When you click on the Home icon seen above the File Manager will open a window that looks like this papawoob Konqueror Location Edit View Go Bookmarks Jools Settings Window Help PCLinuxOS Main MyPCLinuxOS Extra PCLinuxOS HardWare DB Lortal Linux Portal BHOME FOLDE a e327 2 2_ B2cooL AbiSuite l avn beagle p raewn amp o amp r HEARGHIVELT cddb color contig dvdcss i aa rti A RGHIVES T cinepaint L HS ARCHIVES T W SBLVUES 0 MCLASSICAL dvdrip easytag emerald S flock T Le couNTRY evolution HLZDESKTOP TEE Ga PE La DOCUMENTS gcont gconfd DDYDRIP DAT fontcon frostwire e 153 ITEMS 66 FILES TOTAL 87 FOLDERS P REN EET FF ET E I Fig The File Manager By default the File Manager window consists of a side pane and a main view pane At the top of the window just under the window title bar are the menu bar and the location bar The view pane displays the files and folders contained in the current directory that the user is in These can be displayed as icons default or changed to display them as a listing of filenames
48. CD will be run automatically to play the CD Ensure that your speakers are turned on so that you can hear the CD You can also manually start the CD Player application from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Sound gt KsCD Play Status stop 2 Eject Vol 40 H Previous M Next Random Loop E gt Extras Fig CD Player You can control the CD Player just like a normal CD player with the buttons Shown on the CD Player screen These include volume control track forward backward play pause stop eject as well as jumping to any track on the CD directly Playing Digital Audio Files PCLinuxOS gives us Amarok which is arguably the most complete music manager available today Amarok serves many functions rather than just playing music files For example Amarok can be used to organize a library of music into folders according to genre artist and album can edit tags attached to most music formats associate album art attach lyrics and automatically score music as you play it i Amarok m a _ Engage Playlist Mode Tools Settings Help x Connect amp Disconnect 5 Transfer 0 mla O B Search Playlist MTP Media Device rit Al Media Device Browser Ep Colle amp Cont Configure your media device and then click the Connect button to access your media device Drag and drop files to engueue them for transfer ai a ey un L ma B E Mag 0 tracks in queue ura 1
49. Cancel Fig Selecting New Fonts As you make your choices of Font Font style and size You will see the effects of each of your choices in the box at the bottom of the window Once you have found the right combination click on the OK button Style The Style tool is used to customize the appearance of menus menubars and toolbars Again this can be run from the KDE Theme Manager or by using the menu Menu gt System gt Configuration gt KDE gt Style Widget Style Description A simple and clean style Show icons on buttons x Enable tooltips Preview ston crou Sa E K Radio button pe aa ee ae 0 Button Te S O Radio button Help Defaults Cancel Fig Style Dialog Window As you Can see in the screenshot above the Style window gives you three tabs Style Effects and Toolbar The greatest effect created by these three tabs will be with the Widget Style part of this window Experiment on each of the settings to find the ones you prefer Icons The Icon theme window offers you many choices as you can see below Advanced Select the icon theme you want to use oe 7 Description Amaranth Silver Vector Theme Aqua Fusion 0 5 0 Icons by D Flax Crux Crux Crystal SVG Icon Theme by Everaldo com Desig Empty Don t remove Needed to display Exquisite compiled by Guppetto icons by Mi Fairy tale World theme Icon Theme by Caihua www madic GNOME Default GNOME Theme
50. HELP CLOSE Fig Firefox Preferences The Main tab allows you to set your homepage and where to save files that you download The Tabs tab allows you to set all the options related to tabbed browsing The Content tab lets you block pop ups whether you would like to have images load automatically and javascript control You can also set your default fonts and configure how Firefox handles different file types The Feeds tab allows you to choose which feed reader to use when accessing live feeds from the Internet The Privacy tab lets you manage your History Cookies and Personal Data The Security tab allows management of passwords for different websites warning messages and whether websites are real or not The Advanced tab lets you control encryption updates and navigation within web pages Exercises Start up the Firefox browser and visit the websites listed below Use the navigation tab bar feature so that you open up the websites all in the same window but under different tab pages www Firefox org www yahoo com Bookmark the sites visited above Configure Firefox so that it starts with your preferred homepage Finding Information on the Internet The Internet is a treasure house of information Virtually information on any topic under the sun and more can be found on the Internet However while information is easily available it may not be so easy to find the information you want This is because the inform
51. Jpg g iz va E o T ra i a Fig Photobook View in File Manager This will result in only the image files present in the folder being displayed You can then select an individual image to view and also perform zoom in or zoom out views digiKam Camera Access digiKam is a simple digital photo management application which makes importing and organizing digital photos a snap The photos can be organized in albums which are automatically sorted chronologically An easy to use interface is provided to connect to your camera and preview images and download and or delete them digiKam uses a folder on your file system as an album library meaning that every sub folder of this folder will be considered as a photo album and displayed in the album list on the left side of the main window Clicking on an album will start showing the thumbnails for the images in the album You can change the icon size to small medium large or huge from the magnify buttons in the toolbar Right Clicking on an item will give you a pop up menu using which you can view rename delete see the exif information and add edit comments of the images Double clicking on an item will open it up in the image viewer Album Taq Image Select View Tools Camera Settings Help oodd dany kaal kai My Albums a My Albums T Albums oo d Software Mic jg EV ECanay created 11 2 modified LL a eyecandy saiuadoigd
52. Management Slide Design Views Jazzing up the presentation Conclusion Preface This user guide is meant as an introductory guide for a user to use a modern personal computer PC running the Linux operating system The main aim is to provide a self learning guide on how to use a modern Linux desktop system It assumes that the user has no prior knowledge of Linux or PC usage After going through the guide the reader should be in a position to start using a Linux desktop for both personal and office use In particular she should be able to access the Internet and use the WWW and Internet email manipulate and manage files folders and the file system produce and print simple documents and presentation materials advance to become a power user by further self learning and exploring Chapter 1 Getting Started I ve updated this guide to reflect the desktop environment called KDE It s more Windows like and it seems to have a few more bells and whistles I ve taken the screenshots from my computer which isn t set up exactly the same as yours but it s pretty close In order to start using your system you will usually have to perform what is known as a user login This procedure is necessary to identify yourself to the system The system allows multiple users to use it concurrently and so it has to be able to identify a user in order to grant them the necessary privileges and rights to use the system and applications Each user upon succ
53. Published by the United Nations Development Programme s Asia Pacific Development Information Programme UNDP APDIP Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Web http www apdip net Email info apdip net UNDP APDIP 2004 The material in this guide may be reproduced republished and incorporated into further works provided acknowledgment is given to UNDP APDIP This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License To view a copy of this license visit http creativecommons org licenses by 2 0 or send a letter to Creative Commons 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford California 94305 USA This guide has been modified by Papawoob to reflect the Linux distribution of PCLinuxOS 2007 You will also find much of it to be relevant to most KDE Desktop Environments Index Chapter 1 Getting Started Text Based Login Starting the Graphical Desktop Using the Mouse on the Desktop Main Components of the Desktop The Menu System The Panel The Workspace Switcher The Taskbar The Desktop Space Using the Window Manager The Titlebar Manipulating the Window Focus Maximize and Minimize Resize Move Move to Workspaces Ending the Session Logout Shutting Down the System Chapter 2 Using the Desktop Basic Desktop Customization Desktop Background Desktop Behavior Multiple Desktops screen Savers Display Chapter 2 Part 2 Desktop Themes Default Fonts Style Icons Colors Using the Desktop Running Applications The Panel Placing an Applet o
54. RKS TOOLS HELP O 0 O Ob HTTRoyWWW ACLCOM GO GOOGLE hee mty here for pou E i T ia Regular Wedding po er il 1 That s So Boring A 1 im Wegaa Fa Hip to Get Hitched A Wi By AOL o F Wideo q On Halloween Where to Bay 10 maming fn A Hew ADL coon Check It Oul Bisre Wii Widad iregi Thre Ceca a Pace Save J i i f arrini mpar lan gr ar E movies for i Padding Uressag lp m Senoke i p F p a i mA T s i eae a ans i F F aE A kifa j irm es L it S e F q i I bi ogee k E d i nei os e F a 4 f es i ONE Pei ig i AS i ee Pje a ki E Milk i hay Teed F ares F haed Cai Ten mes hd Comeh Hpi Sootoader bo Fh Ta Moti t Bombe Ended TA panga Miraria Sarg Move FREE gt i od FP RarA Tha O SCA ere DONE Fig Home Page for an ISP Other portals offering general information as well as links to other more subject specific portals and websites include Yahoo www yahoo com Netscape Network www netscape com Microsoft Network www msn com Angelfire www angelfire lycos com Using an Internet Search Engine While portals provide a guided and categorized means to access information sometimes we want to be more specific about the topic we want to find and portals generally are not able to provide this in a timely and efficient manner An alternative is to utilize a search engine A search engine as the name implies allows
55. S 2007 In our next chapter we will be covering all of the ins and out of Internet e mail including how to setup an e mail account manage your mail and a couple of different e mail clients See you next month Chapter 9 Internet E mail Internet e mail has become one of the most popular applications on the Internet An Internet experience is not complete without the usage of e mail In this Chapter we shall be describing two commonly used e mail software KMail and Mozilla Thunderbird Email Requirements There are two main types of Internet email systems webmail and POP3 Webmail as the name implies makes use of a web browser to read compose send and manage your mail POP3 e mail makes use of a POP3 email client to download your email from a server housing your email mailbox The main difference between a webmail system and a POP3 e mail system is that for the former generally you have to be online to the server housing your mailbox to access and manage your mail For the POP3 system you need to be online to the server only to download your mail after that you can go offline to read reply and manage your local mail storage You only need to go online again when you want to send out your e mail In addition to having a webmail account somewhere on the Internet webmail needs only a web browser and Internet access to work Examples of popular webmail services are those from Yahoo and Hotmail Most ISPs also offer webmail services
56. SC1600 Mail PDF File E Print to File PostScript 3 Advanced Faxing Tool ksendfax 4 Print to File PDF Send to Fax Di 8 fapavoon d Job ID Owner Name sid State Size KB Page s Priority Billing Info Cancel Fig Print Jobs Using the Printer Normal usage of the printer from an application is straightforward Select the printing function from your application and a print job is then automatically submitted to the printer queue The Scanner The scanner is a device which allows you to convert analog graphics e g a photograph or a printed page into digital format where it can be stored on the computer and further manipulated by appropriate software Flat bed scanners for personal use are quite common nowadays Most scanners connect to the computer using the USB SCSI or parallel ports To use the scanner suitable software to control and drive it is required The SANE backend drivers may be used to drive the scanner hardware while the XSane GUI front end acts as the end user interface To check whether the scanner you have can be used the SANE website at http www sane project org Should be consulted Using the Scanner You can start the scanning software on the Desktop from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Graphics gt Kooka This will invoke the Kooka program the main window in Kooka consists of three frames At the top see both icon and a menu panels Use the mouse to enlarge or reduc
57. The side pane contains an icon that represents the current file or current folder The side pane also contains information about the current file or current folder A hierarchical tree view of the file system on the computer can be obtained from the side pane By navigating through this you can access files and folders outside your home directory provided of course that you have the permission to do so PCLinuxOS News PCLinuxOS Forums PCLinuxOS Donations PCLinuxOS WIKI gt Home Folder raii BEN EZG dani report oo E Desktop Linux for linux in school eyecandy School schools linux 1 odt gw ISOS linwin comparisons ie Music ge Photos ie taxcut e mail tmp TuxMag k We o Lu 1 E o L ath i P 3 Items 2 Files 104 5 KB Total One Folder A CT a CT Fig The Side Pane with a Tree View of Folders Accessing Files and Programs From the view pane of the File Manager you can open files as well as run launch executable programs by double clicking on the icon representing them Creating New Folders To create a new folder under the folder you are currently in move the mouse to the menu bar at the top just beneath the title bar of the window and click on Fdit and then click on Create New A submenu will pop out to the right and then click on Folder A new folder will appear as seen below on the view pane and you will have to type in the name of the new folder
58. a where the contents of a web page are rendered and displayed This display area can be made full screen by either selecting the View gt Full Screen selection from the top menu bar or pressing the F11 key To disable full screen display either press F11 again or click on the Restore window button on the top right corner of the menu bar Navigation Tab Bar Firefox allows you to browse multiple websites within one browser window by using navigational tabs This overcomes the inconvenience of opening several windows under Firefox to view multiple sites To do this either choose under the menu bar Edit gt Preferences gt Tabs gt New Pages Should Be Opened In gt A New Tab or enter CONTROL T If you open different web pages using this navigation tab feature they will all be displayed under the same window You can then use the tab bar to move between each tab screen Configuring Firefox Firefox is highly configurable To configure Firefox select from the main menu Edit gt Preferences The categories available for configuration are listed on the top panel of the main configuration window as seen below a iru ia A 3S ef s s a fa MAIN TABS CONTENT FEEDS PRIVACY SECURITY ADVANCED NEW PAGES SHOULD BE OPENED IN A NEW TAB A WARN ME WHEN CLOSING MULTIPLE TABS _ WARN ME WHEN OPENING MULTIPLE TABS MIGHT SLOW DOWN by FIREFOX g ALWAYS SHOW THE TAB BAR O WHEN OPEN A LINK IN A NEW TAB SWITCH TO IT IMMEDIATELY
59. ation gt KDE gt System Administration gt Theme Manager A theme selector dialog window is displayed The screenshot below shows a sample of some of the themes which may be available Note that the actual themes available can vary from system to system Choose your visual KDE theme Get new themes HighContrastDark HighContrastDark big HighContrastLight HighContrastLight big KDE Classic Keramik Plastik Platinum Theme i ai ar E Install New Theme Create New Theme Customize your theme Background Colors l Help Defaults Fig Theme Manager As you can see in the Theme Manager screenshot you will find a list of available themes in the upper left hand corner To choose a theme just click on one and then click on the Install New Theme button If the new theme does not suit your fancy then try another and another and another until you find one that you like Now it is possible that you do not find any of the default themes to your liking Have no fear The Get new themes link in the upper right hand corner will transport you to http www kde look org where you will find literally hundreds of other themes It will also be your source for just about any form of eyecandy that you will ever need for your Kde desktop Before we move on make note of the six tabs that are located along the bottom of the Theme Manager window We previously covered Bac
60. ation may be available from very many sites often in varying details and varying aspects of the same piece of information To assist us in finding information more effectively a search engine or Internet portal may be used Note Information obtained from the Internet should be scrutinized carefully and not taken as correct in all cases This is because due to its free flowing nature and easy means of access and creation anyone can publish information on the Internet As such unless one is certain that the information is from an authoritative and reliable source it should be verified by another source or means as far as possible Using a Portal The term portal is used to denote a website that acts as an gateway for providing information about a subject area or group of subjects From this portal site information as well as links to other sites providing information about the topics in question may be found Portals are useful starting places for new web users who do not know where and how to go and look for information about a specific topic or subject Many major ISPs provide portal like information services for their subscribers so that if the latter make this their home page for their web browser on launching their browser the ISP s portal page is opened The subject areas covered by these ISP portals are typically subjects of general interest like shopping local and foreign news entertainment etc FILE EDIT VIEW HISTORY BOOKMA
61. audio digital files VCD and DVD as well as multimedia games Note While support may be available in the software the necessary hardware has to be available before these multimedia facilities can be used e g a DVD drive Is required to be present on the system before you can play a DVD By default most modern PCs come with a CD ROM drive capable of playing audio CDs and VCDs as well as a sound card and speakers As such in this chapter we Shall discuss how you can listen to an audio CD play audio digital files and view VCDs In the following sections we shall be discussing several media players Some of these e g mplayer and xine are multimedia players in that they can be used as generic players for audio CD digital audio files VCD and DVD The Volume Control Applet Since almost all the multimedia applications require some form of audio production and mixing it is useful if we know how to control the various Channels of audio available from the sound card using the Volume Control Applet on the Panel This may be launched by right clicking the Volume Control icon on the Panel and selecting Open Volume Control If it is not there you can also launch it form the Main Menu Main Menu gt Multimedia gt KMix File Settings Help 3D Control Center Surround IEC958 Playback AC97 SP PC Speaker O ai E E Ww jo NVidia nForce Fig Volume Control Applet KMix is essentially an audio mixe
62. ave to unlock it first by right clicking on the icon and selecting Unlock Configuring the Panel To change the properties of the Panel right click on the Panel and select Configure Panel You can configure the arrangement of the panel here Position Screen Arra nge ment i Hiding Menus ia Length Appearance Taskbar of 100 X Expand as required to fit contents Size Normal Help Defaults OK Cancel Fig Configure Panel From the Arrangement properties tab you can change the position length and size of the Panel From the Hiding properties tab you can hide and un hide the Panel as well as Change how other windows interact with it From the Menus properties tab you can change how the Main Menu displays its entries From the Appearance properties tab you can change the color of the Panel as well as its visual appearance From the Taskbar properties tab you can change how the Taskbar displays running programs in the Panel Launchers Launchers allow the user a quick way to access specific resources on the system For example if a user needs to access a specific file in one of the folders often he she can create a launcher to run an application to open the file and this launcher can be placed on the Desktop In this way the resource the file can be accessed very quickly by just double clicking on it To crea
63. below PCLiruxOS Text Based Login Prompt To login enter the user name followed by the ENTER key and when the password prompt appears enter the password followed by the ENTER key Starting the Graphical Desktop If you have logged in from the graphical login screen the graphical desktop will be started automatically for you The graphical desktop presents a Graphical User Interface GUI for the user to interact with the system and run applications If you have used the text based screen login you will have to start the graphical desktop manually by entering the command startx followed by the ENTER key Note The graphical desktop that we will be using throughout most of this guide is called the KDE Desktop There is another desktop environment in popular use on Linux systems the GNOME Desktop There is some coverage of GNOME later comparing the similarities and differences between GNOME and KDE although we will not be covering the GNOME desktop in detail For the rest of this user guide when we refer to the graphical desktop or Desktop we shall be talking about the KDE Desktop unless stated otherwise Using the Mouse on the Desktop Proper usage of the mouse is essential in order to have a rewarding and productive experience on the graphical desktop Most Linux graphical desktops are designed for use with a 3 button mouse If you are using a 2 button mouse during installation it should have been configured to emulat
64. ccount Otherwise it will be part of the Local Folders Global Inbox account Use Global Inbox store mail in Local Folders Enter the name of your outgoing server SMTP for example smtp example net Outgoing Server smtp server nc m co ml Fig Server Information This next window is where you will enter names of the servers that will fetch pop and send smtp your mail You should have received this information when you set up your ISP account If not you can ask your ISP for this information Under type of incoming server click on POP In the box next to Incoming Server type in the name of your incoming server This will usually be pop server and then the address of your ISP Now we need to check the box next to Use Global Inbox Doing this will save your incoming mail on your harddrive which will allow you to work with your mail offline This will be especially important to those of you on dialup connections The last thing we need to do in this window is enter the name of your outgoing server Type the name in the box next to Outgoing Server As with the pop server above the server name will usually be smtp server and then the address of your ISP When you have finished click Next 25 Account Wizard Enter the incoming user name given to you by your email provider for example jsmith Incoming User Name test Enter the outgoing user name given to you by your email provider this is typ
65. ced on the the Desktop To delete an application icon from the Panel right click on it and select the Remove lt application gt Button option To delete an application icon from the Desktop right click on it and select the Move to Trash option The Panel The Panel houses many useful utilities called applets Applets are small applications that run on the Panel As discussed in Chapter One by default the Taskbar and the workspace switcher applets are placed in and run on the Panel Other useful applets that may be placed on the Panel include clock dictionary volume control preferred applications Placing an Applet on the Panel To place an applet on the Panel move the mouse over to an empty space on the Panel and right click it Select the item Add Applet to Panel and from the sub menu select the applet to place on the Panel For example to place the dictionary applet on the Panel select Add Applet to Panel gt Dictionary Previcw Manage anu SWILE LO MIUILIPIE Virludl desktops E B Dictionary i Lookup phrases in a dictionary Eyes F F e oe e m a a m m Fig Add Applet To prevent accidental removal of an applet you can lock the Panel by right clicking on it and selecting Lock Panels Removing an Applet from the Panel To remove an applet right click on the applet icon and select the Remove lt application gt Button option If the applet is locked you will h
66. ck the Browse button The Browse button is located to the right of the Picture image selector dialog and looks like a file folder When you have chosen an image click on Apply and then click OK Desktop Behavior Our next option in the Configure KDesktop window is Behavior The General tab allows you the options of whether or not you have file icons or device icons and if you chose to have them on your desktop which ones you want to be seen See figures below It also allows you to setup what each of your mouse buttons do when they are clicked You can also choose whether you would like your Menu bar at the top of your screen and if so what style You can configure how the desktop behaves here General File Icons Device Icons x Show icons on desktop Behavior C Allow programs in desktop window x Show tooltips Multiple Desktops Menu Bar at Top of Screen S None r i esa O Desktop menu bar re O Current application s menu bar Mac OS style Display Mouse Button Actions Left button Middle button Window List Menu Right button Desktop Menu Help Defaults pice Cancel Fig Behavior Dialog You can configure how the desktop behaves here General File Icons Device Icons _ Automatically line up icons O Show hidden files Show Icon Previews For O cursor Files O Djvu Files O Electronic Business Card Files Screen Saver O EXR Images O Font Files O HTML Files
67. cting the Static IP address button New Account KPPP Gateway Configuration O Dynamic IP address Static IP address IP address o OS Subnet mask o Ol _ Auto configure hostname from this IP Fig Filling in the IP Settings Click on OK to accept and end the set up The KPPP Configuration window will pop up click on OK to exit from it Activating the Modem To test your modem and Internet connectivity select the KPPP tool from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Internet gt Remote Access gt KPPP Select the profile you have set up remember the ISP nickname you used in the set up above by clicking on it and then click on the Connect button The modem will start to dial and connect to the ISP and after awhile upon successful login the KPPP window will tell you that you are now connected to the Internet You can now perform the web browsing and other services discussed in the Next few chapters To disconnect from the Internet bring up the Network Devices Control window and select the profile which was activated above and click on the Disconnect button You will be disconnected from the Internet You can then quit the KPPP program Troubleshooting If for some reason you do not hear any connection noises then perhaps your modem was not detected and set up You ll need to use the Modem tab and click the New button to make some changes x Wait for dial tone before dialing Busy wai
68. current Language modules simply download the a OSDisc com P directory for your language and copy it over SLAX overwriting irata S ax the onginal initrd gz file Firefox and Thunderbird modules these Ubuntu 7 04 1 95 are created from Slackware packages but modified them because Mozilla applications look so ugly in Linux Now they are PCLinuxOS 2007 1 95 Lt 1 95 very nice Please see the announcement and changelog for opensa I0 Le further details Download slax6re4 iso 198MB MD5 Fedora 7 7 95 a EE Panar 2007 06 15 Development Release Damn Small eee Fig The Firefox Web Browser By default the web browser component of Firefox will be executed and displayed The navigation window has the following main parts by default the navigation toolbar the menu bar the display panel the side bar optional Firefox has many features and only a brief description of its main functionalities and features can be given here The user should refer to the Help button on the menu bar for more details The Navigation Toolbar 5 0 6 3 GiwxttryoistrowatcHcow CO GO _ Goa Fig The Navigation Toolbar The navigation toolbar allows you to access a website by entering its Uniform Resource Locater URL or more informally known as its web address e g http Distrowatch com in the address box provided Actually you need to enter only the name of the host i e Distrowatch com and Fire
69. e The method for saving an image is somewhat different in Kooka than in many other applications Click the Gallery tab to open a small file browser This is the folder kde share apps ScanImages In the lower portion of the window your current subfolder in the gallery is shown This is where all scanned images are first saved as files When starting Kooka for the first time you will only see the ScanImages Create subfolders by right clicking this folder The selected folder highlighted in blue is the first save location of the scanned images The scans are labeled in ascending numerical order as in kscan 0001 and kscan 0002 To save an image permanently left click the name Next give a new name and the appropriate ending for the image format chosen when scanning If you enter a different extension you will get a message that it does not correspond to the scanned format Although you can still save the image under this name it will retain its original format At present On the fly conversion is not offered If you do not want to use this method of managing your images in kde share apps ScanImages you can of course save them to another location To do this right click the image name and select Save Choose any path here In addition close or permanently delete images here Help More detailed information on how to use the scanner software as well as changing the default configuration can be obtained by clicking on the Main Menu
70. e athlete Forefoot palm inthe aitiate is common Generally he symptoms ara a rmah of overuse Tham inital Mava IG Ee nir mii am ene usr eted bicini s E Cima iit Jel 4 z Lo o m l l pmm m m c l A h ga Tt s Chapter Bock Opanomes ra BE 24 Fig Search using Relevant Keywords If we remember that the friend mentioned that the doctor gave the name of the condition as something sounding like Frieberg disease we can try searching for this specific term The search results improve immediately as can be seen below and in this particular example we have found several links which are directly related to the information we want FILE EDIT VIEW HISTORY BOOKMARKS TOOLS HELP eL TG E HTTP WW W GOOGLE COM SEARCHTHL EME JGO GOOGLE Web magas Video Mews Maps Gmal mog F Google Forarcot Fan fue Results 1 10 of about 256 000 tor tomogi pain 0 13 seconds metatarsalgia forefoot inunes metatarsalga causes tresiment Such folet pain is kyan as melatasalgia which simply means palm caused by inflammation at Gee bal o ihe foot of at thee juncture of the big toe or wit SO OSU bull ein Con archive metalarea lia ham 37k Forefoot Pain informaton at My FoctShop com Intonation aboul Forfood Pain and adhar common conditions of the toot RAA My GOL it Con eta Seo on clon F One o eZ Pain 2k Forefoot Pain Invoking the Metatarsal Region Driferental Fomio pain is a common ci
71. e the middle button of a 3 button mouse by pressing both buttons simultaneously To click on a mouse the left button is depressed A mouse configured for a left handed user will will need to have its right button depressed The right or left button for a left handed mouse and middle buttons are usually used to invoke Special or specific features of the GUI and instructions to do so will be explicitly given The term clicking on the mouse means that you click on the mouse once The term double clicking means that you click twice in succession on the mouse To select an item means clicking it once with the mouse The term drag and drop means that you will have to click on an item and while continuing to hold the mouse button down drag the item to another place and on reaching its destination drop it by releasing the mouse button Exercises Open the home My System folder from the Desktop Close the home folder window by clicking on the close window button at the top right hand corner Right click on the trash icon view its properties and close it back Move the trash icon to another location on the desktop by using the mouse to drag it to the new location and releasing the mouse Main Components of the Desktop There are 3 main components to a Kde desktop They are The Menu System The Panel The Desktop Itself The Menu System The main menu can be accessed by clicking on the Main Menu button located at the ext
72. e the windows as needed KDE Scanning Kooka 2x File jmage Settings Help 2166 Ai 4 Image Name Size Kooka Gallery Folate Da Format b 9002 bm kscan_0003 bmp scan_0004 bmp 3 mn kscan_0005 bmp e4sk8 ame am OU neu 3 ite Orientation IMG_0039 JPG 217 0 AnevesVz Bnoch neu Selection jont 73 mm anner Settings AGFA SNAPSCAN 1236U Size 146MB C A 23336285856 ooo m E e o oa O U V s i o 1 E 2 3 Ea l x e Final Sgan j Preview Scan j IMG_0039 JPG eis ES Fig Kooka Main Window The navigation window consists of two tabs which allow you to switch between the Preview and the integrated file browser called the Gallery The working folder is displayed in the lower part of the window along with the folder where the scan will be saved Make your scanner dependent settings which are dependent on the scanner you have connected in the lower left window Usually these are settings for resolution brightness and contrast scanning mode e g color gray or binary and for gamma values Configure your settings here first Preview Before the actual scanning of an image takes place the preview operation is usually carried out to preview the scanned image To perform the preview place the image to be scanned into the scanner and initiate the preview scan with Preview If the Preview tab in the upper window is selected see the results there S
73. elect the various formats in the preview image itself to define the final dimensions The User setting is recommended for this so you select the area to scan in the preview display with the mouse Fig Preview Window As the scanner will scan its entire scanner bed by default if you are scanning an image which occupies only a part of the bed you will want to select only the area which holds the image to be scanned This can be done from the Preview window in several ways One way is to manually select the scan area frame by pressing and holding the left mouse button to define one edge moving the mouse so that the area to scan is completely inside the frame which is marked by a dashed white line and then releasing the mouse button Another way is to select the Autoraise button and then clicking on the image to be scanned A frame is created to mark the scan area The mouse may be used to adjust the scan area if it is not fully correct Scan After the appropriate scan area has been chosen in the Preview window the image can be adjusted and or enhanced for color correction contrast and brightness The gamma value brightness and contrast can be adjusted manually in the scan window before performing the scan After a satisfactory image is seen in the preview window perform the actual scan by clicking on the Final Scan button The scan will be performed and the scanned image displayed in the Viewer window Sav
74. esktop place the mouse on the title bar and drag the window to the desired location Close You can close a window which has focused from the Window Menu or by clicking on the close window button on the title bar If the window does not have focus bring it into focus first by clicking on the Taskbar on the Panel Note Closing the window will terminate your application Move to Workspaces The Window Menu can be used to move the application currently opened to another workspace or to all the workspaces Exercises Open your home folder from the Desktop Perform the following operations on the opened window maximize it minimize it resize it move it to another area of the desktop place it on workspace 3 close it Ending the Session To end this chapter you can exit your session on the desktop by performing what is known as a logout If you do not want to use the system any more you can turn it off by performing a system shutdown Logout When you have finished working on the system you will need to logout Logging out will inform the system that you are no longer using the system s resources All the files opened and programs run by you will be closed and or stopped unless you have specifically informed the system to keep them open or running for you To logout at the Main Menu select Main Menu gt Log Out and at the dialog window select End Current Session and click OK Shutting Down the System When you have
75. essful login will be assigned to his home directory folder Some systems may have been set up so that upon power on a default user is logged in automatically If this is so then you will not be presented with a login screen or prompt as described in the section below You may skip on to the section entitled Basic Navigation using the Mouse on the Desktop I would however recommend reading this section in case you ever have to log out and log back in Note There is a special user called root or superuser this user is usually created during the system installation which has unlimited access and rights to all the system files and resources You only need to login as root if certain system level administrative tasks are to be carried out Otherwise there is usually no need for a normal user to login as root This is to prevent accidentally damaging the system by deleting or modifying important system files Fig Login Screen LOGIN INFORMATION Home root Paseword root Name gugsi Password gurat PCLiruxOS acta hs will System Menu When you reach this screen type in your user name and then type in your password and press enter This will bring up a splash screen showing your desktop being loaded as seen below Welcome to pris sxe f WO ee eee ee radically simple ba e Loading the desktop When the blue lights on the bottom finish lighting up the next thing you will see is your Kde desktop as seen
76. ew mail account the Inbox Trash Drafts and Sent folders are created automatically for you To create a new folder perform File gt New gt Folder You can file or move your messages from one folder to another by clicking on the list of messages displayed in the top right panel when the source folder is selected and dragging and dropping them into the destination folder in the usual manner Account Configuration You can customize your account email settings by selecting Edit gt Account Settings UPAXTOMGING RR COM ete er pets MM Wasi foo E SERVER SETTINGS z 3 GOHO HISSASI IH HTML FORHAT JUHE ST ees RETURN RECEIPTS 7 AUTOMATICALLY GUOTE THE ORIGINAL MESSAch WHE Security THEM START MY REPLY BELOW THE QUOTE OUTS Se Ee GG A DOR eres ir 4 Sn MY LOBAL LDAP S2eVER PREFERENS FoR USE A DIFFERENT LDAP SERVER There are several important settings which you should be aware of Account Settings In this main configuration screen you can configure your name Internet email address and organization name to use as well as the account name which refer to these settings under Thunderbird In particular the Compose messages in HTML format box should not be checked if you want to compose and send your email messages using just plain text Optionally you can leave the box checked and when you send it you will see a box that gives you the option to send it as plain text Server Settings
77. folder Note if you delete the file from the Trash then it cannot be recovered anymore The procedures above can be done with folders also To delete more than one file or folder at a time select multiple files folders by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the files or folders The Trash Can The trash can icon on the desktop contains files and folders which you have deleted using the File Manager or an application run from the desktop As noted above it is a special folder in which it is still possible to recover the deleted items to another folder so as to undelete them However over time the trash folder will be filled up as many files and folders get deleted through usage So it is a good idea to periodically empty or delete the items found in the trash F a Fig Empty Trash Can Fig Full Trash Can To empty the trash right click on the trash icon and select Empty Trash Bin Otherwise you can open the trash by double clicking on it and then select Edit gt Selection gt Select All and then Edit gt Delete Using A Text Editor Very often it is necessary to use the computer to input some text or to modify the data in a text file While a full fledged word processor like OpenOffice org s Writer may be used it can be an overkill since the sophisticated features and formatting available with a word processor are not needed in many cases A text editor can be used instead The PCLinuxOS system comes
78. fox is smart enough to figure out that you want to access the web server on that host Clicking on the arrow at the right edge of the address box will open a pull down menu showing a history of websites visited previously You can click on an entry in the list to select that website Also present on the navigation toolbar are the Back Forward Reload and Stop buttons The Back button enables you to go back to the previous web page displayed The Forward button enables you to go forward to the next web page that you have already accessed The Reload button forces Firefox to re access the website and load the current web page The Stop button halts the loading of a web page that is currently proceeding Next to the address box in the navigation toolbar is the Search button This button enables you to perform searches for relevant web pages on the Internet by making use of the Google search engine To search for some particular information you can enter the keywords for the search into the address box and then click on the Search button As you type each letter a list of possible searches will be displayed below the search box Quite often what you are searching for will show up in the list before you finish typing If so simply click on the one you want to try The results of the search will be displayed in the display panel You can configure the search engine to use with this search button in the Firefox configuration setup see Configu
79. ft select from the main menu at the top File gt Save As gt Draft The email message will be saved in the Drafts folder under the current account section Later to edit the saved draft select the Drafts folder under the account click on the draft message to edit that is being displayed in the top right panel and select from the top menu Message gt Edit Message As New After editing the message you can send it off as discussed above Receiving Mail To receive mail click on the Get Mail button at the top When prompted enter your email password POP3 password and the email will be downloaded from your Internet mailbox and stored into the Inbox folder Of course you will have to be online to perform this Deleting Mail To delete mail messages select the folder in which the messages are stored in and in the top right display panel where the list of messages are displayed select a message by clicking on it and then click on the Delete button at the top The deleted mail is moved to the Trash folder in the account currently being used To permanently delete them you can either delete them from the Trash folder or click on the Trash folder and from the main menu at the top select File gt Empty Trash You can also right click on the trash folder and choose Empty Trash Folders The various folders allow you to organize your email so that you can group and file them under appropriate folders By default when you create a n
80. g time Duplicating CDs It is easy to make a duplicate of a CD using K3b To do this you will need one CDROM drive and one CD RW drive With K3b opened on your desktop choose Copy CD and then insert the source CD into the CD drive Next insert the CD R or CD RW into the CD RW drive The drives will automatically be selected in the Source Medium and Burn Medium windows You will see a window like this Burn Medium Use the same device for burning zl Speed Auto Copy Mode Settings Normal Copy p Simulate x Create image Writing Mode Auto v Only create image x Remove image Copies a Fig CD Copy window The only setting that you may want to change is the burn speed Auto will select the speed for you but a tip to remember is that the lower the burn speed the better the burn To start the actual recording burning of the CD click on the Start button at the bottom right corner of the K3b window Creating a Data CD This section will discuss how you can copy files and folders from the mounted file system and record them into a CD R W You can select the files and folders you want to copy from the Unix Tree in the Data Source window at the top left or from the top right window and drag them into the virtual file system right panel in the bottom window The files and folders in the virtual file system can be edited by right clicking on the mouse You can create delete and rename files and directories f
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82. ght to see the effect you created Conclusion OpenOffice org has the ability to be a very useful software package It includes very powerful free alternatives to satisfy average office suite requirements As this is only scratching the surface there are plenty more resources available out there so please use the available documentation to its fullest
83. have this as your default resolution when you start Kde then click on the box next to Apply settings on Kde startup Display Settings Eg Play g Background Size amp Orientation Monitor Gamma Power Control g Settings for screen Behavior Screen size 1280 x 1024 1280 x 1024 i 1152 x 664 Multiple Desktops Orientation degrees counterclockwise 4454 x 768 Normal 832 x 624 800 x 600 1d Refresh rate Screen Saver 640 x 480 1280 x 960 Display 416 x 312 Apply settings on KDE startu PET gt P 400 x 300 Help oK apply cancel Fig Display Chapter 2 Part 2 Welcome back to our continuing journey into the mysteries of the Kde Desktop Environment This part is mostly about using all of the available eyecandy to make your desktop look and function exactly the way you want it to So lets jump right in Desktop Themes The desktop theme specifies the visual appearance of the panels applets and windows by combining settings for the background colors window style icons fonts and screen saver The desktop theme may also specify the appearance of interface items in applications For example the theme affects the appearance of buttons scrollbars check boxes and so on in the applications The theme used by the Desktop can be changed by running the Theme manager from the Menu Menu gt System gt Configur
84. he Add to To button and it will show up in the To window You can also double click a name to accomplish the same thing Repeat this process as many times as necessary The other email header fields like Cc and Bcc can be selected by clicking on the To field button The Subject field should also be filled in with an appropriate subject header You Should avoid being too verbose for the subject header The mail message body can be entered in the right bottom panel provided and any file attachments can be added by clicking on the Attach button at the top and then selecting the file Sending Mail After composing the email you can either send it off immediately if you are already online send it later or keep it as a draft to be edited later To send it off immediately select the Send button If the message was sent successfully it will be stored in the Sent folder To send it later select from the main menu at the top File gt Send Later The message will be stored under the Unsent Messages in the Local Folders section In this way you can compose all the emails first and store them before sending them all in one go Later on you can send all the unsent messages by selecting from the main menu at the top File gt Send Unsent Messages This method of sending is especially useful if you are on a dial up Internet connection where you can compose the messages offline and then dial up later to send the messages To save it as a dra
85. he Find dialog The Replace button can be used to locate a text string and replacing it with another Again the default options of non case sensitive and matching part of a word can be changed The Find and Replace functions can also be performed using the Search menu selection at the top Opening A File You can edit a text document already saved on the system by opening it From the main menu at the top choose File gt Open and select the file to open Preferences Preferences can be set from the Preferences menu selection Edit gt Preferences The Preferences you can set include the font color and point size to be used tab Spacing autowrapping and autoindenting Help More information on how to use KWrite can be obtained by selecting Help from the menu at the top Chapter 4 Using Common Mass Storage Peripherals Besides the main components which make up the modern PC there are many optional peripherals which can be attached to it When these are properly utilized they can contribute to make the computing environment and experience more convenient productive and pleasant The more common peripherals include printer scanner mass storage devices In this chapter we shall be looking at how to access and use the common peripheral mass storage devices floppy disk drive CD ROM drive USB mass storage device CD RW drive Setting up and using a printer and scanner will be covered in the next chapter Note
86. he user id is also created and the new user id belongs to this group By default this group which has the same name as the file owner is associated with the file All of the other user ids on the system which are not the owner of the file or do not belong to the group associated with the file are placed in the category others By default the owner has read and write permission for a non executable file and read write and execute permission for an executable file The group associated with the file has read permission for a non executable file and read and execute rights for an executable file The others group has read only permission for a non executable file and read and execute rights for an executable file The rights and ownership concepts described above apply to directories too However since a directory cannot be executed access rights are substituted for execution rights Access to a directory means that the user id with the appropriate permission can descend into the directory i e change directory to it The File Manager application described below may be used to view and modify the ownership and permissions of a file or folder Only the owner of a file folder can change its permissions and only the superuser or root can change the ownership of a file folder Viewing and Modifying the Permissions of a File or Folder To view the owner and group of a file folder and or to modify its permission settings right click on the file a
87. ically the same as your incoming user name Outgoing User Name test X Cancel Back Next Fig User Names In this next window as you can see above you will need to enter your incoming and outgoing user names In most cases these will be the same After entering these click Next Account Wizard Account Name Enter the name by which you would like to refer to this account for example Work Account Home Account or News Account Account Name test nc rr com X Cancel Back g Next Fig Account Name In this window you need to name this account As you can see in the window above you can name it anything you like For people who use different accounts for different aspects of their lives this is where you can name it for whatever purpose you will use this e mail address After entering the name you prefer click Next Congratulations Please verify that the information below is correct Account Name test nc rrcom Email Address test nc rr com Incoming User Name test Incoming Server Name pop server nc mcom Incoming Server Type POPS Outgoing User Name test Outgoing Server Name SMTP smtp server nc m com Download messages now Click Finish to save these settings and exit the Account Wizard Fig Congratulations As the window above says Congratulations This page displays all of the information that you have entered in the last few windows
88. ig Slide Buttons This provides a pop up menu option that allows you to insert slides or even modify the slide layout of the current slide Views There are several views in Impress and some have over lapping names but with different functionality At the top of the center screen you ll notice five buttons that look like what you see below Normal Outline Notes Handout Slide Sorter Fig View Buttons The five options for workspace views are Normal view default for slide design Outline view overlook of the presentation Notes view add speaker notes Handout view how handouts get printed Slide Sorter view birds eye view to add change switch slides around All the views can also be accessed via View Master Views are supported and to access this view go to View gt Master and then choose the one you want You can have master views of all workspace views i e a master view of the slide itself notes and handouts The Layer view allows layering of slides adding and removing and layers can be non printing or non displayed on screen but printing only Jazzing up the presentation Objects like video Java applets music and even other graphics can be added embedded to a presentation very easily To perform this the following menu is useful Insert gt Object Keep in mind that OpenOffice org will only play content provided all relevant plug ins are installed For sound playback it as
89. igure KMail to modify almost every aspect of KMail You can find it by clicking on Settings in the toolbar at the top of the window Receiving Mail To receive your mail you can click on the Check Mail In button It is the fourth button from the left on the second toolbar as seen below Local Folders inbox KMail File Edit View Go Folder Message Tools Settings Help Q SEARG 08 5145 PM TRANSMISSION FOR A Fig Receiving Mail If you would like KMail to fetch your mail automatically each time you open it you will have to go to Settings gt Configure KMail and then click on the Accounts tab as seen below Configure KMail SETUP FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES RECEIVING SENDING sii INCOMING ACCOUNTS ADD AT LEAST ONE re JPAXTON POP PEARANCE f OMPOSER ERREEN E F CHECK MAIL ON STARTUP NEW MAIL NOTIFICATION MISC _ BEEP E DETAILED NEW MAIL NOTIFICATION OTHER ACTIONS ELP DEFAULTS LOAD PROFILE RESET C APPLY fig Receiving Mail 1 Once you have reached this window simply click on the box to the left of Check Mail On Startup and then click Apply Clicking on OK will close this window and the next time you open KMail your mail will show up automatically Only a very brief description of the functionalities and features of KMail are given here The user should refer to the Help button on the menu bar for more details Inbox Folder The Inbox houses the email sent to y
90. in addition to their traditional POP3 e mail services To use POP3 email you will need to have a POP3 email client software running on your computer Linux has many different email programs which support POP3 email In addition you will also need to know the name of the server on which your POP3 mailbox is located the POP3 server as well as the name of the server which allows you to send out relay mail through it the SMTP server Note Of course you will need to know your Internet email address irrespective of whether you are using webmail or POP3 e mail Since the usage of webmail involves using your browser mainly all you have to do is go to the website of your e mail provider ex Yahoo com and after logging in click on the mail tab Next we will be looking at the POP3 setup and usage of KMail and Mozilla Mail KMail KMail can be launched from the Main Menu Main menu gt Internet gt Mail gt KMail Invoking KMail for the first time will bring up a dialog box that informs you that this is the first time you have used KMail and asks if you would like to set up your e mail account Welcome Welcome to KMail It seems you have started KMail for the first time You can use this wizard to setup your mail accounts Just enter the connection data that you received from your email provider into the following pages Fig KMail Welcome If you click Next a new dialog box will appear This box contains five ch
91. ine first before actually going online to send them To do this click on the File item on the menu bar at the top and select Work Offline File gt Work Offline if the File menu shows the item Work Online then it means that you are already offline i e It is a toggle between online mode and offline mode In the offline mode when you compose and send your mail they will not be sent out but rather they are stored temporarily in your Outbox folder You can send them off later after connecting to the Internet by selecting File gt Send queued messages Sending and Receiving Emails To send the emails you have composed connect to the Internet first and then select Work Online from the File menu Click on the Check Mail In button to receive mail and click on the File gt Send Queued Message menu item in the menu bar Unsent mail in your Outbox will be sent out and any incoming new mail will be placed in your Inbox Deleting Emails Any mail deleted from your Inbox will be placed in the Trash folder You should periodically empty the Trash by clicking on File from the menu bar and selecting Empty All Trash Folders Alternatively you can right click on Trash and choose Empty Trash Folders Mail messages in KMail are organized in folders similar in concept to the File Manager To view your KMail folders click on them in the left side of KMail By default the following email folders are created under the Local Folders Inbox
92. ing the area then Format gt AutoFormat These are pre defined styles that are available in Calc and if you have created your own particular style you can add them into your new AutoFormat In the object toolbar there is an option to set the font colour within the cell There are also options to increase decrease the indents within a cell and in the image below controls for enabling Currency Percentage Add Remove significant decimal places Pe ene Fer ge Fig Part of the Object toolbar Calc These are quick controls and accessing them is as simple as clicking the icons that represent them and automatically the cell will be formatted as stated Not only can Borders be set easily and cell backgrounds too but the alignment of text within a cell can also be set This can be either as a top aligned center aligned or bottom aligned Now that most of the formatting options are known it is easy to apply Styles to the spreadsheet Bring up the Stylist by hitting the F11 key and you ll notice that cell styles that control all elements including formatting and page styles can be set the latter controlling margins headers footers and borders Spreadsheet basics There are a few points to note when using a spreadsheet One of them is that calculations are performed in a left to right format with algebraic ordering rules This means it deals with brackets first then division multiplication additio
93. installed with many text editors In this section we shall be looking at how to use a text editor which comes with the KDE Desktop KWrite Note A text file here refers to a file which contains pure text printing characters only Some types of files e g those created by a word processor while appearing to be text only actually contain other non printing characters and hence are not pure text files Starting KWrite KWrite may be started from the Main Menu Main Menu gt More Applications gt Editors gt KWrite Un File Edit View Bookmarks Tools Settings Help oe Oe a BAAR Fig The KWrite Text Editor After KWrite has started you can immediately type in text into the main edit window The mouse is also used extensively in KWrite to move around the document as well as to perform editing functions Inputing Text Text can be entered by simply typing into the main KWrite window By default the text will wrap to the next line when it reaches the border of the editing window Marking Text The mouse may be used to mark highlight a block of text by clicking on the beginning of the block and dragging the mouse to the end of the block before releasing it Deleting Text Text can be deleted one character at a time by moving the mouse to the character in question and using the DELETE or BACKSPACE keys in the normal fashion If there is a lot of text to be deleted a more efficient way to delete text is to mark it
94. interface that does not get in your way Amarok tries to be a little different and at the same time intuitive It provides a simple drag and drop interface that makes playlist handling simple and fun By using Amarok we truly hope you will Rediscover your music First run Wizard This wizard will help you setup Amarok in three easy steps Click Next to begin or if you do not like wizards click Skip Fig An Application Window Frame The Titlebar When an application is started an application window opens and a frame see figure above is placed around the window of the application The top edge of the frame has a title bar that contains the title of the application At the left hand corner of the title bar is the Window Menu button Clicking on this button will open up the Window Menu Mf Maximize Move Resize X Close You can perform operations such as minimize un maximize shade move resize and close the window from this menu At the right edge of the title bar there are three buttons which allow you to minimize un maximize and close the window To perform an operation in the Window Menu open the menu by right clicking on the Window Menu button and then select the desired operation Manipulating the Window Some basic instructions to manipulate the windowing system are given here More details can be obtained by clicking on Main Menu gt More Applications gt Documentation gt KDE Help Cente
95. it is important that you buy the correct medium type for the function that you want K3b The CD Burner Your system has a program which enables a user to copy files and folders very easily to a CD R W drive To use this feature start the K3b program from the Main Menu Main Menu gt System gt Archiving gt CD Burning gt K3b K3b The CD and DVD Kreator File Project Device Tools Settings Help E al gt gt P amp i home papawoob eyecandy i i S DE s Fiter fairies T m s 10reasons png butterfly jpg 4 doyoureally 4 Grenada food a Home after battle Caribbean sunset jpg dreadlinux Grenada sunset jj ALLERGIC TO alinuxwhore i coasta rica and Grenada eyeofgod jpg halle161024x768 dani report amaroklogo davinci jpg friends jpa halle281024x768 Desktop angel of death dirge of cerebus girl by wolf e halle411024x768 eyecandy ws bay dontbewindows png gno abstract halle451024x768 isos alll dove jpg le graffiti tux halle61024x768 jj am be oer om een p na a gt No medium present Further actions K3b 1 0rc6 c 1999 2007 Sebastian Trug Fig K3b CD Burning Program Top Window Data Sources The K3b window has 2 main window sections top and bottom The top window is divided into 2 windows left and right The left window shows a list of data sources Unix Tree Internal Structure and CDROM drives The data sources are the sources for the da
96. kgrounds and Screen Savers in Part 1 Clicking on either of these tabs will bring you to windows that you are familiar with already The other four tabs Fonts Style Icons and Colors are what we will be covering in the following paragraphs Default Fonts The default fonts used to display applications and the desktop background can be changed by running the Fonts application from the KDE Theme Manager or by using the menu Menu gt System gt Configuration gt KDE gt Fonts A selector dialog for the application window title dialog and terminal fonts are displayed as seen below Fixed width Monospace 12 Choose Toolbar Sans Serif 12 Choose Taskbar Sans Serif 12 Choose Adjust All Fonts X Use anti aliasing for fonts Configure O Force fonts DPI 96 DPI Cancel Help Defaults Fig Fonts Window To change the font for each category of usage click on the Choose button to the right of each space listing the font This will bring up a new dialog window where you will be able to choose different fonts and see what they will look like before deciding which one you want as you can see below Requested Font Font Font style Size Monospace New New Century Schoolbook Newspaper Nimbus Mono L Italic Bold Bold Italic Nimbus Roman No9 L Nimbus Sans L Nimbus Sans L Condensed m Sans Serif The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Pre
97. lly You should accept this and all the defaults on the next few pages File Options Help rg New Connection a DSL Please select your connection protocol If you do not know it keep the preselected protocol O Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Manual TCP IP configuration PPP over ATM PPPoA PPP over Ethernet PPPoE Point to Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP Cancel Previous Next Fig connection protocol Clicking next will bring up a window where you can enter the login name and password provided to you by the ISP Click on the Next button On the next window check the box next both Allow users to manage the connection and Start the connection at boot and click Next Click next and you will see a window that will ask if you want to start the connection now Choose yes click next and you will see a congratulations window Click on Finish to accept and end the set up Activating the ADSL Link To test your ADSL link and Internet connectivity click on your PCLinuxOS Control Center PCC icon in your panel and enter your Root password Next choose the Network amp Internet tab and then choose Monitor network connections from the screen below e PCLinuxOS Control Center etc mcc conf on Jocalhost File Options Help Cx Welcome to the PCLinuxOS Control Center Co Sharing F Set up a new network interface LAN F EE X E P G z Groupware rg ISDN ADSL ane mi
98. lters to keep junk mail out of your Inbox Open Source More Secure At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security Thunderbird s update system checks to see if you re running the latest version and notifies you when a security update is available Outfit Your Inbox Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbird s functionality and appearance using hundreds of add ons A Thunderbird add on can let you manage contacts place voice over IP calls listen to music and keep track of birthdates all from your Inbox You can even change the appearance of Thunderbird to suit your tastes Message Templates Thunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly Add ons Manager for Extensions and Themes The new Add ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird 2 Install uninstall enable and disable your add ons in a single place As you can see Thunderbird has enough features to satisfy just about
99. mail account and thus considered local to the system Note that this includes any unsent mail messages Reading Mail To read any email in your Inbox select the Inbox folder under the desired mail account in the left panel A list of the messages in your Inbox will be displayed in the top part of the right panel showing the email sender and subject header To view the mail content click on the desired message in the top right panel and the message body will be displayed in the bottom right panel Scroll as required to read the entire message Composing Mail To compose a new email click on the Write button on the top menu Alternatively you can also click Message on the menu bar and choose New Compose Ensure that you have selected the appropriate email account on the system by clicking on the appropriate account name in the left display panel Compose no subject FILE EDIT VIEW OPTIONS TOOLS HELP D T b r EN 1 ee ee A KK SEND GONTACTS ATTACH SECURITY SAVE GONTACTS ADDRESS BOOK SEARCH FOR 2 NAME OR EMAIL NAME ARCHIE AREVALC SUBJECT 1 ARCHIMEDES AR BOE AGEL i BRANHOW 12 ADD TO To Fig Composing Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird The From field is automatically filled in for you from the email address you provided in the setup for the account currently being used The To field has to be filled in with the email address es of the recipient s Highlight a name from your address book and click on t
100. ment allows the usage of multiple workspaces Each workspace can be considered as a virtual desktop 1 12 Fig The Workspace Switcher By default the user has 4 desktop workspace areas to work on The workspace switcher represents each workspace as a small square and shows the applications running in each of them To access a workspace click on the square with the mouse The Taskbar The Taskbar applet is located next to the workspace switcher and shows the titles of all the running applications in a virtual desktop a workspace k button Mozilla Fire JPNGlimag The Desktop Space The Desktop space refers to the rest of the screen It contains icons which are graphical representations of short cuts to application launchers file folders files and peripheral devices like floppy disks CD ROM drives and printers Double clicking on an icon representing an application will launch or execute the application Commonly used applications and or files folders are usually placed on the desktop space Using the Window Manager An interactive application that is run on the graphical desktop is usually displayed inside a window This window can be accessed and manipulated using the window manager Welcome to Amarok There are many media players around these days this is true Amarok however provides an aural experience so pleasurable it always has you coming back for more What is missing from most players is AMAROK an
101. mkdosfs found Program mke2fs found Program mkfs minix found Program fdformat found Program dd found Fig KFloppy Formatter Dialog Choose the default floppy density of 3 5 1 44 MB and the DOS FAT file system type This will enable the diskette to be read on almost all commonly used operating systems including Microsoft Windows You also have two other options for the filesystem ext2 or Minix Next you can choose the type of formatting Quick format Zero out and quick format or the default Full format After you have made your choices click the Format button located at the top right of the window Exercises Format a floppy diskette mount it for read write and copy the following files folders found in the etc directory to it hosts termcap motd and rc d Unmount the diskette mount it again and copy its entire contents to the folder tmp in your home directory create this folder if it is not there Unmount the diskette after the copying The CD ROM Drive Nowadays the CD ROM is widely used as a means to store and distribute data and information A typical 5 25 CD ROM can store up to 700 MB of data It is thus ideal as a medium for distributing large files multimedia games and software packages By default when a CD ROM is placed in the drive a new window will open that says A new medium has been found What do you want to do Below this you will see a
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103. n and finally subtraction When applying calculations keep in mind the range of included cells When using a function like SUM and using the argument SUM A1 A4 it means it looks for the sum of the cells A1 A2 A3 and A4 These operations can also be performed on non consecutive cells so SUM A1 A4 A7 just executes the sum of cells A1 A4 and A7 If you have used Excel before it would be relatively common to use a comma as a separator character between the parameters however with OpenOffice org Calc the separator character is a semi colon So for the function to validate correctly an expression such as IF B3 gt 0 A1 A2 A1 A2 is correct as opposed to replacing the with Building functions To perform calculations spreadsheet makes use of functions Common functions include SUM for summation AVERAGE for the average value of cells and so on As an aid to the novice user OpenOffice org provides a Function AutoPilot This is a wizard to help build formulas and find problems with existing expressions Fig Function AutoPilot Button Located next to the universal sum function is the Function AutoPilot If you click on it a pop up dialogue appears In the Functions tab you can filter viewable accessible functions via category and the option to choose a function is shown Use your mouse to choose a function that you plan on using Once the correct function is selected and the
104. n select Setup the printer s the print job queues This will bring up a window that looks like this Fig Printer Config Screen If all goes well you will see your printer listed in this screen If so you will need to click once on your printer to highlight it and choose the Edit selected printer icon Choose Make Default and click on Do It You are now ready to print If this does not happen then while at the printer configuration screen click on the Add a new printer to the system icon to add and configure a new printer A new window will be opened that looks like this Add a new printer oa Welcome to the Printer Setup Wizard This wizard will help you to install your printer s connected to this computer connected directly to the network or to a remote Windows machine Please plug in and turn on all printers connected to this machine so that it they can be auto detected Also your network printer s and your Windows machines must be connected and turned on Auto detect printers connected to this machine Auto detect printers connected directly to the local network rm B 1 I Cancel Fig Add New Printer This screen will explain your options for having the printer wizard auto detect any computers that are attached to your computer or attached to another computer on your network There is also an option to auto detect a printer attached to a computer running Microsoft Windows Click on the Next button and the auto
105. n the Panel Removing an Applet from the Panel Configuring the Panel Launchers Setting the Date and Time Chapter 3 Files and folders The File System Ownerships and Permissions Viewing and Modifying the Permissions of a File or Folder Using the File Manager Accessing Files and Programs Creating New Folders Copy Files and Folders Moving Files and Folders Renaming Files and Folders Deleting Files and Folders The Trash Can Using A Text Editor starting KWrite Inputing Text Marking Text Deleting Text Copy Cut and Paste Undo saving Text Find and Replace Opening A File Preferences Help Chapter 4 Using Common Mass Storage Peripherals The Floppy Disk Drive Mounting and Using the Diskette Formatting the Diskette The CD ROM Drive The USB Mass Storage Device The CD RW Drive K3b The CD Burner Top Window Data Sources Bottom Window Fillstate Status Duplicating CDs Creating a Data CD Writing ISO Images Help Chapter 5 Using the Printer and Scanner The Printer Printer Setup and Configuration Managing Print Jobs Using the Printer The Scanner Using the Scanner Preview scan Save Help Chapter 6 Accessing the Internet The Internet Service Provider ISP Dial up Connectivity Modem Configuration Activating the Modem Troubleshooting xDSL Cable Internet Connectivity xDSL Cable Internet Configuration DHCP over Ethernet Activating the ADSL Link Chapter 7 Multimedia Graphics Access Multimedia Access and Players The Volume Cont
106. nd choose Properties or select the file folder and select from the menu bar at the top or File gt Properties Click on the Permissions tab The owner and group of the file folder are displayed as well as the associated permissions The Others tab shows the permissions for users who are not the owner of the file or a member of the owners group A screenshot is provided below General Permissions Meta Info Preview i Access Permissions Group CanRead h O Is executable Advanced Permissions Ownership User papawoob Group papawoob OK Cancel Fig Ownership and Permission Properties of a File To change the permissions click on the arrow next to the boxes and choose the new permissions desired Click on OK to apply the changes Note It is recommended that you do not modify the default file folder permission settings unless you know what you are doing This is to minimize the risk of compromising the security of the files and folders Using the File Manager As it is possible for a user to create and store hundreds and thousands of files and folders a File Manager is needed to assist the user to manage and manipulate these files and the file system on which it resides In this section a brief description of the File Manager and how to use it is given More details can be obtained by clicking on the Main Menu and then on More Applications Documentation and then KDE Help Center
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108. ns items like new document save a document exporting to PDF copying amp pasting as well as access to the Navigator Stylist and Gallery Object toolbar this is right below the main toolbar and has access to font control and other attributes of objects Writer This is a powerful tool for creating professional documents reports newsletters and so on It is a word processor that allows easy integration of charts and pictures as well as other OpenOffice org compatible documents It can create everything from a simple letter to books with professional layouts and the use of styles Start it from the Main Menu by Main Menu gt Office gt Word Processors gt OpenOffice org Writer LAA Lia TET Eie Edit Veew Inger Format Table Tons Fiedow Hel EHE Ek JH rD A A i l meat H Qaim Vee Sener Fig OpenOffice org Writer You are now presented with the word processing portion of OpenOffice org and the interface is similar to other word processing tools available Rather than providing guidance throughout the entire package we will just concentrate on a few tasks at hand Common Functions Functions of the word processor can be controlled via the toolbars located at the top of the screen On the first row file actions like opening and saving files can be performed while on the second row changing the font size and style bold underline or italics are located there They can also be controlled by
109. ns take a look at http www Firefox com firefox To start Firefox click on the Firefox icon on the panel or launch the application from the menu system Main Menu gt Internet gt Web Browsers gt Mozilla Firefox DistroWatch com Put the fun back into computing Use Linux 65D Mozilla Firefox Ox FILE EDIT VIEW HISTORY BOOKMARKS TOOLS HELP O gt Q HTTP DISTROW ATCH comM Gj GOK Goer i i d English Espa ol Francais Deutsch T nk e 4 mpi ISTROWATCH COM tonera Sat Put the fun back info computing Use Linux B50 DW Weekly Comments Major Distributions Reviews and Ariclas Submit Distrib ution News Filtering Options CITRIX Distribution All Month All Year All _Retresh Break free from your burning Sponsored Message ae a noe m FreeBSD Mall amp phone your pocket T Shirts CDs wiring Sothweore Hole eee 2007 06 21 NEW Development Release SLAX 6 0 0 RC4 sate lan hal ene ane 2 WS apf u ApplicationServer low cost The fourth release candidate of SLAX 6 0 0 a Slackware based Phone System for Windows Citrix replacement mini live CD is available for download and testing This is SLAX Linux edition coming soon 6 release candidate 4 including afew modules and 27 languages SLAX 6 rod includes Linux Kernel 6 21 5 KDE OSDisc com CA 3 5 7 and the newest technologies from Linux Live Squashfs LT and Slackware
110. o manage the system resources and files and also aid in troubleshooting any problems To set the date and time run the Date amp Time application tool from the Menu Menu gt System gt Configuration gt KDE gt System Administration gt Date amp Time Alternatively you can right click on the clock time applet display on the Panel and choose Adjust Date amp Time e Clock Type 7 Show Timezone P A Adjust Date amp Time E Date amp Time Format 3 Copy to Clipboard Configure Clock Fig Right Click Clock Menu A dialog box asking for the root password will appear if you are not logged in as root This is because the system date and time are important system parameters and so only the system administrator or root is allowed to do it After entering the correct root password you can change the date using the displayed calender and the time in the boxes provided Select the Time Zone tab and check to see that the timezone selected is correct If not correct it by selecting the appropriate timezone region Usually the system uses the local time so do not select the Set date and time automatically check box C Set date and time automatically Public Time Server poolntp org Gq Marh 2007 P D 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 Ii 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 2 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 31 03 30 07 Comment
111. oices that represent the different types of mail accounts that you would be likely to use with KMail Since most people use POP3 we will cover setting this choice up Account Type Select what kind of account you would like to create Local mailbox POPS IMAP Disconnected IMAP Maildir mailbox Fig Account Type Highlight POP3 by left clicking once on it and then click Next This will bring up the next dialog box which will allow you to enter your account information Account Information Real name Papawoob E mail address jexample nc rr com Organization Cancel Fig Account Information In this dialog box you will enter the information needed for KMail to identify the account that you wish to send and receive mail with In the Real name box you should enter the name that you want to identify who you are when sending mail In the E mail address box you need to type in the e mail address that was provided by your ISP In the Organization box you can enter the name of your business organization or leave it blank if this is for use with your home computer When you have finished entering your information click Next You will now see the Server Information dialog box Server Information Incoming server pop server nc rr com Use secure connection SSL Outgoing server smtp server ne rr com Use secure connection SSL C Use local delivery lt Back Finish Cancel
112. olders After you have selected all the files you want you should select the Burn button as above and then choose Start to start the recording Writing ISO Images It is possible to copy and store all of the data on a CD in the form of what is known as an ISO image file format If this ISO image file is then written to a CD the new CD will be a duplicate of the original one from which the ISO image was created This provides a convenient way of duplicating a data CD if you can copy or download the ISO image file from another source to the file system on your computer To write ISO images to a CD R W select Further actions or Tools at the top of the window and select Burn CD Image This will open a window like the one seen below Burn cD Image K3b Image Type Auto Detection No image file selected Please insert an empty CD R W medium Settings Settings Simulate Fig Burn ISO Image window Next select the ISO image by clicking on the file folder icon on the right side of the Image to Burn tab at the top left of the window and navigating to the ISO image file that you want to burn Select the image by left clicking on it Next insert a blank CD R W into your CD R W drive After that ensure that the recording settings are correct and click on the Start button at the bottom right of the window to start the burning Help There are many more options and features which K3b has e g multise
113. operable with the Microsoft Office Suite Getting around the package As a first stop for information it is important to know how the Help system works To get help Help gt OpenOffice org Help a OpenOffice org Writer Help Commas Help Tomes unlearned Working With OpenOifice org Writer Sa Tee are id ie ot aaa i ranma Piros and Prnagrararang Tax Doren ATM Gocurien rs Chats and Oisgrams Presentafons and Or Ora rani Getting Help The Gp tec er Help aired pat hee eee ae Pater oe life Fig OO Help window The search function is very useful and pay attention to the Navigation Pane on the top left side of the window where you can get help for the individual components in OpenOffice org Setting up OpenOffice org preferences so that it works the way you want it to is Significant The entire controls for this are available at Tools gt Options Addis onpany Arar mame abals treet fay heady fourtry Rigen TiberPoeisn Pel Movie ore Mme rial Fig Options Window Here you can setup settings like the default measurement units font substitution language types and many more options Saving a document automatically is not setup by default so turning this feature on might be helpful you find it at the Load Save option under the General sub section There are two important toolbars to know Main toolbar this is typically located right below the menus and contai
114. ou which you have downloaded from the POP3 server To see what is in your Inbox click on the Inbox icon If you have emails in your Inbox they will be displayed here To read an email select it by clicking on it in the Subject Window Local Folders inbox KMail File Edit View Go Folder Message Tools Settings Help gt SEARCH L STATUS ANY STATUS z bDLOGAL Suswe O Semm DA PAPAWOOB SEARG ESVE FROM PAPAWOOB lt JPAXTON NC RR COM gt TO JPAXTON NGRR COM DATE TODAY 10 04 39 PM EXAMPLE EXAMPLE 10 04 55 PM TRANSMISSION FOR Fig KMail Inbox Composing Emails To compose an email from the Inbox screen click on the New button Enter the email address of the recipient as well as the subject The latter should be a few words describing the contents of the mail but it should also not be too long If you need to CC the mail to another email address click on the View button on the top Menu bar and select CC field which will be displayed After composing the email you can send it example composition KMail Message Edit View Options Attach Tools Settings Help To E a TO SELECT SUBJECT EXAMPLE GOMPOSITION THIS IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO WISH TO LEARN ABOUT KMAIL SPELLCHECK ON GOLUMN 27 LINE 2 Fig KMail Composing Email Offline Mode If you are on a dial up connection it is very likely that you will want to compose all the emails that you want to send offl
115. ow Copy selected files from home papawoob eyecandy to Fig Copy File The procedures above can be done with folders also To copy more than one file or folder at a time select multiple files folders by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the files or folders Then repeat the steps shown above Moving Files and Folders Moving a file or folder is different from copying in that a copy of the file folder is not made i e only one copy of the file folder exists and the file folder is transferred from one folder to another To move a file right click on the file in the view pane to select it Then select Move To from the drop menu as seen below 3 Open in New Window Open in New Tab of Cut Ctrl xX Copy Ctrl C Rename F2 Move to Trash Delete Open With Preview In i Actions Compress i Copy To Move To Properties Fig Move To After selecting Move To you will see another drop menu that lists your entire file system Choose where you want the file to be copied to and select Move Here Another way of moving a file is to drag and drop the file into the destination folder You can also click on the file in the view pane to select it and then select from the menu bar at the top Edit gt Move Files This will open a dialog box where you can type in the path to the folder to where you want to move the file to or click on the browse folder and navigate to it as seen below Move
116. r After the KDE Help Center opens choose KDE User Manual and scroll down to Windows How To Work Them Focus In order for a window to receive input from the mouse and the keyboard it has to be the window in focus Only one window can have focus at a time Windows that are not in focus have their title bars grayed out To focus on a window place the mouse on the title bar and click on it You can actually click anywhere within the window but it is safer to click on the title bar since there is no possibility of accidentally clicking on some item selection or functionality of the application running within the window If the window is not visible you can click on the Taskbar on the Panel at the bottom of the Desktop to bring into focus the window you want Maximize and Minimize Maximizing a window means that the window is expanded to cover the whole desktop while minimizing it means that the window is taken off the desktop and it appears as an icon in the Taskbar on the Panel You can maximize a window which has focused from the Window Menu or by clicking on the maximize button on the title bar You can similarly minimize the window If the window does not have focus bring it into focus first by clicking on the Taskbar on the Panel Resize You can resize a window i e change its size by placing the mouse at an edge of the window and then drag the window to the desired size Move To move a window to another place on the d
117. r which enables you to mix the audio for a 2 channel sound card Every mixer control that your sound card provides is represented by a volume slider Mono controls always have a single slider while stereo controls can have either one or two sliders depending on your settings There is also a panning slider at the bottom of the window If your system has more than one sound card a list will be displayed at the top of the window The KMix window can have up to three different sections Output Input and Switches Each section will contain volume sliders switches for enabling disabling record or playback functions and multiple choice selectors Output This tab holds the controls that are most likely related to playback like the Master volume control Input This tab holds the controls that are most likely record related like Capture Switches These controls allow you to switch certain functions On and Off like External Amplifier KMix also features LED s The general coloring rule is as follows Green An LED dealing with playback Red An LED dealing with recording Yellow An LED dealing with special sound card capabilities A lit LED means On a non lit LED means OFF In most situations the volume can be adjusted by clicking on the Volume Control applet on the Panel and raising or lowering the slider accordingly Playing Audio CDs You can play an audio CD by placing the CD into the CD ROM drive The CD player application Ks
118. r your test page has printed and you are happy that your printer works correctly click Next one last time This will bring up a congratulation page that tells you that your printer is configured correctly Click Finish and you are ready to print Managing Print Jobs When you send something for printing from your application the data to be printed is stored in the print spooler area and a print job is added to the print spooler queue In this way many printing jobs can be carried out without waiting for the printer to finish printing a job first before accepting another printing job The Print Manager is used for managing the print jobs associated with a given printer The Print Manager can be found by going to Menu gt System gt Configuration gt KDE gt Peripherals gt Printers The Print Manager can be utilized to check on the status of the printing jobs that you have submitted to the printer and to cancel jobs still in the queue if you need to To do this launch the Print Manager and then click on the Jobs tab A list of current print jobs in the queue is displayed To cancel a print job highlight the job in question and then right click on the Remove button on the menu bar on top Configure KDE Control Module Print management as normal user Some print management operations may need administrator privileges Use the Administrator Mode button below to start this print management tool with administrator privileges 1 HPP
119. reme lower left hand corner of the desktop It looks like this Clicking on this will bring up the Menu System as shown in the figure below Most Used Applications ey KSnapshot 3 File Manager Super User Mode Banshee Music Player OpenOffice org Writer H Shisen Sho All Applications More Applications Internet amp Multimedia office E System Actions Pe System Menu Run Command l i E Switch User Mae E Lock Session iS amp og Log Out Fig The Menu System From the Menu System you can start many of the applications installed on your Linux system Note that the Menu System consists of a Main Menu panel and sub menu panels Each entry in the Menu System which has an arrow on its right means that it is an entry point to a sub menu and there can be sub menus within each sub menu In this way applications in the Menu System can be organized and categorized for easy reference and access To access a the sub menu associated with a menu entry move the mouse and rest it on the menu entry in question and a sub menu panel will appear E Ty linus as i Li q SUMS SCN na ceng desir i guigeliri ag J E on f Gu be LIP Most Used Applicatians a Konapenodt OQ Fie Manager Super User Mode Banshee Musi Player A OpenOffice ong writer SheerrSho All Applications D More Applications B MCeineg E Miunire dia ACES SORES T System E address Books Aye bi
120. ring Firefox below The Menu Bar FILE EDIT VIEW HISTORY BOOKMARKS TOOLS HELP Fig The Menu Bar The menu bar has several menu buttons Clicking on one will open up a drop down menu selection where selected operations can be performed The File button caters to the performance of file level operations like the printing and saving of web pages the opening of web pages files etc The Edit button allows you to find strings of text on the displayed page as well as to edit the Firefox configuration to you personal preferences The View button allows you to control the viewing of the various toolbars as well as the zooming of text and full page display of the display panel The HTML source code of the currently displayed page can also be viewed using the selection Page Source under this button The History button performs similar navigational functions as the navigation toolbar described earlier A history of previously visited sites can also be accessed by this button The menu shows a list of previously visited websites and you can click on one of these to open up the selected web page FORWARD ALT RIGHT ARROW ALT OME HELLO OGdLE SEARCH DSTROW ATOH GOM PUT THE FUN BACK INTO GOMPUTI FIREFOX REDisCcOYVER THE WEB Poaunuxo0s Paunuxos SHOW IN SIDEBAR GTRLAH Fig The History Pop up Window The Bookmarks button enables you to manage your bookmarks and personal folder You can add frequently visited sites to the bookmark
121. rol Applet Playing Audio CDs Playing Digital Audio Files Playing VCD and DVD Kaffeine Mplayer Graphic Images Access File Manager digiKam Camera Access showFoto Image Viewer View Image Manipulation Convert Format Help Chapter 8 The World Wide Web WWW The Firefox Web Browser The Navigation Toolbar The Menu Bar The Side Bar The Main Display Panel Navigation Tab Bar Configuring Firefox Finding Information on the Internet Using a Portal Using an Internet Search Engine Search Basics Example Chapter 9 Internet E mail Email Requirements KMail Receiving Mail Inbox Folder Composing Emails Offline Mode Sending and Receiving Emails Deleting Emails Folders Mozilla Thunderbird Advanced Folder Views Message Tagging Message History Navigation Improved Search Stay Informed Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services Phishing Protection Cutting out the Junk Open Source More Secure Outfit Your Inbox Message Templates Add ons Manager for Extensions and Themes Using Mozilla Thunderbird Reading Mail Composing Mail Sending Mail Receiving Mail Deleting Mail Folders Account Configuration Account Settings server Settings Outgoing Server SMTP All other Configuration Chapter 10 Using the Open Office Suite Introduction Getting around the package Writer Common Functions Common Operations Formatting Styles Just a little bit more Calc Formatting Spreadsheet basics Building functions sorting Charting Impress Template
122. scellaneous internet settings W Online Administration Oy Boot Reconfigure a network interface Monitor network connections ampu Hardware aos Set up a proxy server for files and web Delete a network interface TR Mount Points browsing W Network amp internet Share the Internet connection with ather iscal machines Activate and manage network profiles g Security System Wireless connection Configure VPN connections mai Manage hosts definitions Fig Network and Internet If you are using DHCP over Ethernet select the Ethernet device name usually this is ethO you have used in the configuration set up by clicking on it and then click on the Connect button If you are using PPoE over Ethernet select the ISP name you used in the configuration set up by clicking on it and then click on the Connect button The link will be established after a few seconds and the status of the profile in the Monitor network connections screen will change to Connected from Not Connected You are now connected to the Internet Exercises Perform the same Internet connectivity tests as done previously with the dial up modem connection Chapter 7 Multimedia Graphics Access Multimedia Access and Players Apart from being able to view and create graphics and other images the PC is capable of supporting a wide range of audio and video features and facilities These include the playing of audio CDs
123. selected files from home papawoob eyecandy to OS Cancel The procedures above can be done with folders too To move more than one file or folder at a time select multiple files folders by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the files or folders Renaming Files and Folders To rename a file right click on the file in the view pane to select it Then select Rename from the drop menu as seen below Ca Open in New Window ob Cut Copy Rename Move to Trash Delete Open With Preview In Actions Compress Copy To Move To Properties Fig Rename and then type in the new name You can also click on the file in the view pane to select it and then select from the menu bar at the top Edit gt Rename The procedures above can be done with folders also Deleting Files and Folders To delete a file click on the file in the view pane to select it Then select from the menu bar at the top Edit gt Move to Trash You can also right click on the file and select Move to Trash or Delete from the drop menu Alternately you can select the file and then use the DELETE key on the keyboard to delete the file This has the same effect as above of moving the file to the Trash folder It is still possible to salvage a deleted file from the Trash To do this double click on the Trash icon on the desktop to open up the Trash folder Then you can move the file you want to salvage to the desired
124. ssion burning mixing audio and digital data working with CD RW media etc The K3b documentation should be consulted for these more advanced features The K3b User s Guide may be obtained from http www k3b org Chapter 5 Using the Printer and Scanner While the holy grail of office computing may well be the paperless office for many users it is often desirable and indeed sometimes necessary to be able to put on hard copy the information available on the computer The printer allows you to do that The printer is essentially an output device with which you are able to output text and graphics onto paper from digital data stored on the computer To complement this the scanner is an input device with which you can transfer text and graphics from paper to the computer and store it in the form of digital data which can then be further manipulated by other software applications The Printer Printer Setup and Configuration If you have a printer attached to your system you will need to configure and set it up before you can use it properly Note To enable the system to detect your printer properly you should turn on the printer before trying to configure it When you want to install a new printer click on the PCLinuxOS Control Center PCC button located in your Panel You will then need to enter the root password since you are now attempting to set and change some system parameters and configuration files Choose the Hardware tab and the
125. sumes an already configured sound card otherwise it will not work Effects are another supported feature in Impress and consist of things like slide transitions mouse driven bullet points and even drawing animations To get to the effects pop up click on Slide Show on the Navigation Toolbar e Slide Show F5 Slide Show Settings Rehearse Timings Interaction H Custom Animation Slide Transition a Show Slide O Hide Slide Custom Slide Show Fig Slide Show Options Performing slide transitions are also accessed via the effects menu However to create animations the menu is Slide Show gt Custom Animation Here simple animations can be created like making your text move from side to side and fade in and out This is done simply by clicking on Custom Animation highlight the part of your text that you would like to animate and then click Add from the window on the right This will create a popup window like the one seen below Custom Animation Entrance Emphasis Exit Motion Paths Appear Box Checkerboard Circle Diagonal Squares Diamond Dissolve In Flash Once Fly In Fiy in Siow Peek In Plus Random Bars Random Effects split z MET a ic DIN FES Speed Medium F Automatic preview OK Cance Help Fig Custom Animations Window Now you simply choose an option from each of the 4 tabs in the window above and then click on Play from the window on the ri
126. t Modem volume l Modem Commands Query Modem Terminal Cancel Fig Adding a New Modem To find out if your modem is automatically detected click on the Query Modem button and look for a series of little bars and indications that something is happening If you don t see them then your modem is probably not detected That probably means that your modem is actually a Winmodem which don t always work well with Linux they are designed to only work with MS Windows If your modem is a Winmodem then your best option is to purchase an external serial modem and attach it to an open serial port on the back of your computer After you have done this repeat the Troubleshooting steps above Exercises Perform an Internet dial up connection using the modem on the system Determine that you have Internet connectivity by accessing some well known websites Disconnect from the Internet xDSL Cable Internet Connectivity The dial up Internet connection discussed above provides ready and easy access for places which have telephone infrastructure in place However it has the disadvantage that the maximum data transmission speed which normal dial up technology can provide is about 56 Kbits per second While this speed may be adequate for email text transmission and web browsing of non multimedia intensive web content it is not practical for multimedia access For heavy multimedia content
127. ta to be copied and burned into the CD R W The Unix Tree represents the file system on the computer Clicking on the icon of the tree will expand it to display the file system i e the hierarchical tree structure comprising files and directories folders Clicking on a directory will cause the files in the directory to be displayed in the right panel of the top window Clicking on CDROM drives will expand into a listing of the CD ROM drives present in the system and clicking on one of the drives will display the tracks in it on the right panel Bottom Window The bottom window gives you 4 choices as to what you would like to do with your CD DVD Audio CD data CD or data DVD The fourth choice is to make a copy of a CD If these are not what you are looking for then you need to click on the Further actions tab to see a complete list of options available as seen below New Data CD Project G New Data DVD Project 4 Continue Multisession Project New Audio CD Project HA New Mixed Mode CD Project New Video CD Project New Video DVD Project New eMovix CD Project G New eMovix DVD Project Copy CD Copy DVD G Erase CD RW Format DVD RW Burn CD Image D Burn DVD ISO Image Rip Audio CD Rip Video DVD Rip Video CD Fig Further actions Writing data to the CD R W involves selecting which type of project you would like to create After choosing which project yo
128. te a launcher on the Desktop right click on an empty area on the Desktop and select the item Create New From the sub menu select Link to Application Enter the Name and the Command to run in the box seen below and if you want you can select an icon for it by clicking on the icon button You can find most of the commands you need by clicking on the Browse button use the up arrow to move up in the file structure to and double click on usr Once that window opens you can double click on either bin or share and choose the necessary command in most cases General Permissions Application Preview Description Comment Command Browse Work path A Supported file types Mimetype OK Cancel Fig Creating a Launcher Exercises The Firefox web browser is a popular web browser application for Linux systems Locate the Firefox application in the Main Menu and place it on the Panel as well as the Desktop Launch the Firefox application from the Desktop the Main Menu the Panel Configure the Panel so that it has the following properties a background color of solid blue contains the Klipper and Storage Media locked applets Create a launcher to run the text editor command kate on the Desktop Use an appropriate icon for the text editor Setting the Date and Time It is important that the date and time are set correctly in your system This will make it easier t
129. then access the resources and services provided by other computers on the Internet The Internet can be accessed from your system using a variety of methods depending on the type of access methods supported by the ISP you sign up with and the type of networking devices you have installed in your system Currently the most common methods of connectivity by a home or personal user to an ISP are dial up DSL or Cable Internet Dial up Connectivity The simplest way to access the Internet is to use a dial up telephone line connection Almost all ISPs provide dial up access connectivity to the Internet using the existing telephone line in the home or office To do this you will need the availability of a telecommunication device called a modem Most modern PCs come with a built in dial up modem card or if it does not you can purchase one and install it or purchase an external dial up modem and use the serial port available on your PC for connection Before you can dial up to your ISP and access the Internet you have to configure your system to recognize the modem and then dial the correct number to your ISP You will need to have at hand the following information needed for the modem configuration telephone number to dial to the ISP for the Internet access Internet access login name and password provided by the ISP Modem Configuration To configure your modem for Internet access start KPPP from the Main Menu Main Menu gt Internet gt
130. track 3 58 4 gt BD Devi Fig Amarok Amarok plays media files in various formats including but not limited to depending on the setup Flac Ogg Mp3 AAC WAV WMV and Musepack Note Amarok will not play digital music files protected by DRM such as those purchased from the Itunes Music Store It also can Sync retrieve play and upload music to digital music players such as Ipods or Creative Zens Note To work with Creative Zens or other MTP devices libmtpO will need to be installed from the repositories One last notable feature is Last fm support including submitting played tracks including those played on some digital music players to Last fm retrieving Similar artists and playing Last fm streams You can find Amarok by going to Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Sound gt Amarok Another excellent player that in the repositories and can be easily installed is XMMS The XMMS X Multimedia System application can be utilized to play a wide variety of digital audio file formats These include the popular MP3 as well as the open Ogg Vorbis formats To launch XMMS after it is installed select Main Menu gt Multimedia gt Sound gt XMMS A MULTIMEDIA SY STEM RAHE PEP Fig XMMS Player Note XMMS may need additional plug ins to be able to play some of the audio file formats If these are not already installed on your system they can be installed from the repositories using Synaptic
131. u can add the data from the data sources window described above by dragging and dropping them into the bottom window panel The bottom window has three possible selections the virtual file system the track editor and the recorder settings Each of these can be selected by clicking on the icons in the left panel of the bottom window The virtual file system represents a view of the file system setup in a track of the CD R W to be written to later Note that this is not part of the actual file system on your computer and so manipulating the files here will not affect the ones in the computer file system The virtual file system can be managed and edited by right clicking the mouse The track editor shows you the tracks that you have selected to be burned to the CD R W You can edit them using the track editor by right clicking the mouse before committing them to be burned When you have added all the data or music that you would like to burn to the CD you need to click on the Burn button This will open the burn window which enables you to change from the default the various parameters for recording e g recording speed writing mode etc Fillstate Status At the bottom of the K3b window is the Fillstate status panel This shows you the current space that will be taken up by the selected tracks as a percentage of the Space available on the CD R W This space utilization is also displayed in megabyte MB units as well as the audio playin
132. ures a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages Thunderbird also offers quick search which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms Stay Informed Thunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender subject and message text for newly arrived messages Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services Thunderbird 2 makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one Inbox Gmail and Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords Phishing Protection Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt As a second line of defense Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message Cutting out the Junk Mozilla has updated Thunderbird s popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of Spam Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird s leading edge junk mail filters Each time you mark messages as spam Thunderbird learns and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters Thunderbird can also use your mail provider s spam fi
133. which use Picture Transfer Protocol please Nikon CoolPix 100 use USB PTP Class Camera from camera list Nikon Coolpix 2000 PTP mode A complete list of camera settings to use is Nikon Coolpix 2100 PTP mode available at this url mnt ca mera Help OK Cancel Fig Camera Configuration Once you have the camera setup go to the Cameras menu in the main interface and you will see the camera listed in the menu Note You can choose any title you like for the camera in the setup and this title will be used in the Cameras menu If you have more than one camera you can add them throughout the setup interface Clicking on the camera item in the menu will pop up a new Camera Interface and this will connect to the camera and thumbnails if supported by the camera will be downloaded and displayed You can then select the images and download or delete them from the camera Downloading can be done by using the menu toolbar buttons or by dragging and dropping them onto an album folder or any other folder that you choose Digital cameras nowadays store images on either a CompactFlash card SD card or SmartMedia card The camera internally makes sub folders in these storage media which it uses to save the images digiKam displays these internal folder trees and also provides a global virtual folder which shows all the images available in the camera When you open the camera interface for the first time the folders are hidden and the
134. xercises Use showFoto for the following View the images in the following folder usr share backgrounds images View a slide show of the images in the folder above Copy one of the images from the above folder into your home directory and scale it down to 25 of its original size and save it Chapter 8 The World Wide Web WWW The Internet has much to offer in terms of information on almost any subject matter imaginable and interaction with people and organizations from all over the world Much of this access and interaction make use of the environment which is popularly known as the World Wide Web WWW or web The WWW is an interlinked network of systems called web servers offering multimedia services and information A user can access these using what is known as web browser software The Firefox Web Browser Firefox is a full featured integrated web browser news reader and web page composer program and is the default web browser for PCLinuxOS 2007 Using Firefox a user can be exposed to the richness and diversity of multimedia content and services available on the WWW Firefox is a relatively lightweight and fast browser The most distinguishing and advantageous feature is the sheer number literally hundreds of extensions add ons that can be downloaded and installed Using these add ons the user can personalize Firefox exactly how they want Firefox For more information and descriptions of the over one thousand available add o
135. xt previous image as well as go to full screen viewing The Zoom function can be used to zoom in or out of the image currently being displayed Click on the Folders button at the top of the screen to go back to the thumbnail view A preview of the image will be displayed in the preview area if you just select the thumbnail One useful feature of showFoto is the slide show After a folder has been opened File gt Open folder selecting View gt Slide Show will start a full screen slide Show of the images in that folder Image Manipulation You can also manipulate the images under showFoto Some supported functions include rotation flipping resizing and Blowup To access these functions select Transform from the menu bar at the top Additional tools for working on your graphics files can be found under the Fix menu Convert Format The Save As function of showFoto allows you to convert your image files from one format to another Some of the 14 supported formats are Portable Network Graphics PNG Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG JPG Tag Image File Format TIFF TARGA format TGA To use the Convert function select an image first and then from the top menu bar select File gt Save As and choose whichever format you would like to save to from the drop down list Help ShowFoto has many other useful features The online help guide should be consulted for more details on how to use showFoto ShowFoto Handbook E
136. y unless stated otherwise folder sub folder file file file Fig The Hierarchical File System Files and folders can be created copied moved i e transferred and deleted The folders themselves are organized in a hierarchical manner starting at the root of the file system Each user is given a home directory and upon logging in the user is placed in his home directory Ownerships and Permissions As the system is set up to handle multiple users concurrently it needs to have in place mechanisms with which it can control the security and privacy of the file system It needs to be able to control access to the file system resources for each individual user In addition it also has to be able to control access at a group level i e users who belong to the same group can be given certain privileges with respect to the file system operations To be able to perform these features associated with each file or folder are the categories owner group others and the file permissions read r write w execute x and the directory permissions read r write w access x Associated with a file are the categories owner group and others and the permissions which each one of these have on the file The user id of the user who creates a file by default becomes the owner of the file User ids on the system are assigned to one or more groups When a user id is created on the system a group which has the same name as t
137. you to query it about some specific subject and it will try to retrieve links to web pages and resources which contain information about the subject matter being queried The popular search engines available are Google www google com Altavista www altavista com Lycos www lycos com Yahoo www yahoo com There are also sites which allow you to search using more than one search engine e g Search com www search com Fasysearcher www easysearcher com Search Basics While each search engine will have its own technology its utilization to perform a simple and basic search is essentially the same irrespective of which search engine is used To use a search engine for basic searches you just type in a few descriptive words about the item subject you are searching for It will return to you a list of links to web pages and resources which contain all the words in the query string Note that common words like the a how etc are usually ignored by the search engine unless specifically told not to Words are also not case sensitive unless enclosed by quotation marks To refine and narrow down your search you will need to add more words to the search terms you have already entered Your new query will return a smaller subset of the pages found You can also add a Specific year ex Pearl Harbor 1941 j Google Mozilla Firefox a FILE EDIT VIEW HISTORY BOOKMARKS TOOLS HELP O 0O 4 OIT attr www aooe_ecom JGO G

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