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1. The Receiving Email and Sending Email screens both require information from the e mail provider To add a new account in the future or to modify an existing account launch the preferences dialog from the Edit gt Preferences menu In the dialog that appears press the Add button to launch the Evolution Account Assistant again 37 Chapter 9 Communications 9 1 2 Using Evolution Evolution allows you to create store and send email by clicking the appropriate buttons located on the menu Send Receive Prompts Evolution to send and receive all email New Opens a new email message dialog box Reply Replies to the person who has sent you an email Reply to All Replies to everyone who was included in the email that you have received Forward Forwards the email message to another person Print Prints the email Delete Deletes the message Junk Marks the email as junk Not Junk If you accidentally set the email as Junk pushing this button removes the Junk tag Cancel Cancels whatever Evolution was doing Previous Moves to the previous email in your folder Next Moves to the next email in your folder 9 2 Thunderbird Thunderbird Is Mozilla s email application To install Thunderbird refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install Thunderbird by either using the PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum More information about Thunderbird is available at http www mozilla org sup
2. Office Settings System Utilities Find Files Folders 15 Chapter 4 Tour of the KDE desktop Help Personal Files Computer information about your computer and links to important places on it System Settings which allows you to personalize your computer System Information which displays information about your computer Home your Home folder the default storage location for your documents and media files Network which displays information about your network connections and allows you to change network settings Root the folder that contains every other file and folder in your file system Warning Do not move or delete items from this folder unless you are certain that you understand what you are doing If you move or delete items within this folder you might damage your installation of Fedora to the point where it can no longer function Trash which holds files and folders that you have deleted from your system Recently Used applications and documents that you used recently Leave options to finish working with your computer Logout ends your session but leaves the computer running Lock leaves you logged in but blanks the screen and prevents interaction with the computer until you type in your password Switch User leaves you logged in but lets another user log in to the computer Suspend to Disk pauses your computer without logging out Restart restarts your comput
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4. Insert lets you insert Cells Columns Rows Charts Images Functions Names Comments Hyperlinks and Special fields such as Current Date Current Time and Current date and time Format lets you format the Cells Rows Columns Sheets and Workbook can be formatted and Preferences changed Use Autoformat to format a region of cells according to a pre defined template Tools provides Auto Correct Auto Save Goal Seek Solver View and Add Scenarios Simulation Statistical Analysis and manage Plug ins Data allows manipulation of the data such as Sort Filter Validate Consolidate create a Table Group and Outline convert Text to Columns and Get External Data Help gt Contents opens the Gnumeric help manual as does the F1 key Gnumeric on the Web Live Assistance and Report a Problem The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions that are listed in the top menu The third menu panel allows you to configure the appearance of your data such as font selection alignment font bullets indentations bolding and italics The fourth panel shows the address of the cell you are pointing to and the data window shows what the cell contains The panel at the bottom of the spreadsheet shows which spreadsheet is currently selected how many worksheets are in the file and a function s result in the cell to which you are of the cell you are pointing You can add or change a worksheet by arigh
5. Next Moves to the next email in your folder 43 Chapter 9 Communications 9 4 Kmail Kmail is the standard email client used in KDE it is installed by default from the Fedora KDE Live CD and is also included in the DVD To start Kmail in KDE click the Kmenu gt Applications gt Internet gt Email menu entry for Kmail or in GNOME click Applications gt Internet gt Kmail in GNOME 9 4 1 Configuring Kmail Running the software for the first time displays the main Kmail page with links to help locations To add a new account in the future or to modify an existing account click Settings gt Configure Kmail In the dialog that appears select Accounts then press the Add button to launch the Kmail Account Assistant again To configure your account you will need your email information from your internet service or email provider 1 Click Settings gt Configure Kmail 2 Click Accounts gt Add A dialog will ask you for the type of account you wish to configure 3 When you select the appropriate account type a dialog will show you the different settings available for your account Add your personal email configuration information to Account Name Login Password Host The other default settings can be left alone 9 4 2 Using Kmail Kmail allows you to create store and send email by clicking the appropriate buttons located on the menu New Message Opens a new Compose email dialog box Save as Saves the emai
6. Next on the right side 79 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia Stop on the bottom Eject on the top The center window displays information about the file being played The icons along the bottom allow you to setup Random play Loop Tracklist and Mute The three buttons on the top and center right are Volume control place your cursor on the white dot hold down the right mouse key and drag it to the desired level The button lets you minimize KSCD The X icon closes the application 12 10 Multimedia Programs in the Repository The applications below are not usually installed by default but are in the Repository To install these packages please read User Guide Managing Software the chapter on managing software You can install applications either by using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for more information 12 10 1 K3b K3b is a CD and DVD burning application Refer to Section 6 2 2 Using K3b to burn media in KDE or the K3b website at http www k3b org for more information 12 11 MP3 Players Personal digital media players can be used to store and listen to music away from a computer These are often referred to as MP3 players a potentially misleading name not all of these players use MP3 files to store music Many mp3 players can be mounted as storage mediums and music can be added to them just like a file c
7. How to use the OpenOffice org office suite How to customize your new Fedora desktop How to manage and update software 1 About this document Volunteer contributors from the Fedora Documentation Project create this guide for each release of Fedora If you have questions or suggestions about Fedora s documentation or if you would like to help document Fedora please visit the Fedora Documentation Project web site For assistance installing Fedora 11 please read the Fedora 11 Installation Guide available from http docs fedoraproject org install quide f1 le Thank you for choosing Fedora T https fedoraproject org wiki DocsProject E http docs fedoraproject org install guide f xi xii Chapter 1 The Fedora desktops In contrast to most proprietary operating systems Fedora 11 has several desktop environments or desktops that can display and launch available applications and manage the overall appearance of the screen The desktop environment is sometimes referred to as the Graphical User Interface GUI Three widely used desktops included with Fedora 11 are GNOME which focuses on simplicity e KDE which includes a large collection of applications and customization features Xfce a desktop with low hardware requirements suitable for older computers More Desktop Environments Exist Fedora s extensive Sa of software offers other desktops as well such as Fluxbox minimalist desktop Su
8. If you want Fedora to delete the images from your camera after it imports them select Delete imported images from the camera If you want it to use the filenames from the camera select Keep original filenames If you do not select this box Fedora automatically numbers your images using the order it imports them starting with 00001 14 2 1 2 Categorizing your photos The Categories box shows any special category labels you select to mark the photos you import If you want to select any categories for your photos click the button on the drop down bar which makes the category selection dialog appear To label your images with a category click the checkbox next to the category name Select as many as you want If you do not see a category name you like select the New button and enter a new category name to add to the list If you want to remove a category name permanently from the list select the category by clicking on its name and then click Delete As you select categories they appear in the Selected categories box When you are finished click OK to save the category names or Cancel to forget any category selections Selecting a category using a checkbox protects filing choices It is easy to accidentally misfile images due to a typing mistake By using checkbox selection images are correctly categorized every time 88 Managing photos on the KDE desktop 14 3 Managing photos on the KDE desktop The KDE desktop u
9. You can add your own images by clicking the Add button To set a color or gradient select Vertical gradient and make your choice of Solid color Horizontal gradient or Vertical gradient Then click the color bars next to the gradient window and select the colors you want 93 Chapter 16 Customizing the desktop 16 2 2 Changing the background in KDE To change the background in KDE right click an empty area of the desktop and select the Appearance Settings option When the Desktop Setting Plasma Workspace window appears you can select a new theme and wallpaper from the drop down menus or get new ones by clicking the New theme or Get New Wallpapers buttons 16 3 Customizing file browsing behavior 16 3 1 Customizing file browsing behavior in GNOME By default GNOME uses the Nautilus file manager which opens a new window each time you open a folder You can change this behavior to use one window with Forward and Back buttons To change this double click on Computer on the desktop click Edit and then Preferences You can also select Places gt Computer gt Edit gt Preferences from the menu panel Click the Behavior tab and click on the box next to the text Always open in browser windows To install a program that modifies several aspects of using Nautilus Install Gtweakui which enables you to modify your GNOME desktop quickly and easily Applications gt Add Remove Software then searching for gtweakui will
10. and then click the Edit button Ensure that the Active device when computer starts box is ticked To learn how to manually activate this connection refer to Section 7 6 NetworkManager 7 4 DHCP connection DHCP is enabled by default Fedora configures network interfaces to use DHCP by default You will only need these instructions if DHCP was deactivated at some point DHCP connections are common when using cable modems Local Area Networks LANs and most broadband Internet connections for home and small business use To enable DHCP for a particular network interface launch Network Manager select the appropriate entry for the interface and click Edit Ensure that the Automatically obtain IP address settings with is selected and set to DHCP 7 5 Static IP address To configure a network interface for a static IP address click on the network interface in the main dialog and then click the Edit button Next ensure that Statically IP addresses is marked filling in the appropriate details in the Manual IP Address section 27 Chapter 7 Connecting to the Internet For a static IP address it is also necessary to fill in the details under the DNS tab of the main interface 7 6 NetworkManager NetworkManager is not enabled by default in Fedora it is installed by default however Enabling NetworkManager is a simple process of going to System gt Administration gt Services and checking Network Manager and Network
11. e Susan Lauber writer editor Dan O Brien writer Jonathan Roberts writer Karsten Wade editor Marc Wiriadisastra writer Kirk Ziegler writer editor http docs fedoraproject org user guide A 2 Production methods Writers produce the User Guide in MediaWiki and export it to DocBook XML in a revision control repository They collaborate with other subject matter experts during the beta release phase of Fedora 103 Appendix A Contributors and production methods to describe and explain what Fedora offers to people using Fedora to carry out common desktop computing tasks The editorial team ensures consistency and quality of the finished guide At this point the team of translators produces other language versions of the release notes and then they become available to the general public as part of Fedora The publication team also makes the guide and subsequent errata available via the Web 104 Appendix B Revision History Revision Thu Apr 23 2009 Laura Bailey Matthew Daniels Tim Kramer 11 0 0 Ruediger Landmann Susan Lauber Kirk Ziegler Update for Fedora 11 Convert to Docbook XML Revision 0 6 0 Sat Feb 24 2007 Matt Bird Cody DeHaan Damien Durand John Babich Paul W Frields Dimitris Glezos Bart Couvreur Version for Fedora Core 6 105 106
12. you can use Gtkpod can be used to sync music podcasts and other content to your iPod Gtkpod is not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can use the Fedora DVD to install Gtkpod You can install applications with either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for more information Start Gtkpod by clicking Applications gt Music and Video gt gtkpod in GNOME or Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Multimedia gt iPod Manager For further help on iPod support through Gtkpod refer to the Gtkpod website at http www gtkpod org about html 12 12 Further Information For more information on freely distributable formats and how to use them refer to the Xiph Org Foundation s web site at htip www xiph org 81 82 Chapter 13 Playing games A Fedora installation includes a selection of games by default You can also select additional game packages during or after installation To install new games on your Fedora system refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can find more information about games for Fedora at hitps fedoraproject org wiki Games For more information about the games in this list refer to the Help menu within each individual game You do not need to switch desktops to play games You can play KDE games while logged into GNOME and GNOME games while logge
13. your computer hardware powers on performs a series of self tests and loads the operating system Immediately after the computer has finished booting the login screen appears The login screen displays one or more user names depending on the number of user accounts present To log in to your account 1 Enter your username using one of the following methods Type your username and then press the Enter key The username is case sensitive capitalization matters A is not the same as a e Click on your username in the list of choices 2 Select your desktop environment This step is optional A You do not normally need to choose a desktop If you skip this step Fedora will load the default desktop environment for your computer To use a desktop environment other than the default choice use the Desktop combo box on the bottom of the screen to select the desktop you wish to load before you enter your password The default is usually GNOME refer to Chapter 1 The Fedora desktops for other choices 3 Enter your password in the text box and press the Enter key Like your username your password is case sensitive Keep your password secret To keep your password secret the password field displays a dot for every character entered As with any password keep your account password private Do not share it with anyone or write it down in plain view 4 The desktop environment now loads In some desktop environments a small box
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15. GNOME Cheese Webcam Booth takes photos and videos with your webcam is installed in GNOME and KDE Dragon Player is a simple video player in KDE e JuK is a collection and playlist manager as well as a music player installed in KDE Kaffeine is an application for viewing videos in KDE e KMix is a Sound Mixer for KDE KSCD is an application for listening to audio CDs in KDE Rhythmbox is a music player that features tools for organizing music CDs Internet radio stations and more and is included in GNOME and KDE by default Sound Juicer is an application for converting CDs to music files also known as ripping in GNOME and KDE Sound Recorder can record and play flac oga OGG audio and wav sound files Totem Movie Player is an application for viewing videos in GNOME and KDE To open these programs in the GNOME desktop click on their entries in the Applications gt Sound and Video menu in the top menu bar In the KDE desktop click on their entries in the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Multimedia menu 12 1 The Fedora Project s approach to multimedia support In short the Fedora Project encourages the use of open formats in place of restricted ones Fedora includes complete support for many freely distributable formats These include the Ogg media Vorbis audio Theora video Speex audio and FLAC audio formats These freely distributable formats are not encumbered by patent or license r
16. bottom of the spreadsheet shows which spreadsheet is currently selected and how many worksheets are in the file You can add new worksheets by clicking Insert gt Sheet in the top menu panel A dialog box opens which lets you choose the name of the new sheet and where it will be placed in relation to your existing worksheets You can also add a new worksheet by right clicking on a spreadsheet tab This action opens a menu that allows you to Insert Delete Rename Move Copy Select All Cut or Copy the spreadsheet A tutorial on using OpenOffice org Calc is available at http wiki services openoffice org wiki Documentation Tutorials 10 1 3 OpenOffice org Writer OpenOffice org Writer is a word processing program Start the application with Applications gt Office gt OpenOffice org Writer in GNOME or Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Word Processor in KDE The top bar contains the following menus 53 Chapter 10 Office tools File lets you create New documents Open Close Export and Print a file This menu also contains the Wizards option that lets you create different templates Edit allows you to Cut Copy Paste Compare or Select Text and to turn on and configure Auto Text Find and Replace and recording protecting comparing and merging Changes View lets you select the type of Layout Status Bar Ruler Toolbars Text Boundaries Field Names Non printing Characters Hidde
17. containing a logo and some icons called a splash screen may temporarily appear When your splash screen if you have one disappears your desktop is ready for use You can now launch applications to access the Internet manage files and play media These tasks are described in the following chapters Chapter 2 Logging into the desktop 2 2 Logging in a technical explanation Fedora is a multi user operating system Multiple users each with different access privileges can be logged into the computer at the same time During installation you provided a password for the system administrator account sometimes called the superuser The user name for this account is root After installation Fedora asked you to set up a normal user account Use that account or any other such normal account for daily use of the system and the root account for administrative and maintenance tasks This design has many benefits e Limited privileges reduce the possibility of doing significant damage to the entire system Each user account has individual settings Each user account maintains its data separate and private from others A problem in one user account does not put the entire system at risk Do not log in as root Do not use the root account for routine purposes A normal user account can run all the desktop applications and greatly increases your security and safety Applications that require root privileges prompt you for th
18. disc image to a CD or DVD right click the disc image file then choose Open with CDIDVD Creator from the menu When you burn a a disc image you cannot choose the disc name or write speed To make a copy of a CD or DVD 1 Insert the disc you want to copy 2 Choose Places gt CD DVD Creator from the top panel menu bar 3 Right click on the CD icon and choose Copy Disc 4 Follow the Write to Disc dialogue as above If you have only one optical drive the program will first create a file on your computer CDIDVD Creator will eject the original disk and ask you to change it for a blank disk on which to burn 6 2 2 Using K3b to burn media in KDE K3b is not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can use the Fedora DVD to install K3b After you install K3b using one of the methods described above launch the program by clicking the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Multimedia gt K3b When the application opens the action buttons are displayed at the bottom of the window New Audio CD Project 22 Using GnomeBaker in Gnome New Data CD Project New Data DVD Project Copy a CD To add files to your K3b project drag the files into the project pane at the bottom of the screen Everything in this project pane will be burned to your optical medium When you are ready to burn the files or folders to disk click the Burn button To burn an ISO ima
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20. from this icon To permanently remove a file from your system you must empty the trash To empty the trash right click the icon and select Empty Trash 10 The window list panel Permanently deleting files To bypass the trash and permanently delete a file hold down the Shift key when deleting the file The Fedora Live CD desktop also includes an icon for installing Fedora to your hard disk Additional icons may appear depending on your system For example inserting a USB stick will cause an icon to appear for accessing the stick 3 1 2 1 Using the desktop Right click on the desktop area for a menu of actions related to the desktop area For example the Change Desktop Background action lets you choose a different image or photograph to display on the desktop Add program icons to your desktop by a left click on the program s icon and select Add this launcher to desktop 3 1 3 The window list panel This panel has four components The Show Desktop button on the left side is used to hide all open windows and reveal the desktop area This function is useful when the open applications obscure an important desktop file or icon To restore the windows click the Show Desktop button again and all windows return to their previous location Any open applications appear as button icons in the middle part of the window list panel lt shows all application windows in use on the desktop workspace whether they are visible or h
21. includes the Liberation Fonts set by default 1 1 Typographic Conventions Four typographic conventions are used to call attention to specific words and phrases These conventions and the circumstances they apply to are as follows Mono spaced Bold Used to highlight system input including shell commands file names and paths Also used to highlight key caps and key combinations For example To see the contents of the file my_next_bestselling_novel in your current working directory enter the cat my_next_bestselling_novel command at the shell prompt and press Enter to execute the command The above includes a file name a shell command and a key cap all presented in Mono spaced Bold and all distinguishable thanks to context Key combinations can be distinguished from key caps by the hyphen connecting each part of a key combination For example Press Enter to execute the command Press Ctr1 A1t F1 to switch to the first virtual terminal Press Ctrl1 A1t F7 to return to your X Windows session The first sentence highlights the particular key cap to press The second highlights two sets of three key caps each set pressed simultaneously If source code is discussed class names methods functions variable names and returned values mentioned within a paragraph will be presented as above in Mono spaced Bold For example File related classes include filesystem for file systems file for files and dir for directories Each c
22. it may not register as installed in PackageKit If this is the case you will need to find an alternate method of removing it If it was installed from source you may find more information in the source distribution s Readme file The message Downloading repository information appears in the lower left corner The window area below the list of packages contains additional information about the selected software Select any additional packages to install or remove at this time by changing tick boxes next to the package name Finally click the Apply button This starts the removal process and concurrently installs or removes any additional packages where you modified the tick box Follow any prompts to remove additional packages such as dependencies that only your newly uninstalled program relied upon Unless an error is displayed the application is now removed from your computer 17 2 Using the command line interface Another way to install or remove an application is to use the command line and Yum the Yellowdog Update Manager This can be a much faster process than the PackageKit method but requires the user to use the command line If this feels uncomfortable the PackageKit method may be a more familiar way to manage software 17 2 1 Installing software Click Applications gt System Tools gt Terminal to open the command line Type su c yum install application Where application is the name of the program you wish t
23. of blocks which will disappear Hearts A trick taking card game Try to gain as few point cards as possible 83 Chapter 13 Playing games lagno A Reversi like disk flipping game Klotski A group of sliding block puzzles Mahjongg A tile matching game with many variations Mines A clone of a popular puzzle game Nibbles A worm or snake game Robots The classic game of out of control robots Same GNOME A puzzle game involving the strategic removal of groups of marbles Sudoku The popular logic puzzle Tali A poker game played with dice Tetravex A simple tile matching game 13 2 Default KDE games Many KDE games are not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can use the Fedora DVD to install them either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for help installing new software The games included in the KDE games pack include Bomber An arcade bombing game Bovo Five in a row game Kapman Pac man type game KAtomic Fun and educational game built around molecular geometry KBattleship Battleship strategy game 84 Default KDE games KBlackBox Find the balls hidden in the black box by shooting laser beams KBlocks A falling block game KBounce The classic game of segregating bouncing balls KBreakout Break out type game KDiamond Three in a row game KFourinLi
24. refer to the following documentation and support pages http documentation openoffice org e http support openoffice org index html e http wiki services openoffice org wiki Documentation FAQ See also e http documentation openoffice org Samples_ Templates User template index html templates for all OpenOffice org applications http vww smalldataproblem org ooextras artwork labels and Impress templates http extensions services openoffice org project SunT emplatepack_1 professional template packs and extensions for OpenOffice org applications 10 1 1 OpenOffice org Impress OpenOffice org Impress Creates and performs presentations 51 Chapter 10 Office tools Start the application with Applications gt Office gt OpenOffice org Impress in GNOME or Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Presentation in KDE The first window asks you to choose Empty presentation From template or Open existing presentation Click Empty presentation to build slides from scratch e Click From template to create a slide from a template Presentations allow you to choose Default Introducing a New Product Recommendation of a Strategy Presentation Backgrounds loads the window with several background choices Open existing presentation opens a presentation file If you chose to create a presentation from scratch or from a template OpenOffice org Impress helps you
25. select or deselect photos to import by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail To select all photos click any photo and then press the key combination Ctr1 A To deselect all photos press Ctr1 Shift A Once you have selected all the photos that you want to import click the Download Selected button To cancel the import process before you begin the download close the window To cancel the process once the download is underway click the Cancel button DigiKam asks you for a name for this group of pictures which it calls an album Either click on an existing album on the list or click New Album and provide a name for the album DigiKam will suggest the current date as a name for the album but you might want to choose a name that will better help you to remember the subject of these photos When you have selected an album click OK and digiKam will import the photos to your computer To clear the photos from your camera click Image gt Delete Selected to delete just the images you imported to your computer or click Image gt Delete All to delete all images from your camera 14 3 2 Organising photos with digiKam A tag is a piece of information that you add to digiKam s database that helps you to identify a photo again in future For example you might tag a photo with the names of the people who appear in it the location at which that the photo was taken or the name of an occasion To tag an image right click on it then click Apply Tag
26. several Tablestyles Tools gives you access to Spellcheck Autocorrection Change Case Sort Text Edit Personal Expressions Add Expressions set Custom Variables Select Bookmarks and Configure Mail Merge Settings lets you choose which Toolbars you want open Configure Autocorrection and Completion Configure Shortcuts Toolbars and Kword Help opens the KWord Handbook which you can also access by pressing the F1 key lets you Report a Bug and offers general information about KWord and KDE The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions plus a few icons for text manipulation The third menu panel allows configuration of the appearance of your text such as font selection alignment font bullets indentations bolding and italics 59 Chapter 10 Office tools Next to the work area is the Document Structure window which shows its structure and icons for shortcuts to configure Frames The bottom panel shows the number of pages in the document which page is in the work area window whether Insert or Typeover is turned on the Zoom in percentage and the chosen measurement units A KWord tutorial is available at http docs kde org development en koffice kword You can download pre formatted templates and scripts from http kde files org index php xcontentmode 610 10 3 GNOME office applications Although GNOME does not have an office suite specifically designed for it a num
27. summary of what you can do 6 Type in the information required in the Users Accounts and Backends tabs on the top of the window 66 KMyMoney 10 11 12 13 Select the OFX Direct Bbackend if you are not sure which one to use You may need to call your bank to get their server URL If you chose the OFX Direct backend it is likely their URL is https ofx yourbank com Return to the Start Online Banking Wizard and click the Forward button Check the appropriate boxes under the New column to match the bank accounts with your GnuCash accounts Click the Forward button Click the Apply button to finish To download your bank transactions select the Accounts or Register tab then Actions gt Online Actions gt Get Transactions or gt Get Balance and fill in the information asked for to complete the operation 11 2 KMyMoney KMyMoney Is a double entry accounting software package for personal and small business use For additional help using KMyMoney refer to http kmymoney2 sourceforge net faq html 11 2 1 Configuring KMyMoney 1 10 11 12 Open KMyMoney by selecting Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Personal Finance Manager Click the Next button on the Welcome to KMyMoney screen Type in the information and press Next Select your currency and click Next Now type in the information for your bank account Then select Next again Find your country a
28. the account in Pidgin and will normally need to visit the website of the network to create an account For example you cannot use O to create a Yahoo Instant Messenger account Instead you much first visit m to set up the account then access it using Pidgin 9 6 Kopete Kopete is the Instant Messenger installed in KDE by default To start the programin KDE click the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt Instant Messenger menu entry for Kopete In GNOME click Kopete can be found in Applications gt Internet gt Kopete For further documentation on Kopete refer to hitp kopete kde org 9 6 1 Configuring Kopete Starting Kopete for the first time takes you directly to the creating accounts dialog To configure a new account 1 Choose a messenging service from the list 2 Inthe Account Information window enter your details that you are using to connect to the services 3 Make sure to fill out the details on the other tabs 4 Once the account is added click Next and choose the option to connect to the service and then click Finish You can add new accounts in the future by navigating to the Settings gt Configure menu entry in the main Kopete window then clicking the Accounts button Kopete comes with a wide range of messaging services such as e AIM e GroupWise e ICQ e IRC e Jabber e Meanwhile MSN Messenger 46 XChat e Testbed e WinPopup e Yahoo You can add
29. these are also available by clicking on the Applications menu and selecting Filesystem Home this is where all files such as music movies and documents belonging to the logged in user are stored by default There is a different home directory for each user and users cannot by default access each others home directories 18 The Xfce 4 window list panel Trash deleted files are moved here Empty the Trash folder by right clicking the Trash icon and clicking Empty Trash Permanently deleting files To permanently delete a file and bypass the file s move to Trash hold down the Shift key when deleting the file Right clicking on the desktop presents a menu of actions related to the desktop area For example clicking on Change Desktop Background lets you choose a different image or photograph to display on the desktop 5 1 3 The Xfce 4 window list panel The Applications button consists of several components e Run Program The Terminal The File Manager The Web Browser e Preferences Administration e Accessories Development Games Graphics e Multimedia e Network Office Other e System Help About and Quit buttons Open applications appear as button icons in the middle part of the window list panel The application window that has focus appears as a depressed button Usually this is the application whose window is on top of all others currently on the scree
30. to set up your new presentation Click the Next button to Select a slide design and Select an output medium Another click on Next opens the Presentation Wizard to set up your presentation You can select the Effect and Speed of slide transition and either Default or Automatic for the Type of Presentation you want When building a presentation from a template there may be additional pages of questions such as the subject of the presentation or company name or the number of starting slides The Create button opens your presentation The application opens with the work area top menu and a drawing menu on the bottom When you roll your mouse over the icons a description of its function pops up Click Help or press the F1 key to open the OpenOffice org Impress help manual A tutorial on using OpenOffice org Impress is available at http wiki services openoffice org wiki Documentation Tutorials 10 1 2 OpenOffice org Calc OpenOffice org Calc is a full featured spreadsheet program Start the application with Applications gt Office gt OpenOffice org Calc in GNOME or Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Spreadsheet in KDE The top bar contains the following menus File lets you create New documents Open Close Export and Print a file This menu also contains the Wizards option that lets you create different templates Edit allows you to Cut Copy and Paste data or to Delete Cells View lets you se
31. version of each package unless you specify an older version The Yum utility also imports the repository public key if it is not already installed on the rpm keyring For more information on keys and keyrings refer to the Fedora Security Guide This is an example of the public key import warning rpmts_HdrFromFdno Header V3 DSA signature NOKEY key ID 4f2a6fd2 public key not available for tsclient 0 132 6 1386 rpm Retrieving GPG key from file etc pki rpm gpg RPM GPG KEY fedora Importing GPG key 0x4F2A6FD2 Fedora Project lt fedora redhat com gt Is this ok y N Example 17 2 Format of Yum public key import Check the public key and then press Y to import the key and authorize the key for use If you press N or Enter Yum stops without installing any packages Ensure that you trust any key s owner before accepting it To ensure that downloaded packages are genuine Yum verifies the digital signature of each package against the public key of the provider Once all of the packages required for the transaction are successfully downloaded and verified yum applies them to your system Transaction Log Every completed transaction records the affected packages in the log file var log yum log You may only read this file with root access 17 3 1 Installing new software with Yum To install a generic package my package enter the command su c yum install my package Enter the password for the root account when prompte
32. 3 Right click on the CD icon and choose Copy Disc 4 Follow the Write to Disc dialogue as above If you have only one write drive the program will first create a file on your computer The original disk will be ejected and ask you to change it for a blank disk to copy on 75 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia 12 8 GNOME multimedia applications in the repository These applications are not usually installed by default but are in the Repository To install them refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install applications by either using the PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum 12 8 1 Brasero Brasero copies and burns music or data to CDs and DVDs Refer to hitp projects gnome org brasero for details 12 8 2 GNOMEBaker GNOMEBaker can burn music or data to a CD Refer to Section 6 2 3 Using GnomeBaker in Gnome or the GNOMEBaker website at http www biddell co uk gnomebaker php for more information 12 9 KDE multimedia applications The KDE desktop groups multimedia applications together in the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Multimedia menu 12 9 1 Amarok Amarok is a CD player and music collection manager For more information refer to the Amarok website at http amarok kde org 12 9 1 1 Using Amarok e Click Play Media to play existing sound files go to a Previous Track Play Pause Stop go to the Next Track or Quit the application Playlist lets you Add Med
33. 8 KONVETS AM N siii idas 9 8 1 Configuring Konversation oooccconccnnnccccnccnnnccncnncncnncnnnnacnnnncnnnncnnnnccnnnnnnnnarnnnncinnns 9 8 2 USMO Konversation p ferenta aaea eaaa Aena da rbd area 99 CA li A E E SS A A ae oa 9 9 1 Installing ChatZilla niena aigi a aaa aaa dae a a daa ae 9 9 2 Configuring ChatZilla o oonccnnnnnociccoccccnncnnoncccnnncnnnonnnoncncnnannnncnnnnncnnnannnnnarcnnnnns 9 9 33 Using ChatZillat asen eee A A A EA 10 Office tools 10 1 OpenOffice org applications siisti anni ian a e a aa a aaa aaan abaa aiaa eM siiani 10 1 1 OpenOffice org IMPressS oocccoonccnnccconccncnoonnonnncnnncnoncnnnnnnncnnnnnonnncnnnnnnnnnrenancinnns 101 2 OpenOffice org Cale siisii ee cadeua vaginas a dada pita ciedad 10 1 3 OpenOffice org Writer cuicos tics tddi pta 102 KOMCE ui E as LOZA ooo 10 2 25KSDread a AAA eae teens DONA a aioe neuer ded Gather en EAT 10 3 GNOME office applications ccecccece cece eee eee e eee ee eeeece eres nessa eeeeaeeesaeeeeaaeeeeeeeeaaees LOLA cil AORE PALET E a E A AA cord 10 33 QL abels reant dr rita anataenn 11 Financial software A A A E EE E sexes buds ovueincedecoiausex E E E 11 1 1 Configuring GnuCash sidni da a ia niii iaa aaa iadaan eina 149 2 USING AUS E AT E A E E ETT 11 1 3 Setting up online banking ocoooccccnccccnccnnnncccnnncnnnacnnnncncnnannnnannnnncnnnannnnnanennnnins 11 2 KMYMONeY niise Ai eet ae ae aa aa e as eine dd 11 2 1 Configuri
34. CD or Fedora KDE Live CD to create bootable USB media If you do not have a Fedora Live CD or Fedora KDE Live CD liveusb creator can download a CD image from the Internet However because this CD image is a very large file you might find this approach impractical if you do not have a broadband Internet connection the liveusb creator tool for Fedora or Microsoft Windows Instructions for obtaining this tool appear in the following sections specific to each operating system 6 3 1 USB image creation in Windows 1 Download the liveusb creator program for Microsoft Windows at http fedorahosted org liveusb creator 2 Follow the instructions given at the site and in the liveusb creator program to create the bootable USB media 6 3 2 USB image creation in Fedora You can install liveusb creator by clicking on System gt Administration gt Add Remove Software then searching for Liveusb creator and installing it You can also install the application from the command line with the following command yum install liveusb creator To open liveusb creator click on Applications gt System Tools gt liveusb creator To create live USB media 1 enter your password 2 choose whether to Use existing Live CD and specify its location on your comptuer or to Download Fedora and select a file from the drop down menu 3 select your Target Device for your Fedora installation such as a USB memory stick 24 USB image creation in F
35. DIDVD Creator CD DVD Creator is a CD and DVD burner 12 7 1 1 Using CD DVD Creator To open select System gt CD DVD Creator You can access the Help manual can be accessed by pressing the F1 key or clicking Help gt Contents on the top menu bar To create a data disc 1 Drag the files and folders that you want to write to CD or DVD to the CD DVD Creator folder 2 Insert a writeable CD or DVD into your writer device Doing this step first usually opens the CD DVD Creator automatically You can configure the CD DVD Creator to open automatically by going to System gt Preferences gt Hardware gt Multimedia Systems Selector and on the Audio and Video tabs select Autodetect from the drop down menu 3 Click the Write to Disc button or choose File gt Write to CD DVD Choose to write to your CD DVD or to a File Image An image file ISO is a normal file that will be saved to your computer and you can write to a CD later You can type a name for your CD or DVD in the Disc name window and select a Write speed from the drop down under Write Options You will also see the size of your data that will be written to the disc 4 Press the Write button to copy your data to the CD DVD To write a disc image to a CD DVD right click on the Disc Image File then choose Write to Disc from the popup menu To make a copy of a CD or DVD 1 Insert the disc you want to copy 2 Choose Places gt CD DVD Creator from the top panel menu bar
36. Export Import Mail Create a Template From Document Print and Close the file or Quit the application Edit allows you to Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Select All All Frames or a single Frame You can also Find Replace and Delete Page View lets you open a new document with New View Close All Views Split or Remove View Display Mode for Page Preview and Text Modes You can Format Characters choose Frame Borders Hide Doc Structure and Rulers Show Grid Snap to Grid and Zoom in and out Insert lets you insert Special Characters Page Breaks Pages Footnotes Endnotes Table of Contents Variables Expressions Links Comments Files Bookmarks Tables Pictures Text Frames Object Frames or Scan Images Format lets you choose the Default Format Font Paragraph Footnotes Formulas Styles use the Style Manager Import Styles or Create a Style From a Selection Page Layout can also be formatted and you can Enable Document Headers and Footers Frames allows you to set Frame Frameset Properties Raise and Lower Frames Bring to Front Send to Back Create a Linked Copy Convert to Text Box and to use the Frame Style Manager Create Framestyle From Frame change the Framestyle Text Backgound Color and Configure the Frame Border Table allows you to change the Table s Properties Insert and Delete Rows and Columns Join Split and Protect Cells Ungroup the Table Delete a Table use the Table Style manager and choose from
37. Fedora 11 User Guide Using Fedora 11 for common desktop computing tasks fedora Fedora Documentation Project User Guide Fedora 11 User Guide Using Fedora 11 for common desktop computing tasks Edition 1 0 Author Fedora Documentation Project fedora docs list redhat com Copyright O 2009 Red Hat Inc and others Copyright O 2009 Red Hat Inc and others This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License V1 0 the latest version is presently available at htip www opencontent org openpub Fedora and the Fedora Infinity Design logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the U S and other countries Red Hat and the Red Hat Shadow Man logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and other countries All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Documentation as with software itself may be subject to export control Read about Fedora Project export controls at http fedoraproject org wiki Legal Export The Fedora User Guide is focused on the end user looking to accomplish standard desktop computer user tasks such as browsing the web reading and sending email and doing office productivity work Preface vii 1 Document CONVENIOS da nap vil 1 1 Typographic Conventions 0 cccceeeeeee ee ee cece eect eee eres tAE santas ae ee eaeeee EEES EEE EE
38. I Cardbus ipw2200 Intel IPW2200 orinoco hostap Prism2 28 Remote desktop If you need any of these drivers install the software using PackageKit by going to Applications gt Add Remove Software or use the command line For example to install the iwl3945 firmware su c yum install iwl13945 You can search for software by going to the search tab in PackageKit or by using the command line For example to search for the orinoco software su c yum search orinoco Note A current bug with some of the firmware is that the wireless light is not enabled this does not mean the wireless card is turned off 7 8 Remote desktop Fedora has remote desktop as part of the default install e In Gnome select System gt Preferences gt Remote Desktop In KDE select KMenu gt Applications gt Settings gt Desktop Sharing Enabling Desktop Sharing is as simple as ticking the Allow other users to view your desktop If you would like other people to control your desktop you can tick the appropriate setting 29 30 Chapter 8 Accessing the Web Fedora uses Mozilla Firefox by default in Gnome and Konqueror in KDE to access the World Wide Web Web There are many other browsers available to suit different users needs Dillo is an example of a lightweight browser and browsers such as lynx w3m and elinks are console based Besides being standards compliant web browsers Firefox and Konqueror ha
39. Import Photos window From this new window you can Give Fedora a Destination for the imported images Assign Categories from the drop down menu 87 Chapter 14 Managing photos Deselect imported images from the camera Keep original File names Rotate the images In this dialog you can select or deselect photos to import by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail To select all photos click any photo and then press the key combination Ctr1 A To deselect all photos press Ctr1 Shift A Once you have selected all the photos that you want to import click the Import button To cancel the entire import process click the Cancel button For a more detailed explanation of the options available when importing images see the information below If you accidentally disconnect your camera The camera button allows you to reload the thumbnails in case your camera is accidentally disconnected from the computer If that happens Fedora may display an additional dialog that returns you to the previous step It is safe to click Ignore in that dialog return to this one and click the camera button again 14 2 1 1 Selecting a Filing Method Use Destination to select a folder in which to keep your photo images Within a destination folder you can further organize your photos by date and time or by any other method you wish If you enter text into the Film box Fedora uses this text to label and organize the photos you import
40. Manager Dispatcher Note Make sure to save the modifications otherwise the changes will not be written to file To start them straight away you will need to highlight Network Manager and Network Manager Dispatcher and click the Start button NetworkManager simplifies the process of connecting your laptop or desktop to the network When you have enabled the programs you should see the nm applet icon When it has been enabled you can right click on the icon and enable wireless or wired networks Enabling both does not affect how NetworkManager operates If you have a wireless network and it is supported by Fedora left clicking on the icon and selecting Connect to other network and putting the details of your connection will cause NetworkManager to use that information to connect to the network 7 7 Wireless Fedora includes some wireless firmware and methods to install closed source firmware NetworkManager automatically functions with the drivers that you installed in Fedora The following wireless drivers are available in the Fedora repositories Firmware name Firmware description ipw2100 firmware Intel IPW2100 iwl3945 firmware Intel IPW3945 iwl4965 firmware Intel IPW4965 b43 Broadcom PCI Cardbus b43legacy Broadcom PCI Cardbus adm8211 Admtek PCl Cardbus p54 Prism54 USB and PCl Cardbus zd1211rw Zydas USB rtl8180 Realtek PCl Cardbus rtl8187 Realtek USB rt2x00 Ralink USB and PCIl Cardbus ath5k Atheros PC
41. Objects and Slide Transition In this menu you can Start and Customize the slide show and navigate the presentation manually Settings lets you choose the Toolbars you want to use you can Configure Autocorrection Completion Shortcuts Toolbars and KPresenter Help opens the KPresenter Handbook which you can also access by pressing the F1 key lets you Report a Bug and offers general information about KPresenter and KDE The second row contains icons that are shortcuts of the top menu panel for File Insert Drawing and Object formatting Rolling your mouse over an icon opens a small window that lists its function The third menu panel is also made up of shortcut icons to work with Text and Slideshow configuration and navigation Many of the icons in the menu panels are grayed out until a selection is made on the slide in the work area window The bottom panel shows the Slide number currently being worked on and the number of slides in the presentation Main Slide Content or attributes the Zoom percentage and current measurement Centimeters or Inches A KPresenter tutorial is available at http docs kde org development en koffice kpresenter You can download pre formatted templates from http kde files org index php xcontentmode 612 56 KSpread 10 2 2 KSpread KSpread is the KOffice spreadsheet program Open KSpread by selecting the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Office gt Spreadsheet entry for KSpread T
42. accounts for these services to Kopete using the steps above 9 7 XChat XChat is an IRC chat program It allows you to join multiple IRC channels chat rooms at the same time talk publicly private one on one conversations and is capable of transfering files More information is available at http xchat org 9 7 1 Configuring XChat 1 When you open XChat the XChat Network List window appears Fill in your choices for your Nick name username and realname Your username can be anything you like 2 Now choose a network to join from the Networks window Select the one you want by clicking it 3 Select Edit which opens another window listing the network you selected For now make sure the box Use global user information is checked Go down to the Favorite Channels field and type in the channel you want to join You can also click on the small button to the right of the field which will bring up a window where you can Add Remove and Edit your channels Most networks require placed before the name of the channel For example fedora userguide 4 Click the Close button 5 Select Connect and you are connected to your channel 6 You configure your preferences for XChat while attached to the network On the top menu bar select Settings gt Preferences and choose your text background and sound preferences 9 7 2 Using XChat On the top menu bar select Applications gt Internet gt XChat Click the Connect button and you are a
43. age is currently displayed an indicator that Type Over or Insert is turned on page layout view and language in use A tutorial on using AbiWord is available from http www abisource com help en US tutorial index html and instructions on using the program from http www abisource com help en US howto index html You can find plug ins for AbiWord at http www abisource com download plugins phtml 10 3 2 Gnumeric Gnumeric is a spreadsheet optimized for the GNOME desktop Start Gnumeric by clicking on Applications gt Office gt Gnumeric Spreadsheet in GNOME or the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Spreadsheet menu entry for Gnumeric in KDE Major functions of the top menu are File lets you create New documents Open Save Page Setup Set Clear and Show the Print Area File also provides options to Print Send To an email address view and add to the program s Properties set Preferences access a Full History and Close a file or Quit the program Edit allows you to Undo and Redo actions Cut Copy and Paste and Fill Clear and Delete Rows Columns and Cells Edit also provides options to Find Replace or Goto a Cell manage the Sheets Select various ranges in the spreadsheet and Recalculate View allows you to create a New View of the workbook to Freeze Panes select a different Workbook choose Toolbars View Statusbar Full Screen and Zoom in and out 61 Chapter 10 Office tools
44. an be added to any other disk See Chapter 6 Media for more information Some players however require special applications to transfer music 12 11 1 Grip Grip is a CD player and a ripper for the Gnome desktop It provides an automated frontend for MP3 and other audio format encoders letting you transform the disc straight into MP3s Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information Details are available on the Grip website at http nostatic org grip doc index htm Grip is not installed by default but it is in the repository for installation with either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for more information 12 11 2 iPod Connectivity Because of the proprietary nature of the Apple iPod it can be difficult to use it with a computer with a Linux operating system like Fedora Unfortunately Apple has not and has never announced plans 80 Further Information to release a Linux version of iTunes and iTunes is not yet stable through Wine a piece of software that allows many programs designed for Windows to work on Linux Luckily there are several high quality tools available for Linux users to manage media content on the iPod Among them are gtkpod YamiPod and tools built into media players such as AmaroK Rhythmbox and Banshee The Fedora Project does not by default offer the ability to interact with the Apple iPod However
45. an be added with a right mouse click on a worksheet tab This pop up window allows Rename the Sheet Insert Remove Hide or Show the Sheet and provides access to Sheet Properties A KSpread tutorial is available at http docs kde org development en koffice kspread You can download pre formatted templates and scripts from htip kde files org index php xcontentmode 611 10 2 3 KWord KWord is the KOffice word processing program Open KWord by selecting the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Office gt Word Processing entry for KWord The first window contains options for opening New Recent or Existing documents the type of Template as well as a menu bar On the menu bar choose File to create a New file Open Close or Import a file or Quit the application choose the Settings drop down menu select Show Toolbar Configure Shortcuts or Configure Toolbars e click Helpto open the KWord Handbook or Report a Bug You can also access the KWord Handbook by pressing the F1 key After selecting a template click the Use This Template button and check the box Always use this template if you want to make it the program default The next window has three menu panels on the top Frame shortcut icons on the left the Document Structure window the document work area and an information panel running along the bottom 58 KWord The first menu row consists of File lets you create New documents Open and Close a file Save
46. application or on the command line by using Yum 6 1 ISO images The instructions in this chapter refer to image files at various points In this context an image file or disc image is an archive file of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization ISO ISO image files typically have an iso extension The name ISO is taken from the SO 9660 file system used with CD ROM media but an ISO image can also contain Universal Disk Format UDF file system because UDF is backward compatible with ISO 9660 An ISO image includes all the data of files contained on the archived CD or DVD They are stored in an uncompressed format In addition to data of the files it also contains all the file system metadata including boot code structures and attributes ISO images do not support multi track thus they cannot be used for audio CDs VCD and hybrid audio CDs 6 2 Writing CDs or DVDs Fedora includes support for writing to CDs and DVDs This means that you can permanently burn files to CDs or DVDs for backup file transport or any other reason Required hardware Not all optical drives CD or DVD drives are equipped to burn new media An easy way to check whether that you can burn optical media is to look at the front of your disc drive It should indicate the drive s capabilities You can also look up the model of your drive on line An even easier way is to simply try burning a disc chances are
47. arks Another option is to use a desktop feed reader you have installed such as Liferea 8 1 1 2 Tabs Open a new tab with Ctr1 T A blank page is presented and a new bar is available under the navigation bar showing all open tabs to switch between them left click the desired tab To close a tab you can either right click to access the context menu or press the red X on the tab Navigating a large number of open tabs can be difficult To make it easier use the arrow icon on the right hand side of the tabs toolbar Click this to reveal a list of all open tabs that you can switch to by clicking on the relevant item 8 1 1 3 Extensions Firefox is designed to be moderately fast and lightweight As a result some functionality found in other browsers may not be available by default To solve this problem the Firefox team made the browser extensible so it is easy to create and integrate extensions that add new functionality to the browser To manage and install extensions plug ins and themes select the Tools gt Add ons menu entry New extensions are found by visiting the Firefox add on site at htips addons mozilla org en US firefox To install an extension from this site follow the Install link and when prompted click Install Now Themes plugins and search engines Firefox can also be extended by adding new search engines to the search box installing new themes to customize the look and installing new plugins allowing the
48. ber of office applications optimized for GNOME are available For more information on using these applications refer to http ive gnome org Gnome Office 10 3 1 AbiWord AbiWord is a word processing application optimized for the GNOME desktop Start AbiWord by clicking on Applications gt Office gt AbiWord in GNOME or the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt Word Processor menu entry for AbiWord in KDE The functions of the top menu are File lets you create New documents New using a Template Open and Import Files Save and Revert a file Page Setup and Print Close a file or Quit the application This menu will also show a list of recently opened files Edit allows you to Undo Redo Cut Copy and Paste Clear Select All to Remove Headers and Footers Find and Replace Goto and to change the Preferences View lets you select the type of Layout Toolbars Ruler and Status Bar Enable Formatting Tools Show Formatting Marks view a Presentation Full Screen and Zoom in and out Insert lets you insert Breaks Page Numbers Date and Time Fields Text Box Mail Merge Field Symbols Headers and Footers Files Bookmarks Hyperlinks Table of Contents Footnotes Endnotes Equations Clip Art Pictures Objects such as GNOME Office Charts and Direction Markers Format lets you format Fonts Paragraphs add Bullets and Numbering Text Box Images Columns Tabs Headers Footers Footnotes and Endnotes Ta
49. ble of Contents You can also Align and Format text add a Page Background and Create and Modify Styles Tools lets you Check Spelling Set the Language Word Count access the Thesaurus GDict Dictionary Translators Edit an Image via GIMP Google Search Summarize the document URL Dictionary Wiki Encyclopedia change style with the Stylist access the Document 60 Gnumeric History and Revisions You can also see the installed Plug ins and install new ones execute helper Scripts that you have created and perform Mail Merge Table allows you to Insert Delete Select and manipulate the table s Cells You can also format and merge a table s Cells Rows and Columns Convert Text to a Table Convert a Table to Text and turn on Autofit Table Collaborate lets you Share a Document or Documents and manage the collaboration Accounts Documents lets you open a New Window that lists any open documents Help opens Help Contents Search for Help Check for Updates Report a Bug and see general information About GNOME Office and About AbiWord The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions that are listed in the top menu The third menu panel allows you to configure the appearance of your text such as font selection alignment font bullets indentations bolding and italics The panel at the bottom of the document contains a window that shows the number of pages in the document and which p
50. browser for your local machine and a file browser for the remote machine This way you can browse to a file on a remote server and drag and drop it to a folder on your local host To install FileZilla refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install FileZilla by either using PackageKit or on the command line using Yum More information about FileZilla is available at http filezilla project org FTP with web browsers If you don t need to send a file but only retrieve it you can use Firefox Konqueror and many other web browsers Just browse to the ftp server in the address bar and make sure to specify that you want to use FTP Generically you would type ftp ftp server com where ftp server comis the address of the FTP server 8 2 1 1 Connecting to a server To connect to an FTP server in FileZilla you must add the server to your Site Manager You can open the Site Manager dialog in three ways Click on File gt Site Manager e Click the first icon to the left on the tool bar e Use the keyboard shortcut Ctr1 S When the Site Manager dialog is open click the New Site button The first thing FileZilla will want to know is the name that you want to use to refer to this server There will be a text entry box under 33 Chapter 8 Accessing the Web My Sites on the left side of the dialog Here type whatever name you want to use to refer to the new server This name doesn t have any technical implications
51. ces Yum can also install software from an individual package file This advanced usage is beyond the scope of this Guide To use Yum specify a function and one or more packages or package groups Each section below gives some examples For each operation Yum downloads the latest package information from the configured repositories If your system uses a slow network connection yum may require several seconds to download the repository indexes and the header files for each package The Yum utility searches these data files to determine the best set of actions to produce the required result and displays the transaction for you to approve The transaction may include the installation update or removal of additional packages in order to resolve software dependencies This is an example of the transaction for installing tsclient Package Arch Version Repository Size Installing tsclient 1386 0 132 6 base 247 k Installing for dependencies rdesktop 1386 1 4 0 2 base 107 k Transaction Summary Install 2 Package s Update O Package s Remove O Package s Total download size 355 k Is this ok y N Example 17 1 Format of Yum transaction reports 100 Installing new software with Yum Review the list of changes and then press Y to accept and begin the process If you press N or Enter Yum does not download or change any packages and will exit Package Versions The Yum utility only displays and uses the newest
52. choose something convenient for you On the right side of the dialog box you will need to enter the following information Host This is the address of the server If the server has a URL such as ftp server com you can type it in here Otherwise you ll need to type in the IP address An IP address is of the form A B C D where A B C and D are integer values between 0 and 255 inclusive The server you are connecting to should provide you with this information Port You only need to fill in a value for this field if the server does not use the default port 21 for FTP port 22 for SFTP Servertype Here you can choose FTP SFTP FTPS or FTPES Only FTP and SFTP will be discussed here Logontype This field allows you to choose how you will authenticate with the server This information should be provided by the server you are trying to connect to User Password Account These fields will only be active if you user certain Logontypes If they are active you should use them for your username password and account on the remote server Comments This field has no technical relevance It may be convenient for you to make a note of something about the server here When you have filled out the fields click OK to close the Site Manager or Connect to close the Site Manager and then connect to the FTP server immediately Clicking Cancel will ignore any changes you made to the Site Manager and close the dialog To connect to a serv
53. cluding a built in list of standard networks easy searching and sorting of available channels logging DCC chat and file transfers For more information go to http chatzilla hacksrus com faq 9 9 1 Installing ChatZilla You can install ChatZilla using Firefox 1 Launch Firefox and from the top menu bar select Tools gt Add ons gt Get Add ons 2 Inthe box to the left of the Browse All Add ons link type ChatZilla and press Enter 3 Select Add to FireFox then Install Now You may get a message to re start Firefox 9 9 2 Configuring ChatZilla 1 Open Firefox 2 On the top menu bar click Tools gt Chatzilla 3 The ChatZilla window opens where you will see the word Client in the middle of the page At the bottom are links to a few of the most popular Networks If your Network is among them just click on the link and ChatZilla will attach to it and automatically add it your Preferences gt Startup 4 To configure your chosen networks and channels so they automatically connect select Preferences gt Startup and scroll down to the Auto connect URLs window select the Network and click Edit Now add your channel to the end click Apply then Ok 5 If your network is not listed go to the top menu bar and choose Preferences gt Startup scroll down to the Auto connect URLs window click Add and type in your network For example irc your network click Apply then Ok 48 Using ChatzZilla 6 If you know th
54. d To install a package group PackageGroup enter the command su c yum groupinstall PackageGroup Enter the password for the root account when prompted Examples of package groups include MySQL Database and Authoring and Publishing New Services require Activation When you install a service Fedora does not activate or start it To configure a new service to run on bootup choose System gt Administration gt Services from the top desktop panel or use the chkconfig and service command line utilities See the man pages for more details 101 Chapter 17 Managing software 17 3 2 Updating software with Yum To update the generic package my package to the latest version type su c yum update my package Enter the password for the root account when prompted Kernel Packages Kernel packages remain on the system after they have been superseded by newer versions This enables you to boot your system with an older kernel if an error occurs with the current kernel To minimize maintenance yum automatically removes obsolete kernel packages from your system retaining only the current kernel and the previous version To update all of the packages in the package group PackageGroup enter the command su c yum groupupdate PackageGroup Enter the password for the root account when prompted Updating the Entire System To update all of the packages on your Fedora system use the command su c yum update Ente
55. d into KDE Graphical environment components are very modular When you install the game packs any dependencies will also be installed You may need additional packages to view the online help 13 1 Default GNOME games Many GNOME games are not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can use the Fedora DVD to install them either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for help installing new software Be sure to also install the separate Help Files for gnome games which provides the instruction for playing each game With the Help Files for gnome games installed use the menus to navigate to System gt Help gt Games to view a list of the available games There is a brief description along with a link to details about playing each game The detailed instructions can also be found from the Help gt Contents menu in each game The games included in the GNOME games pack include Aisle Riot Solitaire A collection of dozens of solitaire games Blackjack The classic casino card game Chess Play the classic board game against the computer or a friend Five or More A version of the popular Color Lines game Four in a Row A four in a row game played against the computer or another human opponent FreeCell Solitaire Another huge collection of solitaire games GNOME Falling Blocks Create a complete horizontal row
56. e gt Open Select the file you want and click the Add button You can also drag a file in to the Totem Movie Player window If Totem Movie Player displays error messages when you try to play a file refer to the information about codecs at http www gnome org projects totem codecs Click Movie gt Open Location to open a file by URL location Movie gt Play Disc will play a DVD VCD or CD Movie gt Eject will eject the disc Under the Eject option is the Playlist Movie gt Play and Movie gt Pause will play or pause the disc Choosing Movie gt Properties opens the sidebar which displays the properties of the file From the Edit menu you can Take a Screenshot Copy Select All Find Find Next go to the Previous file configure Plugins and set Preferences View allows you to go to Fullscreen Fit Window to Movie set the Aspect Ratio Switch Angles Show Controls Subtitles and show or hide the Sidebar Go will let you go to the DVD Title Audio Angle and Chapter menus the Next Chapter or Movie the Previous Chapter or Movie Skip to a track and Skip Forward or Backwards 74 GNOME multimedia applications The Sound drop down menu lets you change Language and turn the Volume Up or Down e You can open the manual by selecting Help gt Contents or pressing the F1 key For more information visit the Totem Movie Player website at htip projects gnome org totem 12 7 GNOME multimedia applications 12 7 1 C
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58. e channel you want to connect to automatically enter irc your network your channel Don t forget to click the Apply and Ok buttons 7 Finally add few nicks by selecting Lists gt Add typing in a nick and clicking Ok Two or three nicks are recommended in case someone else is using your first choice 9 9 3 Using ChatZilla 1 Open Firefox 2 On the top menu bar click Tools gt Chatzilla and you will automatically attach to your networks and channels Note It is not necessary to have your channels connect when you start ChatZilla Once you have attached to your networks you can select IRC gt Join channel and type in your favorite channel or part of it in the Quick Search box Then click on the Join button when your channel appears in the box But you will have to do these steps each time unless you setup ChatZilla to attach automatically 49 50 Chapter 10 Office tools There are two primary office suite recommendations for Fedora users the OpenOffice org suite which is not desktop or even Linux specific and the KOffice suite for the KDE desktop Each suite of office tools includes presentation spreadsheet and word processing applications Additional office applications are also available depending on the office suite selected While the GNOME desktop does not have a specific office suite there are a number of office application optimized for GNOME These applications include Abiword a word proce
59. e root password when they need it There is no need to log in as root to use them 2 3 Cannot Login HELP A common mistake during login is accidentally having the Caps Lock key turned on This situation can cause the login process to fail because usernames and passwords are case sensitive If problems persist re enter your username and password a few times to ensure that you have typed them correctly Recovering the password for a user account is not a difficult process but it is beyond the scope of this guide You may wish to ask for help on user forums or chat rooms for further assistance Chapter 3 This chapter introduces the GNOME desktop in Fedora The desktop becomes easier to use after you know some of the common terminology used beginning with the GNOME desktop If you installed Fedora 11 from the Fedora 11 Live image whether for Intel or compatible 1686 PowerPC ppc or 64 bit x86_64 GNOME is the installed desktop You can find details of two alternative desktops in Ak p and or 5 Tout Computer Mana s Home pl ene i X R ANY Al Ni Jacktnr K The GNOME desktop has three distinct areas From top to bottom they are e the top menu panel the gray bar at the top e the desktop area the workspace area in the center that fills most of the screen e the window list panel the gray bar at the bottom ak Ar mar E 1 ne top menu panel This panel stretches across the top of
60. e third menu panel allows you to configure the appearance of your document such as font selection text alignment bullets indentations bolding and italics The fourth panel shows the address of the cell you are pointing to and the data window shows what the cell contains The panel at the bottom of the document contains inset windows some of which have menu access by double clicking on the window This panel showns the number of pages the document contains the page style being used the language an indicator of type over or insert page layout view and a zoom in and out bar 54 KOffice A tutorial on using OpenOffice org Writer is available at http wiki services openoffice org wiki Documentation Tutorials 10 2 KOffice The KOffice suite is optimized for the KDE desktop environment The KOffice applications also create documents and files in open standards formats including OpenDocument ODF Rich Text Format RTF and HTML Officially the KOffice FAQ recommends using RTF or PDF formats for compatibility with Microsoft Word KOffice does support Microsoft file formats but there are issues with compatibility For the most up to date information on all of KOffice s program offerings visit the official KOffice site at htip www koffice org This site also includes detailed documentation and help for each individual KOffice program For more information on using KOffice refer to the overview at http www k
61. e track being extracting Press F1 or Help gt Contents to see the manual For more information see the Sound Juicer website at hitp burtonini com blog computers sound juicer 12 5 Sound Recorder Sound Recorder can record and play flac oga OGG audio and wav sound files 73 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia 12 5 1 Using Sound Recorder From the top menu select File gt New or press the New button on the second panel On the Record as drop down menu choose what type of file you want to record to Press the red Record button or select Control gt Record from the top menu to start recording Press the Stop button or use Control gt Stop on the top menu to end the recording Press the Play button or Control gt Play to start the play back To open the audio mixer select File gt Open Volume Control To save your file choose File gt Save As and name your sound file You can play an existing sound file by clicking the Open button or selecting File gt Open on the top menu choose the file and click the Open button Now press the Play button or Control gt Play to play the selected file Selecting File gt Properties displays information about the current sound file Access the Sound Recorder manual by choosing Help gt Contents or press the F1 key 12 6 Totem Movie Player Totem Movie Player plays DVDs CDs and VCDs 12 6 1 Using Totem Movie Player To open an audio or video file select Movi
62. e url For example the weather for Perth Australia is at the following link http www weather com outlook travel businesstraveler local ASXX0089 from search_city To use that information note the location code in this example ASXX0089 enter it into the weather desklet and select Close button The weather information will be available after the next update interval To get additional plugins visit http gdesklets de 16 5 2 KDE plasmoids Plasmoids are widgets for the KDE desktop You can add plasmoids by clicking the plasma toolbox icon located at the top right of the desktop or right hand edge of the panel and then clicking Add Widget You can also add plasmoids by right clicking on the desktop and panel and clicking Add Widget When you install the KDE desktop a number of plasmoids are installed on your system by default although most of them are not visible until you add them to your desktop or panel These include various clocks calendars small games and widgets that present you with information about the status of your computer hardware or about multimedia files as you play them When you click the Add Widget menu option the plasma toolbox presents you with a list of the widgets currently available to you along with short descriptions of each one The plasma toolbox also gives you the option to Install New Widgets either by downloading from KDE Look org or by installing ones that you have previously downloaded and sav
63. ed to your computer 95 96 Chapter 17 Managing software 17 1 Using PackageKit Fedora 11 uses a program called PackageKit to graphically assist the user with installing and removing software Any application from the Fedora repositories including the ones described in this user guide can be installed with the following method 17 1 1 Installing software Here is how to install software using Add Remove Software in the GNOME desktop environment Click System gt Administration gt Add Remove Software This will open the Add Remove Software application In the Search Box with the binoculars icon type the name of the application you wish to install If you are unsure of the specific application you need to install you can also type keywords in this box just like you would for an internet search engine Next click the Find The message Querying appears in the lower left corner Zero or more listings will appear that match your search query Tick the box next to the description of the application or applications you wish to install The message Downloading repository information appears in the lower left corner The window area below the list of packages contains additional information about the selected software Select any additional packages to install or remove at this time by changing tick boxes next to the package name Finally click the Apply button This starts the installation process and concurrent
64. edora 4 select how much Persistent Storage you want This is space that Fedora can use to hold documents and other files After you have made all of your choices just press the Create Live USB button to start the process Visit the liveusb creator web page for more information Another option to create a USB Image is Advanced usage This content is written for the more advanced user It assumes that you are comfortable with the command line and have a relatively good knowledge of Linux terminology It is probably not necessary to using Fedora as a desktop user but can help a desktop user expand his or her knowledge base and face more complicated troubleshooting issues 1 Install the livecd tools package on your system with the following command su c yum y install livecd tools 2 Plug in your USB media 3 Find the device name for your USB media If the media has a volume name look up the name in dev disk by label or use findfs su c findfs LABEL MyLabel If the media does not have a volume name or you do not know it consult the var log messages log for details su c less var log messages 4 Use the livecd iso to disk command to write the ISO image to the media su c livecd iso to disk the_image iso dev sdXx1 Replace sdX1 with the device name for the partition on the USB media Most flash drives and external hard disks use only one partition If you have changed this behavior or have oddl
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66. elect one from the list the theme will be applied automatically Fedora s repositories include many other themes that you can install in the gnome themes extra package You can install gnome themes extra by either using the PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for instructions When the gnome themes extra is installed on your computer the themes can be selected by using the Appearance program described in this section 16 1 2 Changing the theme in KDE By default KDE uses Oxygen as its theme with many more available from http Avww kde look org To change the theme click Kickoff Application Launcher gt Computer gt System Settings gt Appearance Expand the Appearance item and click Style To change the theme select one from the list and click the Apply button at the bottom of the window You can download additional icons and themes for KDE by installing the kdeartwork icons and kdeartwork packages You can install these packages by either using the PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for instructions 16 2 Changing the background 16 2 1 Changing the background in GNOME To change the background image on your desktop right click on an empty area of the desktop and select the Change Desktop Background option The Desktop Background Preferences window appears To change your desktop background choose a new image from the list
67. emoved Hidden and the Sheet Properties changed Format can also be used to set up or create Styles change the Page Layout and Print Ranges Data lets you manipulate the data such as Sort bring Text to Columns Insert columns Rows Delete Columns or Rows Insert Remove Merge or Disassociate Cells Show an Area insert Subtotals Goal Seek or Consolidate formulas 57 Chapter 10 Office tools Tools can check Spelling create Custom Lists Protect Sheet and Document Recalculate Sheet or Document Insert Calendar Tools can also access the Script Manager and Editor and Export to HTML File Settings provides Hide the Status Bar Tab Bar and Formula Bar Also use Settings to choose which Toolbars you want open Configure Shortcuts Toolbars and KSpread Help opens the KSpread Handbook which you can also access by pressing the F1 key lets you Report a Bug and offers general information about KSpread and KDE The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions plus a few icons for data manipulation The third menu panel allows configuration of the appearance of your data such as font selection alignment font bullets indentations bolding and italics The fourth panel shows the address of the current cell and the data window shows what the cell contains The panel at the bottom shows in bold which spreadsheet is currently selected and how many worksheets are in the file Worksheets c
68. er Shutdown turns off your computer 16 Chapter 5 Tour of the Xfce desktop This chapter introduces the Xfce 4 desktop in Fedora It is easier to explain how to use the desktop after explaining some of the common terminology used with the Xfce 4 desktop 5 1 The Xfce 4 desktop One common reason for using the Xfce 4 desktop is to provide a feature rich desktop environment for a desktop computer or a laptop with limited memory hy W O0N7 9 Ea Ta 15 47 Figure 5 1 The Xfce desktop The Xfce 4 desktop has three distinct areas From top to bottom the areas are the window list panel e the desktop area the menu panel The layout and location of these items can be customized but the term used for each of them remains the same The window list panel is located at the top of the screen It features the Show Desktop icon displays the running applications as buttons and gives access to the workplace switcher and the trash The desktop area is the large space between the two panels The Filesystem Home Directory and Trash icons are located in the top left corner of this area 17 Chapter 5 Tour of the Xfce desktop The menu panel is located at the bottom of the screen On the left part of the panel it contains a number of default icons that start software applications and on the right also provides a clock fast user switching volume control applet and a notification area The
69. er later on that you have already added to Site Manager simply open the Site Manager click on the server you want to connect to and click Connect 8 2 1 2 Transferring files If you connect to a server successfully you should see some status messages appear in the top pane indicating that you have connected to the remote server The right hand file browser pane should also display the contents of the remote directory you connected to To transfer a file simply drag and drop it from one file browser into the folder of the other file browser You can also select a file in one pane a folder in the other and click the appropriate arrow button to transfer the file 8 2 2 FTP on the command line To use the ftp program type ftp ata console prompt You should be put into an FTP shell that looks like this ftp gt 34 FTP on the command line To get a list of commands type help To get a simple description of any command type help command This guide will only cover a fraction of these commands read about the rest in the ftp man page 8 2 2 1 Connecting to an FTP server To log in to an ftp server use the open command The syntax is open ftp server com port Where ftp server com is the FTP server you wish to connect to It is not necessary to specify a port with this command unless you are connecting to a non default port The default port for FTP is port 21 Alternatively you can connect to an FTP server as you start the f
70. essaging IM programs that allow you to talk to people in real time using chat networks like AIM Yahoo Messenger or Gmail chat XChat is Fedora s default graphical IRC client and Konversation is the default IRC client for KDE ChatZilla is an IRC client installed and used via the FireFox web browser These clients can all connect to IRC servers which provide chat rooms for people around the world to discuss specific topics 9 1 Evolution Evolution is a full featured email program In addition to email Evolution features a personal information manager PIM a calendar task manager and an address book for your contacts More documentation for Evolution is available at http www gnome org projects evolution documentation shtml 9 1 1 Configuring Evolution To configure an email account 1 Start Evolution in GNOME click Applications gt Office gt Evolution on the top menu bar in KDE click Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt Email menu entry 2 Running the software for the first time displays the Evolution Setup Assistant wizard Answer these questions using information provided by your ISP or email provider The Identity screen relates to personal information about the account including Name Organization and Address There is also a Reply To field which will allow you to specify that recipients of mail from this account can reply to a different email address than the one that sent the email
71. estrictions and provide powerful and flexible alternatives 71 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia to popular yet restricted formats such as MP3 that are not legally distributable with Fedora For more information refer to the Fedora Multimedia wiki at hitps fedoraproject org wiki Multimedia 12 2 Cheese Webcam Booth Cheese Webcam Booth takes photos and videos with your webcam 12 2 1 Using Cheese Webcam Booth The top menu provides the following operations and options e Selecting Cheese you can choose to turn on the Countdown timer Take a photo or Record depending on if you selected Photo or Video button see the Fullscreen and Quit the application Edit lets you turn on Effects Move to Trash Move All to Trash and change the Preferences e Clicking on Help gt Contents or pressing F1 opens the Cheese Manual The tabs between the windows are shortcuts of the choices in top menu More information is available on the Cheese website at htip www gnome org projects cheese 12 3 Rhythmbox Music Player Rhythmbox Music Player plays CDs internet radio and is a music collection manager The first time you launch the Rhythmbox Music Player an assistant will help you import your music On the second panel of the assistant click the Browse button and select the folder where your music is stored normally in your Home Music directory 12 3 1 Using Rhythmbox Music Player The main functions of the Rhythmbox Music P
72. following sections discuss the Xfce 4 menu panel desktop area and window list panel in further detail 5 1 1 The Xfce 4 menu panel This panel contains a number of launchers for common software To customize its appearance right click on the panel and select Properties Applications contains all the programs e Terminal contains the console e Mousepad is a generic text editor Thunar is a file manager program e Firefox is a popular web browser Sound Control right mouse click allows you to mute the sound and set your preferences Notification Area e Trash e Workspace Switcher allows you to switch to other desktops Four are configured by default Show Desktop minimizes all open windows to show a clear work area e Clock is a generic clock that can be modified by right clicking on it e Switch User Quit is the button on which you click to log out restart and shutdown Xfce Right clicking the clock on the right hand side of this panel provides access to a menu that allows you to change the clock s display to and from a 12 and 24 hour format change to or from a digital clock style Logging out of Xfce4 provides a way to switch the current username this is located next to the clock 5 1 2 The Xfce 4 desktop area Before any additional icons are added to the desktop the desktop area contains three icons by default Filesystem this contains all mounted volumes or disks on the computer all of
73. gar the desktop environment for the OLPC aoe and LXDE To learn how to browse and install software from the repository refer to With few exceptions applications included with a particular desktop environment run in other environments too For instance the OpenOffice org office suite runs on all three major desktop environments Some applications are created specifically for a particular desktop environment For example each major desktop has a preferred text editor GNOME uses Gedit and KDE supplies Kedit but you can install and use these in either environment Fedora provides a wide choice of applications to browse the World Wide Web create documents and display and edit photos This guide describes the most commonly installed applications on the most common desktop environments as well as the useful alternatives Chapter 2 Logging into the desktop This section of the Fedora User Guide explains how to identify yourself or log in to your system During the post installation process you created an identity with a user name and a password called an account If you have forgotten any of your user account details refer to Section 2 3 Cannot Login HELP For additional information about the login process refer to the section Section 2 2 Logging in a technical explanation 2 1 Logging in When you restart or turn on your computer it goes through a process called booting During the boot process
74. ge file use the Tools gt Burn DVD ISO Image Navigate to and select the iso image then click the Start button 6 2 3 Using GnomeBaker in Gnome GnomeBaker is not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can use the Fedora DVD to install GnomeBaker Launch the program by clicking Applications gt Sound and Video gt GnomeBaker The bottom of the GnomeBaker features three buttons e Data DVD to burn files and folders to a DVD e Data CD to burn files and folders to a CD e Audio CD to create an audio CD To burn a specific file to a CD or DVD click the Data CD or Data CD button and then drag and drop the files or entire folders from the top pane into the bottom pane You can also highlight the files or folders and click the Add button to add them to the window Follow the same process to create an Audio CD but start with the Audio CD button To burn an ISO image file 1 Select Tools gt Burn DVD Image or Tools gt Burn CD Image from the top menu 2 Navigate to the image file select it and click the OK button 3 Click the Start button in the next window to confirm burning your disc image 6 3 Making bootable USB media With the liveusb creator tool you can set up USB media to hold a bootable copy of Fedora This allows you to run Fedora on a computer without making any changes to the computer s hard drive as long as the computer is capable of booting f
75. gt Computer gt C gt Users gt YourUserName gt AppData gt Roaming gt Thunderbird gt Profiles The profile data folder looks like xxxxx default where xxxxx is a sequence of random numbers and letters If you cannot find the Application Data folder If you cannot find the Application Data folder click Start gt Control Panel gt Classic View gt Folder Options gt View and check the box Show Hidden Files and Folders If you still cannot find the folder click Start type AppData into the Start Search box and press Enter 2 Copy your profile data folder to removable media Right click on the profile data folder and select Send To gt CD DVD or memory stick Then press the Back button until you arrive at My Computer and check to make sure the folder was saved to the media 3 Copy your profile data folder to Fedora to Section 9 2 1 Configuring Thunderbird a Open the Thunderbird profile data folder in Fedora In GNOME click Places gt Home Folder gt thunderbird gt xxxxxx default where xxxxxx is a random sequence of letters and numbers Note that this sequence will be different from the sequence that you saw in your Thunderbird installation on Windows If you cannot find the thunderbird folder If your Fedora installation originally had an early version of Thunderbird installed on it your profile data folder might be under mozilla thunderbird instead of thunderbird If you cannot find e
76. h icon on the right end of the window list panel works the same way as the Trash icon in the desktop area If you delete a file it is moved to this location A right click on the Trash icon brings up the options to Open the folder Empty Trash Remove from Panel and Lock to Panel 12 Chapter 4 Tour of the KDE desktop This chapter introduces the KDE desktop in Fedora 11 It is easier to explain how to use the desktop throughout this guide after explaining some of the common terminology used with the KDE desktop 4 1 The KDE desktop If you installed Fedora 11 from the Fedora 11 KDE Live CD KDE is the default desktop on your computer If you installed Fedora 11 from the Fedora DVD your the default desktop is GNOME and KDE is available as an option at the login screen Chapter 3 Tour of the GNOME desktop describes the GNOME desktop Desktop Folder Home a 15 44 Figure 4 1 The KDE desktop The KDE desktop has two main areas e The desktop area e The KDE panel The layout and location of these items can be customized but the term used for each of them remains the same The desktop area is the large space where windows are displayed Icons for the Home fodler and Trash are located in the top left corner of this area within a tinted area that represents the contents of a folder in this case the Desktop folder 13 Chapter 4 Tour of the KDE desktop The KDE panel is located at the bottom and spans t
77. hat a document is now printing 3 1 1 6 Volume control The volume control allows you to quickly change the overall volume of sound on your computer Click the icon to show a slider and then use the mouse to drag the slider to the desired volume If you double click the icon a volume control window appears in which you can separately change the volume of different sound sources 3 1 1 7 The user switch area If you click the current username located next to the clock a list of available users appears To switch to a different user account select the username 3 1 1 8 Clock and calendar To access the calendar click the clock on the right hand side of the panel When you double click a date the Evolution personal information manager opens 3 1 2 The desktop area The default desktop area or workspace contains three icons the Computer icon If you double click this icon a window appears that contains available storage devices on the computer These are also listed in the Places gt Computer menu the Home icon which represents the location where all of the logged in user s files such as music movies and documents are stored by default There is a different home directory for each user and users cannot access each other s home directories by default the Trash icon Normally when you choose to delete a file it is not permanently removed from your system Instead it is sent to the trash folder which you can access
78. he entire width of the screen It features the Kickoff Application Launcher Device Notifier and application launchers displays the running applications as buttons and gives access to the workplace switcher calendar and the clock The following sections describe the KDE desktop area and the KDE panel in further detail 4 2 The KDE desktop area Before any additional icons are added to it the desktop area is fairly empty and contains only the icons for Home folder and Trash which are contained within an area that represents the contents of the Desktop Folder You can add icons to the desktop for applications or places by finding them in the Kickoff Application Launcher menu right clicking them and clicking Add to Desktop Right clicking on the desktop presents a menu of actions related to the desktop area For example selecting Appearance Settings lets you change the desktop background and visual theme You can also change the appearance of your desktop by clicking the plasma toolbox at the top right corner of the screen 4 3 The KDE panel By default the KDE panel extends the full width of the bottom part of the screen and contains the following controls called widgets the Kickoff Application Launcher In Fedora 11 this is represented by an icon of the Fedora Infinity logo The Kickoff Application Launcher gives you access to software and storage locations on your computer as well as allowing you to perform system related task
79. he first window contains options for opening Recent or Existing documents and the type of Template as well as a menu bar On the menu bar choose File to create a New file Open Close or Import a file or Quit the application choose the Settings drop down menu select Show Toolbar Configure Shortcuts or Configure Toolbars e click Helpto open the KSpread Handbook or Report a Bug You can also access the KSpread Handbook by pressing the F1 key After selecting a template click the Use This Template button and check the box Always use this template if you want to make it the program default The next window has four menu panels on the top the spreadsheet and spreadsheet tabs running along the bottom The first menu row consists of File lets you create New documents Open and Close a file Save Export Import Mail Create a Template From Document Print and Quit the application Edit allows you to Cut Copy and Paste Fill Find and Replace Delete Remove Links and change Cell Attributes View opens a new spreadsheet with New View or allows access to Close All Views Split or Remove View Goto a Cell Show Page Borders and Zoom in and out Insert lets you insert Cell Comments Functions Series Links Special Characters Objects Charts Pictures or External Data such as information from a Database Text File or the Clipboard Format lets you format the Cells Rows Columns can be formatted the Sheet can be R
80. his is to avoid the difficult to follow Select Mouse from the Preferences sub menu in the System menu of the main menu bar approach Mono spaced Bold Italic or Proportional Bold Italic Whether Mono spaced Bold or Proportional Bold the addition of Italics indicates replaceable or variable text Italics denotes text you do not input literally or displayed text that changes depending on circumstance For example To connect to a remote machine using ssh type ssh username domain name at a shell prompt If the remote machine is example com and your username on that machine is john type ssh john example com The mount o remount file system command remounts the named file system For example to remount the home file system the command is mount o remount home To see the version of a currently installed package use the rpm q package command It will return a result as follows package version release Note the words in bold italics above username domain name file system package version and release Each word is a placeholder either for text you enter when issuing a command or for text displayed by the system Aside from standard usage for presenting the title of a work italics denotes the first use of a new and important term For example When the Apache HTTP Server accepts requests it dispatches child processes or threads to handle them This group of child processes or threads is known as a server pool Under A
81. ia Add Stream Save Playlist Undo Redo Clear Playlist Repeat and choose Random play Tools lets you access the Cover Manager Script Manager and to Update Collection e Under Settings you can Configure Shortcuts and Configure Amarok Clicking Help gt Amarok Handbook or pressing the F1 key opens the manual On the left side of the application window you can select the Files you want to play Playlist Collections or access the internet for music podcasts and radio stations Details about your selection are displayed in the window to the right The bottom center icons are adds a widget deletes a widget the arrows let you go to a Previous or Next Group and you can Zoom in or out In the Playlist window you can do a Search go to the Next or Previous selection and Search Preferences The options along the bottom allow you to Clear Playlist Show Active Track Undo Redo Save a Playlist and Export a Playlist As 76 Dragon Player 12 9 2 Dragon Player Dragon Player is a simple video player For more information refer to the Dragon Player website at http dragonplayer org 12 9 2 1 Using Dragon Player When you first open Dragon Player a pop up window asks what you would like to Play File or Play Disc If you choose one of these the program loads the file You can also Close the window or Quit the application Selecting Play gt Play Media allows you to play a DVD VCD or Video File Play Pause lets you
82. idden A hidden window button appears with a white background The currently selected application window button has a gray background and is said to have focus Usually this is the application whose window is on top of all the others on the screen To switch from one running application to another using the mouse click on the desired application s button in the panel Use the key combination A1t Tab to switch between open windows Holding down the A1t key and pressing the Tab key will open a small window containing icons of all of your open windows Repeatedly pressing the Tab key cycles through the icons Release both keys on your selection to pull it to the front e The Workspace Switcher is the group of squares situated on the far right They allow you to move between workspaces Workspaces have long been a feature of UNIX and Linux desktop environments Each workspace provides a separate desktop where applications can be organized and a corresponding window list panel By default there are four workspaces available To change this number right click on the workspace switcher and choose preferences Switching between workspaces Use the key combination Ctr1 Alt Left Arrow or Ctr1 A1t Right Arrow to switch between workspaces 11 Chapter 3 Tour of the GNOME desktop Hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys and press either the Left Arrow key or Right Arrow key to cycle through the available workspaces on your system The Tras
83. if you cannot select the option for burning discs it is not a problem with Fedora your drive simply does not support this operation 21 Chapter 6 Media 6 2 1 Using CD DVD Creator to burn media in GNOME To open CD DVD Creator To open CD DVD Creator select Places gt CD DVD Creator The help manual can be accessed by pressing the F1 key or clicking Help gt Contents on the top menu bar To create a data disc 1 Drag the files and folders that you want to write to CD or DVD to the CD DVD Creator folder 2 Insert a writeable CD or DVD into your writer device Doing this step first usually opens the CD DVD Creator automatically If not you can configure the CD DVD Creator to open automatically by going to System gt Preferences gt Hardware gt Multimedia Systems Selector gt and on the Audio and Video tabs select Autodetect from the drop down menu 3 Click the Write to Disc button or choose File gt Write to CD DVD Here you can choose write to your CD or DVD or to a File Image An image file ISO is a normal file that will be saved to your computer and you can write to a CD later If you are copying regular data you can type a name for your CD or DVD in the Disc name window and select a write speed from the drop down under Write Options You will also see the size of your data that will be written to the disc 4 Press the Write button to burn your data to the CD or DVD To burn an image file To write a
84. ile user server destination directory You can similarly fetch a file scp user server path to wantedfile destinationFile Or even between two remote servers scp useri server1 path to source user2 server2 path to destination In every case that you access a remote server you will be prompted for your credentials Such as a username and password 35 36 Chapter 9 Communications Fedora can be used to send electronic mail and communicate in real time with people around the world through instant messaging and chat rooms In GNOME Evolution is used to send electronic mail email by default Evolution can also be used as a personal information manager or PIM You can maintain a calendar manage a list of tasks and keep an address book of contacts In KDE Kmail is used to send email by default While Kmail does not include a calendar a calendar application called KOrganizer is included as part of the KDE PIM suite There is also an application called Kontact which groups KMail Korganizer and other KDE PIM tools into a single interface comparable with GNOME s Evolution Thunderbird is an open source mail client maintained by Mozilla It is very extensible with an online plug in library akin to Mozilla Firefox Claws Mail is a more lightweight email client and news reader which is also extensible via additional plug ins Claws Mail only supports plaintext emails by default Pidgin and Kopete are both Instant M
85. ion Alt Tab to switch between open windows Holding down the A1t key and pressing the Tab key will open a small window containing icons of all of your open windows Repeatedly pressing the Tab key cycles through the icons Release both keys on your selection to pull it to the front the System Tray which shows Klipper a clipboard tool and displays status notifications such as the status of network connections or remaining battery power e a clock Click on the clock to see a calendar or right click on it to change the way that the panel displays the time and date e the plasma toolbox for the panel Clicking here allows you to change the size and proportions of the panel and to re arrange the order of the widgets that it displays 4 3 1 The Kickoff Application Launcher The Kickoff Application Launcher contains Favorites your favorite applications and places Right click on an application or folder icon to add it to this list The initial list consists of Web Browser Konqueror the default web browser installed with KDE e System Settings which allows you to personalize your computer File Manager which allows you to browse files and folders on your computer The default file manage installed with KDE is Dolphin Applications the applications installed on your computer sorted into the following groups Administration Development Education Games Graphics e Internet e Multimedia
86. ither a thunderbird or mozilla thunderbird folder within your Home Folder press Ctr1 H to display Hidden Files In KDE click Kickoff Application Launcher gt Computer gt Home gt thunderbird gt xxxxxx default where xxxxxx is a random sequence of letters and numbers Note that this sequence will be different from the sequence that you saw in your Thunderbird installation on Windows 40 Using Thunderbird If you cannot find the thunderbird folder If your Fedora installation originally had an early version of Thunderbird installed on it your profile data folder might be under mozilla thunderbird instead of thunderbird If you cannot find either a thunderbird or mozilla thunderbird folder within your Home Folder press Alt to display Hidden Files b Inthe xxxxxx default folder press Ctr1 A to select all files and folders then press Delete to move them to the Trash The folder should now be empty c Plug in the media containing the folder you copied from Windows d Open the media and click on the xxxxxx default folder saved from Windows to open it Click Edit gt Select All gt Edit gt Copy e Move back to the empty xxxxxx default window and click Edit gt Paste f Start Thunderbird and verify that you can see the email messages addresses and settings from your Thunderbird installation on Windows 9 2 3 Using Thunderbird The first time you press the Get mail button you are asked for y
87. l Print Prints the message Check Mail in Downloads emails from the remote server Reply Replies to the selected email Forward Forwards the email message to another person Previous Moves to the previous unread email in your folder Next Moves to the next unread email in your folder Trash Deletes the email 44 Pidgin Find Message Searches for a specific email Create Task Creates a new task in KOrganizer Additional Options Kmail has additional options marked with a green downward pointing arrow Clicking this button and holding it down for a few seconds will show additional options The description of these features is beyond the scope of this guide 9 5 Pidgin Pidgin is an instant messaging IM client that can access Gmail MSN AOL Yahoo Jabber and other IM and chat networks For further information please refer to http www pidgin im 9 5 1 Configuring Pidgin To start and configure Pidgin select Applications gt Internet gt Internet Messenger from the menu panel in GNOME or the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt Instant Messenger menu entry for Pidgin in KDE Starting Pidgin for the first time goes directly into the Accounts dialog To configure a new account follow these steps 1 Click on the Add button to bring up the Add Account dialog 2 Inthe Add Account window under Login Options click on the right side of the Protocol dropdown menu
88. lass has its own associated set of permissions Proportional Bold This denotes words or phrases encountered on a system including application names dialogue box text labelled buttons check box and radio button labels menu titles and sub menu titles For example A https fedorahosted org liberation fonts vii Preface Choose System gt Preferences gt Mouse from the main menu bar to launch Mouse Preferences In the Buttons tab click the Left handed mouse check box and click Close to switch the primary mouse button from the left to the right making the mouse suitable for use in the left hand To insert a special character into a gedit file choose Applications gt Accessories gt Character Map from the main menu bar Next choose Search gt Find from the Character Map menu bar type the name of the character in the Search field and click Next The character you sought will be highlighted in the Character Table Double click this highlighted character to place it in the Text to copy field and then click the Copy button Now switch back to your document and choose Edit gt Paste from the gedit menu bar The above text includes application names system wide menu names and items application specific menu names and buttons and text found within a GUI interface all presented in Proportional Bold and all distinguishable by context Note the gt shorthand used to indicate traversal through a menu and its sub menus T
89. layer window are The top panel Menubar which has all of the menus to perform tasks Press F1 or click Help gt Contents on the menubar to open the manual The second Toolbar panel accesses the player functions and provides details about the track that is playing A Time Slider under the Toolbar panel displays the position of the read of a track and allows you to jump to another part of a track In the left window the Source List lets you access your music library internet radio internet your playlist and CDs This consists of The Rhythmbox Music Player library where all of the imported tracks are saved The Radio with internet radio stations Podcasts Online Stores All Playlists normal and smart Audio CDs inserted into the computer s drives 72 Audio CD Extractor Sound Juicer e Portable players such as an MP3 player plugged in to your computer If you have a wheel mouse you can adjust the volume by placing the cursor on the volume icon and turning the wheel In the Browser the rectangle window right of the Source List you can browse and filter the Library tracks by genre artist or album name It also provides a Search function The Tracks list is the bottom window and contains the lists of the tracks that belong to the source you selected The Statusbar is the panel that runs along the bottom that displays information about the source you selected Visit the Rhythmbox
90. laylist The disc icon takes you to the Play CD window that lists the details of the CD The toolbar along the bottom of this window allows you to Play Pause Skip Backward or Forward Stop and Adjust the Volume The top menu panel has e File which allows you to Open a File URL or Directory Open a DVD VCD Audio CD and Network Broadcasting You can also Save Stream Save a Screenshot Quit with Options or Quit From the View menu you have the options for the Full Screen Mode Minimal Mode Toggle Playlist Player Enable Auto Resize or Keep Original Aspect Selecting Player gives you the option to Play Pause Stop go to the Next track or Previous track Fast Forward Slow Motion and Jump to Position You can also Navigate a DVD CD Video configure Subtitles access Track Info and enable or disable Plugins The Playlist drop down lets you Shuffle Repeat Download covers Clear Current Playlist start a New Playlist Import Save or Remove a Playlist Settings allow you to select a Player Engine Xine or GStreamer choose the Toolbars Configure Shortcuts Toolbars and Kaffeine Player and to set xine Engine Paramenters 78 KMix e Clicking Help gt Kaffeine Player Handbook or pressing the F1 key opens the manual 12 9 5 KMix KMix is a sound mixer that allows you to control volume settings for sound inputs to and outputs from your computer For more information refer to the KMix website at http doc
91. lect Toolbars see Page Breaks and Zoom in and out 52 OpenOffice org Writer Insert lets you insert Cells Rows Sheets Files Pictures Sounds Functions Special Characters and Links Format lets you format Cells Rows Columns and the Sheet These controls also let you set up the Page and Print Ranges and Change Case and Styles They also let you Anchor Align Arrange Flip Group and manipulate Graphics Tools let you check Spelling access the Thesaurus use the Detective Goal Seek Solver and Scenarios filters configure AutoCorrect Share Merge and Protect the document You can run Macros Extension Manager Customize the application and set up various Options Data lets you manipulate the data such as Define or Select Range Sort Filter and Group and Outline Window lets you open a New Window Close Window and Split or Freeze the current window lt also lists any open files on the bottom of the drop down menu Help opens the OpenOffice org Calc which you can also access with the F1 key The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions plus a few icons for data manipulation The third menu panel allows you to configure the appearance of your data such as font selection text alignment bullets indentations bolding and italics The fourth panel shows the address of the cell you are pointing to and the data window shows what the cell contains The panel at the
92. ly installs or removes any additional packages where you modified the tick box Follow any prompts to install additional packages Unless an error is displayed the application is now installed on your computer 17 1 2 Removing software To remove software using PackageKit you should follow the standard installation procedure but untick boxes beside the programs you wish to uninstall instead of ticking boxes to install new programs Click System gt Administration gt Add Remove Software This will open the Add Remove Software application In the Search Box with the binoculars icon type the name of the application you wish to remove If you are unsure of the specific application you need to remove you can also type keywords in this box just like you would for an internet search engine Next click the Find button The message Querying appears in the lower left corner Zero or more listings will appear that match your search query Untick the box next to the description of the application or applications you wish to remove 97 Chapter 17 Managing software Software Installed Outside of PackageKit If the box is already unticked then the program is probably not already installed If you are sure that you ve selected the right application but it still appears to not be installed then it may have been installed using a method other than PackageKit If for example the program was compiled and installed from source then
93. n To switch from one running application to another click on the desired application s button in the window list 19 20 Chapter 5 Tour of the Xfce desktop Use the key combination Alt Tab to switch between open windows Holding down the Alt key while you tap the Tab key allows you to cycle through all open applications Chapter 6 Media When you insert or connect media such as a CD DVD hard drive or flash drive to your computer Fedora automatically recognizes it and makes it available for use An icon is placed on your desktop and in the Places menu in GNOME On the KDE desktop an icon is placed in the bottom panel next to the pager In GNOME you should unmount media before removing it from the computer To do this right click on the device s icon and then select Unmount Volume or Eject depending on what type of media you are using during this process any remaining changes to the data on the media is written to the device allowing safe removal without data loss Removing media without unmounting it first could cause data to be corrupted if this is the case you will not be able to get your data back in the future There are several multi media applications available for GNOME and KDE desktops These applications will run in either Fedora desktop environment To install software packages not already installed refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install applications either by using the PackageKit
94. n Paragraphs Full Screen and Zoom in and out Insert lets you insert Manual Breaks Fields Special Characters Formatting Marks Hyperlinks Headers Footers Footnotes Bookmarks Note Scripts Cross reference Indexes Tables Envelopes Horizontal Ruler Pictures Movies and Sound Objects Floating Frames and Files Format lets you format Characters Paragraphs Bullets and Numbering Page Title Page Change Case configure Columns Styles and Formatting You can also Anchor Wrap Align Flip and Group text and format Objects Frames and Pictures Tables allows you to Insert Delete Select and manipulate the Table s Cells You can also format a Table s cells rows and columns add Formulas and access a Table s Properties Tools gives you access to Spelling and Grammar Language which includes Thesaurus Word Count Auto correction Outline Numbering and Line Numbering Footnotes Gallery Media Player Bibliography Database and Mail Merge Wizard You can also Sort Calculate change and format Macros and Filters Customize Menus Keyboard Toolbars and Events Options lets you configure your User Data Window lets you open a New Window Close Window and lists any open files on the bottom of the drop down menu Help opens the OpenOffice org Writer which you can also access with the F1 key The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions plus a few icons for data manipulation Th
95. n an existing file These icons allow you to Select move and modify objects Create text object Create box rectangle object Create a line object Create ellipse circle object Create Image Object Create a Barcode Zoom in and out and Edit merge properties The panel at the bottom of the work window allows you to configure the appearance of your data such as font selection alignment bolding and italics as well as text and line color For more information on using gLabels refer to tje gLabels website at http glabels sourceforge net 63 64 Chapter 11 Financial software Fedora offers software financial software for both the GNOME and KDE environments GnuCash is the financial software recommended for users with the GNOME desktop environment and KMyMoney is recommended financial software for the KDE environment Although each financial software application is recommended for a specific desktop environment remember both will work on any Fedora desktop environment Both applications can be used for personal and business and configured for online banking GnuCash and KMyMoney are not installed by default from the Live CD or the DVD If you do not have access to the Internet you can install them with the Fedora DVD Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for instructions You can install them by either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum 11 1 GnuCash GnuCash allows you to track
96. nclude About Me siores details about yourself that you can share with other people as an electronic business card Appearance customizes the appearance of your desktop including the background picture Assistive Technologies lets you choose software to magnify portions of the screen or to read the contents of screens to you Authorizations lets you selectively permit the software on your computer to carry out certain tasks automatically and without your intervention Bluetooth configures Bluetooth devices to work with your computer Default Printer specifies the printer to use by default Desktop Effects enables or disables special visual effects for the desktop Display sets the resolution and other details of your display File Management controls how files and folders are presented to you Input Method allows you to choose methods to input languages whose writing systems do not use an alphabet such as some Indic and East Asian languages Keyboard specifies the type of keyboard that you use with this computer Chapter 3 Tour of the GNOME desktop Keyboard Shortcuts sets key combinations to perform certain tasks within certain programs or within the desktop environment more generally Main Menu lets you add remove or re order the items on the Applications and System menus or create new menus of your own Mouse configures the buttons and other controls on your mouse Network Connections displays your computer s netwo
97. nd click on the next to its name Select the type of account you want setup then click Next Press the Configure preferences now button You can keep the default path where KMyMoney will save your files type in a path or browse by clicking the button maked with a small folder on the right of the path window Click the Finish button and your Home window opens Open the account register by clicking on your account s link in Your Financial Summary window Click the Show KMyMoney welcome page link at the bottom to Set Up a New Data File Use an Existing Data File Visit the KMyMoney Website 67 Chapter 11 Financial software e See What s New in this Version 11 2 2 Using KMyMoney The top menu bar contains the following options e File Create Open and Save files Import QIF GnuCash and OFX files Export QIF files Backup your data Edit your personal information e View Show Transaction Details Hide reconciled transactions Hide unused categories Show all accounts e Institution Set up a New Institution Edit an institution Delete an institution e Account Create a New account Edit accounts Delete accounts Open the ledger Reconcile Close or Reopen an account Map Unmap and Update an online account e Category Create Edit or Delete a category Open the ledger e Transaction Create Edit Delete and Mark transactions 68 Setting up onli
98. ne Four in a row board game KGoldrunner A Lode Runner type of game Killbots Evade killer robots Kiriki A Yahtzee like dice game KJumpingCube A territory capture game KMahjongg A Mahjongg game KMines A game similar to Mines KNetWalk A network construction game Kolf A little mini golf game Kollision A ball dodging game Kolor Lines A little game about balls and how to get rid of them Konquest A galactic space game KPatience Has several card games 85 Chapter 13 Playing games KReversi Reversi board game KsirK A world domination game KSpaceDuel The challenging space duel KSquares Connect the dots to make squares KSudoku Sudoku game Kubarick 3D game based on Rubik s Cube LSkat A card game Potato Guy A children s picture game SameGame Board game Shisen Sho A mahjongg like game 86 Chapter 14 Managing photos Most USB compatible cameras will work automatically with Fedora and require very little configuration If your digital camera offers a choice of USB connection types set the camera s USB setting to PTP or point to point mode Consult your camera s user manual to determine if this option is available and how to choose it If it is not available the default settings should be sufficient 14 1 Connecting Your camera To connect the camera to your Fedora system 1 Make sure your camera is powered off 2 Connect a USB cable from the camera to your comp
99. ne banking Goto account and Goto payee Match Accept Combine or Select all transactions e Tools QIF Profile Securities Currencies and Prices Editor Update Stock and Currency Prices Consistency and Performance Tests Plug ins Option to Debug Traces and Timers e Settings Hide the Toolbar and Statusbar Enable all messages Change the KDE language settings Configure Shortcuts Toolbars and KMyMoney e Help KMyMoney Handbook Bug Report program information 11 2 3 Setting up online banking 1 Click the Institutions icon on the left panel to make sure your bank information is linked to your new account Highlight your account under the bank in the main window On the top menu choose Account gt Map Account and the program will load a list of financial institutions in the Online Banking Account Setup window Type the name of your bank in the Search bar or scroll down the list to find it Click on your bank s name to select it then press the Next button Fill in your Username and Password Choose an option for Identify as and click the Next button This window shows the accounts you have available at the bank Click on the whichever one you want to link to your KMyMoney account and click Next Click the Finish button to complete the setup 69 Chapter 11 Financial software 10 11 12 13 14 Press the blue icon on the top menu to Update the Account o
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102. ntry and the time the boot message is displayed Date and Time permits the system date and time to be changed Firewall link lets you setup and configure a firewall for your computer Language allows you to change the default language Logical Volume Management lets you configure the LVM in a graphical setting The top menu panel e Network permits configuration of your network connections and devices e Network Device Control lets you monitor and control your network devices Printing allows you to configure your printers Root Password lets you to change the root password for the system SELinux Management allows you to change security settings that protect your computer Services lets you decide which services will run when the system starts Software Sources permits you to enable or disable software repositories Update System looks for software updates at your selected software sources Users and Groups allows you to add or remove users and groups The second section provides access to the help documentation along with information about the Fedora project the GNOME project and information about your computer and its operating system Help is the guide for questions about GNOME About GNOME tells you about GNOME and the people who made it About Fedora is a guide containing documentation about the Fedora project About This Computer provides basic information about your computer and links to the p
103. o install If you are unsure of the exact name of your desired installation you can search your installed repositories for a keyword su c yum search keyword Where keyword is the word you wish to search for among the names and descriptions of programs in the available repositories After using the yum install command you will be prompted for the computer s root password Type in the root password and press Enter You will not see the password as you type The terminal will 98 Removing software start giving information about the application and end with Is this ok y N Oftentimes the installation of an application will require that other programs called dependencies are installed as well These are programs or utilities upon which your selected application relies If you wish to continue installation after seeing the dependencies and their disk space requirements which may be unexpectedly considerable type y The terminal downloads the necessary files and completes the installation of your application 17 2 2 Removing software Click Applications gt System Tools gt Terminal to open the command line Type su c yum remove application Where application is the name of the program you wish to remove If you are unsure of the exact name of your desired installation you can search your installed repositories for a keyword su c yum search keyword Where keyword is the word you wish to search fo
104. ocs phtml 65 Chapter 11 Financial software 11 1 2 Using GnuCash Open GnuCash by selecting Applications gt Office gt GnuCash on the top menu panel The Accounts tab opens The top menu bar allows you to manipulate your accounts You can Edit Delete and Create new accounts Set Preferences e Schedule Transactions Do transfers e Reconcile an account Enter Stock Splits Add Customers Vendors and Employees for a business Set Reminders e Generate Reports e Setup Online Banking Edit Prices of inventory Access the General Ledger Double click on an account to bring up a check book type register for that account The top menu bar changes to allow manipulation of transactions This menu includes the options above plus you can Change the view of the ledger from Basic Ledger to Auto Split Ledger Transaction Journal or Double Entry Cut Copy Paste Duplicate Delete Void and Enter transactions Set Billing Terms for customers e Create Bills Invoices and Vouchers 11 1 3 Setting up online banking Online banking setup begins from the Accounts window or the Register 1 On the top menu bar select Tools gt Online Banking Setup 2 The Initial Online Banking Setup window lists what you need to complete the setup 3 Click the Forward button 4 Select the Start AqBanking Wizard in the Start Online Banking Wizard window 5 The Configuration window Intro provides a
105. of your local mailbox spool file Values such as var mail username or var spool mail username are common username is your system login 5 On the next page enter the address of your SMTP Outgoing server You may not need to authenticate when sending mail 6 If you chose either POP3 or Local mbox file the next page will the show the default where it will save your mail 7 You may get a Security page where you can choose SSL encryption to send and receive your emails If you re unsure leave them unselected 8 Click on the Save button to finish the configuration 9 3 2 Using Claws Mail Claws Mail allows you to create store and send email by clicking the appropriate buttons located on the menu Retrieving your email can be done from the toolbar button named Get mail or from the Receive submenu of the Message menu Get Mail Allows Claws Mail to receive all email Compose Opens a new email message dialog box Press Tab to autocomplete the To email address from the address book Reply Replies to the person who has sent you an email Reply to All Replies to everyone who was included in the email that you have received Sender Replies to the person who sent the email Forward Forwards the email message to another person Trash Moves the message to the Trash folder Spam Tells the program to learn the email as spam junk mail also has option to mark it as ham not junk mail Moves the message to the Trash folder
106. office org faq AretherefiltersforOpenOffice WriterMSWordStarWriterRTF A http docs kde org stable en kdebase runtime userguide kde office components html 55 Chapter 10 Office tools Edit lets you Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Delete Select All Deselect Find Replace Copy Slide Duplicate and Delete a Slide and to Duplicate an Object View lets you select a New View Close All Views Split View Remove View Hide the Sidebar Notebar or Slide Master It also allows Formatting of Characters to show or hide Guide Lines Grid and the Snap to Grid and Zoom in or out When you select these options they appear in the work area windows Insert allows you to add a Special Character Variable Link Comment Slide File Text Chart Table Object Picture Line Shape or Scan Image Format lets you select Rotate Zoom adjust the Properties Arrange Align Group Ungroup and Shadow Objects Here you can also change the Page Layout Slide Background and Enable Document Headers and Footers Text lets you switch to the Default Format select Fonts configure Paragraphs and color The Style Manager lets your create your own styles or you can choose Style which lists the available styles You can also Align the text chose to add Numbers or Bullets by selecting Type There are options to manipulate an Object Change Case turn on or off the Auto Spellcheck and Autocorrection Slide Show allows you to configure the Slide Show
107. office org http docs kde org stable en kdebase runtime userguide kde office components htmf which also contains links to handbooks for the individual KOffice components 10 2 1 KPresenter KPresenter is the KOffice application for creating and performing presentations Open KPresenter by selecting the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Office gt Slide Presentations entry for KPresenter The first window contains options for opening Recent or Existing documents the type of Template or Screen Presentation you want as well as a menu bar On the menu bar choose File to create a New file Open or Import a file or Quit the application choose the Settings drop down menu select Show Toolbar Configure Shortcuts or Configure Toolbars e click Helpto open the KPresenter Handbook or Report a Bug You can also access the KPresenter Handbook by pressing the F1 key After selecting a template click the Use This Template button and check the box Always use this template if you want to make it the program default The next window has three menu panels on the top a workspace with three windows and a panel running along the bottom The first menu row consists of File allows you to create a New file Open Save Import Export and Mail files You can Create an HTML Slideshow or Memory Stick Slideshow use the Template Manger Use Current Slide as Default Template Print Preview Close or Quit the presentation http www k
108. on 91 Chapter 15 Sharing your desktop 15 2 KDE To activate desktop sharing in KDE select Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt System gt Desktop Sharing This opens the Desktop Sharing control module window There are two methods by which you can share your desktop You can create an invitation By default invitations are only valid for one hour This lessens the chance of forgetting to disable Desktop Sharing and is a good option if you only need it enabled temporarily You can leave Desktop Sharing turned on at all times To create a Desktop Sharing invitation open the Desktop Sharing window as described above click New Personal Invitation and give the information to the person you want to invite If you want to have Desktop Sharing running at all times Inthe Desktop Sharing window click Configure gt Security then check the box Allow uninvited connections Next check Confirm uninvited connections before accepting optional but recommended Check Allow other users to control your desktop A password should be set for security enter one in the box at the bottom of the window This should not be your user account password Select the Network tab at the top of the window check Use default port and make a note of the port listed Finally click on the Apply button The person connecting to your computer remotely will need your IP address or hostname followed by a and the po
109. our password Type in your password and press Enter or click the Ok button You might want to check the box Use Password Manager to remember this password If you do Thunderbird will automatically check your email without asking for your password in the future Before choosing this option remember that there is always some risk associated with storing a password If your password and setup was correct Thunderbird will now download your email messages from the server Thunderbird allows you to create store and send email by clicking the appropriate buttons located on the menu at the top of the screen Get Mail Prompts Thunderbird to send and receive all email Write Opens a new email message dialog box Address Book Opens the email addresses you have on file Reply Replies to the person who has sent you an email Reply All Replies to everyone who was included in the email that you have received Forward Forwards the email message to another person 41 Chapter 9 Communications Tag Color codes messages that are important or need follow up Delete Deletes the message Junk Marks the email as junk Print Prints the email Back Traces your last actions Forward Steps through your actions after using the Back button 9 3 Claws Mail Claws Mail is an email client and news reader built to be lightweight and easy to operate Claws Mail features mostly basic functionality but plugins can be used to add man
110. pache HTTP Server 2 0 the responsibility for creating and maintaining these server pools has been abstracted to a group of modules called Multi Processing Modules MPMs Unlike other modules only one module from the MPM group can be loaded by the Apache HTTP Server 1 2 Pull quote Conventions Two commonly multi line data types are set off visually from the surrounding text viii Notes and Warnings Output sent to a terminal is set in Mono spaced Roman and presented thus books Desktop documentation drafts mss photos stuff svn books_tests Desktop1 downloads images notes scripts svgs Source code listings are also set in Mono spaced Roman but are presented and highlighted as follows package org jboss book jca ex1 import javax naming InitialContext public class ExClient public static void main String args throws Exception InitialContext iniCtx new InitialContext Object ref iniCtx lookup EchoBean EchoHome home EchoHome ref Echo echo home create System out printin Created Echo System out println Echo echo Hello echo echo Hello J Y 1 3 Notes and Warnings Finally we use three visual styles to draw attention to information that might otherwise be overlooked Note A Note is a tip or shortcut or alternative approach to the task at hand Ignoring a note should have no negative consequences but you might miss out on a trick that makes your life easier Important Im
111. pause and re start the movie Stop will stop the playback and Quit closes the application The Settings menu lets you choose the Full Screen Mode Aspect Ratio Subtitles Audio Channels to Configure Shortcuts and Toolbars or to Show Toolbar Help gt Dragon Player Handbook or pressing the F1 key opens the manual 12 9 3 JuK JuK is a collection and playlist manager as well as a music player For more information refer to the JuK website at http developer kde org wheeler juk html 12 9 3 1 Using JuK e When the application opens you can choose to Add or Remove a Folder and Import playlists from the pop up window Selecting File on the top menu bar you can choose to open a New file Open an existing file Add Folder Rename Edit Search Duplicate Reload Remove Save Save As or Quit the application Edit allows you to Undo Cut Copy Paste Clear or Select All Under View you can configure JuK to Show the Search Bar Show Tag Editor Show History Show Play Queue or Columns Resize Playlist Columns Manually and View Modes Default Compact or Tree From the Player drop list you select to Random Play Loop Playlist Play Pause Stop Next Previous and Play the Next Album Tagger lets you Save or Delete tags Refresh Guess Tag Information open the Cover Manager and Rename a File From the Settings menu you can choose which Toolbars to display Show Splash Screen on Startup Dock in System Tray Stay in System Tra
112. personal and business bank accounts stocks income and expenses and is based on double entry accounting principles For additional help using the application refer to http www gnucash org docs phtml documents 11 1 1 Configuring GnuCash To configure GnuCash 1 Start GnuCash by clicking Applications gt Office gt Gnucash Finance Management Click the Close button to close the Tip of the Day window 2 From the Welcome Window select which wizard you want to open and click the OK button 3 Select Create a new set of accounts and click the Forward button on the Setup Account Hierarchy window 4 Choose your curency and click the Forward button 5 Select all of the boxes next to the accounts you want to create in the Categories window then push the Forward button 6 Follow the directions in the Setup new accounts window then click Forward 7 Click the Apply button to finish your account setup 8 To import a Quicken qif file select the box then press the Forward button 9 Select the qif file to load and click the Forward button 10 Now you have the option to load more QIF files for additional accounts Select the Forward button 11 Pressing the Forward button guides you through Matching QIF accounts with GnuCash account Matching QIF categories with GnuCash accounts and currency selection 12 Click the Apply button to import your data or the Back button to review your matchings 1 http www gnucash org d
113. port thunderbird You can find add ons for Thunderbird at http www linux com feature 51026 and https nic nac project org kaosmos index en htm 9 2 1 Configuring Thunderbird To configure your email account you will need the email information provided by your ISP or email provider 1 Open Thunderbird 38 Moving your Thunderbird profile data from Windows to Fedora in GNOME click Applications gt Internet gt Thunderbird on the top menu bar in KDE click Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt Email menu entry 2 The first time you start Thunderbird the Account Wizard opens to guide you through the setup of your account If the Account Wizard does not open select File gt Create New Account in the main window to open the wizard 3 Select Email account and press Next 4 Fill in your name and email address and click Next 5 Now choose POP or IMAP and type in the names of the Incoming and Outgoing servers and select Next This information should have been provided by your email service 6 In the next window fill in your username for your email provider Normally your Incoming and Outgoing username are the same Press Next 7 Type in whatever you want for your Account Name and click Next This will be used to represent the new account in Thunderbird 8 Check the summary in this window If something needs to be changed press the Back button otherwise click Finish Now Th
114. portant boxes detail things that are easily missed configuration changes that only apply to the current session or services that need restarting before an update will apply Ignoring Important boxes won t cause data loss but may cause irritation and frustration Preface Warning A Warning should not be ignored Ignoring warnings will most likely cause data loss 2 We Need Feedback If you find a typographical error in this manual or if you have thought of a way to make this manual better we would love to hear from you Please submit a report in Bugzilla http bugzilla redhat com bugzilla against the product Documentation When submitting a bug report be sure to mention the manual s identifier user guide If you have a suggestion for improving the documentation try to be as specific as possible when describing it If you have found an error please include the section number and some of the surrounding text so we can find it easily Introduction Welcome to the Fedora 11 User Guide This guide is intended for users who have a working Fedora 11 system and are able to use a mouse and keyboard This guide explains The different desktops available to the Fedora user How to login to your computer The layout of three Fedora desktops GNOME KDE and Xfce How to use the file and system navigator How to use the email client How to use the instant messenger client How to use the web browser
115. provide the program to install The program s location can be found under System gt Preferences 16 3 2 Customizing file browsing behavior in KDE By default KDE uses the Dolphin file manager To modify the appearance of Dolphin windows open the program by clicking the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt System gt File Manager icon for Dolphin At the top of the Dolphin window click Settings gt Configure Dolphin The tabs in the Dolphin Preferences window allow you to specify the folder that Dolphin displays when it starts the size of the icons it displays the font it uses to label icons and many other options 16 4 Compiz Fusion The Compiz Fusion Project brings 3D desktop visual effects that improve usability of the X Window System and provide increased productivity though plugins and themes contributed by the community giving a rich desktop experience Note There may be problems with running Compiz Fusion if you do not have a 3D capable video card The Fedora Project does not enable Compiz Fusion by default and therefore if you want to use it you will need to install it first Refer to Chapter 17 Managing software for instructions on managing software You will need the compiz gnome or compiz kde depending on which desktop you use When you have installed Compiz Fusion you can launch the program by selecting System gt Preferences gt Look and Feel gt Desktop Effects in GNOME or Kickoff Application La
116. r among the names and descriptions of programs in the available repositories After using the yum remove command you will be prompted for the computer s root password Type in the root password and press Enter You will not see the password as you type The terminal will start giving information about the application and end with Is this ok y N If dependencies that were installed with the application are unneeded by other applications you may be prompted to remove these as well If you wish to continue the software removal type y The terminal deletes the necessary files and completes the removal of your application 17 3 Advanced Yum Advanced usage NN This content is written for the more advanced user lt assumes that you are comfortable with the command line and have a relatively good knowledge of Linux terminology It is 99 Chapter 17 Managing software probably not necessary to using Fedora as a desktop user but can help a desktop user expand their knowledge base and face more complicated troubleshooting issues Use the Yum utility to modify the software on your system in four ways e to install new software from package repositories e to install new software from an individual package file e to update existing software on your system to remove unwanted software from your system Installing Software from a Package File The Yum commands shown in this section use repositories as package sour
117. r select Account gt Account update also on the top menu bar The program connects to your bank and the Account selection window asks you to which KMyMoney account you want to download information You also have the option here to Create a new account Select your account and click Ok The Statement stats KMyMoney window summarizes the information downloaded Click the OK button Click the Ledger icon on the left menu panel to see the loaded information 70 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia Media formats not supported by default in Fedora Because of licensing and patent encumbrances Fedora cannot ship with certain audio and video playing capabilities known as codecs An example is the MP3 codec Refer to Fedora Project s Approach to Multimedia Support for more information Fedora includes several tools for listening to audio and viewing video on both the GNOME and KDE desktops These applications will run in either Fedora desktop environment To install software packages not already installed refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install applications by either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum Fedora provides the following applications for audio and video by default Amarok is a music player that features tools for organizing music CDs Internet radio stations and more and is included in KDE by default CD DVD Creator is an application for listening to audio CDs in
118. r the password for the root account when prompted 17 3 3 Removing software with Yum Data and Configuration File Retention The removal process leaves user data in place but may remove configuration files in some cases lfa package removal does not include the configuration file and you reinstall the package later it may reuse the old configuration file To remove software Yum examines your system for both the specified software and any software which claims it as a dependency The transaction to remove the software deletes both the software and the dependencies To remove the generic package my package from your system use the command su c yum remove my package Enter the password for the root account when prompted To remove all of the packages in the package group PackageGroup enter the command su c yum groupremove PackageGroup Enter the password for the root account when prompted 102 Appendix A Contributors and production methods A 1 Contributors e John Babich writer Laura Bailey editor Matt Bird writer Nicolas Corrarello writer Bart Couvreur writer editor Matthew Daniels writer editor Cody DeHaan writer editor Damien Durand writer Eddie Elizondo editor Paul W Frields writer Scott Glaser writer Dimitris Glezos editor e Zachary Hamed writer Tim Kramer writer editor e Ruediger Landmann writer editor
119. rk connections and allows you to configure them Network Proxy allows you to specify a proxy server for your computer PalmOS Devices links your computer to personal digital assistants PDAs that use the PalmOS operating system Personal File Sharing lets you share your documents and other files with other users of this computer or with users of other computers over a network Power Management configures your computer to perform differently under different power settings Preferred Applications lets you choose which applications you prefer to use for particular tasks Remote Desktop permits you or other people to access your computer s desktop from a remote location over a network connection Screensaver sets your screensaver Software Updates specifies how you would like your computer to handle software updates when they become available Sound lets you choose sounds to accompany actions or events on your computer Startup Applications chooses applications to start automatically when you log in Windows controls the appearance of the windows that applications appear in The Administration menu contains tools that affect the whole system and require root access These tools prompt for the root password when launched Add Remove Software lets you change the software installed on the system Authentication allows you to control how the system verifies users who attempt to log in Bootloader lets you choose your default boot e
120. rocess and resource monitor The third section contains entries to Lock Screen starts the screen saver or blanks the screen It will ask for your password to restore your session to the screen Log Out of the current session Shut Down gives you options to Hibernate Restart or Shut Down your computer Root password When your computer asks for your root password it means you are entering an area that changes your system s operation or performance Beware of the messages the program generates and be sure you really want to make the changes 3 1 1 4 Application launchers The series of icons next to the menus provide quick access to commonly used applications These icons are called launchers The icon for Mozilla Firefox a web browser Chapter 3 Tour of the GNOME desktop The icon for Evolution a mail client and personal information manager The icon for Tomboy note taking software To add more launchers to a panel right click on the panel and select Add to Panel You can also add launchers that are in the Applications menu Right click on the application you want to add and select Add this launcher to panel 3 1 1 5 The notification area The notification area displays icons that alert you to new events taking place on your computer For example your email program might display an icon here to indicate the arrival of new email or your printer software might display an icon here to indicate t
121. rom USB media and is set up to do so To create a bootable copy of Fedora on USB media you will need a USB media device with at least 800 MB of free space on it USB media often comes in the form of flash devices sometimes called pen drives thumb disks or keys or as an externally connected hard disk device Almost all media of this type is formatted as a vfat file system You can create bootable USB media on media formatted as ext2 ext3 or vfat The Fedora installation will occupy around 800 MB Beyond this you might want to allocate space for Fedora to store files such as documents or software installations These documents and 23 Chapter 6 Media programs will be available to you every time you start a computer with this USB media device since they are stored on the device itself and not on the computer to which it is attached This feature is a major advantage of running Fedora from Live USB media rather than from a Live CD USB Image Writing is Non destructive Existing data on the media is not harmed and there is no need to repartition or reformat your media However it is always a good idea to back up important data before performing sensitive disk operations Unusual USB media In a few cases with oddly formatted or partitioned USB media the image writing may fail a copy of the Fedora Live CD or Fedora KDE Live CD or a connection to the Internet The liveusb creator tool copies the files from a Fedora Live
122. rt number that you noted above When the person connects to your desktop click on the Yes button when asked for confirmation Once the remote viewing feature is no longer needed turn off desktop sharing 1 Select Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt System gt Desktop Sharing 2 Uncheck the Allow uninvited connections box 3 Click the Apply button 15 3 Other desktops Various desktop environments may offer their own graphical assistants for desktop sharing but the VNC server program can be used from the command line to accomplish this task on almost any desktop environment Setting up this service is beyond the scope of this guide 92 Chapter 16 Customizing the desktop Fedora allows you to customize the look and feel of your desktop environment All of the settings that determine the appearance of your desktop are referred to collectively as a theme 16 1 Changing the theme Most desktop environments including GNOME and KDE allow you to install new themes to tweak the appearance of the desktop The process for installing a theme varies for each desktop You can find the process for installing themes under GNOME and KDE in this chapter and most desktop environments include installation instructions in their own documentation 16 1 1 Changing the theme in GNOME To change the desktop theme choose System gt Preferences gt Appearance The Theme Preferences window appears To change the theme s
123. s It is described in more detail in Section 4 3 1 The Kickoff Application Launcher e the Device Notifier This widget shows devices or media attached to or inserted into your computer such as a USB flash drive or a CD Holding your mouse pointed over the icon displays the devices or media Click on this widget to see a menu that allows you to interact with the device or media the Pager which allows you to switch between multiple desktops on your computer Multiple desktops or workspaces have long been a feature of UNIX and Linux desktop environments Each desktop provides a separate view with different applications running in it Four desktops are configured by default Clicking on one of the faded workspaces will change to that workspace or you can switch between them by holding down the A1t key on your keyboard and pressing the F1 F2 F3 or F4 key To add more desktops right click on the Pager then click Pager Settings gt Configure Desktops application launchers icons which you can click to start particular applications None are installed by default You can add launchers by right clicking the application s icon in the Kickoff Application Launcher and clicking Add to panel the Task Manager which displays buttons for any applications that are running Clicking on one of these buttons brings that application to the foreground of your current view 14 The Kickoff Application Launcher Use the key combinat
124. s kde org stable en kdemultimedia kmix index html 12 9 5 1 Using KMix Sound Mixer The application window has three sections with different controls Output Input and Switches These sections contain volume sliders switches for enabling disabling record or playback and multiple choice selectors Output controls are playback related like the Master volume control Input controls are recording related like Capture e Switches has all controls allowing you to switch some functionalities ON or OFF like Mic Boost 20dB and multiple choice controls like Mic Select Mic1 or Mic2 KMix also features LEDs e Green for playback Red for recording e Yellow is for special soundcard functions Most of these controls have a context menu you can access by a right mouse click on the icon For Split Channels the right slider controls right side volume and the left controls left side volume e Muted can be on or off e You can select Hide to hide this device To configure KMix from the menubar choose Preferences gt Use Settings gt Configure KMix The options are Dock into panel will dock in the systray when pressing the window Close button Show labels will display labels for each of the sound devices Show lines to mark positions on the sliders 12 9 6 KsCD KSCD is a simple CD player 12 9 6 1 Using KsCD The button cluster on the left side contains e Play in the center e Previous to the left
125. ses digiKam to import and organize your photos DigiKam also provides image editing features through the showFoto program When you turn on a camera connected to your computer or plug in device containing photos such as a USB flash drive Fedora will notify you by opening a window from the Device Notifier located at the left of the KDE panel If you do not see a window click the Device Notifier to open the window manually You should see the camera or other storage device listed in the window Click on the device and a dialog box will open to ask What do you want to do Click Download Photos with digiKam and OK 14 3 1 Importing photos with digiKam When you first start digiKam it prompts you for a default location in which to store your photos and will suggest the Pictures folder inside your Home folder It will also ask for a location to store a database that it will create to store information about your photos DigiKam will use this database to help you organise and manage your photos and will again suggest the Pictures folder as the location for this database For both the default picture location and the database location you can type in the name of a folder on your computer browse to a folder by clicking on the folder icon or accept the defaults When you have made your choices click OK and the main digiKam window will open together with a separate window to show you the files on the camera or storage device In this dialog you can
126. sktop Connection RDC To access your Fedora desktop from a computer with a Microsoft Windows operating system that computer will need a VNC viewer TightVNC is a free and open source VNC program available for Linux and Microsoft Windows from hitp www tightvne com 15 1 GNOME To activate desktop sharing select System gt Preferences gt Remote Desktop from the user menu This opens the Remote Desktop Preferences window To share your desktop securely 1 Under Sharing tick the box labeled Allow other users to view your desktop 2 Next tick the box next to Allow other users to control your desktop 3 Make anote of the command listed under Users can view your desktop using this command 4 Under Security tick the box next to Ask you for confirmation 5 Next check Require the user to enter this password and enter a password This should not be your account s password pick a new password that you will only reveal to the remove viewer 6 Finally click on the Close button Be sure to inform the person performing remote technical support or remote viewing the command from step three as well as the assigned password When the person connects to your desktop click on the Yes button when asked for confirmation Once the remote viewing feature is no longer needed turn off desktop sharing 1 Select System gt Preferences gt Remote Desktop 2 Uncheck the Allow other users to view your desktop box 3 Click the Close butt
127. ssing application that has plug ins to make presentations and graphs Gnumeric a spreadsheet application and gLabels a program for creating labels and business cards Remember that any office application or suite will run on any Fedora desktop environment The recommendation is only the office suite best optimized for a specific desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE Once installed all office tools are available from the Applications gt Office menu in GNOME the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Officemenu in KDE or as icons located in the menu bar or on the desktop To install the OpenOffice org suite refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install them by either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum 10 1 OpenOffice org applications OpenOffice org creates documents in open standards formats such as OpenDocument ODF Rich Text Format RTF and HyperText Markup Language HTML It can also read edit and write documents in Microsoft Office formats such as Word DOC Excel XLS and PowerPoint PPT with a high degree of compatibility Files can be exported in PDF format without the need of additional software The most used Openoffice org programs are Impress Calc and Writer For the most up to date information on all of OpenOffice org s office program offerings visit the official site at http www openoffice org For more information on using OpenOffice org
128. t mouse click on one of the tabs then choosing from the menu clicking on Edit gt Sheet in the top menu A tutorial on using Gnumeric is available from http orojects gnome org gnumeric doc chapter quick start shtml 10 3 3 gLabels gLabels is a light weight GNOME application for creating labels business cards and labels for CD and DVDs Start gLabels by clicking on Applications gt Office gt gLabels Label Designer in GNOME or Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Office gt gLabels Label Designer in KDE The major functions of the top menu are File lets you create a New project Open Open Recent files Save Save As Print change Properties open the Template Designer Close a file or Quit the program 62 gLabels Edit allows you to Cut Copy and Paste Delete Select All Unselect All and change the Preferences View lets you choose Toolbars customize the toolbars turn on the Grid and Markup and Zoom in and out Objects lets you Select Mode Create Text a Box Line Ellipse Image a Barcode define the Order Rotate Flip Align Horizontal or Vertical and Merge Properties Help gt Contents opens the gLabels help manual as does the F1 key or lets you see general information About the program The row of icons under the top menu bar contains the most frequently used functions that are listed in the top menu The third menu panel is grayed out until you select a New project or Ope
129. the screen The left side contains e the applications menu e the places menu Chapter 3 Tour of the GNOME desktop the system menu program icons for the default email program web browser and reminder notes The right side of the panel is home to e the notification area e avolume control e the user switch area aclock and calendar Function description If you hold the mouse pointer over the menu text or an icon a brief description of its function appears If you click one of these icons that application starts 3 1 1 1 The Applications menu This menu contains a categorized list of installed applications which are updated as necessary when software is installed or removed When you click on Applications a drop down list appears The default list installed is e Accessories Games e Graphics e Internet e Office Programming Sound amp Video e System Tools 3 1 1 2 The Places menu This menu is divided into four subsections The first subsection allows quick access to commonly accessed folders and makes it easy to keep your file system organized These links are Home Folder where your personal files are kept by default e Desktop a folder within your Home Folder where the files and folders that appear on your desktop are stored Documents a folder within your Home Folder intended as a place for you to store documents such as those that you might have created with a
130. then place checks against one or more tags from the list To add a new tag to the list click Add New Tag and then apply it to the photo When digiKam displays the image in future any tags that you have applied will appear below the picture Applying tags does not alter the photo itself and you will not damage your photo by tagging it DigiKam stores tags separately from the photos To search for images with a particular tag click the Search button type the tag into the search box and press Enter DigiKam will display all the images to which you have applied that tag 89 90 Chapter 15 Sharing your desktop Use this capability carefully Remote desktop sharing can be a serious security risk You should leave it turned on only when needed and should not leave it active Fedora lets you share your desktop remotely across a network so that a user at a different computer can view and with your permission interact with your computer This is useful for receiving technical support from a remote location or for demonstrating a desktop feature to another user You may also find it to be a useful way to remotely access files on your desktop from another computer Fedora uses a method called Virtual Networking Computing VNC to enable remote desktop sharing Therefore the remote viewer must use VNC as well Apple OS X uses VNC by default but Microsoft Windows uses a different method to share desktops called Remote De
131. ther web pages by typing the web address also called the univeral resource locator or URL into the long navigation bar across the top of the Firefox screen replacing http start fedoraproject org If you do not know the URL enter a keyword or words into the search bar to the right of the navigation bar then press the Enter key The search engine used to perform your search can be changed by left clicking the logo in the search box You will be presented with a list of options including Google Yahoo eBay Amazon and Creative Commons Like other web browsers Firefox makes it possible to save a web page for future reference by adding it to a list of bookmarks Use the key combination Ctr1 D to bookmark a page you are viewing To manage bookmarks use the Bookmark menu from the top of the Firefox window You can also create a live bookmark a feed that automatically checks for updates from a page with an RSS or Atom feed If a feed is available for a particular web page there will be an orange icon at the right hand edge of the address bar while you are visiting that page Left click the feed icon and a preview of the feed is displayed Select the method you would like to use to subscribe to the feed 31 Chapter 8 Accessing the Web Use your favorite feed reader Firefox can use a number of popular web based options for subscribing to feeds such as Bloglines My Yahoo and Google Reader as well as Firefox s own live bookm
132. to show the available protocols and select the network appropriate for the account being created 3 Enter details for the selected account including Screen name Password and Alias Select Remember password if desired Click on the Save button to add the account to the account list 4 Once the account is added the Accounts window displays the new account 5 New accounts can be added in the future by navigating to the Accounts gt Add Edit menu entry in the main Pidgin window 9 5 2 Using Pidgin Select one of the enabled accounts to see the Buddy List window These menus allow you to add additional IM contacts All 16 supported protocols are available at the same time within Pidgin If you have setup several accounts in Pidgin such as Yahoo Google Talk and AIM accounts then all of your contacts for each of these accounts will be available to chat with at the same time in the same contact list For more information see http developer pidgin im wiki Using 20Pidgin 45 Chapter 9 Communications Not all features supported Pidgin does not support some features of the included protocols Pidgin is useful for chatting via text across 16 different IM protocols but not all the features in each IM system are supported For example video is not supported at this time Fedora does not register all accounts Many IM networks require you to create an account before you can use them In many of these cases you cannot create
133. tp program To do this use the syntax ftp ftp server com portftp server com port Where the port option is again optional 8 2 2 2 Managing files Often FTP is used to retrieve a file from a public server You can obtain this file from the server by using the get file command where file is the name or path of the file you want to retrieve To view all the files in the directory you have connected to you can use the 1s command You can also use pwd to determine which directory you are currently in and then cd to change your directory To send a file to the server type putfile where file is the name or path of the file you wish to send To view all the files in your local directory not the remote FTP server type 1cd You can also type lcd directory to change to a new directory on your local machine 8 2 2 3 SFTP on the command line Secure FTP or SFTP is an encrypted version of FTP It connects over to the remote server through a secure socket layer like SSH This means that it is a much more secure solution than traditional FTP Use the command sftp to start the client The syntax is nearly identical to the syntax for FTP 8 2 2 4 Secure copy SCP Another option for transferring files between two computer with SSH is using the command scp This attempts to use the same syntax as the tradition copy command cp but differs in that you can specify remote servers For example to send a file to a remote server type scp localF
134. ttached to the networks and channels that you selected above 9 8 Konversation Konversation is located on the KDE Desktop You can find details at http konversation kde org 9 8 1 Configuring Konversation To configure Konversation select 1 Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt IRC Client 2 The Servers List window pops up and has a default network listed Select New or click on the default network then select Edit a Type in your chosen network in the Network Name field b Under Identity click Edit and add your user names 47 Chapter 9 Communications c Check the box Connect Application at Start up to attach automatically when you open Konversation 3 Inthe Auto Join Channels window a Click on the default channel listed then Edit or just click the Add button to ad your choice b Type in your desired channels and passwords if needed then click the Ok button 4 You are returned to the Edit Network window Select the Ok button Now click the Connect button at the bottom right in the Servers List window to attach to the network and your channels 9 8 2 Using Konversation Choose Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt IRC Client Konversation will automatically attach to your networks and channels 9 9 ChatZilla ChatzZilla is an IRC chat program from Mozilla It is easy to use and is a highly extensible IRC client It has all the usual features in
135. uncher gt Applications gt Settings gt Compiz Switcher in KDE 94 Widgets gt 16 5 Widgets gt 16 5 1 GDesklets GDesklets are Calendar Weather and Quote of the day widgets for the GNOME desktop To install them go to Applications gt Add Remove Software then go to the Search tab and search for gdesklets GDesklets is the program that needs to be installed and the other programs listed are the plugins You will need to install both GDesklets and the GDesklets goodweather plugin They can also be installed by using Yum at the command line When you have installed the software you can access GDesklets by going to Applications gt Accessories gt Gdesklets This will load up a program with all available plugins Select the uncategorized category and double click GoodWeather Display After a few moments the the desklet will appear on the desktop and allow you to move it to a preferred location on the desktop Note Where you initially place it is not important The desklet can be moved at any time by right clicking on the desklet and choosing move desklet To configure the the weather gdesklet right click and select configure desklet A dialog will appear with general settings Modifying the location can be done by going to http www weather com At the very top of the weather com website is a search box for local weather information Type in the location After searching the code for the location will be found in th
136. underbird connects to the server to download your email messages 9 If the download fails your email account may require secure connections In this case select Edit gt Account Settings gt Server Settings and select your secure setting Often the setting is SSL but this information should be provided by your email service 9 2 2 Moving your Thunderbird profile data from Windows to Fedora The Thunderbird data profile folder contains your email messages addresses and program settings To move your profile data from Windows to Fedora requires that the data folder be copied to a CD DVD memory stick or other mobile media If you have set up multiple accounts in Thunderbird they can be moved as well one at a time following these steps 1 Find your profile data folder In Windows 2000 or Windows XP click Start gt My Computer gt Local Disk C gt Documents and Settings gt YourUserName gt Application Data gt Thunderbird gt Profiles The profile data folder looks like xxxxx default where xxxxx is a sequence of random numbers and letters If you cannot find the Application Data folder If you cannot find the Application Data folder go to the top menu and select Tools gt Folder Options gt View and check the box Show Hidden Files and Folders If you still cannot find the folder click Start gt Run type AppData and press Enter 39 Chapter 9 Communications In Windows Vista click Start
137. use of Java and other web technologies All of these can be found at Mozilla s Firefox add ons site 8 1 2 Using Konqueror To start Konqueror in KDE select KMenu gt Applications gt Internet gt Konqueror To start Konqueror in GNOME select Applications gt Internet gt Konqueror Konqueror on the GNOME and Xfce desktops Konqueror is installed by default with the KDE desktop but not the GNOME or Xfce desktops If you want to use Konqueror on the GNOME or Xfce desktops you will need to install it first Refer to anac for instructions on adding new software to your system 32 Transferring files 8 2 Transferring files Fedora includes several programs for transferring files between different computers on the same network or on the Internet On of the most common methods is called the File Transfer Protocol FTP There are several graphical programs available to use FTP including FileZilla and gFTP You can also use the command line utilities ftp Iftp and sftp FTP is insecure If you are transferring files over a public network Such as the Internet you may not want to use FTP FTP transfers can be easily intercepted and FTP data is not encrypted For more security use SFTP which encrypts your data over SSH 8 2 1 Using FileZilla FileZilla is an application that allows you to transfer files over FTP using a simple graphical interface Like many FTP applications it has two important panes a file
138. uter 3 If your camera requires you to select a knob or dial setting before connecting it to a computer make that selection now 4 Power the camera on When your camera powers on Fedora will recognise the device and launch any software that you have configured to import and manage photos for example the gThumb Image Viewer and F Spot Photo Manager on the GNOME desktop or the digiKam photo management program on the KDE desktop 14 2 Managing photos on the GNOME desktop After your camera powers on an informational window should appear on your desktop From the drop down menu you can select e Open with gThumb Image Viewer and choose Import Photos e Open with F Spot Photo Manager and select Copy e Open with Other Application and select the appropriate application If you decide you do not want to import photos click the Do Nothing button If you do not want to see this dialog each time you connect a camera you can select the Always perform this action option in conjunction with the gThumb Image Viewer or F Spot Photo Manager button to make one of the choices permanent Other ways of accessing your photos are e Click on the desktop device icon that contains the photos e Click Places gt on the top menu bar and then click the camera or other device that stores your photos 14 2 1 Organizing and importing photos After you make your selection Fedora loads thumbnails or previews of the photos from your camera into the
139. ve many features beyond basic web browsing This chapter explains how to use some of the more popular features and provides links to further information The Internet can also be used to transfer files This chapter covers different methods of doing this using graphical applications as well as the command line If you wish to transfer files using email then you should probably read Chapter 9 Communications instead This is often the best choice for smaller files such as pictures and documents 8 1 Browsing web pages Firefox and Konqueror are the suggested web browsers for most users If you require a more lightweight browser especially if you are using a slower system you may want to try Dillo If you are using the command line then you may want to use lynx w3m or elinks None of these programs are installed in Fedora by default but can be installed using the instructions in Chapter 17 Managing software 8 1 1 Using Firefox To start Firefox in GNOME select Applications gt Internet gt Firefox Web Browser or use the menu panel icon To start Firefox in KDE select KMenu gt Applications gt Internet gt Firefox Web Browser Firefox has many more features than discussed here you can find more information on Firefox at the Mozilla Firefox website htip www mozilla org supportfirefox 8 1 1 1 Navigating the web Fedora starts Firefox with a default home page that has links to useful Fedora related sites Navigate to o
140. website at http orojects gnome org rhythmbox for more information 12 4 Audio CD Extractor Sound Juicer Audio CD Extractor Sound Juicer lets you extract the audio from CDs and convert them to audio files your computer can play This program also plays CDs 12 4 1 Using Sound Juicer To enter track data insert an audio CD and Sound Juicer will locate and retrieve the data from MusicBrainz a free service If MusicBrainz cannot match the CD you have the option to enter the track information manually The notifier will also ask you if you want to submit your album to the MusicBrainz database You will need to open a MusicBrainz account to submit albums to their database To enter track data manually 1 Fill in the text boxes for the title artist year and genre of the CD 2 Below that is a list of the audio tracks on the CD You can determine the track title and artist for each track To edit the title of a track first select the track then click on the title When you have finished entering the title press the Enter key Each track of the CD is automatically updated if they matched the artist before the edit Extracting Track Data 1 Select the tracks you want to save by clicking on the boxes in front of the tracks You can also use Edit gt Select All or Edit gt Deselect All 2 Click the Extract button This will change to a Stop button when the program begins to extract the data You will see an icon next to th
141. word processor or spreadsheet program Music a folder within your Home Folder intended as a place for you to store music files The top menu panel Pictures a folder within your Home Folder intended as a place for you to store photographs and other pictures Videos a folder within your Home Folder intended as a place for you to store videos Download a folder within your Home Folder intended as a place for you to store miscellaneous files that you have downloaded from the Internet The second subsection allows quick access to the Computer window which allows you to browse the computer s files and all data storage attached to the computer e The third section provides links to tools that help you browse and manage network locations Network allows you to view the networks that your computer is attached to and to access files and other resources available through those networks Connect to Server allows you to create connections to public or local networks The fourth section helps you quickly access any file on the system Search for files allows you to search for files stored on your computer Recent Documents lists the documents and folders recently accessed 3 1 1 3 The System menu This menu is divided into three subsections The first provides access to configuration tools The Preferences menu contains tools that affect only your account and only require normal user access These links i
142. y partitioned media you may need to consult other sources of help Y http fedorahosted org liveusb creator 25 26 Chapter 7 Connecting to the Internet Fedora includes a graphical tool to help configure various connections and network interfaces KDE is included by default and allows easy management of configured connections 7 1 GNOME To launch the Network Configuration Tool in GNOME navigate to the System gt Administration gt Network menu entry When working as a regular user the application prompts for the root password 7 2 KDE To launch the Network Configuration Tool in KDE navigate to the KMenu gt Applications gt System gt Network menu entry When working as a regular user the application prompts for the root password 7 3 Configuring PPPoE PPPoE connections are primarily used for xDSL connections PPPoE stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet In the main screen click the New Button and then choose XDSL Configuration from the left hand column clicking the Next button to proceed In the following screen enter the name of the xDSL provider and the username and password belonging to this account When more than one Ethernet device is present on the system ensure the correct device is selected from the drop down menu labeled Ethernet device Click Next to proceed To configure this network connection to start when the system boots click the appropriate entry in the main dialog
143. y of the features found in Evolution and Microsoft Office Outlook To install Claws Mail refer to Chapter 17 Managing software You can install Claws Mail by either using PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum More information about Claws Mail is available at http www claws mail org 9 3 1 Configuring Claws Mail To configure your email account you will need the email information provided by your internet service or email provider 1 Open Claws Mail in GNOME click on Applications gt Internet gt Claws Mail e in KDE click the Kickoff Application Launcher gt Applications gt Internet gt Email menu entry for Claws Mail 2 The first time you start Claws Mail the Claws Mail Wizard appears and will guide you through the set up of your account 3 The first page asks you to fill in your name Sometimes it is guessed from the operating system and your email address 4 On the next page enter details of how to retrieve your mail POP3 Enter the server address username and password If you don t enter your password here you will be prompted for it each time it is needed IMAP Enter the server address username password and IMAP server directory The password is optional if you don t provide it here you will be prompted for it each time it is needed The IMAP server directory is also optional often it is not needed and can be left empty 42 Using Claws Mail Local mbox file Enter the location
144. y on Close Open Track Announcement Tag Guesser File Renamer and Configure Shortcuts or Toolbars The second menu panel displays icons of the most used commands which are also located in the top menu bar The right window is home to your collection or playlist 77 Chapter 12 Playing multimedia The main window displays information about the file such as Track Name Artist Album Cover Track Genre Year and Length To open the manual select Help gt JuK Handbook or press the F1 key 12 9 4 Kaffeine Kaffeine is a media player that can play streaming content DVBs DVDs and CDs To get streaming content over the web you need a Mozilla plug in for the program which is available from http sourceforge net project downloading php groupname kaffeine amp filename kaffeine mozilla 0 2 tar bz2 amp use_mirror internap For more information about Kaffeine generally refer to the JuK website at htip kaffeine kde org 12 9 4 1 Using Kaffeine Media Player The first window that opens contains five shortcut icons Play Playlist takes you to a current playlist Audio CD encoding will help you rip tracks from a CD e Play Audio CD plays a CD Play DVD plays a DVD Play VCD plays a VCD On the left side of the window are four small icons The KDE icon on top brings up the first window wherever you are in the program The Kaffeine icon opens the Player Window e Clicking the next icon opens the P

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