Die K Desktopumgebung

KDE Oft gestellte Fragen (FAQ)

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Last updated: 12. August 1999

Erstellt von Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel und Lee Wee Tiong

Dies ist eine Zusammenstellung der zum K-Desktop-Environment am häufigsten gestellten Fragen (FAQ, Frequently Ask Questions)

Oft gestellte Fragen (Frequently Asked Questions) zum K Desktop Environment (KDE)


Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Über diese FAQ
1.1. Wie kann ich zu dieser FAQ beitragen?
1.2. Wie bekomme ich ein FAQ-Pfleger?
2. Einleitung
2.1. Was ist KDE?
2.2. Wofür Steht das K in KDE?
2.3. Auf welchen Systemen kann ich das Laufen der KDE erwarten?
2.4. Ist KDE ein Fenstermanager?
2.5. Ist KDE ein Kopie von CDE-, Windows95 oder MacOS?
2.6. Ist KDE freie Software?
3. KDE erhalten
3.1. Woher bekomme ich die KDE?
3.2. Gibt es Linuxdistributionen, die KDE enthalten?
3.3. Was ist aktuelle Version?
3.4. Wo finde ich KDE-Schnappschüsse?
3.5. Wo bekomme ich Qt?
3.6. Was ist Qt eigentlich?
4. Installationsanweisungen
4.1. An die Umsteiger
4.2. Verfügbare Paketformate
4.3. Systemvoraussetzungen
4.4. Beschreibung der Basispakete
4.5. Installationsbeschreibungen für die verschiedenen Paketformat
4.5.1. Installation der Debian-Pakete
4.5.2. Installation der RPM-Pakete
4.5.3. Installation der Quelltext .tar.gz-Dateien
4.5.4. Installation binärer .tar.gz-Dateien
4.6. Vorgehensweise nach der Installation
4.7. Micro-WieGeht's: Kompilieren von KDE 1.1.1 auf SGI Irix 6.x
4.8. Installing the RPMs with SuSe's YaST makes the rpm database unusable. What can I do?
4.9. Should I remove old version xyz before installing a new one?
4.10. How do I start KDE?
4.11. Whenever I start KDE, it complains about "shadow passwords". Why?
4.12. Is it possible to install KDE in a user directory?
4.13. startkde fails with "can not connect to X server". What is wrong?
4.14. Installing Debian packages with dpkg says "giflib2 is missing"
4.15. KDE on AIX?
4.16. Installing Redhat packages says "libncurses.so.3.0 is needed"
4.17. KDE on a laptop?
4.18. I don't like the default KDE directory after installation. How do I move it without breaking anything?
4.19. Where has the snapshot configure script gone?
4.20. How do I unzip tarballs with the 'bz2' extension?
4.21. What files can I delete from my KDE install directory? Can all the *.h, *.c and *.o files be safely removed?
4.22. Will I lose my current settings when I upgrade KDE?
4.23. Compiling kdebase gives me a "bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found" error!
4.24. Compiling KDE using gcc in Solaris 2.6 but keep on getting errors.
4.25. How do I uninstall KDE apps compiled from scratch?
4.26. What's up with GIF support?
5. The panel
5.1. How do I add applications to the panel?
5.2. If I try to add an application, the panel complains! Why?
5.3. How do I embed an application in the panel?
5.4. Why is the panel clock showing the wrong time?
5.5. Is it possible to run kpanel in a non-KDE-compliant window manager?
5.6. It is possible to change the K button of the panel to another picture?
6. The desktop
6.1. How do I add an application to the desktop?
6.2. How do I mount/unmount a device from the desktop?
6.3. How do I use a screensaver as background?
6.4. How do I highlight my menus even when I don't hold down the mouse button (similar to Win95)?
6.5. Where are the icons kept?
6.6. How do I change the standard menu items as non-root?
6.7. How do I use the mouse scroll wheel in KDE?
6.8. What exactly is the Templates folder?
6.9. Why can't I get system sounds to work, like for opening windows?
6.10. How do I launch applications in a particular desktop?
6.11. What should I do to get the Mac-like window decorations shown in the screenshot on the KDE page?
6.12. I played with the fonts section in the KDE Control Center but the fonts are still way too small. What can I do?
6.13. Is it possible to extend the Desktop Icon Menus?
6.14. Can I get rid of the Trash/Templates/Autostart icons?
6.15. Where do I save my files if I want them to appear directly on the desktop?
7. The window manager
7.1. Are there keyboard shortcuts for KWM operations?
7.2. Can I define my own set of keyboard shortcuts?
7.3. When I "iconify" a window, it disappears. Where does it go?
7.4. How do I get a sticky window with no border and focus?
7.5. How do I kill kwmpager?
7.6. How do I maximize windows only vertically or horizontally?
7.7. What is "shading a window"?
7.8. Is it possible to have FVWM2-like shadow frameworks for the placement of windows?
7.9. How do I disable session management?
8. The filemanager
8.1. How do I use KFM as web browser with a proxy?
8.2. How can I change the appearance of a directory in KFM?
8.3. How can I do non-anonymous FTP transfers with KFM?
8.4. "KFM cannot connect to 'localhost'", what is going wrong?
8.5. What are %i and %m in the Execute line?
8.6. How do I specify KFM's startup directory?
8.7. How do I import Netscape bookmarks?
8.8. Is there a "Save As..." function in KFM?
9. Configuring KDE
9.1. How do I set the language to be used by KDE?
9.2. Is there any keyboard switcher for international keyboards for KDE?
9.3. How do I replace the standard Linux text login screen with the KDE login screen?
9.4. How do I replace KWM with another KDE-compliant window manager like Blackbox and Window Maker?
9.4.1. Blackbox
9.4.2. Window Maker
9.5. How do I change the Red Hat Linux logo bootup screen image?
9.6. I'd like to click the left mouse button anywhere on the desktop and have the 'K' menu displayed.
9.7. How do I use the three extra keys on my Windows keyboard in KDE?
9.8. After installing KDE, the Red Hat start menu disappears!
9.9. Where do I find information regarding KDE themes?
9.10. How do I change Mime Types?
9.11. KDE (kdm) doesn't read my .bash_profile!
9.12. How do I use TrueType Fonts under KDE?
9.13. Is it possible to enter, show and work with the Euro Symbol in KDE?
10. KDE applications
10.1. Kppp
10.1.1. I don't have a valid DNS! What can I do?
10.1.2. How do I change the mtu setting in kppp?
10.1.3. Where are the kppp settings stored?
10.1.4. Kppp connects at a slower speed than normal.
10.2. Kscd
10.2.1. How do I close it?
10.2.2. How do I get Kscd to work with CDDB?
10.2.3. Kscd claims that there is no /dev/cdrom in my system when I try to listen to a music CD. What should I do?
10.3. Kvt
10.3.1. How do I page-up or page-down in kvt?
10.3.2. How do I toggle the behaviour of backspace and delete?
10.3.3. How do I perform a simple 'cut' from kvt to anything else?
10.3.4. How do I set the size of the scroll-back buffer?
10.4. KOffice
10.4.1. Where can I find k2url.h?
10.4.2. Where can I find StatusBarManager.h?
10.5. KMail
10.5.1. How do I leave mail on the server?
10.5.2. How do I automatically insert a text footer within the mail?
10.5.3. How do I export KMail messages to Netscape Mail?
10.6. KBiff
10.6.1. How can one instance of KBiff monitor two mailboxes and take the appropriate action when mails arrive?
10.7. KTop
10.7.1. Why can't I see anything on it?
11. KDE with non-KDE applications
11.1. My non-KDE apps like emacs and kterm are running amok with large windows and strange fonts!
11.2. StarOffice 5.0 Personal Edition for Linux
11.2.1. StarOffice freezes up!
11.3. Netscape
11.3.1. Why does Netscape load so slow?
11.3.2. Why does Netscape crash when I visit certain websites?
11.3.3. Why does Netscape display images in a pixilated manner?
11.3.4. How do I export Netscape bookmarks to KFM?
11.3.5. How do I make KDE use Netscape when I create a WWWUrl kdelnk instead of the builtin browser?
12. Known bugfixes for KDE
12.1. Typo in kzip.kdelnk
12.2. Wrong Charset!
13. Useful tips
13.1. Reading man pages in KDE
13.2. Move or resize windows quickly
13.3. Killing windows in KDE
13.4. Switching window managers on the fly
14. Miscellaneous questions
14.1. Why does KDE use Qt?
14.2. Why does KDE not use gtk, xforms, xlib, whatever?
14.3. But Qt isn't free, is it?
14.4. Why not code a L/GPL'ed Qt clone?
14.5. How do I mount filesystems (eg. my CD-ROM drive) in KDE?
14.6. Does KDE have terminal emulators with transparent background?
14.7. Is there a way to get various kinds of information about my drive contents: free space, directory size, etc.?
14.8. How can I get backspace to work under KDE?
14.9. How do I create icons for non-KDE applications that I can put in the 'K' menu? Where do these icons (or kdelnk) go?
14.10. What about KDE programs that don't have icons (like KWord)? How do I get them into the menu?
14.11. Does KDE have a graphical FTP client?
14.12. How do I exit KDE?
14.13. Is there a program that checks for new mails at my ISP if and only if I'm online?
14.14. Is it really necessary to upgrade to the latest version?
14.15. How do I copy and paste in KDE?
14.16. How do I convert the default Red Hat menus into a menu on the K-Menu?
14.17. Why isn't kdm or klock working in Redhat?
14.18. What is CVS?
14.19. Does KDE support dual screen?
14.20. How do I check which version of KDE I'm using?
14.21. Can I write commerical software for KDE?
15. Not really KDE-related, but frequently asked nevertheless :-)
15.1. How do I change the screen resolution?
15.2. How do I change the color depth?
15.3. What can I do if I'm using a 2-button mouse?
15.4. What is a "sticky" window?
15.5. How do I replace the "X" mouse pointer with an arrow?
15.6. How do I extract/install diff files?
15.7. Should I upgrade to 2.2 kernel?
15.8. How do I mount the floppy device both in dos and ext2?
15.9. How do I start KDE with the Num-Lock on?
15.10. How do I take window or desktop screenshots?
15.11. Is there somewhere a tool to make webpages?
15.12. Where can I find a free X server for Windows 95/98/NT?
15.13. What do all those acronyms like AFAIK mean?
16. Getting more information
16.1. Where is the KDE homepage?
16.2. Is there a KDE mailing list?
16.3. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to these lists?
16.3.1. To subscribe
16.3.2. To unsubscribe
16.4. Is there a mailing list archive?
16.4.1. How do I search it?
16.5. Is there a newsgroup about KDE?
17. Contributing
17.1. How can I contribute to KDE?
17.2. How do I commit a bug report?
17.3. I want to program for KDE. What should I do first?
17.4. How do I get write access to the kde-core-devel list?
17.5. How do I get access to the CVS?
17.6. I am just curious. Can I have read-only access to the CVS?
17.7. Are there any CVS mirror sites for KDE?
17.8. How do I go about translating KDE programs into my native language?