Configuring your desktop
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If you do not like something about the way the desktop looks or operates, you can probably change it. KDE is very configurable and you can change almost every aspect of the appearance and the behavior of your desktop. Unlike many other UNIX® desktop environments, you do not have to edit cryptic configuration files either (but you can if you really want to!) You use the KControl, a special program for configuring your desktop.
Launch the KDE Control Center from the menu. A window with two panes appears, displaying a list of modules in the left pane.
Open a module by clicking its name; a list of submodules will appear. Then, click one of the submodule category names to edit its configuration in the right pane.
Changing the configuration is fairly straightforward. A help button is available on each configuration panel to explain settings that are not obvious. Each panel has buttons labeled , , , and , which work as follows:
Displays a short help text in the left hand pane, including a link to a longer manual for the module in question.
Sets all the options in the current module back to the default at the time KDE was installed.
Applies the current settings in the currently open module.
Resets the options to the state they were in when you opened the module. If you have already used the button, then this button will reset the options to the state they were in when you pressed .
If you make changes on one configuration panel and move to a different module without clicking or first, KDE Control Center will prompt you to ask whether your changes should be applied first.
