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<chapter id="tips">
<title
>Useful tips</title>

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<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
>Reading man pages in &kde;</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para
>Pop up the minicli window (<keycombo action="simul"
>&Alt;<keycap
>F2</keycap
></keycombo
> by default) and type <command
>man:<replaceable
>command</replaceable
></command
>. It even unpacks on the fly if the man pages are gzipped.</para>
<para
>Or you can use the <application
>&kde; Help Centre</application
> if you are using &kde; 2. Simply start the <application
>&kde; Help Centre</application
> by clicking on the icon (the blue book with the yellow key) on the toolbar. Once the <application
>&kde; Help Centre</application
> has loaded, the window on the left will contain an entry called <guilabel
>Unix manual pages</guilabel
>. Click once on this entry, and you can browse through all the installed manual pages on your system.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
>Move or resize windows quickly</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para
>To move a window, use <keycombo action="simul"
>&Alt;<mousebutton
>left</mousebutton
></keycombo
> mouse button. <keycombo action="simul"
>&Alt;<mousebutton
>right</mousebutton
></keycombo
> mouse button will resize the window. Last but not least, <keycombo action="simul"
>&Alt;<mousebutton
>middle</mousebutton
></keycombo
> mouse button raises/lowers the window. The <application
>&kde; Control Centre</application
> allows you to change these mouse bindings.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
>Killing windows in &kde;</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para
> </para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
></para>
</question>
<answer>
<para
>These kind of locks tend to occur when an application locks up while it has a so called <quote
>mouse/keyboard grab</quote
>. When that happens you can try to select a virtual text console with <keycombo action="simul"
>&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap
>F1</keycap
></keycombo
> and login. With the following command you will get a list of all running processes:</para>

<screen
><userinput
>        <command
>ps</command
> <option
>-aux</option
> | <command
>more</command
></userinput
></screen>

<para
></para>

<screen
><userinput
>        <command
>kill</command
> <option
>-9</option
> <replaceable
>pid</replaceable
></userinput
></screen>

<para
></para>

<para
></para>

<para
>Good candidates to kill are: the application you were working with, &kicker;, &klipper; and &kdesktop;.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

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<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
>Switching window managers on the fly in &kde; 1.x</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para
>If you want to switch your window manager on the fly, type the
following into a terminal window: <command
>kwmcom
go:<replaceable
>blackbox</replaceable
></command
>.  This switches to
Blackbox, but you can substitute any window manager you like.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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</qandaset>
</chapter>