The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 7. Tips & Tricks for Your Daily Work

 

Everyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.

 Fortune Cookies

Nearly everyone can use KDE; this is why the developers made it. There are no cryptic switches with which to cope, and few configuration files you need edit in ASCII style. However, there are some ways you can do your work more elegantly, saving you time for the truly important things, like tetris.

7.1. Shortcut Table

Alt-Tabor Alt-Shift-Tab

Cycle through the windows

Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Cycle through your desktops

Alt-F2

Mini Command line

Alt-F3

Window Menu

Alt-F4

Close the current window

Ctrl-F{1..8}

Switch to a specific desktop

Ctrl-Alt-Esc

Window destroyer (every window you click on will be destroyed)

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

This exits KDE (without saving!) Use this as a last resort

Ctrl-Alt-Numpad +

Cycles to the next screen resolution

Ctrl-Alt-Numpad -

Cycles to the previous screen resolution