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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
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<!ENTITY kappname "&kinfocenter;">
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<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
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<book lang="&language;">
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<title>The &infocenter;</title>
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<firstname>Michael</firstname>
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<surname>McBride</surname>
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<affiliation><address><email>mpmcbride7@yahoo.com</email></address></affiliation>
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<date>2002-07-03</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.10.00</releaseinfo>
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<para>This documentation describes &kde;'s information center.</para>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>kinfocenter</keyword>
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<keyword>system</keyword>
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<keyword>information</keyword>
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<keyword>module</keyword>
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<chapter id="introduction">
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<title>The &infocenter;</title>
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The &infocenter; (from now on referred to simply as <quote>the
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information center</quote>) provides you with a centralized and convenient
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overview of your &kde; and system settings.
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The information center is made up of multiple modules. Each module is a
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separate application, but the information center organizes all of these
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programs into a convenient location.
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<chapter id="info-center">
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<title>Using The &infocenter;</title>
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This next section details the use of the information center itself. For
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information on individual modules, please see <link linkend="module">Info
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<sect1 id="information-center-starting">
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<title>Starting the &infocenter;</title>
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The &infocenter; can be started 3 ways:
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By selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>K
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Button</guimenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Info
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Center</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the &kde; Panel.
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action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>.
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This will bring up a dialog box. Type
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<userinput><command>kinfocenter</command></userinput>, and click
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<guibutton>Run</guibutton> or press <keycap>Enter</keycap>.
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You can type <command>kinfocenter &</command> at any command prompt.
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All three of these methods are equivalent, and produce the same result.
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<sect1 id="information-center-screen">
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<title>The &infocenter; Screen</title>
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When you start the information center, you are presented with a window,
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which can be divided into 3 functional parts.
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Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick
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access to most of &infocenter;'s features. The menus are detailed in
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<link linkend="info-center-menus">The &kde; Info Center
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Along the left hand side, is a column. This is a where you choose which
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module to investigate. You can learn how to navigate through the modules
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in the section called <link linkend="module-intro">Navigating
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The main panel shows you some system information.
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In this example, we are running &kde; 2.99, we started &infocenter;
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as user <systemitem class="username">adridg</systemitem>, the computer is
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named <systemitem class="systemname">aramis</systemitem>, it is a
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FreeBSD system, Version 4.4-RELEASE, on a Pentium.
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<sect1 id="info-center-menus">
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<title>The &infocenter; Menus</title>
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This next section gives you a brief description of what each menu item
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<sect2 id="info-center-menu-file">
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<title><guimenu>File</guimenu> Menu</title>
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The <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu has a single entry.
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<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo>
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<guimenu>File</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
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<action>Closes the info center.</action>
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<sect2 id="info-center-menu-help">
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<title><guimenu>Help</guimenu> Menu</title>
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&help.menu.documentation;
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<sect1 id="info-center-exiting">
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<title>Exiting The &kde; Information Center</title>
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You can exit the info center one of three ways:
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Select <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the menu bar.
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<para>Type <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo>
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Click on the <guiicon>Close</guiicon> button on the frame surrounding
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<chapter id="module">
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<title>The &infocenter; Modules</title>
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<sect1 id="module-intro">
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<title>Navigating Modules</title>
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This is a list of the <emphasis>standard</emphasis> configuration
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modules (sorted by category) provided by the <application
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role="package">&kde; base</application> package. Please note that there
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may be many more modules on your system if you have installed additional
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/devices/index.html">Devices</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/dma/index.html">DMA-Channels</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/interrupts/index.html">Interrupts</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/ioports/index.html">IO-Ports</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/memory/index.html">Memory</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/nics/index.html">Network Interfaces</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/opengl/index.html">OpenGL</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/partitions/index.html">Partitions</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/pci/index.html">PCI</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/pcmcia/index.html">PCMCIA</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/processor/index.html">Processor</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/protocols/index.html">Protocols</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/samba/index.html">Samba Status Information</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/scsi/index.html">SCSI</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/sound/index.html">Sound</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/usb/index.html">USB Devices</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="help:/kinfocenter/xserver/index.html">X-Server</ulink></para>
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<chapter id="credits">
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<title>Credits and License</title>
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<para>&infocenter;</para>
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<para>Program copyright 1997-2001 The &infocenter; Developers</para>
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<para>Contributors:</para>
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<listitem><para>Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel
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<email>hoelzer@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Matthias Elter <email>elter@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<para>Documentation <trademark class="copyright">copyright 2000 Michael
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McBride</trademark> <email>mpmcbride7@yahoo.com</email></para>
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<para>Contributors:</para>
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<listitem><para>Paul Campbell <email>paul@taniwha.com</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Helge Deller <email>deller@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mark Donohoe </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Pat Dowler</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Duncan Haldane <email>duncan@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Steffen Hansen <email>stefh@mip.ou.dk</email>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <email>hoelzer@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Martin Jones <email>mjones@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Jost Schenck <email>jost@schenck.de</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Jonathan Singer <email>jsinger@leeta.net</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Thomas Tanghus <email>tanghus@earthling.net</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Krishna Tateneni <email>tateneni@pluto.njcc.com></email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Ellis Whitehead <email>ewhitehe@uni-freiburg.de</email></para></listitem>
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