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+<!--
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd">
+-->
+<chapter id="configure">
+<title
+>Configuring &kde;</title>
+
+<qandaset>
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I set the language used by &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+
+<answer>
+<para
+>There are two ways to set the language &kde; uses in the messages it will display:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry
+><term
+>Using the <application
+>&kde; Control Centre</application
+></term>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Fire up the <application
+>&kde; Control Centre</application
+> and select <guimenu
+>Regional &amp; Accessibility</guimenu
+> followed by <guimenuitem
+>Country/Region &amp; Language</guimenuitem
+>. You can select your language and location here. If &kde; cannot find a translation in the first language chosen, it will fall back on the default language. This is usually (American) English by default.</para>
+<note
+><para
+>Using the <application
+>&kde; Control Centre</application
+> is the preferred way of choosing languages in &kde;.</para
+></note
+></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry
+><term
+>Using the <envar
+>LANG</envar
+> environment variable</term>
+<listitem
+><para
+>The second method uses the standard locale setting on your system. To change the language, simply set the environment variable <envar
+>LANG</envar
+> accordingly. For example, if your shell is <application
+>bash</application
+>, execute <userinput
+><command
+>export</command
+> <envar
+>LANG</envar
+>=de</userinput
+> to set German as the language used.</para
+></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>Is there any keyboard switcher for international keyboards for &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Yes, you can configure it using the <application
+>&kde; Control Centre</application
+> <guimenu
+>Regional &amp; Accessibility</guimenu
+> <guimenuitem
+>Keyboard Layout</guimenuitem
+> configuration page. </para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I replace the standard text login screen with the &kde; login screen?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<note
+><para
+>Your distribution/&UNIX; flavour may have its own setup tools to change this (&eg; <application
+>YaST</application
+> on &SuSE; &Linux;). This will be the safest way to enable the &kde; login screen. However, if for some reason you do not wish to use these tools, the following instructions may be useful.</para
+></note>
+<para
+>First, you need to change to the <quote
+>xdm runlevel</quote
+> (runlevel 5 on &RedHat; and &SuSE; systems) by editing your <filename
+>/etc/inittab</filename
+> file. In the file, you should have a line saying <userinput
+>id:3:initdefault:</userinput
+>. Change it to <userinput
+>id:5:initdefault:</userinput
+>. Now, at the end of the file, comment out the following line: <literal
+>x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon</literal
+> and replace it with <userinput
+>x:5:respawn:<replaceable
+>/opt/kde/</replaceable
+>bin/kdm -nodaemon</userinput
+>. <note
+><para
+>The location of &kdm; may differ on your system.</para
+></note
+></para>
+<para
+>For changes to take effect immediately, type <command
+>init 5</command
+> (for &RedHat; systems) at the shell prompt. <caution
+><para
+>It is risky to initiate a graphical login without checking beforehand whether it works. If it fails to work, you would be in for a hard time getting back....</para
+></caution
+></para>
+</answer>
+<answer>
+<para
+>For FreeBSD, you should edit the file <filename
+>/etc/ttys</filename
+> and change one of the lines that look like <programlisting
+>ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure</programlisting
+> to instead say <userinput
+>ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure</userinput
+>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+
+<para
+>I would like to click the &LMB; anywhere on the desktop and have the <guimenu
+>K</guimenu
+> menu displayed.</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Open the <application
+>&kde; Control Centre</application
+> and choose <menuchoice
+><guisubmenu
+>Desktop</guisubmenu
+> <guisubmenu
+>Behaviour</guisubmenu
+></menuchoice
+>. You can now choose the behaviour of mouse clicks on the desktop. To have the <guimenu
+>K</guimenu
+> menu open from a single &LMB; click, change the entry labelled <guilabel
+>Left button</guilabel
+> to say <guilabel
+>Application Menu</guilabel
+>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>Where do I find information regarding &kde; themes?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Go to <ulink url="http://kde.themes.org/"
+>http://kde.themes.org/</ulink
+> or <ulink url="http://www.kde-look.org"
+>http://www.kde-look.org</ulink
+>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I change &MIME; Types?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>If you are using &konqueror;, do this instead: first, open a &konqueror; window and choose <menuchoice
+><guimenu
+>Settings</guimenu
+><guimenuitem
+>Configure Konqueror</guimenuitem
+></menuchoice
+>, then <guilabel
+>File Associations</guilabel
+>. Find the type you want to change (&eg; <literal
+>text/english</literal
+> or <literal
+>image/gif</literal
+>), and set the application preference order to whatever you want.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>&kde; (&kdm;) does not read my <filename
+>.bash_profile</filename
+>!</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>The login managers<application
+>xdm</application
+> and &kdm; do not run a login shell, so <filename
+>.profile</filename
+>, <filename
+>.bash_profile</filename
+>, &etc; are not sourced. When the user logs in, <application
+>xdm</application
+> runs <command
+>Xstartup</command
+> as root and then <command
+>Xsession</command
+> as user. So the normal practice is to add statements in <filename
+>Xsession</filename
+> to source the user profile. Please edit your <filename
+>Xsession</filename
+> and <filename
+>.xsession</filename
+> files.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I use &TrueType; fonts in &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+
+<para
+>You need to install &TrueType; font support into your &X-Window; configuration. Please take a look at <ulink url="http://x.themes.org/"
+>x.themes.org</ulink
+> for the fonts, and <ulink url="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/"
+>xfsft: &TrueType; Font Support For X11</ulink
+> or <ulink url="http://X-TT.dsl.gr.jp/"
+>X-&TrueType; Server Project Home Page</ulink
+> for the font servers.</para>
+
+<para
+>If you have a bunch of &TrueType; fonts from &Microsoft; &Windows;, edit the <filename
+>XF86Config</filename
+> file to get the fonts from the font folder. Then just tell &kde; to use these new fonts with the font administrator utility.</para>
+
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>Is it possible to enter, show and work with the Euro Symbol in &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Yes and no. For details, look here: <ulink url="http://www.koffice.org/kword/euro.php"
+>http://www.koffice.org/kword/euro.php</ulink
+>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question
+><para
+>How do I run a program at &kde; startup?</para
+></question>
+
+<answer
+><para
+>There are many ways to do that. If what you want to do is to run some scripts that would set some environment variables (for example, to start <command
+>gpg-agent</command
+>, <command
+>ssh-agent</command
+> and others), you can put these scripts into <filename class="directory"
+>$<envar
+>KDEHOME</envar
+>/env/</filename
+> and make sure their names end in <literal role="extension"
+>.sh</literal
+>. $<envar
+>KDEHOME</envar
+> is usually a folder named <filename class="directory"
+>.kde</filename
+> (note the period at the beginning) in your home folder. If you want scripts to be executed for all &kde; users, you can put them under <filename class="directory"
+>$<envar
+>KDEDIR</envar
+>/env/</filename
+>, where $<envar
+>KDEDIR</envar
+> is the prefix &kde; was installed to (you can find this out using the command <userinput
+><command
+>kde-config</command
+> --prefix</userinput
+>).</para>
+<para
+>If you wish to start a program after &kde; has started, you may want to use the <filename class="directory"
+>Autostart</filename
+> folder. To add entries to the <filename class="directory"
+>Autostart</filename
+> folder: <orderedlist>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Open &konqueror;.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Select <menuchoice
+><guimenu
+>Go</guimenu
+><guimenuitem
+>Autostart</guimenuitem
+> </menuchoice
+> from the menubar.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Right-click in the window view area and select <menuchoice
+><guisubmenu
+>Create New</guisubmenu
+><guisubmenu
+>File</guisubmenu
+><guimenuitem
+>Link to Application</guimenuitem
+> </menuchoice
+></para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Click on the <guilabel
+>Application</guilabel
+> tab in the window that appears and enter the name of the command to run in the <guilabel
+>Command</guilabel
+> text box.</para>
+</listitem>
+</orderedlist>
+</para>
+
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+
+</qandaset>
+</chapter>