Invoking Help

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# 2.2. Invoking Help

KDE Help Center can be called in several ways:

From the Help menu

  The most common will probably be from within an application. Choose Help->Contents to open that applications help file, at the contents page.

From the K menu

  Choose the big K in your panel, and select Help to open KDE Help Center, starting at the default welcome page.

From the panel

  The Kicker panel contains by default an icon to call KDE Help Center. Again, the default welcome page is displayed.

From the command line

  KDE Help Center may be started using a URL to display a file. URLs have been added for Info and man pages also. You can use them as follows:

  An application help file

    khelpcenter `help:/`kedit``

    Opens the Kedit help file, at the contents page.

  A local url

    khelpcenter ``file:/usr/local/src/qt/html/index.html``

  A Man page

    khelpcenter `man:/`strcpy``

  An Info page

    khelpcenter `info:/`gcc``

  Invoking khelpcenter with no parameters opens the default welcome page.

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