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# Chapter 12. Useful tips

12.1. Reading man pages in KDE
12.2. Move or resize windows quickly
12.3. Killing windows in KDE
12.4. Switching window managers on the fly in KDE 1.x

12.1. Reading man pages in KDE

Pop up the minicli window (Alt+F2 by default) and type man:`command`. It even unpacks on the fly when the man pages are gzipped.

Or you can use the KDE Help Center if you are using KDE 2. Simply start the KDE Help Center by clicking on the icon (the blue book with the yellow key) on the toolbar. Once the KDE Help Center has loaded, the window on the left will contain an entry called Unix manual pages. Click once on this entry, and you can browse through all the installed manual pages on your system.

12.2. Move or resize windows quickly

To move a window, use Alt+left mouse button. Alt+right mouse button will resize the window. Last but not least, Alt+middle mouse button raises/lowers the window. For more information about mouse control, please refer to "The K Window Manager Handbook".

| KDE 1.1 and above allows you to change these mouse bindings.

12.3. Killing windows in KDE

There is a standard keybinding (Ctrl+Alt+Esc) that gives you a skull/crossbones cursor. Click that cursor on a window to kill it. The keybindings are viewable/changeable from the KDE Control Center in KDE above version 1.0.

12.4. Switching window managers on the fly in KDE 1.x

If you want to switch your window manager on the fly, type the following into a terminal window: kwmcom go:`blackbox`. This switches to Blackbox, but you can substitute any window manager you like.

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