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28Mar/100

5 simple tips for KDE 4

These are the first things I do after get a fresh KDE install.

Double-click to open applications

Make applications on desktop and Dolphin open with double-click.

Open up Dolphin. Go to Settings. Configure Dolphin.

Go to Navtigation pane. Double-click to open. Apply. OK.

Change your background

Right-click on the desktop and go to Desktop Settings.

Pick a fresh desktop theme

In KDE 4.3 you right click the desktop, go to Desktop Settings.

In KDE 4.4 System Settings -> Appearance -> Style -> Workspace.

As a ludite. KDE 3.5's interface is my favorite.

If that's not your cup of tea, you can download your own, sorting the online KDE library by rating and popularity. Surprisingly, Klassik isn't very popular.

Launch Chrome in privacy mode by default

Launching Google Chrome or Chromium in incognito mode is great for privacy.

Right-click an icon on your desktop or taskbar. Go to Icon Settings. Go to the Application tab. Under Command, append -incognito.

Use huge icons

Make huge icons on the desktop for your favorite apps.

I find this hilarious yet useful.

Go to the KDE start menu, search for your favorite apps and add them to desktop.

You will probably want to use Large, transparent png icons for Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.

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17Mar/100

Add your user groups to sudoers file

sudo allows system administrators to delegate authority to other users on a server. In this post, we will show how user groups can sudo.

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.

Some users mistakenly attempt to add themselves to the /etc/sudoers file directly. This doesn't work. Use the command visudo.

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

You can have add a user called penguin to users: useradd -G users penguin

Then, you can add penguin to the admin admin group. usermod -a -G admin penguin

Now penguin can sudo.

You can also give users ability to sudo without a password (for cron-type stuff).

Type visudo in terminal.

Uncomment # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL by removing the #, or add %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

Now add penguin to sudo group.

usermod -a -G sudo penguin

For more information on sudo, you can see the manual pages at man sudo.

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