KInfoCenter"> ]> The &infocenter; Michael McBride
mpmcbride7@yahoo.com
2002-07-03 3.10.00 This documentation describes &kde;'s information centre. KDE kinfocenter system information module
The &infocenter; The &infocenter; (from now on referred to simply as the information centre) provides you with a centralised and convenient overview of your &kde; and system settings. The information centre is made up of multiple modules. Each module is a separate application, but the information centre organises all of these programs into a convenient location. Using The &infocenter; This next section details the use of the information centre itself. For information on individual modules, please see Info Centre Modules Starting the &infocenter; The &infocenter; can be started 3 ways: By selecting K ButtonSystemInfo Centre from the &kde; Panel. By pressing &Alt;F2. This will bring up a dialogue box. Type kinfocenter, and click Run or press Enter. You can type kinfocenter & at any command prompt. All three of these methods are equivalent, and produce the same result. The &infocenter; Screen When you start the information centre, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts. Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of &infocenter;'s features. The menus are detailed in The &kde; Info Centre Menus. Along the left hand side, is a column. This is a where you choose which module to investigate. You can learn how to navigate through the modules in the section called Navigating Modules. The main panel shows you some system information. The &infocenter; Menus This next section gives you a brief description of what each menu item does. <guimenu>File</guimenu> Menu The File menu has a single entry. &Ctrl;Q File Quit Closes the info centre. <guimenu>Help</guimenu> Menu &help.menu.documentation; Exiting The &kde; Information Centre You can exit the info centre one of three ways: Select File Quit from the menu bar. Type &Ctrl;Q on the keyboard. Click on the Close button on the frame surrounding the info centre. The &infocenter; Modules Navigating Modules This is a list of the standard configuration modules (sorted by category) provided by the &kde; base package. Please note that there may be many more modules on your system if you have installed additional software. DMA-Channels Devices IO-Ports Interrupts Memory Network Interfaces PCI PCMCIA Partitions Processor Protocols SCSI Samba Status Information Sound USB Devices X-Server Credits and Licence &infocenter; Program copyright 1997-2001 The &infocenter; Developers Contributors: Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org Matthias Elter elter@kde.org Documentation copyright 2000 Michael McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com Contributors: Paul Campbell paul@taniwha.com Helge Deller deller@kde.org Mark Donohoe Pat Dowler Duncan Haldane duncan@kde.org Steffen Hansen stefh@mip.ou.dk. Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org Martin Jones mjones@kde.org Jost Schenck jost@schenck.de Jonathan Singer jsinger@leeta.net Thomas Tanghus tanghus@earthling.net Krishna Tateneni tateneni@pluto.njcc.com> Ellis Whitehead ewhitehe@uni-freiburg.de Conversion to British English: Malcolm Hunter malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk &underFDL; &underGPL;