When you first start KDE, your desktop will look something like Figure 3-1.
 | Customize Your Desktop |
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| | You can customize the look of your desktop with preferred colors or
pictures, or using themes. To learn more about themes in KDE, visit
the KDE website (http://www.kde.org).
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Your desktop contains, among other things, icons representing your
Printer, CD-ROM,
floppy drives, and trash
(see Figure 3-2).
The icons for floppy and
cdrom provide shortcuts to those devices. You can
access either of these devices by left-clicking once on one of the
icons.
 | Diskette Formatting |
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| | If you place a floppy diskette in the drive, then select the
floppy drive on your desktop, you may receive
an error message such as wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/fd0 or other.
Most likely, the diskette you've placed in the drive is not
formatted with the ext2 filesystem, the Linux filesystem format. For
more information about how to access a diskette that is not
formatted for Linux, as well as about the ext2 filesystem, see the section called Using a Diskette in Chapter 13.
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When you right-click on the drive icons, you will see several options
for working with these drives, such as ;
, which will remove the icon from your
desktop (you probably won't want to do this); ,
which allows you to copy the icon to another location; , which you should probably avoid for now; and
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| Mounting a Device |
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| | Ordinarily, you can use your drives just by clicking on them. Most
devices are now mounted automatically. But occasionally you may get
an error message, telling you a device needs to be mounted. When you
mount a floppy or CD-ROM, you're making that device's contents
available to you. For example, to mount a CD-ROM, type:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
This command tells the system which device
(/dev/cdrom) to mount and where to mount it
(the /mnt/cdrom directory).
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You can drag and drop your unwanted items to the
Trash icon. Right-click on the trashcan and
select to delete the items from
your system.
The Printer shows you the print queue, meaning
the jobs which are printing or scheduled to print. This is a handy
tool for monitoring the progress of your printing tasks.
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