Linux Desktop
Linux Desktop
Linux Desktop
Fundamental
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Revision : 1.0.1
Endy Muhardin
Lahir di Jakarta, 8 Juni 1979. Lulus dari SMUN 81 Jakarta
Timur pada tahun 1997 dan melanjutkan ke Teknik Industri
STT Telkom. Di masa kuliah salah pergaulan sehingga
terkena wabah Linux-PHP-MySQL. Selain itu, aktif dalam
berbagai organisasi mahasiswa seperti Himpunan Mahasiswa
Teknik Industri STT Telkom dan Senat Mahasiswa STT Telkom.
Pada tahun 1999 ikut terlibat mendirikan start-up company
Telematics Indonesia <http://www.telematicsindonesia.com>.
Menyelesaikan kuliah pada tahun 2001, meninggalkan
Telematics Indonesia yang sedang direstrukturisasi, dan hijrah
ke Surabaya.
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This is the control center of KDE. You can manage the whole
desktop and window manager using this tool. We will do some
customization using Control Center.
3. Click Background.
The right pane of the Control Center will display
Background configuration.
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7. Choose Science.
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This dialog box asks you the path to your application. You can
select one by using the navigator. Or, you can type the
command line statement to invoke the application directly in
the command box.
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You can specify link to your favorite folder within the computer
or your documents in your home directory. You can even
specify link to a website in the Net.
6. For our case, type in /mnt/windows in the dialog
box.
7. Click OK.
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The default setting for Konqueror is Icon View. In this mode, you can only see the file
name and the icon representing its type of file.
Sometimes, we want to get more detailed information, such as file size, last time
modified, etc. in that case, we will have to configure Konqueror.
You will get another dialog box, prompting you for the name of
the new directory. Refer to figure 19
6. Click OK.
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7. Perform the same step and create new text file
within the Temp folder.
You can use any other file as well, as long as you have the
appropriate permission to do cut – paste operation.
11. Right click on the file icon, as shown in figure 20
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You will meet the initial screen of Kmail as shown in figure 24.
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Please remember that not all email account has POP3 feature.
Consult your email account documentation for further details.
You can use Telkom Mail or SoftHome mail to get POP3 access.
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7. Click add to add new mail account.
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The next screen will appear. You are requested to enter your
login name, password, and the name of your mailserver.
Checking mails
You can also retrieve your mails manually by clicking the Check
Mail button, as shown in figure 31.
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Reading mail
You can read mail by selecting the mail from the right pane and
see the content in the lower right pane, as shown in figure 31.
Replying Email
9. Right click on the email you want to reply. You will
get a context menu as shown in figure 33.
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Note : the reply all button is used if your incoming mail has
multiple destination address. The sender sent the mail to
several people including you. If you select reply all button, your
reply message will go to every email address found in the
original mail.
After clicking the reply button, you will get a new window as
shown in figure 34.
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You can use another web browser, e.g: Links (konsole based
browser), Konqueror, or Lynx.
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You will see that like its competitor Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Mozilla also support Flash enabled website.
4. Click Edit > Preference to access Mozilla’s
configuration window. Refer to figure 40.
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3.7 Xchat
Xchat is an application similar to mIRC. It is used to access
Internet Relay Chat, a communication protocol which is popular
among Netters.
There are many chatroom in the internet. IRC users have their
own term for chatroom, namely channel. You can join channel
by typing the command /join #channel-name
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3.8 AbiWord
Abiword is the default wordprocessor application in KDE. It has
some of MS Word’s functionality, but it is far away from MS
Word. However, AbiWord is quite sufficient for daily use.
1. Invoke Abiword
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3.9 Gnumeric
Gnumeric is A GNU version of Microsoft Excel. It has all of MS
Excel functionality. You can use built in function such as
Financial functions, Mathematical, etc. We will try out some of
them in the following examples.
Invoke Gnumeric.
1. Click Start > Office > Spreadsheets > Gnumeric
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8. Close Gnumeric
3.10 Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo messenger is an instant messenger application
commonly used in internet. To be able to use Yahoo Messenger,
you will have to download the package and install it.
After you have connected to the internet, you will get the initial
screen displaying your friends.
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