3. Fully Customizing your Desktop

Figure 4.5. The KDE Control Center

The KDE Control Center

 Access the KDE Control Center to continue customizing your desktop (Main Menu+Administer Your System+Configure Your Desktop).

3.1. Look'n'Feel

Make an artist of yourself and explore this section to make your desktop reflect your personality: choose between many window decorations, styles and colors to suit your tastes.

3.2. Peripherals

Fine-tune your mouse, keyboard, and printer through this section. Set the keyboard repeating rate and delay, set your mouse for a lefty, add a digital camera, and more.

3.3. Sound

Set your preferences sound-wise. Determine your CD device, set real-time priority, adjust system alerts: everything's there!

3.4. System

This section enables you to configure many different elements such as your CD burner's options, change your login manager or your user password, customize your window theme and behavior, and set up your desktop search tool to find files and folders.