Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE... User guide

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Contents

About This Guide xi

Part I OpenOfce.org Novell Edition 1

1The OpenOfce.org Ofce Suite 3

1.1 OpenOfce.org Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 What's New in OpenOfce.org 3.0? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.3 Novell Edition of OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.4 Compatibility with Other Ofce Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.5 Starting OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.6 Saving OpenOfce.org Files with a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.7 SigningDocuments......................... 9

1.8 Customizing OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.9 Changing the Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.10 UsingTemplates......................... 14

1.11 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2OpenOfce.org Writer 17

2.1 What's New in Writer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.2 Creating a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3 Sharing Documents with Other Word Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.4 Formatting with Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.5 Working with Large Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.6 Using Writer as an HTML Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3OpenOfce.org Calc 27

3.1 What'sNewinCalc?........................ 28

3.2 Creating a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.3 Using Formatting and Styles in Calc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4Further OpenOfce.org Modules 31

4.1 Using Presentations with Impress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.2 Using Databases with Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.3 Creating Graphics with Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.4 Creating Mathematical Formulas with Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Part II Information Management 41

5Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring 43

5.1 KontactOverview......................... 43

5.2 Mail .............................. 45

5.3 Contacts............................. 53

5.4 Calendar............................. 55

5.5 Kontact for GroupWise Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring 61

6.1 Starting Evolution for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.2 Using Evolution: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

7GroupWise Linux Client: E-Mailing and Calendaring 81

7.1 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

8Synchronizing a Handheld Computer with KPilot 83

8.1 Conguring the Handheld Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

8.2 Conduits, Communication and Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

8.3 Conduits Used by KPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

8.4 Synchronizing with KOrganizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

8.5 Conguring the KAddressBook Conduit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

8.6 Working with KPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

8.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

9Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices with GNOME Pilot 91

9.1 GNOME Pilot Conguration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

9.2 ThePilotApplet......................... 96

10 Encryption with KGpg 99

10.1 Why Signing and Encrypting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

10.2 Generating a New Key Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

10.3 Exporting the Public Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

10.4 Importing Public Keys from Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

10.5 The Key Server Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

10.6 Encrypting Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

10.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

11 Encryption with Passwords and Encryption Keys 111

11.1 Signing and Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

11.2 Generating a New Key Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

11.3 Modifying Key Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

11.4 ImportingKeys......................... 120

11.5 ExportingKeys ......................... 120

11.6 SigningaKey.......................... 121

11.7 Encryption Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

12 Taking Notes with BasKet 125

12.1 CreatingBaskets......................... 125

12.2 Working with Baskets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

12.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

13 Taking Notes with Tomboy 131

13.1 CreatingNotes ......................... 132

13.2 Searching All Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

13.3 LinkingNotes.......................... 134

13.4 Accessing Your Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

13.5 Formatting Text in Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

13.6 Exporting Notes to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

13.7 DeletingNotes ......................... 138

13.8 PrintingNotes.......................... 139

13.9 Conguring Tomboy Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Part III Communication and Collaboration 145

14 Instant Messaging with Kopete 147

14.1 Conguring Kopete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

14.2 Chatting with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

14.3 Customizing Kopete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

14.4 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

15 Instant Messaging with Pidgin 155

15.1 Conguring Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

15.2 Managing Your Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

15.3 Chatting with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

15.4 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

16 Using Voice over IP with Ekiga 159

16.1 Conguring Ekiga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

16.2 The Ekiga User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

16.3 MakingaCall.......................... 163

16.4 AnsweringaCall......................... 163

16.5 Using the Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Part IV Internet 167

17 Browsing with Konqueror 169

17.1 TabbedBrowsing......................... 170

17.2 Automatic Scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

17.3 Proles............................. 171

17.4 Saving Web Pages and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.5 Searching with Konqueror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.6 Bookmarks........................... 173

17.7 Java and JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

17.8 Enabling Advertisement Blockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

17.9 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

18 Browsing with Firefox 177

18.1 Navigating Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

18.2 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.3 Managing Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

18.4 Using the Download Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

18.5 Security ............................ 188

18.6 Customizing Firefox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

18.7 Printing from Firefox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

18.8 Opening MHTML Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

18.9 Displaying Microsoft Silverlight Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

18.10 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

19 Transferring Data From the Internet 199

19.1 ASCII vs. Binary Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.2 Connecting to a Remote Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.3 Transferring Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.4 Setting Up an HTTP Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

19.5 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Part V Graphics 203

20 Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP 205

20.1 Graphics Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

20.2 Starting The GIMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

20.3 GettingStarted......................... 208

20.4 SavingImages.......................... 210

20.5 EditingImages.......................... 211

20.6 PrintingImages......................... 219

20.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

21 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam 223

21.1 Conguring Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

21.2 Downloading Pictures from the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

21.3 ManagingAlbums........................ 227

21.4 ManagingTags.......................... 227

21.5 Creating Powerful Search Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

21.6 Exporting Image Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

21.7 Viewing and Editing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

21.8 UsefulTools........................... 241

21.9 BatchProcessing......................... 242

21.10 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

21.11 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

22 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with F-Spot 245

22.1 Importing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

22.2 Downloading Pictures from Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

22.3 Getting Photo Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

22.4 ManagingTags.......................... 250

22.5 Searching and Finding Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

22.6 Exporting Image Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

22.7 Basic Photo Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

22.8 SharingPhotos ......................... 260

Part VI Multimedia 263

23 Playing Music and Movies: amaroK, Kaffeine and More 265

23.1 Mixers............................. 265

23.2 Playing Music Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

23.3 Handling Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

23.4 Playing Movie Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

23.5 Troubleshooting......................... 277

24 Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee 279

24.1 Listening to Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

24.2 Managing Your Music Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

24.3 Using Banshee with Your Digital Audio Player . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

24.4 Creating Audio and MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

24.5 Sharing Your Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

24.6 Conguring Banshee Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

25 Playing Videos with Totem 295

25.1 UsingTotem .......................... 295

25.2 Modifying Totem Movie Player Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

26 Burning CDs and DVDs With K3b 305

26.1 Creating a Data CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

26.2 Creating an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

26.3 Copying a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

26.4 Writing ISO Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

26.5 Creating a Multisession CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

26.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

27 Burning CDs and DVDs With Brasero 313

27.1 Creating a Data CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

27.2 Creating an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

27.3 Copying a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

27.4 Writing ISO Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

27.5 Creating a Multisession CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

27.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Part VII Appendix 317

28 Help and Documentation 319

28.1 Using the KDE Help Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

28.2 UsingGNOMEYelp........................ 322

28.3 Browsing Man and Info Pages From Your Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . 323

28.4 Additional Help Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

29 Getting to Know Linux Software 325

29.1 Ofce Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

29.2 Network............................ 332

29.3 Multimedia........................... 335

29.4 Graphics............................ 340

29.5 System and File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

29.6 Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

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