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

SUSE Linux Enterprise
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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