Kickoff is the default application launcher in KDE. However, KDE 4.x also comes with another very good application launcher called Lancelot. In this article, we show you how to use the Lancelot launcher instead of the default Kickoff and then tweak a few things in Lancelot.

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Firefox is by far one of the best browsers available for Linux and is the prefered web browser of millions. However, if you use Firefox in KDE, you will notice that it sticks out from the rest of the KDE applications and look rather ugly. In this article, we show you how to make a…

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In KDE 4.x, by default when we press the Print Screen key, the screenshot is taken and the image is copied to the clipboard. If we want to us this image we have to open an image editor program and past the picture and then save it. To launch KSnapshot instead of just copying the…

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Ubuntu now is one of the most popular Operating System out there and probably most of our readers have heard of it, if not used it. Due to its ease of use and stability, it is considered as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop. In this article we present 10 other Operating Systems…

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KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It is included with the KDE Education package. It provides an accurate graphical representation of the sun, planets, moon, stars etc. from any desired location on earth. If you were using KStars in Kubuntu (or Ubuntu) 9.04 (KDE 4.2) and upgraded to KDE 4.3, you will find that…

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Exactly a month after the release of KDE 4.3, the KDE team has released KDE 4.3.1. This is not a new release but rather a bugfix release of KDE 4.3 with a few new improvements. So, if you are using KDE 4.3 (or even any older version of KDE), it is recommended that you upgrade…

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