[size=4]Have just installed 13.1 KDE, from scratch. Where can I find the manuals in .pdf format for download? Forgive me, but here’s so much information there on your web site that it’s very hard to find what one is looking for.
At this stage, I am mostly looking for information on how to configure the desktop, e.g., background color, font type and size, icon size and placement, launch bar, setting up virtual desktops, etc.
Thank you and cheers,
Paul
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Usually documentation is not actually needed, you just need a starting point.
Recommend for some common starting points
KDE Application Launcher (by default the green orb in the left main panel) > Configure Desktop
On the Desktop
Unlock Widgets > Add Widgets
HTH,
TSU
On 2014-02-07, pe1800 <pe1800@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Have just installed 13.1 KDE, from scratch. Where can I
> find the manuals in .pdf format for download? Forgive me, but here’s so
> much information there on your web site that it’s very hard to find what
> one is looking for.
Very fair question. Unfortunately `man opensuse’ doesn’t seem to work! Sadly, openSUSE has decided to drop official
documention in the form of proper manuals in .pdf format. The most recent version (12.2) may be of some help to you
though:
Startup: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.opensuse.startup_en.pdf
Reference: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.opensuse.reference_en.pdf
Security: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.security_en.pdf
KVM Virtualisation: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.kvm_en.pdf
System analysis/tuning: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.tuning_en.pdf
> At this stage, I am mostly looking for information on how to configure
> the desktop, e.g., background color, font type and size, icon size and
> placement, launch bar, setting up virtual desktops, etc.
It looks like you could also benefit from a KDE manual. Sadly, I couldn’t find one for anything newer than 11.3 - but
you may find this useful: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_113/book.kdeuser_en.pdf
Otherwise your best bet is to ask the friendly community here if you have a question!
On Fri 07 Feb 2014 04:18:11 PM CST, flymail wrote:
On 2014-02-07, pe1800 <pe1800@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Have just installed 13.1 KDE, from scratch. Where can I
> find the manuals in .pdf format for download? Forgive me, but here’s
> so much information there on your web site that it’s very hard to
> find what one is looking for.
Very fair question. Unfortunately `man opensuse’ doesn’t seem to work!
Sadly, openSUSE has decided to drop official documention in the form of
proper manuals in .pdf format. The most recent version (12.2) may be of
some help to you though:
Startup:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.opensuse.startup_en.pdf
Reference:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.opensuse.reference_en.pdf
Security:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.security_en.pdf
KVM Virtualisation:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.kvm_en.pdf
System analysis/tuning:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_122/book.tuning_en.pdf
> At this stage, I am mostly looking for information on how to configure
> the desktop, e.g., background color, font type and size, icon size and
> placement, launch bar, setting up virtual desktops, etc.
It looks like you could also benefit from a KDE manual. Sadly, I
couldn’t find one for anything newer than 11.3 - but you may find this
useful:
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/pdf/openSUSE_113/book.kdeuser_en.pdf
Otherwise your best bet is to ask the friendly community here if you
have a question!
Hi
Where did you read they dropped documentation? It’s been moved to here;
http://activedoc.opensuse.org/
https://doc.opensuse.org/
What about running the command susehelp?
–
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On 2014-02-07, malcolmlewis <malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Where did you read they dropped documentation? It’s been moved to here;
> http://activedoc.opensuse.org/
> https://doc.opensuse.org/
I didn’t say they dropped documentation. I wrote:
> On Fri 07 Feb 2014 04:18:11 PM CST, flymail wrote:
> Sadly, openSUSE has decided to drop official documention in the form of
> proper manuals in .pdf format.
… so please correct me if I’m mistaken but there appears to be no actual official PDF manual for openSUSE 12.3 or
13.1? Active Docs seems to be associated with `openSUSE Factory’ with no version number, and therefore cannot constitute
a proper official manual for a given release.
> What about running the command susehelp?
IIRC that opens a dialogue box and has nothing to do with the OP’s request for a manual in PDF format.
On Fri 07 Feb 2014 05:20:16 PM CST, flymail wrote:
On 2014-02-07, malcolmlewis <malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
> Where did you read they dropped documentation? It’s been moved to
> here; http://activedoc.opensuse.org/
> https://doc.opensuse.org/
I didn’t say they dropped documentation. I wrote:
> On Fri 07 Feb 2014 04:18:11 PM CST, flymail wrote:
> Sadly, openSUSE has decided to drop official documention in the form
> of proper manuals in .pdf format.
… so please correct me if I’m mistaken but there appears to be no
actual official PDF manual for openSUSE 12.3 or 13.1? Active Docs seems
to be associated with `openSUSE Factory’ with no version number, and
therefore cannot constitute a proper official manual for a given
release.
> What about running the command susehelp?
IIRC that opens a dialogue box and has nothing to do with the OP’s
request for a manual in PDF format.
A transition period… those documents can be made into pdf’s down
the bottom of the page.
I would imagine that going direct to KDE and grabbing the info there
(since there are many different KDE environments available/in use) I
can understand the lack of them. Else hit the un-official guide?
–
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openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) GNOME 3.10.2 Kernel 3.11.10-7-desktop
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On 2014-02-07, malcolmlewis <malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> A transition period… those documents can be made into pdf’s down
> the bottom of the page.
>
> I would imagine that going direct to KDE and grabbing the info there
> (since there are many different KDE environments available/in use) I
> can understand the lack of them. Else hit the un-official guide?
Following your hints, and doing some searching around, I found a link to an Active Docs PDF of an openSUSE KDE manual
that may of be some help to the OP…
http://activedoc.opensuse.org/printpdf/book/export/html/1064
IMO the html version (and not even mentioning the PDF version!) is far too difficult to find for the openSUSE
newcomer…
On Fri 07 Feb 2014 05:57:58 PM CST, flymail wrote:
On 2014-02-07, malcolmlewis <malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
> A transition period… those documents can be made into pdf’s down
> the bottom of the page.
>
> I would imagine that going direct to KDE and grabbing the info there
> (since there are many different KDE environments available/in use) I
> can understand the lack of them. Else hit the un-official guide?
Following your hints, and doing some searching around, I found a link
to an Active Docs PDF of an openSUSE KDE manual that may of be some
help to the OP…
http://activedoc.opensuse.org/printpdf/book/export/html/1064
IMO the html version (and not even mentioning the PDF version!) is far
too difficult to find for the openSUSE newcomer…
Hi
That was a good find 
But trying to be realistic (since it’s a community effort) I imagine
that only things that would be openSUSE specific (where it differs from
upstream) could/should/would need documenting (as in the Release
Notes)? Maybe you should add that link on the release notes page?
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
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On 2014-02-07 18:20, flymail wrote:
> … so please correct me if I’m mistaken but there appears to be no actual official PDF manual for openSUSE 12.3 or
> 13.1? Active Docs seems to be associated with `openSUSE Factory’ with no version number, and therefore cannot constitute
> a proper official manual for a given release.
If you look here:
http://doc.opensuse.org/opensuse.html
you find links to the openSUSE documentation for several releases, and
in several formats, including epub and pdf.
I see books for versions from 11.3 to 12.2. 12.3 is missing, I don’t
know why (use Bugzilla to report, against documentation). For 11.3 there
is a KDE guide (yes, in PDF too). It looks KDE4, but it is of course an
old version.
If you go instead to the new site, activedoc.opensuse.org/ and click on
the products button, you find 12.3 there. The books are there, but
apparently only as html. There is a button below for “PDF version”,
though (apparently generated on the fly?). I miss the epub version.
However, those books are also available as rpms from YaST or zypper or
apper, the usual way. And PDF is one of the offerings.
Search for opensuse-startup package, for instance.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))