KDE Tip: Dolphin's built-in following command line Whenever you are managing files using Dolphin it can be very useful to quickly do something on the command line. However, opening up a terminal and navigating to the location you were managing...
KDE Tip: Use ALT+F2 as calculator One of the lesser known and more undiscovered features of the ALT+F2 run dialog is that - with the Calculator plugin enabled - you can do a fair amount of arithmetic's and math right from your...
KDE Tip: Leverage ALT+F2 and web shortcuts One of the best hidden power features that KDE has are its web shortcuts, allowing you to jump to everywhere on the web from your desktop. Whenever you open your launcher by pressing ALT+F2 you...
KDE Tip: Binding mouse buttons to keyboard shortcuts You can use xbindkeys and xte to map custom mouse buttons to keyboard shortcuts, which KDE can pick up and leverage anywhere. Using this trick you can have CTRL+C and CTRL+V fired by pressing your...
KDE Tip: How to add a widget to the desktop You can customize your desktop to great extent by adding, removing and/or moving around widgets. In Plasma - the KDE desktop - everything is a widget (also sometimes referred to as plasmoid) and...
KDE Tip: Review Krunner's enabled runner plugins Krunner is KDE's launch utility that opens whenever you click Run command... or press ALT+F2. In addition to just launching applications it can do many other things such as calculations, doing...