Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE 17-03-2009 Manual

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2.3 Moving Text between ApplicationsTo copy text to the clipboard and insert it again, former MS Windows users automati-cally try the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V, which often works in Linux aswell. Copying and inserting texts is even easier in Linux: to copy a text to the clipboard,just select the text with the mouse then move the mouse cursor to the position to whichto insert the text. Click the middle button on the mouse to insert the text (on a two-button mouse, press both mouse buttons simultaneously).With some applications, if a text is already selected in the application where you wantto insert the text, this method does not work because the text in the clipboard is over-written by the other selected text. For such cases, the KDE application Klipper is veryuseful. Klipper “remembers” the last entries you have moved to the clipboard. By default,Klipper is started when KDE is loaded and appears as a clipboard icon in the panel. Toview the clipboard contents, click the Klipper icon or press Ctrl + Alt + V. The mostrecent entry is listed on top and is marked as active with a black check mark. If an ex-tensive text was copied to Klipper, only the first line of the text is displayed.To copy an older text fragment from Klipper to an application, select it by clicking it,move the mouse pointer to the target application, then middle-click. For further infor-mation about Klipper, see the Klipper online help.2.4 Finding Data on your Computeror in the File SystemKDE provides more than one application for finding data on your computer or in thefile system. With Kerry, you can very easily search your personal information space(usually your home folder) to find documents, e-mails, Web history, IM/ITC conversa-tions, source code, images, music files, applications, and much more. For more infor-mation, refer to Chapter 6, Searching with Kerry (page 73).With KFind, you can locate files on your computer or in the file system using a varietyof search criteria, such as file content, dates, owner, or file size. Start it from the mainmenu with Applications > Find Files/Folders. Alternatively, press Alt + F2 and enterkfind.24 KDE User Guide