3.0 Customizing Your Settings

You can change the way Novell® Linux Desktop (NLD) looks and behaves to suit your own personal tastes and needs. Some of the settings you might want to change include the desktop background, screensaver, keyboard and mouse configuration, sounds, and file associations. Click NControl Center to open the KDE Control Center, or type kcontrol in a terminal window.

The settings are divided into several major categories, and each category contains several pages of settings. To display a settings page, click the category, then click the name of the page you want. The settings pages appear on the right. No changes take effect until you click Apply. If you make changes and then decide that you want to leave the settings as they were, click Reset.

The following sections introduce the major categories. Information about settings not mentioned here can be accessed through the Help tab or by accessing the KDE Control Center Handbook in the Help Center.