A sample KView session
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Chapter 2. A sample KView session

This chapter is a quick tour through many of KView's functions to get you quickly going to work with this program. You will find a complete description of all available commands in later chapters.

The image in this tutorial comes from the kdeartwork package of KDE. The kdeartwork package is full of things to spice up your desktop, and well worth checking out, but if you haven't installed it, just choose another file to follow along with.

Let's go!

After you have started KView (using the panel menu, or typing kview at the command prompt) the KView main window shows up with an empty workspace:


A new KView application window.

A fresh new KView window


All those creative people like you and me are discouraged by an empty sheet, so let's quickly open a new image. However, first we change the way that KView resizes its main window and the image after loading a new one: Select Configure KView from the Settings menu. A dialog leaps up:


The settings dialog.

To resize or not to resize


Select “No Resize” from the “On Load” group box. This means that neither the KView main window nor the image will be resized after loading.

Now open Dasding.jpg which you find in the ./share/wallpapers subdirectory of your main KDE path (possibly /opt/kde or /opt/kde2). Ahh - that's looking better!


The wallpaper loaded into KView.

A beautiful image loaded...


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