# Tips & Tricks for Your Daily Work

Fortune Cookies

Everyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.

Nearly everyone can use &kde;; this is why the developers made it. There are no cryptic switches with which to cope, and few configuration files you need edit in ASCII style. However, there are some ways you can do your work more elegantly, saving you time for the truly important things, like &ksirtet;.

## Shortcut Table

&Alt;Tab or &Alt;&Shift;Tab

  Cycle through the windows

&Ctrl;Tab or &Ctrl;&Shift;Tab

  Cycle through your desktops

&Alt;F2

  Mini Command line

&Alt;F3

  Window Menu

&Alt;F4

  Close the current window

&Ctrl;F{1..8}

  Switch to a specific desktop

&Ctrl;&Alt;Esc

  Window destroyer (every window you click on will be destroyed). Press this key combination again to cancel the killer cursor.

&Ctrl;&Alt;Backspace

  This exits &kde; (without saving!) Use this as a last resort

&Ctrl;&Alt;Numpad +

  Cycles to the next screen resolution. You need to configure this in your &X-Server; configuration for it to work.

&Ctrl;&Alt;Numpad -

  Cycles to the previous screen resolution. You need to configure this in your &X-Server; configuration for it to work.

## Mouse Techniques

Clicking on the border or the titlebar
  Left

    Activates and raises the window.

  Middle

    Lowers the window

  Right

    Shows the Window menu if the window is active, otherwise activates the window.

Doubleclick on the window title

  Shades the window (rolls it up so only the titlebar is visible).

Drag on the titlebar

  Moves the window around.

Drag on corners or edges

  Resizes the window.

&Alt;Left Button

  Moves the window around.

&Alt;Middle Button

  Raises the window.

&Alt;Right Button

  Resizes the window in the direction you drag the mouse.

Click on the Icon on the top left

  Close the application

Click on the Sticky Button

  toggles sticky

Clicking on Maximize
  Left

    Maximizes the window

  Middle

    Maximizes only vertically

  Right

    Maximizes horizontally