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6. The windowmanager

6.1 Are there keyboard shortcuts for KWM operations?

Yes, there are some shortcuts for the most common operations.

Alt-Esc, Ctrl-Esc

Invoke the "Current Session" manager.

Alt-Tab, Alt-Shift-Tab

Traverse the windows on the current desktop.

Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Traverse the virtual desktops.

Alt-F2

Execute command.

Alt-F3

Popup the window operation menu.

Alt-F4

Close active window.

Ctrl-F[1..8]

Switch to virtual desktop.

Ctrl-Alt-Esc

Destroy window mode.

6.2 Can I define my own set of keyboard shortcuts?

At the moment: No, you will have to live with the defaults.

However, in KDE 1.2 it will be possible to use custom defined keyboard shortcuts.

6.3 When I "iconify" a window, it disappears. Where does it go?

With many X GUI's, the minimize button (a little dot) will erase the window that the program is running in and create, instead, an icon on the desktop. KDE does not do this. Instead, when a window is iconified it is simply hidden (but the program is still running).

There are two ways to get the window back:

• If you're running the taskbar part of kpanel (see the Panel --> Configure menu entry), you can choose to have a list of tasks displayed on you desktop. Iconified tasks have their names surrounded by parenthesis.
• If you click the middle mouse button on the root window, kwm will give you a list of all available tasks (and again, the names of iconified tasks are bracketed).

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