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Terminal emulator is simply a windowed shell; this is known as "command line window" in some other environments. If you want to use the shell, you should know at least a few of the system-level commands for your operating system.
Main menu is preloaded into special memory cache when K Desktop Environment starts. Thanks to this cache menu appears very quickly when you click it. Menu cache gives you "snappy" and smooth feeling when you work with menus.
However, menu cache is cleared from time to time in order to save precious memory. You can disable this memory-saving feature if you wish. Grab more information at Menu reference.
Nine icons, initially located in the Kicker panel. Get more information about these icons in Basic Icons section.
A small application that occupies very little memory and screen space, and at the same time gives you some useful information or provides a control shortcut. For instance the Clock applet shows current time and date (and even a month diary if you click it), and the System Monitor applet shows how busy your machine currently is in real-time.
An X-window application which was not written with K Desktop Environment in mind. Such applications run fine in KDE. However, they are not warned automatically when you shut down your KDE session. You therefore must not forget to save documents open in these applications before you log out from K Desktop Environment.
Additionaly, many of these applications do not support copying and pasting from KDE-compliant applications. Netscape 4.x browser is a prominent example of such application[1].
Application originally written for non-graphic, text oriented environment. Such applications run fine in KDE. They must run within console emulator, like Konsole. They are not warned automatically when you shut down your KDE session. You therefore must not forget to save documents open in these applications before you log out from the K Desktop Environment.
Console applications support copying and pasting from KDE-compliant applications.Simply mark the text in the console application with your mouse, switch to the KDE-compliant application and press Ctrl-V to paste the text. If you want to copy from KDE application to a console application, first mark the text with your mouse, press Ctrl-C, switch to the console application and press the middle button on your mouse. [2].
[1] | Some GNOME applications may provide limited interoperability with the K Desktop Environment. |
[2] | If your mouse does not have a middle button, you must press left and right button at the same time. This is called "middle button emulation" and it must be supported by your operating system to work. |