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• CTRL+ALT+ESC to use the mouse pointer to kill a process.

About Konsole:

• SHIFT + RIGHT/LEFT arrows: to move among different consolles in Konsole
• SHIFT + UP/DOWN arrows: to move up and down in the output
• SHIFT + PG UP/PG DOWN: as above but faster

Thanks to Rich Birch for this tip.

Edit the K menu by right clicking and choosing ‘Menu editor’. Then find the entry
for kate, and you’ll see it says

kate –use %U

the ‘–use’ bit means use an already running session if possible, so just
delete it:

kate %U

The quick launch bar seems to ‘cache’ the programs commands so you might need
to remove the kate entry and add it again. It worked for me.

This is the best way to share few files on your computer temporary.

Add to your panel (the bar containing the K Menu button) the applet Public File Server (in order to add an applet you have to right-click in any blank space of the panel).

In the case you don’t have it, you need to install the package kpf.

Then a new applet is added. In order to share the files, right-click on the new icon and chose New server.

Yeah, all this applet does is to run a very basic Web server (if possible on a non-standard port) for each share.

That creation process is very simple. You will be asked for:

• the directory to share
• the port the web server will listen on
• the maximum bandwidth while downloading

Keep in mind there isn’t any permission management: whoever can access your computer, can download from your shared directory.

Let’s suppose the IP address where the directory to share sits is 192.168.0.2 and we have set 8001 as port. Then, on the computer you want to download to, point your browser to:

http://192.168.0.2:8001