Tips and Tricks

Customizing your desktop

• KDE - Customizing your KDE desktop

• XFCE - Customizing your XFCE desktop

• Xmonad - Customizing your Xmonad desktop

• Customize the settings for editor Emacs

• Customize the settings for the editor vim

Internet

• SSH - Using key-based authentication, port forwarding ...

• Optimizing Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla/Netscape 7

• How to encrypt/decrypt your mails

Working with Documents

• (MS) Office documents

• PDF documents

• Converting different text formats

• Converting different graphic formats

• Trailing white spaces when copying text from Konsole

More Tips

• Customizing the colors for ls

• Special characters with your keyboard

• Changing the default sort sequence

• Watch your trash

• Manually mounting of USB devices