Mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts

add speed and simplicity to PC

operations. Mouse gestures used to

be the domain of Opera and Mozilla

users,but KHotKeys now brings them

to Konqueror for users of KDE 3.2 or

newer.You can even launch non-KDE

programs with KHotKeys.

Even the smallest desktop has room

for a panel. If your choice of a window

manager does not support a suitable

panel alternative,you can always add

a panel like SuxPanel. Suxpanel provides

many useful features for the

desktop,and it even it even supports

plug-ins.

The command line swings. In this

issue of “Command Line”we investigate

how you can grab tracks from

audio CDs and convert sound files to

other formats. No matter whether

you choose wav,MP3 or Ogg Vorbis,

you can rely on the shell to convert

your files.

Both KDE and GNOME have display

managers.We’ll look at the features

offered by KDM and GDM,and we’ll

examine how to configure a display

manager for your Linux system.

The free encyclopedia project, Wikipedia,has compiled no fewer than a million entries in less than four years. And the quality of the entries even surprises experts. But what is Wikipedia and how can you use it? We’ll tell you about the exciting Wikipedia project,and we’ll show you how you can contribute.