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Fedora 13 User Guide Fedora 13 User Guide Using Fedora 13 for common desktop computing tasks Fedora Documentation Project User Guide Fedora 13 User Guide Using Fedora 13 for common desktop computing tasks Edition 1.0 Author Fedora Documentation Project [email protected] Copyright © 2010 Red Hat, Inc. and others. The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license ("CC-BY-SA"). An explanation of CC-BY-SA is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. The original authors of this document, and Red Hat, designate the Fedora Project as the "Attribution Party" for purposes of CC-BY-SA. In accordance with CC-BY-SA, if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it, you must provide the URL for the original version. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, MetaMatrix, Fedora, the Infinity Logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. For guidelines on the permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks, refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Legal:Trademark_guidelines. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. XFS® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The Fedora User Guide is focused on the end-user looking to accomplish standard desktop computer user tasks, such as browsing the web, reading and sending email, and doing office productivity work. Preface vii 1. Document Conventions .................................................................................................. vii 1.1. Typographic Conventions .................................................................................... vii 1.2. Pull-quote Conventions ....................................................................................... viii 1.3. Notes and Warnings ............................................................................................ ix 2. We Need Feedback! ....................................................................................................... ix Introduction xi 1. Purpose and Audience ................................................................................................... xi 2. About this document ....................................................................................................... xi 1. The Fedora desktops 1 2. Logging into the desktop 3 2.1. Logging in .................................................................................................................. 3 2.2. Logging in: a technical explanation .............................................................................. 4 2.3. I Cannot Login: help! ................................................................................................... 4 3. Tour of the GNOME desktop 5 3.1. The GNOME Desktop ................................................................................................. 5 3.1.1. The Top Menu Panel ........................................................................................ 5 3.1.2. The desktop area ........................................................................................... 10 3.1.3. The window list panel ..................................................................................... 11 4. Tour of the KDE desktop 13 4.1. The KDE desktop ....................................................................................................... 13 4.2. The KDE desktop area ............................................................................................... 14 4.3. The KDE panel .......................................................................................................... 14 4.3.1. The Kickoff Application Launcher ...................................................................... 15 5. Tour of the Xfce desktop 17 5.1. The Xfce 4 desktop .................................................................................................... 17 5.1.1. The Xfce 4 menu panel ................................................................................... 18 5.1.2. The Xfce 4 desktop area .................................................................................. 19 6. Media 21 6.1. ISO images ................................................................................................................ 21 6.2. Writing CDs or DVDs ................................................................................................. 21 6.2.1. Using CD/DVD Creator to burn media in GNOME .............................................. 22 6.2.2. Using K3b to burn media in KDE ...................................................................... 22 6.2.3. Using Brasero in GNOME ................................................................................ 23 6.3. Making bootable USB media ....................................................................................... 23 6.3.1. USB image creation in Windows ....................................................................... 24 6.3.2. USB image creation in Fedora ......................................................................... 24 7. Connecting to the Internet 27 7.1. The Network Manager Applet ...................................................................................... 27 7.2. The Network Manager window .................................................................................... 27 7.3. Wireless connections .................................................................................................. 28 7.4. Mobile Broadband ...................................................................................................... 29 7.4.1. Create a Mobile Broadband network connection ................................................ 29 7.4.2. Setup a Mobile Broadband connection .............................................................. 30 7.5. Wired connections ...................................................................................................... 30 7.5.1. Wired Tab ....................................................................................................... 30 7.5.2. 802.1x Tab ...................................................................................................... 30 iii User Guide 7.5.3. IPv4 Tab ......................................................................................................... 30 7.6. VPN connections ........................................................................................................ 31 7.7. xDSL connections ...................................................................................................... 31 7.8. Network Manager in a CLI .......................................................................................... 32 7.8.1. nmcli ............................................................................................................... 32 7.8.2. nm-tools .......................................................................................................... 32 8. Accessing the Web 35 8.1. Browsing web pages .................................................................................................. 35 8.1.1. Using Firefox ................................................................................................... 35 8.1.2. Using Konqueror .............................................................................................. 36 8.2. Transferring files ......................................................................................................... 37 8.2.1. Using FileZilla .................................................................................................. 37 8.2.2. FTP on the command line ................................................................................ 38 9. Communications 41 9.1. Evolution .................................................................................................................... 41 9.1.1. Configuring Evolution ....................................................................................... 41 9.1.2. Using Evolution ............................................................................................... 42 9.2. Thunderbird ................................................................................................................ 42 9.2.1. Configuring Thunderbird ................................................................................... 42 9.2.2. Moving your Thunderbird profile data from Windows to Fedora ........................... 43 9.2.3. Using Thunderbird ........................................................................................... 45 9.3. Claws Mail ................................................................................................................. 45 9.3.1. Configuring Claws Mail .................................................................................... 46 9.3.2. Using Claws Mail ............................................................................................. 46 9.4. Kmail ........................................................................................................................
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