# The &infocenter;

Michael McBride

    mpmcbride7@yahoo.com

2002-07-03
3.10.00

This documentation describes &kde;'s information centre.

KDE kinfocenter system information module

## The &infocenter;

The &infocenter; (from now on referred to simply as the information centre) provides you with a centralised and convenient overview of your &kde; and system settings.

The information centre is made up of multiple modules. Each module is a separate application, but the information centre organises all of these programs into a convenient location.

## Using The &infocenter;

This next section details the use of the information centre itself. For information on individual modules, please see Info Centre Modules

### Starting the &infocenter;

The &infocenter; can be started 3 ways:

1. By selecting K Button System Info Centre from the &kde; Panel.

2. By pressing &Alt;F2.

   This will bring up a dialogue box. Type ``kinfocenter``, and click Run or press Enter.

3. You can type `kinfocenter &` at any command prompt.

All three of these methods are equivalent, and produce the same result.

### The &infocenter; Screen

When you start the information centre, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts.

Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of &infocenter;'s features. The menus are detailed in The &kde; Info Centre Menus.

Along the left hand side, is a column. This is a where you choose which module to investigate. You can learn how to navigate through the modules in the section called Navigating Modules.

The main panel shows you some system information.

### The &infocenter; Menus

This next section gives you a brief description of what each menu item does.

#### File Menu

The File menu has a single entry.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  Closes the info centre.

#### Help Menu

&help.menu.documentation;

### Exiting The &kde; Information Centre

You can exit the info centre one of three ways:

- Select File Quit from the menu bar.

- Type &Ctrl;Q on the keyboard.

- Click on the Close button on the frame surrounding the info centre.

## The &infocenter; Modules

### Navigating Modules

This is a list of the standard configuration modules (sorted by category) provided by the &kde; base package. Please note that there may be many more modules on your system if you have installed additional software.

- DMA-Channels

- Devices

- IO-Ports

- Interrupts

- Memory

- Network Interfaces

- PCI

- PCMCIA

- Partitions

- Processor

- Protocols

- SCSI

- Samba Status Information

- Sound

- USB Devices

- X-Server

## Credits and Licence

&infocenter;

Program copyright 1997-2001 The &infocenter; Developers

Contributors:

- Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org

- Matthias Elter elter@kde.org

Documentation copyright 2000 Michael McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com

Contributors:

- Paul Campbell paul@taniwha.com

- Helge Deller deller@kde.org

- Mark Donohoe

- Pat Dowler

- Duncan Haldane duncan@kde.org

- Steffen Hansen stefh@mip.ou.dk.

- Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org

- Martin Jones mjones@kde.org

- Jost Schenck jost@schenck.de

- Jonathan Singer jsinger@leeta.net

- Thomas Tanghus tanghus@earthling.net

- Krishna Tateneni tateneni@pluto.njcc.com >

- Ellis Whitehead ewhitehe@uni-freiburg.de

Conversion to British English: Malcolm Hunter malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk

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