Keeping a key pressed causes the associated character to be printed repeatedly as long as the key is pressed. The option is activated by default.

Here, determine whether the number pad of your keyboard should be active when KDE is started.

If you want to hear a sound when a key is clicked, activate this option and adjust the volume with the slider.

Here, specify right-handed or left-handed use of your mouse.

Determine how the system should react to clicks and double-clicks. The default setting for the KDE desktop is a single click for opening files or folders and a mouse pointer that changes its appearance when it is moved over icons. To use double-click for opening files and folders, select ‘Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)’. Finally, set the size and color of the pointer and the kind of visual feedback given when programs are started.

The pointer acceleration defines the relation between the speed with which you move the input device (mouse) and the pointer speed as displayed on the screen. The higher the selected factor is, the more difficult it is to control the screen pointer.

The threshold (in pixels) specifies the distance the pointer must move before the specified pointer acceleration actually comes into force. In this way, you have exact control over the mouse pointer when moving it a small distance, but you can still cover a large distance on the screen with a flick of the wrist.

Here, set the maximum interval between two mouse clicks that should still be interpreted as a double-click.

An object selected with a click is moved only if you continue to move the pointer for the specified period (in milliseconds).

An object selected with a click is moved only if you drag it the minimum distance specified (in pixels).

If you have a wheel mouse, specify the number of lines the selected element should scroll with each wheel notch.

This tab provides general and unmodifiable information about the printer, such as the printer type, its status, location, and designation.

This tab corresponds to KJobViewer, described in 1.4.6. “Monitoring Print Jobs”.

All settings related to the printer are available here: general information, drivers, interfaces, separator pages, quotas, and user accesses.

Depending on the document type, you may have diverse requirements for the printouts (page format, duplex printing, orientation, print quality, and banners). Combine the characteristic settings for each type in printer profiles, called instances. To create a new profile, select ‘New’ and enter a name for the profile. Click ‘Settings...’ to open a configuration dialog in which to specify these settings. To save the settings and exit the dialog, click ‘OK’. To define one of your custom profiles as the default for this printer, click ‘Set as Default’. Your default profile is used when printing from applications. You can only switch between the individual profiles in the printer administration module.

For the screensaver to be activated automatically, select this option and specify the time (in minutes) after which the screensaver should be activated.

The screensaver can lock your workstation and require a password for the release.

Select the desired country from the list. Settings, such as the language, numbers, currency, time, and date are automatically set to suitable values. A preview of all current regional settings is displayed in the lower part of the dialog. For example, to use the regional settings for the US but use Spanish as the system language, click ‘Add Language’ to select this language and add it to the list of available system languages. To remove a language, mark it in the list and click ‘Remove Language’.

To use different number settings than the default settings associated with the country selected under ‘Locale’, configure the decimal symbol, thousands separator, positive sign, and negative sign in this dialog. The decimal symbol and the thousands separator for currencies are configured separately under the ‘Money’ tab. The default setting on a US system is “.” for the decimal symbol, an optional “,” for the thousands separator, no entry for the positive sign, and “-” for the representation of negative numbers.

Configure all currency-related settings that should differ from the default settings for the selected system language in this dialog. For example, on a US system, the currency symbol is “$”, the decimal symbol is “.”, thousands are separated with a “,”, and the number of fraction digits is “2”. The position of the currency symbol and the prefix for positive and negative amounts is arranged in such a way that the currency symbol precedes the prefix and the amount.

This dialog allows you to set your calendar system, the time, date, and short date format, and the first day of the week. A detailed explanation is displayed if you click the “?” symbol in the title bar then the respective menu item.

This tab features the setting for the default paper format and measurements. On a US system, the default paper format is “US Letter” and the imperial system is used for measurements.

System bells can be communicated to the user in a visible or in an audible form. The default setting is the audible variant with ‘Use System bell’. To configure a specific sound, activate ‘Use customized bell’ and use ‘Browse...’ to select a suitable sound from the list.

For system bells to be communicated visually, activate ‘Use visible bell’. If no other modifications are performed, the screen is inverted when a system bell rings (‘Invert screen’ is activated by default). The duration of the visual bell can be adjusted with the slider. Instead of the inversion, the screen can be set to flash. To do this, activate ‘Flash screen’ and select a suitable color in the color editor by clicking the color bar.

Some shortcuts require a key to be held down (this is the case with Alt, Ctrl, and Shift) while the second part of the shortcut is entered. If sticky keys are enabled, the system considers these keys to be held down even if they are only pressed once for a short time.

Here, determine if and to what extent the system delays the output of characters on the screen when a key is pressed. The longer the interval adjusted with the slider is, the longer a key can be pressed without triggering a repeated output of the respective character on the screen.

If you activate this option, pressing a key twice is only interpreted as two characters if the interval selected with the slider has elapsed. If a key is pressed twice inadvertently, this is ignored.