The window manager

Yes. Please use to the Trinity Control Center (KControl), Regional & Accessibility-> Keyboard Shortcuts, for the list of available shortcuts.

Yes. Launch the TDE Control Center and select Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Shortcuts to configure window manager bindings like maximizing windows, etc..

With many X Window System GUIs, the minimize button (a little dot) will erase the window that the program is running in and create, instead, an icon on the desktop. TDE does not do this. Instead, when a window is iconified it is simply hidden (but the program is still running).

There are a few ways to access disappeared windows:

• If you are running the taskbar part of Kicker, you can choose to have a list of tasks displayed on your desktop. Iconified tasks will have their names displayed in gray.

• If you click the middle mouse button on the root window (i.e., the background of the desktop), TWin will give you a list of all available tasks.

Provided your window is not already maximized, clicking on the maximize button with the left mouse button/middle mouse button/right mouse button will maximize fully/vertically/horizontally respectively.

By shading a window we mean rolling up the window leaving just the title bar visible. You can do this by double clicking on the window title bar.

Use the kstart command. As an example, to open KCalc with the Stay on Top option, use:

% kstart --ontop kcalc

For maximized windows, use the --maximize option, for minimized windows, use --iconify. You can see a full list of kstart options with kstart --help-all.

Warning

If you're using kstart to start applications at TDE startup, you should use the --window option. See the TDE User Guide, section Advanced Window Management for more information about this feature.