# Useful tips

Reading man pages in &kde;

Pop up the minicli window (&Alt;F2 by default) and type `man:command`. It even unpacks on the fly if the man pages are gzipped.

Or you can use the &kde; Help Centre if you are using &kde; 2. Simply start the &kde; Help Centre by clicking on the icon (the blue book with the yellow key) on the toolbar. Once the &kde; Help Centre has loaded, the window on the left will contain an entry called Unix manual pages. Click once on this entry, and you can browse through all the installed manual pages on your system.

Move or resize windows quickly

To move a window, use &Alt;left mouse button. &Alt;right mouse button will resize the window. Last but not least, &Alt;middle mouse button raises/lowers the window. The &kde; Control Centre allows you to change these mouse bindings.

Killing windows in &kde;

These kind of locks tend to occur when an application locks up while it has a so called mouse/keyboard grab. When that happens you can try to select a virtual text console with &Ctrl;&Alt;F1 and login. With the following command you will get a list of all running processes:

            ps -aux | more

            kill -9 pid

Good candidates to kill are: the application you were working with, &kicker;, &klipper; and &kdesktop;.