The KNewsTicker Handbook
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# Chapter 4. Using KNewsTicker

Using KNewsTicker is fairly straightforward and should give you no big problems, assuming that you already configured KNewsTicker No matter whether you are running KNewsTicker in the main panel or it's own child panel, it appears as an area with a scrolling text and a button with a small arrow next to it.

# 4.1. The Applet

The area (it is white per default, but you can change the background color easily using the preferences dialog) with the scrolling text in it is called the "news scroller". It keeps scrolling the downloaded headlines (or just the most recent headlines) continuously and provides easy access to the articles. If you see an interesting article, just click on it to open the Konqueror web browser, showing the full article which belongs to the headline you clicked on. If you feel that a possibly interesting headline just scrolled out of view, you have also some ways to influence the scrolling:

- You can click on the news scroller with the left mouse button and move the mouse around (while holding the left mouse button pressed down). The news scroller will continue scrolling as usual if you release the left mouse button again.

- If you own a so-called "Wheelmouse", you can use the wheel on your mouse to scroll the headlines back and forth.

There's also a very powerful context menu, which you can access either by clicking on the news scroller with the right mouse button, or by clicking on the arrow button with the left button. This context menu is the most interesting part of the applet, as it contains about all the functionality.

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Configuration Of The News Sources |  | The Context Menu