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.

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

These options are the same as those listed in Section 5.2.5.3. “Accessibility”, where they are described in detail.

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

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. If you want icons to be selected automatically in addition to the single click, activate the respective option and set the delay for this selection. 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 visual feedback on activation.

The pointer acceleration defines the relation between the movement speed of the input device (mouse) and the speed of the pointer 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 cover before the indicated pointer acceleration is activated. In this way, control the mouse pointer easily when covering small distances and cover large distances on the screen with small movements.

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

The object selected with a click is moved if you move it by the distance in pixels specified in ‘Drag start distance’ within the period specified in ‘Drag start time’.

If you have a wheel mouse, specify the number of lines the image should scroll per wheel “tooth”.

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 Section 5.4.5. “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 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 check box and specify the time (in minutes) after which the screensaver should be activated.

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

Use the slider to set the priority of the screensaver in relation to other processes. If you use a graphically complicated screensaver that generates a high processor load, set the priority higher to achieve a smooth display quality. In this case, the priority of other processes is reduced accordingly. However, if you frequently let your machine work while you do other things, you should refrain from running a complex screensaver with a high priority.

Use the drop-down menu to 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.

Here, enter the time format, the date format, the 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 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 used, the system considers these keys to be pressed continuously even if they are only pressed once.

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 will be ignored.