Advanced KDE Use — "Release the Kraken!"

Virtual Desktops help you organize your screen workspace by adding additional, virtual screen spaces to the left, top, bottom or right of your screen. You can place application windows on different Virtual Desktops and switch between them either using a widget in the menu bar or keyboard shortcuts.

To add Virtual Desktops, open System Settings, navigate to Window Management  Virtual Desktops and click + Add Desktop to add additional Virtual Desktops.

This will add all desktops in a single row. To add more rows, simply select your desired number of rows in "Rows".

Your added desktops will show up in the menu bar widget after clicking Apply.

Switch between them by clicking on the widget or by using the following keyboard shortcuts:

When using the application switcher (see below!), switching to apps on different Virtual Desktops will automatically switch between desktops, too.

To see all possible keyboard shortcuts or to define your own, open System Settings and go to Keyboard  Shortcuts.

Imagine you’re working on something using your keyboard and quickly need to launch Firefox to look something up. Instead of using the mouse or touchpad, there are two ways to do this with your keyboard.

Pressing Alt+Space will open KRunner at the top of your screen.

Start typing the name of the app you want. KRunner will highlight the best match. Pressing Enter will launch the app. If your app is further down in the list, navigate to it using the arrow keys and launch it with Enter as well. The search is fuzzy so you’ll find apps even if you don’t exactly know the name.

The second way is the Application Launcher’s search. Simply press Meta to open the Application Launcher but instead of clicking through menus, simply start typing the app’s name. Similarly to KRunner, Application Launcher will highlight the best match and you launch the app by pressing Enter.

KDE has a feature called "Screen Edges". Moving your mouse to the four edges or the four corners of your screen triggers a command that you can define. To configure, open System Settings and go to Display & Monitor  Screen Edges.

The settings menu shows a monitor with edges and corners. Click one of the squares on the monitor and a drop-down list lets you select the action you want to trigger. You could, for example, have the lower left-hand corner trigger the lock screen. Explore the other triggers. They offer a helpful way to manage your desktop with a mouse.

Fedora is a multi-user system by design. This means:

At least one user on your computer (that is you if you installed Fedora on it) is the administrator of the system. The administrator has special privileges including installing software, changing ownership of files and accessing every aspect of the system. Non-admin users have limited rights. They can’t accidentally damage vital parts of the system.

The admin of the computer can create other user accounts - to do so: