The K Desktop Environment

3.3. The Kdf menubar

3.3.1. The File Menu

File->Update

Immediately updates the display to reflect the current status

File->Quit (Ctrl-Q)

Closes Kdf

3.3.2. The Options menu and dialog

Options->Configure KDiskFree

Opens a configuration dialog.

This dialog has two tabbed windows, General Settings and Mount Commands

General Settings

Click on the word "visible" or "hidden" to turn display of an data field on or off.

Change "Update frequency" by moving the slider. The value in the box on the left is the interval (in seconds) between updates of the Kdf display to reflect the current status.

The FileManager setting controls the command executed when the "Open filemanager" pop-up menu item is selected.

There are also two checkboxes. One controls if a filemanager window will be automatically opened when a device is mounted. The other causes an alert window to pop up if a disk gets critically full.

Mount Commands

Allows the user to specify the mount and unmount commands for a given device, as well as the icon used to represent it. More information on these commands can be found on the man page for mount (type man mount at the command prompt).

3.3.3. The Help menu

Help->Contents (F1)

Opens this document

Help->What's this? (Shift-F1)

Select this and click on items to learn more about them

Help->Report Bug

A convenient dialog for reporting bugs in Kdf

Help->About kdf

Provides information about Kdf

Help->About KDE

Provides information about the KDE project.