Using The
This next section details the use of the control center itself. For information on individual modules, please see Control Center Modules

Starting the
The can be started 3 ways:
By selecting K Button Control Center from the Panel.
By pressing F2.
This will bring up a dialog box. Type kcontrol, and click Run.
You can type kcontrol & at any command prompt.
All three of these methods are equivalent, and produce the same result.

The Screen
When you start the control center, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts.
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The Control Center Screen
Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of 's features. The menus are detailed in The Control Center Menus.
Along the left hand side, is a column. This is a where you choose which module to configure. You can learn how to navigate through the modules in the section called Navigating Modules.
The main panel shows you some system information.
In this example, we are running 2.99, we started as user adridg, the computer is named aramis, it is a FreeBSD system, Version 4.4-RELEASE, on a Pentium.

The Menus
This next section gives you a brief description of what each menu item does.

File Menu
The File menu has a single entry.
Q File Quit 	 Closes the control center.

View Menu
These options determine how the module selection looks and behaves.
View Mode 	 Determines whether to use Tree view, or Icon view for your modules.
With Tree view, each submenu appears as an indented list.
With Icon view, when you click on a category, the categories disappear and are replaced with the module list. You then use the up button to return to the categories.
View Icon size 	 Using this option, you can choose Small, Medium, or Large icons to select your modules.
This menu item only controls the icon size if you are in Icon View. If you choose Tree View, the Small icon size will be used, no matter what size was previously selected in Icon View.

Modules Menu
The modules menu is a shortcut to take you directly to any module in the control center.

Help Menu

Exiting The Control Center
You can exit the control center one of three ways:
Select File Quit from the menu bar.
Type Q on the keyboard.
Click on the Close button on the frame surrounding the control center.

Running Individual Modules
You can run individual modules without running kcontrol by selecting K Button Preferences from the panel. You can then select the module you want to run in the submenus.