Documentation / 3.5. Configuring System and Security Aspects
	3.4. Configuring KDE Behavior		Part II. Managing Files and Resources

Configuring System and Security Aspects

To adjust settings such as time and date format, number format, or currency, select the desired country as the default country in KDE. If more than one system language is installed on your computer, you can also select different languages in which KDE should show the graphical user interface and application interfaces.

Procedure 3.11. Adjusting Regional Settings

To set your default country options, open the Personal Settings and select Regional & Accessibility.
On the Locale tab, click Change next to the Country or Region entry. In the dialog that opens, select the region and country you want to set as default in KDE and click OK.
Number, date and time format are automatically adjusted to the new country's default values that are shown in the display field at the bottom of the Locale tab.
If you need to make further adjustments for those, click the respective tabs and set the options according to your wishes.
If more than one language is installed on your system (as secondary languages with YaST) and you want to change the graphical interface of KDE to a different language, click Add Language on the Locale tab. This opens a list of languages currently installed on your system.
Select the language for the graphical user interface. The new language is now shown at the top position in the Language list.
To confirm the changes, click Apply. All newly started applications or desktop objects now appear in the new language.
To switch to another language, re-sort the languages in the Languages list until the desired language is at the top position and apply your changes.

Procedure 3.12. Adding Keyboard Layouts

If you often need to enter texts in various languages, you may want to add different language layouts for your keyboard. You can then easily switch layouts when needed.

To add additional keyboard layouts, open the Personal Settings and select Regional & Accessibility+Keyboard Layout.
Activate Enable keyboard layouts at the top.
In the list of Available layouts, select a layout. Click the right arrow button to transfer it to the list of Active layouts.
If you added several layouts, you can change the sorting order with the help of the up and down arrow buttons.
Use the Switching Options tab to adjust the options for switching between the keyboard layouts. For example, you can define keyboard shortcuts for switching. After having confirmed your changes with Apply, you can change between different keyboard layouts by clicking the country flag in the panel or by using the respective keyboard shortcut.

KDE runs a session manager that starts after your username and password are authenticated by the login process. It lets you save the status of a certain session and return to that status the next time you log in. For example, it can automatically start the applications that you were running in the most recent session or when you manually saved a session. It can save and restore the following settings:

Appearance and behavior settings, such as fonts, colors, and mouse settings.

Applications that you were running, such as a file manager or OpenOffice.org.

	Saving and Restoring Applications
You cannot save and restore applications that Session Manager does not manage. For example, if you start the vi editor from the command line in a terminal window, Session Manager cannot restore your editing session.

Procedure 3.13. Adjusting the Session Handling

To change the session handling options, open the Personal Settings and on the Advanced tab, click Session Manager.
By default, Session Manager restores the applications that were running when you logged out from the previous session, enabling an automatic start of these applications.
To be able to save a certain session manually and restore this session each time you log in to KDE, select Restore manually saved sessions. This adds a new menu item, Save Session, to your main menu. After a session is saved, KDE automatically restores the saved session on each login.
To start with a “fresh” session each time you log in, select Start with an empty session.
To change the default options that appear when logging out, adjust the respective options in the General and Default Shutdown Options group.
Click Apply to confirm your changes.

Procedure 3.14. Starting Programs Automatically

Apart from the applications from the last session that are restored by the Session Manager, you can configure which applications should be always be started after login.

Open the Personal Settings and on the Advanced tab, click Autostart.
To add an application, click Add Program and from the menu structure, select the program you want to start automatically.
To add a shell script, click Add Script and click the Open File Dialog icon in the next window to select the script from the file system. The program or script is added to the list and you can view and change the Status.
Click Apply to confirm your changes. When logging in the next time, the applications and scripts should start automatically.