# The &infocenter;

Michael
McBride

    &Mike.McBride.mail;

2010-01-08
&kde; 4.4

This documentation describes &kde;'s information center.

KDE
kinfocenter
system
information
module

## The &infocenter;

The &infocenter; (from now on referred to simply as the information center) provides you with a centralized and convenient overview of your system and desktop environment.

The information center is made up of multiple modules. Each module is a separate application, but the information center organizes all of these programs into a convenient location.

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

### Starting the &infocenter;

The &infocenter; can be started 3 ways:

1. By selecting Applications System Info Center from the application launcher in the panel.

2. By pressing &Alt;F2. This will bring up &krunner;. Type ``kinfocenter``, and press &Enter;.

3. You can type `kinfocenter &` at any command prompt.

All three of these methods are equivalent, and produce the same result.

### The &infocenter; Screen

When you start the information center, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts.

The &infocenter; Screen.
The &infocenter; Screen

Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of &infocenter;'s features like quitting, configuring shortcuts and getting help.

Along the left hand side, is a column with a filter field at the top. This is a where you choose which module to investigate. You can learn how to navigate through the modules in the section called Navigating Modules.

The main panel shows you the system information about the selected module.

## The &infocenter; Modules

### Navigating Modules

This is a list of the standard configuration modules (sorted by category) provided by the &kde; base package. Please note that there may be many more modules on your system if you have installed additional software.

- Devices

- DMA-Channels

- IEEE 1394 Devices

- Interrupts

- IO-Ports

- Memory

- Network Interfaces

- OpenGL

- Partitions

- PCI

- Processor

- Protocols

- Samba Status Information

- SCSI

- Sound

- USB Devices

- &X-Server;

## Credits and License

&infocenter;

Program copyright 1997-2001 The &infocenter; Developers

Contributors:

- Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel &Matthias.Hoelzer-Kluepfel.mail;

- &Matthias.Elter; &Matthias.Elter.mail;

Documentation copyright 2000 Michael McBride &Mike.McBride.mail;

Contributors:

- &Paul.Campbell; &Paul.Campbell.mail;

- &Helge.Deller; &Helge.Deller.mail;

- &Mark.Donohoe;

- &Patrick.Dowler;

- &Duncan.Haldane; duncan@kde.org

- &Steffen.Hansen; stefh@mip.ou.dk.

- Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel &Matthias.Hoelzer-Kluepfel.mail;

- Martin Jones &Martin.R.Jones.mail;

- &Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;

- &Jonathan.Singer; &Jonathan.Singer.mail;

- &Thomas.Tanghus; &Thomas.Tanghus.mail;

- &Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;

- Ellis Whitehead ewhitehe@uni-freiburg.de

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