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# Chapter 4. Configuring Kicker

This section describes the ways Kicker can be configured. It's only about the basic Kicker settings, configuration of the applets are described in their sections

You can change the settings by either clicking Settings in the context menu or the submenu Configure Panel of the K Menu or in the KDE Control Center in the module Look & Feel.

# 4.1. General

In the General tab you can configure some basic functionality of the KDE panel (i.e. functionality you'd find in other panel applications as well; later we'll come to the more interesting features).

In the Panel Location frame you can choose which screen border the panel should be attached to. Please note that usually the available space is used more efficiently if the panel is aligned horizontally, i.e. attached to the top or bottom screen border. If you want to play around with different settings you can change the panel's position even easier by dragging the panel from one border to the other.

The panel's size can be tiny, small, medium or large. Depending on which applets you use you may find that some applets work better at different panel sizes.

Depending on your screen resolution you may find that the panel takes away too much of your precious screen real estate. To save screen space, the panel offers an auto hide feature. When this feature is enabled, the panel will hide when the mouse cursor has not been moved over it for a configurable amount of time. If you move the mouse to the panel's screen border it will show up again. Check the Enable automatic hide option in the Automatic Hide frame to enable this feature. Using the Delay in seconds slider you can configure the amount of time the panel will wait before it hides.

Preferred terminal application is the default terminal program to be used by the QuickBrowser when you select Open in Terminal. It's very likely you don't need to change this option.

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