# Getting Started

The Pixie Handbook
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# Chapter 2. Getting Started

Like most KDE applications, you can start Pixie in different ways:

- by typing from a command line

- by launching it from the KDE K menu, or

- by using KDE's "drag-and-drop" interface.

All three are described in the following sections.

# 2.1. Starting Pixie

When Pixie starts, the first thing you see is an Image window with the Pixie logo and some basic instructions:

Image Window

To open and close the Viewer/Editor window with menus and controls, right mouse button click the Image window. A new Viewer/Editor window pops up, which is described at length in this handbook:

The Viewer/Editor

Note that unlike most KDE applications, the Viewer/Editor window is not the main window of Pixie. You can click the close window button on the upper right of the Viewer/Editor window, and Pixie remains running. The Image window is the functional center of Pixie, so when you close the Image window, you are exiting from Pixie.

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