# A sample KView session

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# Chapter 2. A sample KView session

This chapter is a quick tour through many of KView's functions to get you quickly going to work with this program. You will find a complete description of all available commands in later chapters.

# 2.1. Let's go!

After you have started KView (using the panel menu, or typing kview at the command prompt) the KView main window shows up with an empty workspace:

A fresh new KView window

All those creative people like you and me are discouraged by an empty sheet, so let's quickly open a new image. However, first we change the way that KView resizes its main window and the image after loading a new one: Select Configure KView from the Settings menu. A dialog leaps up:

To resize or not to resize

Select "No Resize" from the "On Load" group box. This means that neither the KView main window nor the image will be resized after loading.

Now open `Dasding.jpg` which you find in the `./share/wallpapers` subdirectory of your main KDE path (possibly `/opt/kde` or `/opt/kde2`). Ahh - that's looking better!

A beautiful image loaded...

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