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KBiff is very intuitive to use with obvious and self-explanatory actions... to the author. For everybody else, a little explanation is in order.
3.1 Some TerminologyHere are a few words that will be tossed around in this handbook:
3.2 Starting KBiffThe first time you run KBiff (rather, every time KBiff runs without being restored), the setup dialog will popup. If you have not created any other mailbox profiles, there will be a default mailbox profile created called "Inbox." It will try to use the environment variable$MAIL as the mailbox path. It will not allow
you to delete this profile if you do not create another profile, first.
That is, KBiff must always have at least one profile.
See the Setup Dialog section for more details on the dialog. Fill in the parameters in the setup dialog (or verify that the shown parameters are correct) and click on OK.
3.3 Using KBiffAfter the setup dialog goes away, KBiff will assume its natural state. It first checks the given mailbox to see what state it is in. Based on this state, it assigns its current pixmap to the corresponding given pixmap. The size of the KBiff window will adjust to the size of the pixmap given for old mail. By default, KBiff will assume a non-docked window initally.KBiff recognizes both right and left mouse clicks. A left mouse click will launch the command specified in the setup dialog (usually an email program). A right mouse lick will popup a menu. The popup menu is detailed in the Popup Menu section.
It is possible to bypass the setup dialog once a profile has been created.
This is accomplished with the kbiff -profile "Inbox"or whatever your profile name is. This will start KBiff up and bypass the setup dialog. Note that if you have session management enabled, this is not only unnecessary (KBiff will automatically start up with the correct profile), but it will cause two KBiffs to start. Next Previous Table of Contents |