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### 1. Introduction

kpanel helps you start and manage your applications and virtual desktops in KDE. It provides quick access to a number of things, including:

- the KDE application starter
- a taskbar of running applications
- buttons that launch frequently used applications
- virtual desktops

kpanel is highly flexible and configurable, and supports both system-wide and personalized user settings. This document describes how to configure and use kpanel.

### 1.1 Features

Some of the features provided by kpanel include:

- independently positionable panel and taskbar
- auto-hide capability for panel and taskbar
- configurable tooltips
- ability to run small notification/status apps right in the panel
- ability to define multiple icons for a button on the panel, and switch between them using kpanel commands

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