# The &kmoon; Handbook

Pam
Roberts
pamroberts@blueyonde.co.uk
2003
Pam Roberts
&FDLNotice;
2003-09-16
1.0

&kmoon; is an applet that shows the current phase of the moon.

KDE
kdetoys
kmoon
moon phase

## Using &kmoon;

&kmoon; is a little applet that docks into the System Tray and shows an image of the current phase of the moon. Hovering the mouse cursor over the image brings up a tooltip to display more information.

&kmoon; can be started from the K menu (where it might be called Moon Phase indicator rather than &kmoon;) or by entering `kmoon` into the &Alt; F2 Run Command dialog box.

To close &kmoon; right click on the image and choose Quit.

### Settings

If you right click on the image and choose Settings... a small dialog box will appear that lets you adjust the image to suit the latitude and hemisphere you are living in.

## Credits and License

&kmoon;

Program copyright 1998,2000 &Stephan.Kulow; &Stephan.Kulow.mail;

Contributors:

- Lunar code by Chris Osburn chris@speakeasy.org

- Moon graphics by Tom Beauchamp timb@googol.com

Documentation copyright 2003 Pam Roberts pamroberts@blueyonder.co.uk

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

&kmoon; is part of &kde;'s &package; package.

Most &Linux; / &UNIX; distributions that include &kde; will include &package; as an option to be installed if the user wishes.

&kmoon; and the &package; package may also be compiled from source code. Visit http://www.kde.org for instructions on how to download, compile and install &kde; programs.

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