Masaüstü Çubuğu

By default at the top right corner of the desktop, the Deskbar is the hub of interacting with Haiku. You can start applications, applets and preferences from there, for example, and switch between running applications.

Pencere ögeleri

Aşağıda sıradan bir Haiku penceresini kendine özgü ögeleri ile birlikte görebilirsiniz.

Kısayol düğmesi

Klavye Dizilimi tercihleri Haiku standardı olan ALT kısayol düğmesinden CTRL (Windows/Linux kipi) düğmesine geçmenize izin verir. Bu global bir anahtardır, örneğin kabukta programlardan çıkış alışılagelen CTRL C kısayolu yerine ALT C kısayolu ile yapılır.
Bu uyumsuzluk nedeniyle Haiku'daki öntanımlı kısayol düğmesi ALT olarak belirlenmiştir.

Seğirtici

CTRL TAB düğmelerini basılı tutmak uygulamalar arasında geçiş yapmak için kullanabileceğiniz Seğirtici'yi çağırır.
CTRL düğmesini basılı tutarken TAB düğmesine bir kez basmak en son kullanılan uygulamaya geçer.

Takım Monitörü

Eğer bazı uygulamalar düzgün davranmıyor ve Masaüstü Çubuğu'nun çalışan uygulamalar listesinden çıkmamakta direniyorsa CTRL ALT DEL düğmelerine basarak Takım Monitörü'nü çağırın. Buradaki listeden bir uygulama seçebilir ve düzgün davranmayan uygulamayı sonlandırabilirsiniz.

Takılan bir uygulamadan çıkmanın şekilli bir yolu olarak Vulkan Ölüm Kavrayışı'nı deneyebilirsiniz.
SHIFT CTRL ALT düğmelerini basılı tutun ve takılan uygulamanın Masaüstü Çubuğu'ndaki simgesine tıklayın. İşte bu kadar!

Pencere yönetimi: Taşıma ve yeniden boyutlandırma

Haiku ile pencerelerinizi hızlıca taşıyabilir veya yeniden boyutlandırabilirsiniz:
CTRL ALT düğmelerini basılı tutmak fare imlecine en yakın olan pencere kenarlarını vurgular.
Vurgulanan pencere kenarı üzerinde sağ fare düğmesine tıklayıp basılı tutmak pencereyi yeniden boyutlandırmanıza olanak sağlar.
Aynı işlemi sol fare düğmesi ile yaparak pencereyi taşıyabilirsiniz.

Pencere yönetimi: Dizme

"Stacking" is putting windows on top of each other, automatically moving the yellow tabs into position.
While holding the OPT key (normally that's WIN on the keyboard), tabs change color when they overlap; drop the window to establish the stacking.
You un-stack by holding OPT and dragging a window out of its group by the yellow tab.

Window management: Tile

"Tiling" means gluing windows horizontally or vertically together.
While holding OPT, the borders that'll fuse together when you drop the window change color when brought near each other.
You un-tile by holding OPT and dragging a window out of its group by the yellow tab.

Workspaces

Workspaces are virtual desktops, complete with their own resolution, color depth and background.
Up to 32 of these workspaces can be set from the Screen preferences.

The Workspaces desktop applet can be used to change workspaces or to drag a window from one to another.

The quick keyboard shortcut to change workspaces is CTRL ALT ← / → / ↑ / ↓.
If you add SHIFT to that, the active window is taken with you to that workspace.

Replicants

Replicants are small self-contained parts of applications that can be integrated into the Desktop (and other programs).
Provided Deskbar's option to Show replicants is activated, replicants are indicated by a small handle.
You can drag & drop them by the handle onto the Desktop, where they are fully functional without their parent app running.

You can move a replicant by its handle and remove it with a right-click on it and choosing Remove replicant.

Single window navigation

Double-clicking your way down folder after folder, you'll quickly end up with many open Tracker windows.
Holding the OPT key (normally WIN on the keyboard) prevents this as it automatically closes the parent folder.
Alternatively, you can activate Single window navigation from the Tracker preferences.
Show navigator will add back/forward buttons.

Drill-down navigation

A nice alternative to opening a deep hierarchy of folders is called "drill-down navigation". Right-clicking a folder or anywhere in a Tracker window (or the Desktop) will open a context menu. Beside various expected commands, there's a menu of the current folder at the top that contains all its subfolders.
Drill your way down until you find the folder or file to open.

Mounting volumes

In order to access a harddisk, CD, USB stick etc., you first have to mount the volume. Once mounted, its icon appears on the Desktop.
This is done with a right-click on the Desktop or an already mounted volume (like the boot disk) and choosing the volume from the Mount submenu. You find the same Mount menu in the Deskbar. ISO images can be mounted with a double-click.

Filesystem layout

While Haiku is currently not multi-user, there are already two branches in the filesystem tree:

/boot/system/		The system hierarchy contains system files and settings for all users. The package management makes most folders under /system effectively read-only. Packages contain all their files in a fixed folder hierarchy. Upon installation, a package gets "mounted" and all its files just appear to be in that hierarchy in the /system folder. The folders there (like add-ons, apps, bin etc.) are just a virtual amalgamation of all the installed packages and are therefore read-only. Exceptions are cache, non-packaged, settings, and var. /system/packages/ is the default install location for software. /system/documentation/ is used by some applications to store their manual.
/boot/home/		The home hierarchy is your personal folder where you keep your data and settings. The folder /boot/home/config (or shortened ~/config) mirrors the /system folder described above and is likewise virtually read-only with the same exceptions of cache, non-packaged, settings, and var. ~/Desktop/ is where the files of your Desktop live. ~/config/settings/ is where the system and applications store your settings.

The writable non-packaged folders mirror the hierarchy of the /system or ~/config/ hierarchy (add-ons, apps, bin…).
Software that doesn't come in form of a HPKG package can be installed here.

Finding files with queries

Files on Haiku formatted (BFS) volumes are quickly searched with Find… from the Deskbar. Instead of file and folder names, you can also look through filetype specific attributes, e.g. for an artist in your MP3 collection.

Wireless connection

You can connect to your WLAN router either by right-clicking the NetworkStatus icon in Deskbar's tray,
or by selecting your network from the Network preferences.
When the connection is established, you'll be asked for the network's encryption and password.

Getting more and updating software

HaikuDepot from the Deskbar's applications menu is where to search, install and uninstall software packages.
SoftwareUpdater should be started from time to time to update installed software as well as Haiku itself.