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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<chapter>
+ <title id="chap_starting">Starting and quitting Sylpheed</title>
+
+ <section id="starting_sylpheed">
+ <title>Starting Sylpheed</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Starting Sylpheed can be done by typing <command>sylpheed</command>
+ on a prompt in a terminal and pressing Enter. You can also
+ add Sylpheed to a menu in KDE or Gnome, or create a shortcut
+ to it on the desktop, if your window manager allows that.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When you first start Sylpheed, the program will ask you where
+ you want to store the mails that you downloaded. You can accept
+ the default (<filename>$HOME/Mail</filename>) or set up your own
+ mail folder.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Sylpheed will then load with it's default settings. The way to
+ change these are written about further on in this manual.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="quitting_sylpheed">
+ <title>Quitting Sylpheed</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Ending Sylpheed can be done in several ways:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select "quit" from the File menu.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Press Ctrl-Q</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Click the "program close" button in the titlebar.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </section>
+</chapter>