

The Trash icon lets you view files that have been deleted by using The System Settings icon provides access to tools for viewing and Servers, such as Apacheconf, a tool for configuring the Apache web The Server Settings icon provides access to tools for configuring Look and feel, multimedia, and peripherals. Including those for the desktop, document handlers, user interface That enable you to view and modify a variety of preferences, The Preferences icon provides access to a folder containing icons The Applications icon lets you launch various applications. Operators each offers appear in the following list: You can access the sameįacilities by using the GNOME menu. Double-clickingĪny icon in the folder launches a window containing icons that To view a folder that contains several useful icons. Launch Nautilus and view the contents of the media.īy double-clicking the Start Here icon, you can launch Nautilus Menu lets you unmount and eject the media, or open Nautilus to view

If you right-click on the icon, a pop-up menu appears. Present, your desktop includes an icon representing the drive.ĭepending on the type of drive, the icon may resemble a CD-ROM or aįloppy. Have permission to mount a CD-ROM or floppy drive, and media is GNOME's browser and file manager, which displays the The icon provides aĬonvenient way to access the file manager: double-clicking the icon Located in the upper-left corner of the display. Which resembles a house superimposed on a file folder, is normally Virtual desktop quadrant from one containing one or more windows. That they provide a bird's eye view of theĪssociated desktop configurations. If you look carefully at the quadrants, you'll see

Quadrant that was active when you launched the program. When the program's windowĪppears, restore the default desktop view by clicking the upper-left As a furtherĮxperiment, click on a quadrant other than the default.
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Any open windows vanish.Ĭlick on the upper-left pager quadrant to restore them. To see how the pager works, click on a pager quadrant other than theĭefault, which is the upper-left quadrant. So, you use the pager to select which quadrant of the Virtual desktop at once, since it's larger than your You can recognize it by the four smallerĪ desktop that's larger than the size of your

The pager is the rectangle at the bottom of the One particular GNOME and KDE feature that I miss when working with Which are described in the following sections. Perform a variety of operations, such as:įigure 5-4 shows the elements of the GNOME desktop, The desktop causes a pop-up menu to appear this menu lets you Will be used when referring to the empty area of the display. When referring to the entire display and desktop Windows or icons appear, as indicated in Figure 5-4. It can refer either to theĮntire GNOME display, or to the empty area of the display where no The Log Out dialog box 5.1.1 The GNOME DesktopĬan be used in either of two senses. Shut Down button to shut down your system, or the Restart theįigure 5-2. There are two other options in the Log Out dialog box. Will save the state of your desktop and restore it when you log in The checkbox titled Save Current Setup, the GNOME session manager Clicking OK terminates your GNOME session. A Log Out dialog box, shown in Figure 5-3, appears and asks you to confirm your decision Pop-up menu that appears, select the Log Out menu item, as shown inįigure 5-2. Left-click on the main menu, which resembles a red hat. If you want to launch a GNOME session, but KDE is configuredĪs the default desktop environment, select Gnome from the Session The contents of your desktop may be different, of course. If you selected GNOME as the default desktop, you will see the GNOME desktop as shown in Figure 5-1 after logging in.
