GNOME 1.4 User's Guide

GNOME User's Guide Documentation Team

Table of Contents

An Introduction to GNOME

What is GNOME
About This Guide

GNOME Quick Start

A First Glance At GNOME

Window Managers and GNOME

About Window Managers
Changing Window Managers

The GNOME Panel

Introduction

Panel Basics

Introduction to Panel Objects
Right-Click Menu
Hiding the Panel
Logging Out
Locking the Screen

The Main Menu

Global menu
Components of the Main Menu
Configuring the Main Menu

Menus

Adding a Menu to a Panel
Tearing Off a Menu
Configuring a Menu

Launchers

Applets

Drawers

Special Panel Objects

The Lock Button
The Logout Button
The Run Button
Swallowed Applications
Status Dock

Adding, Moving, and Removing Panel Objects

Moving objects
Removing objects from the Panel
Adding objects to the panel

Creating, Moving, and Removing Panels

Creating new panels
Moving Panels
Removing Panels

Global Panel Preferences

Animation Tab
Buttons Tab
Panel objects Tab
Menu Tab
Miscellaneous Tab

Individual Panel Properties

Edge Panel Tab
Background Tab

Current bugs and limitations

Authors

Editing the Main Menu

Introduction

Using the Menu Editor
Adding a New Menu Item
Drag and Drop in the Main Menu

The GNOME Desktop

Introduction
Using the Desktop
Desktop Areas
Other Desktop Menus

Nautilus User Manual

Introducing Nautilus

The Nautilus Window
The Nautilus Desktop
Setting Nautilus to Start Automatically
About Nautilus

Navigating Your Computer and the Internet

Viewing Your Home Folder
Navigating Your Files and Folders
The Tree
Viewing and Opening Files
Viewing and Playing MP3 Files
Mounting Floppy Disks and CD-ROMs
Navigating the Internet
Viewing Your Navigation History
Bookmarking Your Favorite Locations

Searching Your Computer and the Internet

Finding Items on Your Computer
Simple Searches
Complex Searches
Searching the Internet

Managing Your Files and Folders

Moving and Copying Files and Folders
Creating New Folders
Files and Folders on the Desktop
Duplicating Files and Folders
Renaming Files and Folders
Deleting Files and Folders
Changing File Permissions

Customizing Nautilus

Setting Your User Level
Setting Preferences
Showing and Hiding Bars
Choosing File Layouts
Changing Themes and Backgrounds
Customizing Icons and Icon Captions
Choosing a Desktop Background

Choosing Applications to Handle Files

What Are MIME Types?
Adding and Removing Applications
Changing the Default Application
Configuring Additional Applications (Advanced)
Adding a New MIME Type (Advanced)

Eazel Services

Nautilus Keyboard Shortcuts

Default Emblems

The GNOME Control Center

Introduction

Using the Control Center

Desktop

The Background Properties Capplet
Global Panel Preferences
The Screensaver Capplet
Theme Selector
Window Manager Capplet

Document Handlers

Default Editor
URL Handlers

File types and programs

Viewing available file types
Editing a file type
Adding and deleting file types
Restoring system defaults

Launch feedback

Enabled indicators
Miscellaneous

Multimedia

Sound

Peripherals

The Keyboard Properties Capplet
The Mouse Properties Capplet

Session

Startup Hints
Session Options and Startup Programs

User Interface

Application
Dialogs
MDI

Authors

GNOME Applets

Applet Basics

What Are Applets?
Adding, Moving, and Removing Applets
The Right-Click Pop-Up Menu

Amusements Applets

Fifteen Applet
Fish Applet
gEyes Applet
The Life Applet
Odometer Applet

Monitor Applets

Battery Charge Monitor Applet
The CPU load applet
The CPU and memory usage applet
Disk Usage Applet
The load average applet
The memory load applet
The net load applet
The swap load applet

Multimedia Applets

CD Player Applet
Mixer Applet
Sound Monitor Applet

Network Applets

The Mail Check Applet
Modem Lights Applet
WebControl Applet

Utility Applets

Character Picker Applet
Desk Guide Applet
Drive Mount Applet
GNOME KeyBoard Applet
GNOTES! Applet
GNOME Weather Applet
Mini-Commander Applet
Printer Applet
QuickLaunch Applet
ScreenShooter Applet
Tasklist Applet
Tick-a-Stat Applet
Where Am I? Applet

Clock Applets

Another Clock
AfterStep Clock Applet
Clock Applet
Clock and Mailcheck Applet
Jon's Binary Clock Applet

A. If you are new to Linux/UNIX

Users

Files and filenames

Filenames
Wildcards
Using spaces, commas, etc. in file names

Directories and paths

Directory structure
Relative directory names
Pathname conventions

Permissions

Symbolic links

Mounting and unmounting drives

Drives and devices

Partitions

Graphical user interface: X Window System, window managers, and desktop environments.

B. GNOME User's Guide Documentation Team

C. GNU Free Documentation License

D. GNU General Public License

Preamble

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Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
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