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Unit 2: Red Hat Linux 9 Basics

z z Configure a screen saver Notes
z z Select a desktop theme
z z Select a window manager
z z Configure the default text editor
z z Specify MIME types that control the handling of multimedia files
z z Configure the keyboard bell and sounds

z z Configure keyboard and mouse properties
z z Specify applications that GNOME automatically launches when it starts
z z Specify a variety of options governing the appearance of GNOME-compliant applications
Simply select the configuration category by clicking in the left pane. You can then revise the
configuration parameters by specifying the desired values in the right pane. The buttons that
appear in the right pane vary from capplet to capplet. The Try button lets you experiment without
permanently altering the GNOME configuration.
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Caution The OK button permanently updates the GNOME configuration whereas the
Cancel button discards your changes.

Desktop

The Desktop section controls the most visible global settings for your Gnome environment.

z z The Background Properties Capplet: The background image can be set here by either
selecting a color or an image. If you would like to set the background by any other means
you may disable this capplet by unselecting Use Gnome to set background checkbox.

z z Global Panel Preferences: This capplet is provided by the Gnome Panel and is documented
in the Panel Manual.

z z The Screensaver Capplet: In this capplet you can change your screensaver properties. This
capplet contains a list of available screen savers you may choose and a demo screen.
In Global Screen Saver settings you can change the time, password, and power management
properties. You can decide how long you would like the screen saver to wait before starting
by typing the number of minutes in the Start After text box. If you would like a password
to return to your desktop click the Require Password button. Your account login password
is the password set for the screen saver.
z z Theme Selector: The Theme Selector capplet allows you to select which GTK theme you
would like to run. GTK themes are coordinated settings that define the look and feel of
such elements of graphical user interface as buttons, menus, scrollbars etc. of all Gnome
applications (more generally, of all applications using the GIMP Toolkit (GTK), hence the
name).

z z Window Manager Capplet: Gnome is not dependent on any one window manager;
therefore the Window Manager capplet allows you to select which window manager you
wish to use. Your current window manager will be labeled Current. It only shows Gnome-
compliant window managers; if you want to use other window managers, you have to tell
Window Manager capplet about them. If you wish to add a new window manager to the
main list you may press the Add button. This will launch the Add New Window Manager
dialog.

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