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Unit 2: RedHat Linux Basics




          the gnome control center                                                              notes

          The GNOME Control Center allows you to configure various parts of your GNOME system
          with different tools called “capplets”. The capplets are associated with the core set of GNOME
          applications and helps you to manage your system.
          You can configure the appearance and operation of GNOME and GNOME-compliant applications
          by using the GNOME control center, shown in figure. The function of Control Center resembles
          that of the Windows 9x control panel, though it looks different and works somewhat differently.
          To launch the control center, select Settings GNOME Control Center from the GNOME main
          menu.
          Like  the  Windows  control  panel,  which  uses  small  programs  called  applets  to  perform  its
          functions, the GNOME control center uses small programs called capplets. However, the control
          center’s user interface hides this detail from you, so you needn’t normally be aware of what’s
          happening behind the scenes. The control center user interface resembles that of file manager
          and menu editor: The left pane of the control center window presents a hierarchically structured
          set of configuration categories and the right pane displays information pertaining to the current
          choice.
          1.   Using control center, you can:

          2.   Select background properties
          3.   Configure a screen saver
          4.   Select a desktop theme
          5.   Select a window manager
          6.   Configure the default text editor

          7.   Specify MIME types that control the handling of multimedia files
          8.   Configure the keyboard bell and sounds
          9.   Configure keyboard and mouse properties
          10.   Specify applications that GNOME automatically launches when it starts
          11.   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.


























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