Ubuntu Desktop Essentials Online Book
This is Techtopia's Ubuntu
Desktop Essentials online book, which is the
companion book to their Ubuntu Linux Essentials Techotopia. This Ubuntu
Desktop book covers everything you need to know to use and customize
the Ubuntu Gnome desktop. It first gives a detailed overview of the how
the desktop works, and then provides step-by-step tutorials
covering every aspect of setting up and managing the desktop, from
changing the background and desktop themes to activating and
configuring the new Compiz Fusion desktop visual effects. You will also
learn topics such as changing fonts, setting up keyboard shortcuts,
enhancing the desktop with desklets, configuring and saving sessions
and customizing the file manager.
Table of Contents of Ubuntu Desktop Essentials:
- About Ubuntu Desktop
Essentials
- Logging into
the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop
- The Ubuntu GNOME Login Screen
- The Ubuntu GNOME Login Screen
- A Guided
Tour of the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop
- The Ubuntu GNOME Desktop
- The Desktop Background
- The Desktop Panels
- Changing
the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop Background
- Changing the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop Background
- Selecting a Background from the Wallpaper List
- Creating a Solid or Graded Background
- Specifying a Background Image
- Installing
and Customizing Ubuntu Desktop Themes
- What is a Desktop Theme?
- Changing the Ubuntu Desktop Theme
- Downloading and Installing a Theme
- Configuring Ubuntu
Desktop Fonts
- Font Options on Ubuntu
- Changing Font Settings
- Font Rendering Settings
- Advanced Font Rendering
- Viewing Fonts in the Font Folder
- Adding New Fonts
- Configuring
the Ubuntu Desktop Panels
- What are Desktop Panels
- Changing the Position of a Panel
- Adding and Deleting Desktop Panels
- Changing the Appearance of a Desktop Panel
- Adding Items to a GNOME Destop Panel
- Adding Menus to a Panel
- Changing the Number of Ubuntu Desktop Workspaces
- Configuring
the Ubuntu Desktop Menu System
- Customizing a Ubuntu Desktop Menu
- Moving Menu Items
- Adding and Deleting a Menu Item
- Ubuntu Desktop Visual
Effects
- Introducing Compiz Fusion
- Changing the Default Visual Effects Settings
- Advanced Desktop Effects Settings
- Enhance
your Ubuntu Desktop with gDesklets
- Installing gDesklets
- Launching gDesklets
- Moving a Desklet
- Setting the Properties of a Desklet
- Raising Desklets to the Front of the Desktop
- Install New gDesklet Packages
- Browsing
My Computer, Files and Folders on the Ubuntu Desktop
- Accessing Nautilus
- Nautilus and the Computer Icon
- Adding Emblems to Files and Folders
- Changing File and Folder Permissions
- Renaming and Deleting Files and Folders
- Configuring the
Ubuntu File Manager
- Changing the File Manager Background Pattern and Color
- Displaying Icons or Lists
- Configuring the List View
- Configuring the Icon View
- Changing File Manager Behavior
- Ubuntu
Desktop - Starting Applications on Login
- Understanding Sessions
- Configuring Desktop Startup Programs
- Listing the Currently Running Programs
- Saving the Current Session
- Ubuntu Desktop
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Viewing Keyboard Shortcuts
- Changing a Shortcut
- Disabling a Keyboard Shortcut
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