May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
18h 57m
English
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Configuring Your Desktop, Step by Step
This section takes you on a guided tour of the Mac OS X Finder and System Preferences applications. We assume that you have the Mac OS X Developer Tools installed. All of the steps work under Mac OS X Version 10.1.
To get the most out of these exercises, we recommend that you follow them precisely. For example, start by logging in and do not close any windows or dialogs unless instructed to do so. If you do not follow a step precisely or if you skip a step, subsequent steps may not make sense.
The steps in configuring your desktop are as follows. As with all step-by-step exercises in this book, we recommend that you follow these steps precisely.
Start up your computer and log in.
The Finder will be running, and the Finder menu will appear in the menu bar at the top of the screen. A Finder window will appear in the center of the screen, and the Dock will be at the bottom of the screen (unless you’ve closed it or previously changed its position, in which case you should choose Finder → New Finder Window).
Note the black triangle below the Mac OS Finder icon. This triangle indicates that the Finder is running. If your Dock is on the side of your screen, the triangle will be on the side of the icon, rather than below it.
Move your Finder window around the desktop by dragging its title bar. Any window can be moved in this way.
Note that you cannot drag a window above the menu bar, but you can drag it partially off-screen to the left or right or ...
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