September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h 17m
English
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What’s on Your JDS Screen
When you start a session for the first time, you will see a startup screen, as in Figure 1-1, with a strip at the bottom of the screen called a panel and various icons, which are small pictures related to particular files or functions of the system.
Figure 1-1. A sample startup screen
When you double-click on an icon, it opens a window that appears to float above the desktop screen. After you open a window, you can usually open items within the window, such as folders, programs, and documents.
In JDS, you can open, close, size, reduce, enlarge, and position windows on the desktop. You can open multiple windows simultaneously and maneuver them. Whether you open a window to run a program, or display the contents of a file or the elements of your computer, some window frame characteristics remain constant. These include the Window menu on the top panel or the scroll bars on the right side and bottom of the pane. If you have used either Mac OS or Microsoft Windows, the JDS desktop should feel comfortable.
Icons on the Desktop
JDS always starts with at least five icons on the desktop. In this section, we summarize what each one does. You may be able to explore parts of the system right now, but many features may seem confusing until we explain them in later chapters.
Most of the icons run a general-purpose system browser called Nautilus, which we describe in detail ...
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