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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide
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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Harold Davis
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 58m
English
Peachpit Press
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Using the Gnome Control Center

The Gnome Control Center allows you to configure most aspects of your Gnome desktop. The Gnome Control Center works in configuring Gnome just as the Display Properties dialog box in Windows is used to configure the Windows display.

The choices you can make regarding your desktop range from the trivial to the sublime. In other words, some things you can configure have merely cosmetic implications, while others will affect the way you work.

To open the Gnome Control Center:

  • Select GNOME Control Center from the Settings menu on the Gnome main menu.

    Tip

    The Gnome main menu is activated by clicking the leftmost applet button on the Gnome panel, which by default sports an icon of a footprint.

    Tip

    You can also open the ...

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