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GNOME is the oldest office environments that exists. It is particularly stable and reliable, and changes with each new version with small keys. Many programs are designed for this environment very popular and has nevertheless many options unadorned provided. GNOME is with KDE one of the two office environments the most used Linux.

Mandriva offers a choice of that office and it is very easy to test by installing the "task" task-gnome which will install all necessary packages for the GNOME desktop and all GNOME applications or activity pkg task-gnome-minimal which will only install the GNOME desktop without the applications. '

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Contenido 1 The desktop 1.1 Organisation of the desktop 1.2 The basic principles 1.2.1 The file manager 1.2.2 Using the mouse 1.3 A word on the icons 2 Configuring your desktop 3 Keyboard shortcuts 4 Applications 4.1 Essentials 4.2 Multemedia

The desktop

In this section we present the GNOME desktop, explain some basic principles that will be useful for all Gnome applications and even other desktop environment. Some reminders are unnecessary.

Organisation of the desktop

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The GNOME desktop is composed of three essential elements of modern office:

• icons, here the number of 6 (1)
• two bars of tasks, called dashboard under Gnome (2)
• The office itself is the work area (3).

On the desktop, the display windows of different programs you use. The icons can represent virtually all that is in your system. They can be a text file, spreadsheet, file, mp3, video, printer, program, folder, partition hard drive, a link.

Dashboards are several functions.

The dashboard above:

From left to right, it allows you to access the application menu, menu shortcuts, the menu system to quickly launch programs via shortcuts (icons here 4 for 4 programs), the bar of the programs (the empty space which means that no window is present), and the notification area that contains applets (appletsEnglish), programs launched at startup and accessible via the icon.

The dashboard below:

from left to right, it gives you access to the list of windows (the empty space which means that no window is present), the virtual desktops (numbered 1 to 4), as applet to display the desktop.

You can change the wallpaper, colors, customize the window decorations, fonts, add icons, etc.

The basic principles

Before going further in the discovery and use of GNOME, a few words on file manager, the mouse, the location of the office and using the file window.

The file manager

The file manager for GNOME called Nautilus. It allows you to navigate the files and folders by displaying graphically. It has two modes of operation: the spatial mode, where each file corresponds to a window, and the browser mode, more traditional and enabled as default, where you can navigate within the tree remaining in the same window with previous and next buttons.

Gnome-mode-spatial.png The spatial mode

Gnome-mode-navigateur.png The browser mode

There are two ways to switch from one mode to another:

• For recent versions of GNOME since Nautilus, open the Preferences window and then in the "Behavior", check "Always open in browser windows. The change is effective the next time you open a window Nautilus.
• For older versions of GNOME, open the configuration editor: {Menu|System -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Configuration editor}} and tick the box which is always_use_browser in /apps/nautilus/preferences.

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Using the mouse

GNOME, like other desktop environments Manager or Windows Linux, use the 3 buttons on the mouse. If your mouse only has 2, you can emulate the third button (the button) by pressing simultaneously on the two buttons. If you have a mouse wheel, you're right it's practice, the center button is a click wheel

If you have a PC mouse has 2 buttons. The action on these buttons allows you to act on your desktop. The left button is used for selection, moving icons and the launching by double click the program or programs associated with a file where you double-click a file. The right button, it provides access to the context menu. This provides access to actions that would generally be longer to do with the simple use of the left button. This menu adjusts depending on where you click (it changes depending on the context, hence the name), feel free to experiment!

Worth noting is that GNOME does not need to click on a window to make it active. Simply place the mouse cursor in the window and act on the mouse wheel to scroll pages. It's easy when you get used very quickly and return to other GUIs that do not have this feature contributes to make it even more useful.

A word on the icons

Les icônes ont envahi nos bureaux d’ordinateur, chez certains l’écran tout entier en est recouvert.

L’icône n’est qu’une représentation graphique, un symbole. Derrière l’icône on peut trouver une application, un script, un document, un lien. Ainsi « créer une icône » peut être vu comme « créer un document », « créer un lien vers un document », « créer un lien vers une application pour créer un document », « faire une copie d’une application pour créer un document ». Ainsi quand on clique sur une icône Gnome va lancer l'application permettant de lire le document si l'icône correspond à un document ou lancer simplement l'application si l'icône correspond à un programme.

Configuring your desktop

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An entirely unnecessary and therefore is necessarily required to configure the desktop. Save the wallpaper kivabien, add icons and links to programs to run quickly. Follow the tutorials :

The background

Adding shortcuts and links to programs and files

Keyboard shortcuts

Some keyboard shortcuts in general use in GNOME are described on page Keyboard Shortcuts.

For the association of a custom keyboard shortcut to an application or command see System > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts.

See also the section on utility # Kxkb to personalize certain keys (Alt, Ctrl, Design etc.).

Applications

GNOME is not only a window manager is also a set designed and conceived to facilitate the development of applications by reusing software bricks. Thus, there are hundreds of applications developed for the graphical environment in all areas. It seems illusory to all present. However, below are listed a few (sic) applications arbitrarily classified by category.

Essentials

Nautilus: the file manager

Liferea Liferea is an RSS feed reader.

Brasero easily burn CDs and DVDs

Pidgin multiprotocol instant messaging

Gnome-terminal, the console according to GNOME

F-spot: the addition to your digital camera

File roller tool to compress the file

Multemedia

GIMP : the famous retouching software Image

Totem : read your musics and movies.