Quick Start Guide

2 Select Desktop eects from the Desktop appearance and behavior category,

and select Activate desktop eects upon system start. If your graphics card

does not support the 3D function, you are notied accordingly.

3 Optional: Change some options under General settings on the Advanced tab.

4 Select the eects to be activated on the All eects tab. When you click on the

information icon, a short explanation on the respective eect is superimposed.

If an eect is activated, you can obtain access to further conguration options

with the spanner icon (right), for example to assign keyboard shortcuts for

the eect.

5 With Apply you can activate the eects permanently.

2.7 Use of virtual desktops

The desktop environment enables you to organize your programs and tasks on sev-

eral virtual desktops. If you often run a lot of programs simultaneously, this minimizes

the number of windows to arrange on your screen. For example, you can use a

desktop for e-mails and the calendar and another desktop for text processing or

graphic applications.

Procedure 2.7: Moving an application to another virtual desktop

You can display a currently executed application on one or all virtual desktops or

move them to other desktops.

1 Open the application.

2 Right-click on the title bar of the application.

3 Click on On Desktop.

4 Select the desktop where the application should be placed.

5 Click on the desired desktop in the desktop toggle switch in the control bar

in order to change to a certain desktop. Change to the next or previous

desktop by placing the mouse pointer in an empty space on the desktop and

moving the mouse wheel.

Procedure 2.8: Conguring the virtual desktop

You can increase the number of virtual desktops, change standard names, assign

activities, congure eect animations and assign keyboard shortcuts to switch