Quick Start Guide
User menu: If you click on your name on the top right corner, a menu appears
where you manage your user prole and your computer. If you use the immediate
news program Empathy, you can change your availability status directly below your
name. You can turn o the status messages with the switch underneath. This is
useful if, for example, you want to concentrate on your work. You can save your access
data for Google and Twitter under Online Accounts. You can reach the System Settings
via the following menu points, where you can, for example, lock the screen for the
duration of your lunch break, change to another user account, log o GNOME, or
switch o the computer. You can also restart your PC via the last point. If openSUSE®
can use the energy-saving functions of your computer, the last menu item is called
Readiness. This is how you switch your PC to hibernate mode. To go to the Switch
O menu item, hold down the [Alt] button.
Activities: Clicking Activities on the top left corner of the screen takes you to the
so-called activities overview where you start programs and manage those already
running. You also reach this view by placing the mouse pointer on the top left corner
of the screen or pressing the [Windows] key (also called the [Super] key. You return
to the normal view by clicking on Activities.
Notications panel: Whenever you insert a ash drive, nish downloading or
some other important thing happens in your system, a corresponding message ap-
pears on the bottom edge of the screen. Some of these messages disappear quickly
by themselves, others oer equally suitable actions. You can, for example, eject an
inserted data CD immediately or open your content in a new window. If you do not
wish to do any of the actions, simply click on the title of the message and it will then
disappear from the bottom edge. Some messages deliver only a fragmentary short
text. To nd out more, slide the mouse pointer over the message and it will then
expand completely. You can retrieve messages which have been clicked away or
which have disappeared too early by clicking on Activities in the top left and then
hovering the mouse pointer in the lower-right corner of the screen for a few seconds.
The so-called notications panel then appears. Clicking on one of the messages saved
there is enough to retrieve the list with the matching actions.
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