Quick Start Guide
Bottom Panel: The desktop includes a panel at the bottom of the screen. All appli-
cations currently open on the desktop appear here. You can access these applications
by clicking on their name. Right-clicking on the icon in the bottom-right corner takes
you to the virtual desktop's Settings. Provided you have created more than one, a
single icon appears for every virtual desktop. In fallback mode, every window has
three buttons in its title bar. Through it you can close the window (from right to left),
blow up to the screen size or minimize. In the last case, the bottom panel takes up
the window.
Applications menu: Click on Applications on the top left corner to open a menu
with all the installed programs. These are classied under dierent categories for a
better overview. Sub-items open automatically as soon as you place the mouse above
them.
Places menu: There is also a small menu behind Places. Its entries open especially
important folders (such as your personal folder or the Download folder), show content
of connected data carriers and establish a connection to another computer (connection
to server).
The Panel: The remaining elements on the top black bar function like their coun-
terparts in the normal GNOME mode already described above. Clicking on the time
opens a small calendar while the name itself leads to the prole and system settings.
3.4 "Open Application" dialog box“
Press [Alt] + [F2] to open a small dialog box. Enter a command, for example
libreoffice, and press [Enter] to start the application. The command to start is often
(but not always) the application name written in lower case letters.
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