You can change the way the GNOME desktop looks and behaves to suit your own personal tastes and needs. Some of the settings you might want to change include:
Keyboard and mouse configuration, as described in Section 2.2.1, “Modifying Keyboard Preferences” and Section 2.2.2, “Configuring the Mouse”
Desktop background, as described in Section 2.3.1, “Changing the Desktop Background”
Screen saver, as described in Section 2.3.4, “Configuring the Screen Saver”
Password, as described in Section 2.4.2, “Changing Your Password”
Sounds, as described in Section 2.5.9, “Setting Sound Preferences”
These settings and others can be changed in the Control Center.
To access the Control Center, click
+ . The Control Center is divided into the following four categories:Allows you to configure hardware components such as graphics cards, monitors, printers, or keyboard layout, and to set up your network devices and configure your network connection. For more information, see Section 2.2, “Hardware”.
Holds settings for the desktop background, the screen saver, and the fonts appearing on the desktop. You can modify themes, window behavior, and styles of desktop elements, such as menus, and scroll bars. Here, you can also configure 3D desktop effects (Xgl). For more information, see Section 2.3, “Look and Feel”.
Go here to change your login password, or to configure keyboard shortcuts or keyboard accessibility settings. For more information, see Section 2.4, “Personal”.
Lets you configure system settings such as date and time, language, sound, or power management,. Define how GNOME handles sessions on login or shutdown, and modify the Beagle search settings. For more information, see Section 2.5, “System”.
In order to change some systemwide settings, Control Center will prompt
you for the root
password and start YaST. This
is mostly the case for administrator settings (including most of the
hardware, the graphical user interface, Internet access, security
settings, user administration, software installation, and system updates
and information). Follow the instructions in YaST to configure these
settings.
Refer to the integrated YaST help texts or refer to the
Teil „Installation und Einrichtung“ (↑Start).
YaST Gtk and Qt Front-Ends | |
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YaST comes with two front-ends depending on the desktop installed on
your system. By default, the YaST gtk front-end runs on the GNOME
desktop, and the YaST qt front-end on the other desktops. This is
defined with the Feature-wise, the gtk front-end is very similar to the qt front-end described in the manuals. One exception is the gtk software management module, which differs considerably from the qt port. |
This chapter focuses on individual settings you can change directly in the GNOME Control Center (without YaST interaction).