Luku 2. Opastettu Kierros

Sisällys

Työpöytä
Yläpaneeli
Bottom Panel
Työpöytä
Browse the Files on your Computer
Navigation
Creating and Deleting Files
Copying and Moving Files
Removable Devices
Customizing the File Manager
Surfing the Internet
Writing Emails
Instant Messaging / Chatting
Writing Text Documents
Editing Textfiles with Mousepad
Word Processing with Abiword
Spreadsheet calculations with Gnumeric
Adding, Removing and Updating Applications
Synaptic Package Manager
Extra Repositories
Updates
Calendar
Play Music
Watch a Movie
Manipulate a Picture
Browse Pictures
The Settings Manager
Finding the Right Program

Tervetuloa Xubuntu työpöydän Opastetulle Kierrokselle. Tämä opas vie sinut kierrokselle uuden työpöytäsi luo, näyttäen sinulle tärkeimmät paikat, esittelee sinulle joitain mukana olevia ohjelmia ja kertoo kuinka suoritat päivittäiset tehtäväsi. On suositeltavaa, että sinulla on toimiva Xubuntu järjestelmä käytössäsi, jolloin pääset kokeilemaan annettuja ohjeita käytännössä lukiessasi tätä opasta.

Oppaan lukioilla oletetaan pääsääntöisesti olevan pääsy internettiin, koska opas tulee tarjoamaan linkkejä sekä wiki-, että muille sivustoille internetissä.

Työpöytä

Kun tietokone on käynnistynyt ja olet kirjautunut sisään, sinulle aukeaa Xubuntu työpöytä. Se tuo mukanaan monia ominaisuuksia, jotka tekevät elämästäsi helppoa. On aika tutustua näihin ominaisuuksiin.

Kuten voit nähdä, työpöydälläsi on kaksi paneelia: yksi ylhäällä ja toinen ruudun alalaidassa.

Yläpaneeli

The top panel is mainly used for starting applications and navigating to different places on your computer. It also comes with a logout button, system tray and a clock.

Clicking on Applications will open the system menu, offering you many choices of applications to start. Note that you can also access your Settings, Help, and a logout dialog from the Applications menu.

Clicking on the logout button (looks like a power-off button) will bring up a menu with choices for logging out, shutting down, rebooting, and, depending on your hardware, suspending or hibernating your computer.

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Use the checkbox Save session for future logins to have all the currently running programs auto-started at the time of your next login.

Next to the clock is a small area called the system tray. Some programs will show up as a small icon in the system tray while they are running in the background. The system tray is also used for informing you about updates to your system. If such an update becomes available, you will see a small speech bubble pop up and giving you the necessary information to keep your system up to date and secure.

Besides that, the top panel is quite empty. It has lots of additional room to add items besides the browser launcher. You may want to go ahead and add some custom items to it. Right-click on the panel, and choose Add New Item. Choose one of the many panel plugins available, or create a custom program launcher. The item will be permanently attached to your panel. Anything you add here will be reachable with just a single click, directly from your panel.

Bottom Panel

This panel contains a show-desktop button, a tasklist, and a pager.

The show-desktop button will minimise all applications to clear your view onto the desktop. This is very helpful in case you are trying to access icons on the desktop and need to get all the windows out of the way.

The taskbar will have an entry for every window that is currently open. Use it to quickly change between running applications.

The pager allows you to navigate between the different desks you use. Note that small icons on the pager give an indication about the current windows on the different desks.

Työpöytä

The default behaviour of the desktop is to show you minimized application icons.

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Many people are used to having files and launchers on their desktops instead of minimized applications. To find out how to enable this, have a look at “Application icons on the Desktop (CDE style)”.

To change the desktop background image, launch Applications->Settings->Settings Manager, and choose Desktop. In the lower part, where it says Image, click on the Browse icon and choose a different picture.

The desktop offers a bunch of features that are real time-savers in everyday tasks:

  • Right-clicking it will open the system menu just as clicking on Applications does.

  • Using the scroll-bar on your mouse (if it has one) will allow you to switch between the different desks. This does the same thing as clicking on the pager in the lower panel, but is usually quicker, since you (probably) do not have to move the mouse.

  • Pressing Alt-Tab will allow you to rotate between the currently open windows. This allows for lightning-fast switching between applications without taking the hands of the keyboard.