Customizing Your Settings
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
Keyboard Preferences"
(page 59)
• Desktop background, as described in
ground"
(page 62)
• Screen saver, as described in
(page 78)
• Password, as described in
• Sounds, as described in
These settings and others can be changed in the Control Center.
(page 58) and
Section 2.2.2, "Configuring the Mouse"
Section 2.3.1, "Changing the Desktop Back-
Section 2.3.5, "Configuring the Screen Saver"
Section 2.4.3, "Changing Your Password"
Section 2.5.9, "Setting Sound Preferences"
Section 2.2.1, "Modifying
(page 88)
(page 101)
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