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text found on a GUI interface
A title, word or phrase found on a GUI interface screen or window will be shown in this style.
When you see text shown in this style, it is being used to identify a particular GUI screen or an
element on a GUI screen (e.g., text associated with a checkbox or field). Examples:
On the GNOME
Select the
before stopping.
top level of a menu on a GUI screen or window
When you see a word in this style, it indicates that the word is the top level of a pulldown menu.
If you click on the word on the GUI screen, the rest of the menu should appear. For example:
Under
Settings
Reset Terminal
If you need to type in a sequence of commands from a GUI menu, they will be shown like the
following example:
Click on
button on a GUI screen or window
This style indicates that the text will be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen. For ex-
ample:
Click on the
computer output
When you see text in this style, it indicates text displayed by the computer on the command line.
You will see responses to commands you typed in, error messages and interactive prompts for
your input during scripts or programs shown this way. For example:
Use the ls to display the contents of a directory:
$ ls
Desktop
Mail
The output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory) is
shown in this style.
prompt
key combination will restart the X Window System.
Control Center
checkbox if you would like your screensaver to require a password
Require Password
on a GNOME terminal, you will see the following menu items:
,
Reset and Clear
Programs => Applications
button to return to the Web page you last viewed.
Back
screen, you can customize your GNOME window manager.
, and .
Color selector
=> Emacs to start the Emacs text editor.
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