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Page 1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 www.novell.com GNOME User Guide May 08, 2008...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents About This Guide Part I GNOME Desktop 1 Getting Started with the GNOME Desktop Logging in and Selecting a Desktop ....Logging Out ......Desktop Basics .
Page 4 System ......Part II Office and Collaboration 3 The OpenOffice.org Office Suite Understanding OpenOffice.org .
Page 5 8 Accessing Network Resources General Notes on File Sharing and Network Browsing ..Accessing Network Shares ..... Sharing Folders .
Page 6 1 3 Reading Newsfeeds with Liferea 13.1 Starting Liferea ......13.2 Reading a Newsfeed ..... . . 13.3 Creating a New Subscription .
Page 7 1 7 Burning CDs and DVDs A Finding the Information You Need Included Documentation ..... Additional Resources and More Information ... . . B Moving from Windows to Linux Starting Applications from the Main Menu .
Page 9: About This Guide
About This Guide This manual introduces you to the GNOME graphical desktop environment as imple- mented in SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop and shows you how to configure it to meet your personal needs and preferences. It also introduces you to several programs and services, including office programs such as OpenOffice.org, Web browsers, file managers, scanning tools, and image editing tools.
Page 10: Additional Documentation
KDE desktop. For an overview of all manuals for SUSE Linux Enterprise, refer to http://www .novell.com/documentation/sled10/, where you can also download the manuals, or access the information online in the help center of your desktop. 3 Documentation Conventions The following typographical conventions are used in this manual: •...
Page 11 • ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters • user: users or groups • Alt , Alt + F1 : a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard • File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons •...
Page 13: Part I Gnome Desktop
Part I. GNOME Desktop...
Page 15: Getting Started With The Gnome Desktop
Getting Started with the GNOME Desktop This chapter assists you in becoming familiar with the conventions, layout, and common tasks of the GNOME desktop as implemented in SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop. 1.1 Logging in and Selecting a Desktop When you start your system, you are prompted to enter your username and password. This is the username and password you created during installation.
Page 16: What Is A Session
Shut Down Shuts down the computer. 1.1.1 What Is a Session? A session is the period of time from when you log in to when you log out. The login screen offers several login options. For example, you can select the language of your session so that text that appears in the interface is presented in that language.
Page 17: Logging Out
2 On the login screen, click Session. 3 Select the desktop you want ( GNOME or KDE), then click OK. 4 Type your username, then press Enter . 5 Type your password, then press Enter . 1.1.3 Locking Your Screen To lock the screen, you can do either of the following: •...
Page 18: Desktop Basics
Log out Logs you out of the current session and returns you to the Login screen. Switch User Suspends your session, allowing another user to log in and use the computer. 1.2.2 Restarting or Shutting Down the Computer 1 Click Computer > Shutdown. 2 Select one of the following options: Shutdown Logs you out of the current session, then turns off the computer.
Page 19 Figure 1.1 GNOME Desktop By default, the desktop features two key icons: your personal Home folder, and a trash can for deleted items. Other icons representing devices on your computer, such as CD drives, might also be present on the desktop. If you double-click your Home folder, the Nautilus file manager starts and displays the contents of your home directory.
Page 20: Default Desktop Icons
A link is a special type of file that points to another file or folder. When you perform an action on a link, the action is performed on the file or folder the link points to. When you delete a link, you delete only the link file, not the file that the link points to. To create a link on the desktop to a folder or a file, access the object in question in File Manager by right-clicking the object and then clicking Make Link.
Page 21: Bottom Panel
Figure 1.2 GNOME Desktop Menu 1.3.3 Bottom Panel The desktop includes a panel across the bottom of the screen. The bottom panel contains the Computer menu (similar to the Start menu in Windows) and the icons of all appli- cations currently running. You can also add applications and applets to the panel for easy access.
Page 22 Option Description Properties Modifies the properties for this panel. Delete This Panel Removes the panel from the desktop. All of the panel settings are lost. Allow Panel to be Lets you drag the panel to another side of the screen, Moved/Lock Panel Position or locks the panel in its current position.
Page 23 Figure 1.4 Add to Panel Dialog Box Some useful applets include the following: Table 1.2 Some Useful Applets Applet Description Dictionary Lookup Look up a word in an online dictionary. Force Quit Terminate an application. This is especially useful if you want to terminate an application that is no longer respond- ing.
Page 24: Using The Main Menu
Applet Description Volume Control Increase or decrease the sound volume. Weather Report Display current weather information for a specified city. Workspace Switcher Access additional work areas, called workspaces, through virtual desktops. For example, you can open applications in different workspaces and use them on their own desk- tops without the disorder from other applications.
Page 25: Search Bar
Figure 1.5 Main Menu The main menu contains several elements. Each of these elements is described in the following sections. 1.4.1 Search Bar The search bar helps you find applications and files on your system. Enter your search terms in the Search field, then press Enter . The results are displayed in the Desktop Search dialog box.
Page 26: Main Menu Tabs
You can use the results lists to open a file, forward it via e-mail, or display it in the file manager. Simply right-click an item in the results list and select the option you want. The options available for an item depend on the type of file it is. Clicking a file in the list displays a preview of the file and information such as the title, path, and when the file was last modified or accessed.
Page 27 To add an item to your Favorite Applications: 1 Click Computer > More Applications. 2 Right-click the application you want to add. 3 Select Add to Favorites. The selected application is added to your Favorite Applications. To remove an item from your Favorite Applications: 1 Click Computer.
Page 28 Recent Places Click the Places tab to display the last several places you have opened. Use this view to quickly locate the places you worked on most recently. Click More Places to open the file browser. 1.4.3 System System provides shortcuts to several system applications. Table 1.3 System Shortcuts Application...
Page 29: Managing Folders And Files With Nautilus
1.4.4 Status Status displays information about your hard drive and network connection, including the amount of available space on your hard disk and the type of network connection you are using. 1.5 Managing Folders and Files with Nautilus Use the Nautilus File Manager to create and view folders and documents, run scripts, and create CDs of your data.
Page 30: File Manager Navigation Shortcuts
Menu Lets you perform most tasks. Toolbar Lets you quickly navigate among files and folders, and provides access to files and folders. Location Bar Lets you locate files, folders, and URI sites. Side Pane Lets you navigate or display information about the selected file or folder. Use the drop-down list to customize what is shown in the pane.
Page 31: Archiving Folders
Shortcut Description Shift + Alt + ↑ Opens the parent folder and closes the current folder. Shift + Ctrl + W Closes all parent folders. Ctrl + L Opens a location by specifying a path or URL. Alt + Home Opens your home directory.
Page 32: Using Bookmarks
1.5.3 Creating a CD/DVD If your system has a CD or DVD read/write drive, you can use the Nautilus file manager to burn CDs and DVDs. 1 Click Computer > More Applications > Audio & Video > GNOME CD/DVD Creator, or insert a blank disk and click Make Data CD/DVD or Make Audio CD/DVD.
Page 33: File Manager Preferences
3 To select an item from your bookmarks list, click Bookmarks, then click the de- sired bookmark in the list. You can also organize your bookmarks list by clicking Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks and making your selections in the dialog box. To change the order of your bookmarks, click a bookmark and drag it to the desired location.
Page 34 Figure 1.7 File Manager Views Dialog Box Select from the following options: Table 1.5 File Manager Views Options Section Option Description Default View View new folders us- Determines whether new folders are dis- played as icons or as a list. Arrange items Sets the order items are listed in.
Page 35 Section Option Description (the default), hidden and backup files do not appear. Icon View De- Default zoom level Sets the size of items that appear in the file faults manager. Use compact layout Displays items closer together. Text beside icons Displays icon captions next to the icons, rather than under them.
Page 36 Figure 1.8 File Manager Behavior Dialog Box Select from the following options: Table 1.6 File Manager Behavior Options Option Description Single-click to activate items Performs the default action for an item when you click the item. If this option is selected and you point to an item, the title of the item is underlined.
Page 37 Option Description Run executable text files when Runs an executable file when you click the file. An they are clicked executable file is a text file than can execute (that is, a shell script). View executable text files Displays the contents of an executable file when you when they are clicked click the file.
Page 38 Figure 1.9 File Manager Display Dialog Box Select from the following options: Table 1.7 File Manager Display Options Option Description Icon Captions Sets the order of information to appear beneath icon names. You can set three information types, in the order they ap- pear.
Page 39 Figure 1.10 File Manager List Columns Dialog Box Select the columns that you want to appear. To change the order, click Move Up or Move Down. Preview To configure how file previews appear in the file manager and whether or not folders show the number of items they contain, click Edit >...
Page 40 Figure 1.11 File Manager Preview Dialog Box Select from the following options: Table 1.8 File Manager Preview Options Option Description Show text in icons Specifies when to preview the content of text files in the icons that represent the files. Show thumbnails Specifies when to show thumbnails of image files in the icons that represent the files.
Page 41: Accessing Network Resources
Option Description Count number of items Specifies when to show the number of files contained in folders. In the Icon view, you might need to increase your zoom level to see the number. 1.6 Accessing Network Resources This section helps you access network resources using the following tasks: 1.6.1 Connecting to Your Network You can connect to a network with wired and wireless connections.
Page 42: Accessing Network Shares
Figure 1.13 Network File Browser To access Novell shares, double-click the Novell Services icon. A list of Novell shares available to you is displayed. To access NFS shares, double-click the UNIX Network icon. A list of UNIX shares available to you is displayed.
Page 43 To access Windows shares, double-click the Windows Network icon. The Windows shares available to you are displayed. Adding a Network Place 1 Click Computer > Nautilus File Browser > File > Connect to Server. 2 Select a service type, then specify the required information for your type of ser- vice.
Page 44 2 In YaST, click Network Services > Windows Domain Membership. 3 In the Windows Domain Membership module, click Allow Users To Share Their Directories. 4 Click Finish. Sharing a Directory If directory sharing is enabled on your computer, use the following steps to configure a directory to be shared.
Page 45: Accessing Floppy Disks, Cds, Or Dvds
1.7 Accessing Floppy Disks, CDs, or DVDs To access floppy disks, CDs, or DVDs, insert the medium into the appropriate drive. For many types of removable media, a file manager window pops up automatically when the media is inserted or attached to the computer. If file manager does not open, double-click the icon for that drive to view the contents.
Page 46: Searching For Files
You can use the results lists to open a file, forward it via e-mail, or display it in the file manager. Simply right-click an item in the results list and select the option you want. The options available for an item depend on the type of file it is. Clicking a file in the list displays a preview of the file and information such as the title, path, and when the file was last modified or accessed.
Page 47 Figure 1.14 Search for Files Dialog Search for Files uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands, and all searches are case insensitive. You can also open the Search for Files dialog by entering the following command in a terminal window: gnome-search-tool Performing a Basic Search 1 Click Computer >...
Page 48 Search Text Example Result Partial filename combined Searches for all files that have *.[ch] with wildcards (* [ ]) a .c or .h extension. 3 In the Look in folder field, type the path to the directory where you want Search for Files to begin the search.
Page 49 Option Description characters. Use a question mark (?) to indicate a single character. The search is case sensitive. Date modified less Searches for files that were modified within the period than specified (in days). Date modified more Searches for files that were modified before the period than specified (in days).
Page 50 Option Description Regular expressions are special text strings used to describe a search pattern. For more information, see http://www.regular-expressions.info. Show hidden and Includes hidden and backup files in the search. backup files Follow symbolic links Follows symbolic links when searching for files. Include other filesys- Searches in directories that are not in the same file tems...
Page 51 Figure 1.15 Search Results List To open a file displayed in the Search Results list, right-click the file and then click Open or double-click the file. To open the folder that contains a file displayed in the Search Results list, right-click the file and then click Open Folder. To delete a file displayed in the Search Results list, right-click the file and then click Move to Trash.
Page 52: Moving Text Between Applications
1.11 E-mail and Scheduling For reading and managing your mail and events, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop offers you Novell Evolution™, a groupware program that makes it easy to store, organize, and retrieve your personal information, and the GroupWise® Client, a cross-platform, corporate e-mail system that provides secure messaging, calendaring, scheduling, and instant messaging.
Page 53 GroupWise 7.0.2 Cross-Platform Client for Linux. GroupWise is not installed by default. Use the Software Management feature in YaST to install the novell-groupwise-gwclient package. Then click Computer > More Applications > Communicate > GroupWise to open the GroupWise Client.
Page 54: Opening Or Creating Documents With Openoffice.org
Your main work area in GroupWise is called the Main Window. From the Main Window of GroupWise, you can read your messages, schedule appointments, view your Calendar, manage contacts, change the mode of GroupWise you are running in, open folders, open documents, and much more.
Page 55: Taking Screen Shots
For a more detailed introduction to OpenOffice.org, see Chapter 3, The OpenOffice.org Office Suite (page 105) or view the help in any OpenOffice.org program. 1.13 Taking Screen Shots You can take a snapshot of your screen or an individual application window using any of the following methods: From any panel You can add the Take Screenshot button to any panel.
Page 56: Viewing Pdf Files
Figure 1.16 Save Screenshot Dialog Box You can also use The GIMP to take screen shots. In The GIMP, click File > Acquire > Screen Shot, select a Single Window or the Whole Screen, then click Grab. 1.14 Viewing PDF Files Documents that need to be shared or printed across platforms can be saved as PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
Page 57: Controlling Sound
4 Use the navigation icons at the top of the window to navigate through the docu- ment. If your PDF document provides bookmarks, you can access them in the left panel of the viewer. 1.15 Controlling Sound YaST automatically identifies and configures the sound cards in your computer. You can also use the YaST Hardware module to configure your sound card manually.
Page 58 Figure 1.17 GNOME Volume Control Dialog Box The GNOME Volume Control dialog box contains the following elements: Menubar The items on the menubar contain all of the commands that you need to work with the GNOME Volume Control. Display area The display area contains the channel faders and associated options for several mixers, which enable you to control the volume on those mixers.
Page 59: Managing Software Packages And Updates
To review or change these settings, use the rug user management commands. For more information, see rug User Management [http://www.novell.com/ documentation/sled10/sled_deployment/data/sec_yast_ncurses _you2.html] in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Deployment Guide.
Page 60 Use the All, Packages, and Patches links to filter the list of displayed packages. NOTE Officially released updates from Novell show up as Patches. New package ver- sions from other sources show up as Packages. To get details about a certain entry, select the entry and click the Details link under the list window.
Page 61: Installing Software
1.16.3 Installing Software To install software packages, click Computer > Install Software or enter zen-installer in a terminal. The interface is almost identical to the Software Up- dater; the only difference is a search panel you can use to search for single packages or to filter the list.
Page 62: Configuring The Software Updater
Figure 1.20 Software Remover Use the Products, Patterns, Packages, and Patches links to narrow the list of packages. Select the packages you want to remove, then click Remove to start the package unin- stallation. If other packages depend on the packages you selected, those packages will be removed as well.
Page 63 With Mount, you embed a directory mounted on your machine. This is useful if, for example, you are in a network that regularly mirrors the Novell YUM server and exports its content to the local network. To add the directory, provide the full path to the directory in Service URI.
Page 64 RCE and ZENworks Opencarpet, Red Carpet Enterprise, or ZENworks services are only available if your company or organization has set up these services within your internal network. This might, for example, be the case if your organization is using third-party soft- ware for which updates are deployed on a single server.
Page 65: Other Useful Programs
1.17 Other Useful Programs In addition to the programs already discussed, like applets you can add to a panel, the system also includes additional programs, organized in categories in the application browser. To access the programs, open the application browser by clicking Computer >...
Page 66 Category Types of Programs Other New applications you have added to your system, and the SUSE Help Center The following chapters in this guide describe some of the more commonly used appli- cations. GNOME User Guide...
Page 67: Customizing Your Settings
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 Section 2.2.1, “Modifying Keyboard Preferences”...
Page 68: The Control Center
2.1 The Control Center To access the Control Center, click Computer > Control Center. The Control Center is divided into the following four categories: Hardware 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.
Page 69 Figure 2.1 GNOME Control Center 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 (in- cluding most of the hardware, the graphical user interface, Internet access, security settings, user administration, software installation, and system updates and information).
Page 70: Configuring Hardware Settings
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).
Page 71: Configuring The Mouse
1 On the Keyboard tab, you can set some general keyboard preferences, such as enabling keyboard repeat with individual delay and speed options, or enabling or disabling the blinking of the cursor and defining the speed. For more informa- tion about the individual options, click Help. 2 To select your keyboard model, click the Layouts tab, click the Browse button and select your model from the list.
Page 72 Figure 2.3 Mouse Preferences Dialog 1 Use the Buttons tab to specify whether the mouse buttons are configured for left- hand use. You can also specify the delay between clicks for a double-click. 2 To select a different cursor theme, switch to the Cursors tab. There, you can also enable a mouse pointer animation when you press and release Ctrl .
Page 73: Specifying Screen Resolution Settings
Figure 2.4 Removable Drives and Media Preferences Some of the possible configuration settings include: • What happens when a blank CD is inserted in the CD drive • What happens when an audio CD is inserted in the drive • Whether images are automatically imported from a digital camera when it is attached to the computer •...
Page 74: Look And Feel
Figure 2.5 Screen Resolution Preferences Dialog 2.3 Look and Feel In the following sections, find examples of how to configure some look and feel aspects of your GNOME desktop, like desktop background and screens saver, 3D desktop effects, themes, window behavior, or menus. 2.3.1 Changing the Desktop Background The desktop background is the image or color that is applied to your desktop.
Page 75: Configuring Desktop Effects
2 To change the picture on the background, select one of the Desktop Wallpapers from the list and select the style in which to arrange the image on the desktop. 3 To use a custom picture, click Add Wallpaper and select an image file from the file system.
Page 76 Figure 2.6 3-D Desktop Enabling Desktop Effects To enable Xgl, you need a graphics adapter capable of providing 3-D support, and you also need the graphics driver that Linux uses to operate the graphics adapter. This driver must be able to handle OpenGL (or 3-D) requests from the Linux kernel. For a list of supported adapters, see the /etc/X11/xgl-hardware-list file that is included with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop installation.
Page 77 2 Click Desktop Effects in the Look and Feel group. The Desktop Effects tool analyzes your system and tries to determine whether or not you can run Xgl. If it finds anything wrong, it advises you on what actions you can take. For example, you might be advised to change your screen resolution or color depth, or to activate 3-D acceleration.
Page 78 gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl To disable Xgl, click Disable Desktop Effects in the Desktop Effects Settings dialog box, or run the following command as root: gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl Modifying Desktop Effects Use the Desktop Effects Settings tool to enable or disable specific desktop effects, or to change the keystrokes or mouse actions used to control those effects.
Page 79 Window Effects Use the options on this tabbed page to specify what happens when you move windows, how window transitions appear, and to change window opacity. Figure 2.7 Window Effects Tabbed Page Moving Windows By default, windows appear transparent when you move them. If you want window edges to stick (snap) to other windows and workspace edges when you hold down the Shift key while moving the window, both the Windows wobble while they’re being moved and Window edges stick to other windows when you hold down “Shift”...
Page 80 Translucent Windows This option lets you use the scroll wheel to change how transparent a window ap- pears on-screen. Select Use scroll wheel plus these modifiers to change window opacity, then select the button or combination of buttons you want to use. Select a window, hold down the button or buttons you selected, then scroll the mouse wheel up or down to change the transparency of the window.
Page 81 Figure 2.9 Desktop Cube Tabbed Page Desktop Cube By default, this option gives you four desktops on the faces of a virtual cube that you can rotate to access each desktop. This provides extra space in which to arrange open applications and windows. For example, you can put an editor on one desktop, some shells on another, and your e-mail application and Web browser on the third desktop.
Page 82: Other Features
Edge Flipping When edge flipping is enabled, the desktop cube rotates to the next face when you bump the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen. You can choose to always enable edge flipping or to enable edge flipping only when you drag a window or icon to the edge of the desktop.
Page 83 Selecting a window with the mouse causes all windows to return to their original size and position, with the selected window on top. To change the keystrokes used to tile windows, click the box to the right of Acti- vate/deactivate when I type until New accelerator appears. Then press the keystrokes you want to use.
Page 84 You can choose to deactivate any of these options, or to change the zoom keystrokes. Water Effect This option creates a ripple effect on your screen when you hold down the specified key or key combination ( Ctrl + Alt + Super by default) and move the mouse pointer.
Page 85 Table 2.1 Desktop Effects Shortcuts Effect Shortcut Shift + F9 Activate or deactivate rain effect Ctrl + Alt + Super (Windows key) and move Create ripples with the mouse pointer the mouse pointer Panoramic view of all desktop cubes Ctrl + Alt + ↓ (use the Left and Right arrows to scroll) Rotate desktop cube Ctrl + Alt + ←...
Page 86 Switching Tasks Press Alt + →| to display a thumbnail view of all windows open on your desktop. While holding the the Alt key down, press Tab to cycle through the list of windows. The cur- rently highlighted window will appear in focus. Release the keys to access that window. Figure 2.13 Thumbnail View Unfolding the Cube Press Ctrl + Alt + ↓...
Page 87 Figure 2.14 Panoramic View of All Desktop Cubes Displaying a Skydome Image Behind the Cube You can add background wallpaper (also known as a skydome image) that is visible when you rotate or unfold the desktop cube. 1 Click Computer > More Applications > System > GNOME Configuration Editor or press Alt + F2 and enter gconf-editor.
Page 88: Configuring Fonts
Skydome images must be in .png format. The suggested image sizes for skydome images are 1024 x 1024, 1024 x 2048, 1024 x 4096, 2048 x 1024, 2048 x 2048, 2048 x 4096, 4096 x 1024, 4096 x 2048, and 4096 x 4096. 5 (Optional) Select skydome_animated to make it look like you are moving around the cube when you use your mouse to rotate the cube.
Page 89: Configuring Menus And Toolbars
Figure 2.16 Font Preferences Dialog The upper part of the dialog shows the fonts selected for applications, documents, the desktop, window titles, and a fixed-width font for terminals. Click one of the buttons to open a selection dialog where you can set the font family, style, and size. For more information on the individual options, click Help.
Page 90: Configuring The Screen Saver
signment is removed and replaced by the new one. There is no automatic way to restore the original, default keyboard shortcut for a command. You must manually reassign the keyboard shortcut. This feature does not maintain shortcuts that are normally assigned to all ap- plications, such as Ctrl + C for copy.
Page 91: Choosing A Theme
Figure 2.17 Screensaver Preferences Dialog You can select from Random (random selection of screen savers from a custom-defined list), Blank Screen, or a selection of installed screen savers. Select a screen saver from the list to choose it. The currently selected screen saver is displayed in the small preview window.
Page 92 Controls The controls setting for a theme determines the visual appearance of windows, panels, and applets. It also determines the visual appearance of the GNOME-com- pliant interface items that appear on windows, panels, and applets, such as menus, icons, and buttons. Some of the controls setting options that are available are de- signed for special accessibility needs.
Page 93 4 Click the Window Border tab, then select the window frame option that you want to use in the custom theme. 5 Click the Icons tab, then select the icons option that you want to use in the custom theme. 6 Click Close >...
Page 94: Customizing Window Behavior
3 Click Install Theme. 4 Specify the location of the theme archive file in the Location field, then click 5 Click Install to install the new theme option. Procedure 2.4 Deleting a Theme Option You can delete controls options, window frame options, or icons options. 1 Click Computer >...
Page 95: Personal
Figure 2.18 Window Preferences Dialog When several application windows populate the desktop, the active one by default is the one last clicked. Change this behavior by activating Select Windows When the Mouse Moves over Them. If desired, activate Raise Selected Window after an Interval and adjust the latency time with the slider.
Page 96 2.4.1 Configuring Keyboard Accessibility Settings GNOME provides keyboard settings designed to help users with motion impairments using the GNOME desktop. Some of the available settings include: • How long a key is pressed and held before being recognized as valid input •...
Page 97 Before you can modify any settings, you need to activate Enable Keyboard Accessibil- ity Features at the top of the window. On three tabs, you can then define various settings for keys: Sticky Keys Some keyboard shortcuts require that one key (a modifier key) is kept pressed constantly (this applies to Alt , Ctrl , and Shift ) while the rest of the shortcut is typed.
Page 98 Mouse Keys To use the keyboard as mouse, switch to the Mouse Keys tab and activate Enable Mouse Keys. The mouse pointer is controlled with the arrow keys of the number pad. Use the sliders to set the maximum speed of the mouse pointer, the acceleration time until the maximum speed is reached, and the latency between the pressing of a key and the cursor movement.
Page 99 Figure 2.20 Assistive Technology Preferences Dialog The gok package must be installed in order to get on-screen keyboard support, and the gnopernicus and gnome-mag packages must be installed in order to get screen- reading and magnifying capabilities. If these packages are not installed on your system (they are installed by default during installation), install them with the following procedure: 1 Start the YaST package manager from the command line or open YaST and select Software >...
Page 100: Changing Your Password
2.4.3 Changing Your Password For security reasons, it is a good idea to change your login password from time to time. To change your password: 1 Click Computer > Control Center > Personal > Change Password. 2 Type your old (current) password. 3 Type your new password.
Page 101 YaST. Procedure 2.5 Managing Passwords with Novell CASA 1 Click Computer > Control Center > Personal > Novell CASA Manager. 2 If the CASA services are not available yet, a message box lets you start the ap- propriate YaST module to enable CASA first.
Page 102 OK. A tab is added for each store you selected, so you can now access and manage the passwords stored there from Novell CASA Manager. 6 To delete a password from one of the stores, select the entry, right-click and choose Delete.
Page 103: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
You can also edit existing passwords, import or export passwords, or link passwords with Novell CASA. For detailed information, click Help > Contents to access the CASA online help. Find the complete CASA documentation at http://developer .novell.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Downloads/casa. 2.4.6 Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys that provides an alternative to standard ways of performing an action.
Page 104: System
2.5 System In the following sections, find examples of how to configure some system aspects of your GNOME desktop, like language settings, power management, preferred applica- tions, session and session sharing preferences, Beagle search options, and audio prefer- ences. 2.5.1 Configuring Streaming Audio and Video With GNOME Control Center, you can configure which audio and video plug-ins you want to use for streaming multimedia.
Page 105: Configuring Network Proxies
To configure your language settings: 1 Click Computer > Control Center > System > Language. 2 Enter the root password. If you do not know the root password, contact your system administrator. You cannot continue without the root password. 3 Specify the primary language, whether you want to adapt the keyboard layout or time zone to the primary language, and any secondary languages you need to support on the computer.
Page 106: Configuring Power Management
Figure 2.22 Network Proxy Configuration Dialog For more information on the individual options, click Help. 2.5.4 Configuring Power Management The Power Management module lets you manage your system’s power-saving options. It is especially useful for extending the life of a laptop’s battery charge. However, several options also help to save electricity when you are using a computer that is plugged in to an electricity source.
Page 107 There are several sleep modes or actions you can set in the Power Management module: Do nothing The computer does not shut down or automatically go into any kind of power- saving mode. If you have a laptop, the laptop continues to run normally when the lid is closed.
Page 108: Setting Preferred Applications
4 If you configure how a laptop manages battery power, configure the action you want taken if battery power reaches a critical level. Choose the option you prefer by selecting it from the menu. If you have sufficient free disk space, Hibernate is the best choice. 5 If you want power management to prefer power savings over performance, select the check box for that option.
Page 109: Setting Session Sharing Preferences
Figure 2.23 Preferred Applications 1 Click Computer > Control Center > System > Preferred Applications. 2 Click the tab for the type of application you want to set. 3 Select one of the available from the applications from the Select menu or enter the command used to start the application.
Page 110 1 Click Computer > Control Center > System > Remote Desktop. 2 To share your desktop session with other users, activate Allow other users to view your desktop. All keyboard, pointer, and clipboard events from the remote user are ignored. 3 If you want or need to allow other users to access and control your session from a remote location, activate Allow other users to control your desktop.
Page 111: Managing Sessions
Figure 2.24 Search Preferences For more information, see Section 9.4, “Setting Search Preferences” (page 199) and Section 9.6, “Preventing Files and Directories from Being Indexed” (page 201). 2.5.8 Managing Sessions This module lets you manage your sessions. A session occurs between the time that you log in to the desktop environment and the time that you log out.
Page 112 Figure 2.25 Sessions Dialog—Session Options Page Procedure 2.7 Setting Session Preferences 1 Use the Session Options tab to manage multiple sessions and set preferences for the current session. For example, to manage multiple sessions, click Add and enter a session name to create a new session.
Page 113: Setting Sound Preferences
2.5.9 Setting Sound Preferences The Sound Preferences tool lets you control when the sound server starts. You can also specify which sounds to play when particular events occur. Click Computer > Control Center > System > Sound to open the Sound Preferences tool.
Page 114 Some applications play a beep sound to indicate a keyboard input error. Use the System Beep tab to set preferences for the system beep. 2.5.10 Configuring Administrative Settings with YaST For your convenience, YaST is available from the Control Panel as well as the Appli- cations menu.
Page 115: Part Ii Office And Collaboration
Part II. Office and Collaboration...
Page 117: The Openoffice.org Office Suite
You can also open and edit files in other formats, including Microsoft Office, then save them back to this format, if needed. This chapter covers information about the Novell® edition of OpenOffice.org and some of the key features you should be aware of when getting started with the suite.
Page 118 3.1.1 Advantages of the Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop includes the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org. The Novell edition includes several enhancements that are not yet included in the standard edition. Calc Enhancements The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org Calc includes the following enhancements that are not found in the standard edition: •...
Page 119 • A simple linear solver that allows simple numerical analysis. Writer Enhancements The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org Writer includes the following enhancements that are not found in the standard edition: • The Navigator provides a tree view of the document structure, providing improved document navigation.
Page 120 • An improved OpenSymbol font with attractive bullets rather than a symbol which is displayed when a glyph is missing. OpenClipart The linux version of the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org includes a large selection of free clipart from the OpenClipart project. To access http://openclipart.org...
Page 121 3.1.2 Using the Standard Edition of OpenOffice.org You can use the standard edition of OpenOffice.org rather than the Novell edition. If you install the latest version of OpenOffice.org, all of your Novell Edition files remain compatible. However, the standard edition does not contain the enhancements made in the Novell edition.
Page 122 Converting Documents to the OpenOffice.org Format OpenOffice.org can read, edit, and save documents in a number of formats. It is not necessary to convert files from those formats to the OpenOffice.org format to use those files. However, if you want to convert the files, you can do so. To convert a number of documents, such as when first switching to OpenOffice.org, do the following: 1 Select File >...
Page 123 If the recipient needs to be able to edit the file Save the document in the format the other user needs. For example, to save as a Microsoft Word file, click File > Save As, then select the Microsoft Word file type for the version of Word the other user needs.
Page 124 • In a terminal window, enter ooffice. The OpenOffice.org window opens. Click File New, then choose the module you want to open. If any OpenOffice.org application is open, you can open any of the other applications by clicking File > New > Name of Application. 3.1.5 Improving OpenOffice.org Load Time To speed up the load time of OpenOffice.org by preloading the application at system startup:...
Page 125: Customizing Menus
2 Click Customize Toolbar. 3 Select the toolbar you want to customize. The toolbar you clicked should already be selected. You can change the toolbar you want to customize by selecting the desired toolbar from the Toolbar menu. 4 Select the check boxes next to the commands you want to appear on the toolbar, and deselect the check boxes next to the commands you do not want to appear.
Page 126 2 Select the menu you want to change, or click New to create a new menu. Click Help for more information about the options in the Customize dialog. 3 Modify, add, or delete menu items as desired. 4 Click OK. Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts You can reassign currently assigned keyboard shortcuts and assign new shortcuts to frequently used functions.
Page 127: Changing The Global Settings
Changing the Global Settings Global settings can be changed in any OpenOffice.org application by clicking Tools > Options on the menu bar. This opens the window shown in the figure below. A tree structure is used to display categories of settings. Figure 3.1 The Options Window The following table lists the settings categories along with a brief description of each category:...
Page 128 Settings Description Application Category Load/Save Includes the settings related to the opening and saving of several file types. There is a dialog for general settings and several special dialogs to define how external formats should be handled. Language Covers the various settings related to languages and Settings writing aids, such as your locale and spell checker settings.
Page 129: Finding Templates
Settings Description Application Category OpenOf- Provides dialogs to set and edit connections and Base fice.org registered databases. Base Charts Defines the default colors used for newly created charts. Internet Includes the dialogs to configure any proxies and to change settings related to search engines. IMPORTANT All settings listed in the table are applied globally for the specified applications.
Page 130: Word Processing With Writer
Table 3.3 Where to Find OpenOffice.org Templates and Extras Location What You Can Find OpenOffice.org documentation Web site, Templates for Calc spreadsheets, CD cases, seed packets, fax cover sheets, and http://documentation more .openoffice.org/Samples _Templates/User/template_2 _x/index.html Worldlabel.com, see Templates for many types of labels http://www .worldlabel.com/Pages/ openoffice-template.htm...
Page 131: Creating A New Document
3.2.1 Creating a New Document There are two ways to create a new document: To create a document from scratch, click File > New > Text Document. To use a standard format and predefined elements for your own documents, try a wizard. Wizards are small utilities that let you make some basic decisions and then produce a ready-made document from a template.
Page 132: Formatting With Styles
a Word document. Most Word documents can be imported into OpenOffice.org without any problem. Formatting, fonts, and all other aspects of the document remain intact. However, some very complex documents—such as documents containing complicated tables, Word macros, or unusual fonts or formatting—might require some editing after being imported.
Page 133 Type of Style What it Does header and footer except for the first page, you can use a first page style that disables headers and footers. You can also use different page styles for left and right pages so that you have bigger margins on the insides of pages and your page numbers appear on an outside corner.
Page 134: Menu Options
Using Styles Versus Using Formatting Buttons and Menu Options Using styles rather than the Format menu options and buttons helps give your pages, paragraphs, texts, and lists a more consistent look and makes it easier to change your formatting. For example, if you emphasize text by selecting it and clicking the Bold button, then later decide you want emphasized text to be italicized, you need to find all of your bolded text and manually change it to italics.
Page 135: Using Templates To Format Documents
Creating a Style OpenOffice.org comes with a collection of styles to suit many users’ needs. However, most users eventually need a style that does not yet exist. To create a new style: 1 Right-click in any empty space in the Styles and Formatting window. Make sure you are in the list of styles for the type of style you want to create.
Page 136: Working With Large Documents
A detailed explanation of templates is beyond the scope of this section. However, more information is found in the help system, and detailed how-tos are found at the OpenOffice.org Documentation page, see http://documentation.openoffice .org/HOW_TO/index.html. Creating a Template A template is a text document containing only the styles and content that you want to appear in every document, such as your address information and letterhead on a letter.
Page 137 Navigating in Large Documents The Navigator tool displays information about the contents of a document. It also lets you quickly jump to different elements. For example, you can use the Navigator to get a quick overview of all images included in the document. To open the Navigator, click Edit >...
Page 138 NOTE If you are coming to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Word, you might be ner- vous about using master documents because the master document feature in Word has a reputation for corrupting documents. This problem does not exist in OpenOffice.org Writer, so you can safely use master documents to manage your projects.
Page 139: Using Writer As An Html Editor
3.2.6 Using Writer as an HTML Editor In addition to being a full-featured word processor, Writer also functions as an HTML editor. Writer includes HTML tags that can be applied as you would any other style in a Writer document. You can view the document as it will appear online, or you can directly edit the HTML code.
Page 140: Using Spreadsheets With Calc
3.3 Using Spreadsheets with Calc Calc is the OpenOffice.org spreadsheet application. Create a new spreadsheet with File > New > Spreadsheet or open one with File > Open. Calc can read and save in Microsoft Excel's format, so it is easy to exchange spreadsheets with Excel users. NOTE Calc can process many VBA macros in Excel documents;...
Page 141: Using Templates In Calc
Modifying a Style 1 Click Format > Styles and Formatting. 2 In the Formatting and Styles window, click either the Cell Styles or the Page Styles icon. 3 Right-click the name of the style you want to change, then click Modify. 4 Change the desired formatting options.
Page 142: Using Presentations With Impress
3 Click File > Templates > Save. 4 Specify a name for the template. 5 In the Categories box, click the category you want to place the template in. The category is the folder where the template is stored. 6 Click OK. 3.4 Using Presentations with Impress Use OpenOffice.org Impress to create presentations for screen display or printing, such as slide shows or transparencies.
Page 143: Using Master Pages
Impress uses styles and templates the same way other OpenOffice.org mod- ules do. See Section 3.2.4, “Using Templates to Format Documents” (page 123) for more information about templates. 3.4.2 Using Master Pages Master pages give your presentation a consistent look by defining the way each slide looks, what fonts are used, and other graphical elements.
Page 144 When you have created all of the slide masters you want to use in your presen- tations, you can save them in an Impress template. Then, any time you want to create presentations that use those slide masters, open a new presentation with your template.
Page 145: Using Databases With Base
3.5 Using Databases with Base OpenOffice.org includes a database module: Base. Use Base to design a database to store many different kinds of information, from a simple address book or recipe file to a sophisticated document management system. Tables, forms, queries, and reports can be created manually or using convenient wizards. For example, the Table Wizard contains a number of common fields for business and personal use.
Page 146 4 Browse to the directory where you want to save the database, specify a name for the database, then click OK. Setting Up the Database Table Next, define the fields you want to use in your database table. 1 In the Table Wizard, click Personal. The Sample tables list changes to show the predefined tables for personal use.
Page 147 9 Click Create a primary key, click Automatically add a primary key, click Auto value, then click Next. 10 Accept the default name for the table, select Create a form based on this table, then click Finish. Creating a Form Next, create the form to use when entering data into your address book.
Page 148: Creating Graphics With Draw
What’s Next? After you have created your database tables and forms, you are ready to enter your data. You can also design queries and reports to help sort and display the data. Refer to OpenOffice.org online help and other sources listed in Section 3.8, “Finding Help and Information About OpenOffice.org”...
Page 149: Creating Mathematical Formulas With Math
3 Click in your document, outside the Draw frame. The drawing is automatically inserted into your document. 3.7 Creating Mathematical Formulas with Math It is usually difficult to include complex mathematical formulas in your documents. The OpenOffice.org Math equation editor lets you create formulas using operators, functions, and formatting assistants.
Page 150 OpenOffice.org Migration Guide (http://documentation.openoffice.org/ manuals/oooauthors2/0600MG-MigrationGuide.pdf) Information about migrating to OpenOffice.org from other office suites, including Microsoft Office Taming OpenOffice.org (http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/) Books, news, tips and tricks OpenOffice.org Macros (http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php) Extensive information about creating and using macros GNOME User Guide...
Page 151: Evolution: E-Mail And Calendaring
Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring Evolution makes the tasks of storing, organizing, and retrieving your personal informa- tion easy, so you can work and communicate more effectively with others. It is a highly evolved groupware program, and represents part of the Internet-connected desktop. Evolution can help you work in a group by handling e-mail, address, and other contact information, and one or more calendars.
Page 152: Using The Setup Assistant
4.1.1 Using the Setup Assistant The first time you run Evolution, it creates a directory called .evolution in your home directory, where its local data is stored. Then, it opens a Setup Assistant to help you set up e-mail accounts and import data from other applications. Using the Setup Assistant takes just a few minutes and helps you to provide the infor- mation Evolution needs to get started.
Page 153 • Select a server type in the Server Type list. The following represents a list of server types that are available: Novell GroupWise Select this option if you connect to Novell GroupWise®. Novell GroupWise keeps e-mail, calendar, and contact information on the server. Microsoft Exchange Available only if you have installed the Connector for Microsoft* Exchange (package evolution-exchange).
Page 154 Remote Configuration Options If you selected Novell GroupWise, IMAP, POP, or USENET News as your server, you need to specify the following additional information. 1 Type the hostname of your e-mail server in the Server field. If you do not know the hostname, contact your administrator.
Page 155 After you have selected a mail delivery mechanism, you can set some preferences for its behavior. Novell GroupWise Receiving Options If you select Novell GroupWise as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following options: 1 Select whether you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail. If you select this option, you need to specify how often Evolution should check for new messages.
Page 156 4 Select whether you want to check new messages for spam content. 5 Select whether you want to only check for spam messages in the Inbox folder. 6 Select whether you want to automatically synchronize remote mail locally. 7 Type your Post Office Agent SOAP port in the Post Office Agent SOAP Port field.
Page 157 6 Select whether you want to apply filters to new messages in the Inbox on the server. 7 Select whether you want to check new messages for spam content. 8 Select whether you want to only check for spam messages in the Inbox folder. 9 Click Forward.
Page 158 8 Specify whether you want to automatically synchronize remote mail locally. 9 Click Forward. When you have finished, continue with Section “Sending Mail” (page 148). POP Receiving Options If you select POP as your receiving server type, you need to specify the following op- tions: 1 Choose whether you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail.
Page 159 If you select to show relative folder names in the subscription page, only the name of the folder is displayed. For example the folder evolution.mail would appear as evolution. 4 Click Forward. When you have finished, continue with Section “Sending Mail” (page 148).
Page 160 1 Select whether you want Evolution to automatically check for new mail. If you select this option, you need to specify how often Evolution should check for new messages. 2 Choose if you want to apply filters to new messages in the Inbox. 3 Click Forward.
Page 161: Smtp Configuration
Sendmail Uses the Sendmail program to send mail from your system. Sendmail is more flexible, but its configuration is not easy. Please, select this option only if you know how to set up a Sendmail service. SMTP Sends mail using an outbound mail server. This is the most common choice for sending mail.
Page 162: Time Zone
Account Management Now that you have finished the e-mail configuration process you need to give the account a name. The name can be any name you prefer. Type your account name on the Name field, then click Forward. Continue with Section “Time Zone”...
Page 163: Using Evolution: An Overview
Contact files are stored in a database, but can be saved as a standard vCard*. To export contact data, open your contacts tool and select the contacts you want to export (press Ctrl+A to select them all). Click File > Save as VCard. 4.2 Using Evolution: An Overview Now that the first-run configuration has finished, you are ready to begin using Evolution.
Page 164: The Menu Bar
Toolbar The toolbar gives you fast and easy access to the frequently used features in each component. Search Tool The search tool lets you search your e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks to easily find what you are looking for. Message List The message list displays a list of e-mail that you have received.
Page 165: The Shortcut Bar
Edit Holds useful tools that help you edit text and move it around. Lets you access the settings and configuration options in the Edit menu. View Lets you decide how Evolution should look. Some of the features control the ap- pearance of Evolution as a whole, and others the way a particular kind of information appears.
Page 166: Folder Management
mail tool shows any remote e-mail storage you have set up, plus local folders and search folders. If you get large amounts of e-mail, you might want more folders than just your Inbox. You can create multiple calendar, task, or contacts folders. To create a new folder: 1 Click Folder >...
Page 167 Properties Provides information about the number of total and unread messages in a folder. If you want to copy a remote folder to your local system for offline operation, check Index message body data. You can also rearrange folders and messages by dragging and dropping them. If an e-mail folder contains unread messages, the folder label is displayed in bold text, along with the number of unread messages in the folder.
Page 168: The Calendar
If you find the preview pane too small, you can resize the pane, enlarge the whole window, or double-click the message in the message list to have it open in a new win- dow. To change the size of a pane, drag the divider between the two panes. As with folders, you can right-click messages in the message list and get a menu of possible actions, including moving or deleting them, creating filters or search folders based on them, and marking them as spam mail.
Page 169 Another advantage of the Evolution contacts tool is its integration with the rest of the application. For example, you can right-click on an e-mail address in Evolution mail to instantly create a contact entry. To use the contacts tool, click Contacts in the shortcut bar. By default, the display shows all your contacts in alphabetical order, in a minicard view.
Page 171: Groupwise Linux Client: E-Mailing And Calendaring
GroupWise Linux Client: E-Mailing and Calendaring GroupWise® is a robust, dependable messaging and collaboration system that connects you to your universal mailbox anytime and anywhere. This section gives you an intro- ductory overview of the GroupWise client to help you start using the GroupWise cross- platform client quickly and easily.
Page 172 Figure 5.1 GroupWise Main Window You can open more than one main window in GroupWise by clicking Window and then New Main Window. This is useful if you proxy for another user. You can look at your own main window and the main window belonging to the person you want to proxy for.
Page 173: Folder And Item List Header
5.1.2 Folder and Item List Header The folder and item list header provides a drop-down list where you can select the mode of GroupWise you want to run (Online or Caching), select to open your archived or backup mailbox, and select a proxy mailbox. 5.1.3 Folder List The folder list at the left of the main window lets you organize your GroupWise items.
Page 174 Mailbox Folder The Mailbox displays all the items you have received, with the exception of scheduled items (appointments, tasks, and reminder notes) you have accepted or declined. Accepted scheduled items are moved to the Calendar. Sent Items Folder The Sent Items folder displays all sent items from the Mailbox and Calendar. The Sent Items folder in versions prior to GroupWise 6.5 was a query folder, which had some differences from the current Sent Items folder.
Page 175 Contacts Folder The Contacts folder, by default, represents the Frequent Contacts address book in the Address Book. Any modification you make in the Contacts Folder is also made in the Frequent Contacts address book. From this folder, you can view, create and modify contacts, resources, organizations and groups.
Page 176 Checklist Folder Task List Folder Any item type can reside in this Only tasks show in this folder. Tasks are sched- folder. uled items that are associated with a due date. To mark an item completed, click To mark an item completed, open the item, then the check box next to the item in click Completed.
Page 177: Shared Folders
Junk Mail Folder All e-mail items from addresses and Internet domains that are junked through Junk Mail Handling are placed in the Junk Mail folder. This folder is not created in the folder list unless a Junk Mail option is enabled. While Junk Mail options are enabled, this folder cannot be deleted.
Page 178: Using Different Groupwise Modes
5.1.4 Item List The Item List on the right side of the Main Window displays your mail and phone messages, appointments, reminder notes, tasks, and document references. You can sort the Item List by clicking a column heading. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading a second time.
Page 179: Understanding Your Mailbox
5.2.2 Caching Mode Caching mode stores a copy of your network mailbox, including your messages and other information, on your local drive. This allows you to use GroupWise whether or not your network or Post Office Agent is available. Because you are not connected to the network all the time, this mode cuts down on network traffic and has the best per- formance.
Page 180 5.3.2 Icons Appearing Next to Items in Your Mailbox and Calendar The icons that appear next to items in your Mailbox and Calendar show information about the items. The following table explains what each icon means. Table 5.3 Icon Descriptions Icon Description Next to an item you have sent in Caching mode, the...
Page 181 Icon Description Draft item. Appears next to an item you have sent. Appears next to an item you have replied to. Appears next to an item you have forwarded. Appears next to an item you have delegated. Appears next to an item you have replied to and forwarded Appears next to an item you have replied to and delegated.
Page 182: Using The Toolbar
Icon Description Unopened reminder note with a low, standard, or high priority. Opened reminder note with a low, standard, or high priority. Unopened phone message with a low, standard, or high priority. Opened phone message with a low, standard, or high priority. The sender has requested that you reply to this item.
Page 183: Using Shortcut Keys
5.5 Using Shortcut Keys You can use a number of shortcut keys in GroupWise for accessibility or to save time when you perform various operations. The table below lists some of these keystrokes, what they do, and the context where they work. Table 5.4 Shortcut Keys Keystroke...
Page 184 Keystroke Action Where It Works Ctrl+M Open a new mail message Main Window, Calendar, item, dialog box Ctrl+O Open the selected message Item List Ctrl+P Open the Print dialog box Main Window, item Ctrl+Q Turn the QuickViewer on and off Main Window, Calendar Ctrl+R Mark the selected item unread...
Page 185 Keystroke Action Where It Works Ctrl+Shift+T Open a new task Main Window, Calendar, item, dialog box Ctrl+Shift+R Open a new reminder note Main Window, Calendar, item, dialog box Ctrl+Shift+P Open a new phone message Main Window, Calendar, item, dialog box Alt+F4 From the Main Window or Calen- Main Window, Calendar,...
Page 186: For More Information
Keystroke Action Where It Works Shift+Home Shift + [letter] In the Folder List, Shift + the first Folder list letter of a subfolder name goes to the subfolder. Cycle through fields, buttons, and Main Window, Calendar, areas dialog box, item Shift+Tab Reverse the order of cycling Main Window, Calendar,...
Page 187 Page For the latest version of the GroupWise user guide and for extensive GroupWise admin- istration documentation, go to the GroupWise 7 area on the Novell Documentation Web site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7). This user guide is also available from the GroupWise client by clicking Help > User Guide.
Page 189: Instant Messaging With Gaim
Instant Messaging with Gaim Use Gaim to use all of your instant messaging accounts from a single instant messaging client. Gaim supports all of the most popular instant messaging protocols, so you can log in to all of your accounts at once and chat live with your contacts in one tabbed in- terface, regardless of which IM system they use.
Page 190: Setting Up An Account
• IRC • Jabber • MSN • Napster • Yahoo • Zephyr 6.2 Setting Up an Account To use Gaim, you must already have accounts on the systems you want to use. For ex- ample, to use Gaim for your AIM account, you must first have an AIM account. Once you have those accounts, set them up in the Gaim Add Account dialog.
Page 191: Managing Your Buddy List
4 Enter the setup options for the chosen protocol. Typical options include your account name and password. Your protocol might support additional options, such as a buddy icon, alias, login options, or others. 5 Click Save. 6 Repeat Steps 2 to 5 for each additional protocol. Once an account is added, you can log in to that account by entering your account name and password in the Gaim Login dialog.
Page 192: Chatting
6.3.3 Removing a Buddy To remove a buddy, right-click on that buddy’s name in the Buddy List, then click Re- move. 6.4 Chatting To open a chat session, double-click a buddy name in the Buddy List. The Chat screen opens. Type your message, then press Enter to send it. Each chat session you open appears as a tab in the Chat screen.
Page 193: Using Voice Over Ip With Ekiga
Using Voice over IP with Ekiga Modern telecommunication means far more than just making a phone call. It is also about exchanging text messages and sometimes even video conferencing. Roaming enables you to be reachable under one phone number all across the world. Ekiga brings these features to your Linux desktop, allowing you to communicate over broadband Internet.
Page 194 1 Enter your full name (name and surname). 2 Enter your ekiga.net account data or choose not to sign up with ekiga .net. To add other accounts later, configure them using Edit > Accounts. 3 Determine your connection type. 4 Determine the type of firewall to use to enable you to make calls with Ekiga. 5 Choose the audio manager to use.
Page 195: The Ekiga User Interface
5 Leave the configuration dialog with OK and activate the account. The status of your account displayed in the Ekiga main window changes to Registered. 7.2 The Ekiga User Interface All functions of Ekiga are available through the menu bar. Shortcuts to the most impor- tant functions are available in a toolbar to the left and by special key combinations.
Page 196 At the bottom of the user interface, several tabs provide the functionality for Dialpad, Audio, Video, and Statistics. Some settings like the Audio settings may only be changed during a phone call. Many of the functions of Ekiga are available with keyboard shortcuts. Table 7.1, “Keyboard Shortcuts for Ekiga”...
Page 197: Making A Call
7.3 Making a Call Once Ekiga is configured appropriately, making a call is straightforward. 1 Start Ekiga using the menu or the command line. 2 Enter the SIP address of the party to call at the SIP address prompt. The address should look like: •...
Page 198: Using The Address Book
Panel Applet Normally, the Ekiga panel applet would run silently without giving any notice of its existence. This changes as soon as a call comes in. The main window of Ekiga opens and you hear a ring sound on your headset or speakers. Once you have noticed an incoming call, just click Accept to answer the call then start talking.
Page 199: For More Information
To call any contact from the address book, double-click this contact. The call is initiated immediately. 7.6 For More Information The official home page of Ekiga is http://www.ekiga.org/. This site offers answers to frequently asked questions as well as more detailed documentation. For information about the support of the H323 teleconferencing protocol in Linux, see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/H.323.
Page 201: Accessing Network Resources
Accessing Network Resources From your desktop, you can access files and directories or certain services on remote hosts or make your own files and directories available to other users in your network. SUSE Linux Enterprise® offers the following ways of accessing and creating network shared resources.
Page 202: General Notes On File Sharing And Network Browsing
8.1 General Notes on File Sharing and Network Browsing Whether and to which extent you can use file sharing and network browsing on your machine and in your network highly depends on the network structure and on the con- figuration of your machine. Before setting up either of them, contact your system ad- ministrator to make sure that your network structure supports this feature and to check whether your company's security policies permit it.
Page 203: Sharing Folders
To access network shares, open Nautilus and click Network Servers. Nautilus displays the networks that you can access. Click a network, then click the server. You might be required to authenticate to the server by providing a username and password. Figure 8.1 Network File Browser 8.3 Sharing Folders Sharing and exchanging documents is a must-have in corporate environments.
Page 204: Enabling Sharing For A Folder
4 Click Windows Domain Membership. 5 Click Allow Users to Share Their Directories, then click Finish. 8.3.2 Enabling Sharing for a Folder To configure file sharing for a folder: 1 Open Nautilus. 2 Right-click the window background or a folder, then select Sharing Options from the context menu.
Page 205: Managing Windows Files
to the internal firewall zone. Ask your system administrator about how to proceed. 8.4 Managing Windows Files With your SUSE Linux Enterprise machine being an Active Directory client, you can browse, view, and manipulate data located on Windows servers. The following examples are just the most prominent ones: Browsing Windows Files with Nautilus Use Nautilus's network browsing features to browse your Windows data.
Page 206: Configuring And Accessing A Windows Network Printer
To create folders in your Windows user folder using Nautilus, proceed as you would when creating a Linux folder. 8.5 Configuring and Accessing a Windows Network Printer Being part of a corporate network and authenticating against a Windows Active Direc- tory server, you can access corporate resources, such as printers.
Page 207: Searching With Beagle
Searching with Beagle Beagle is a search tool that indexes your personal information space (normally your home directory) to find whatever you are looking for. Using Beagle, you can find doc- uments, e-mails and attachments, Web history, IM/IRC conversations, address book contacts, calendar appointments, notes, source code, images, music and video files, archives and their contents, and applications.
Page 208 Figure 9.1 Desktop Search Dialog Box You can use the results lists to open a file, forward it via e-mail, or display it in the file manager. Simply right-click an item in the results list and select the option you need. The options available for an item in the results list depend on the type of file.
Page 209: Search Tips
9.2 Search Tips • You can use both uppercase and lowercase letters in search terms. Searches are not case-sensitive by default. To perform a case-sensitive search, put double quotation marks (“) around the word you want to match exactly. For example, if you use “APPLE” in a search, apple will be ignored.
Page 210 Table 9.1 Supported Property Keywords Keyword Applies to Property album Music files Name of album artist Music file Name of artist author Document Author of the document (same as Creator of the Document) creator Document Creator of the document, mapped to dc:creator (for example, creator of PDF files) email Address book...
Page 211: Setting Search Preferences
Keyword Applies to Property speakingto Chat Speaker title Document Title of document, mapped to dc:title (for exam- ple, title tag of HTML files) Property searches follow the rules mentioned in Section 9.2, “Search Tips” (page 197). You can use property searches as an OR query or as an exclusion query, and phrases can be used as query.
Page 212: Indexing Other Directories
2 Choose from the following options: Start search & indexing services automatically: Select this option if you want the search daemon to start automatically when you log in to your session (this option is selected by default). If you want to use Beagle’s Search functionality, the daemon must be running.
Page 213: Preventing Files And Directories From Being Indexed
3 Click Add in the General section of the dialog box. 4 Select the directory you want to index, then click Open. Make sure you have rights to the directories you add. 5 If you want to remove a directory from the list of indexed directories, select it in the list, then click Remove.
Page 214: For More Information
3 Click Add in the Privacy section. 4 Select a resource to exclude from indexing, then specify the path to the resource. 5 Click OK twice. 9.7 For More Information For more information, refer to Beagle Home Page [http://beagle-project .org/] GNOME User Guide...
Page 215: 0 Managing Printers
Managing Printers SUSE Linux Enterprise makes it easy to print your documents, whether your computer is connected directly to a printer or linked remotely on a network. This chapter describes how to set up printers in SLED and manage print jobs. 10.1 Installing a Printer Before you can install a printer, you need to know the root password and have your printer information ready.
Page 216: Installing A Local Printer
Windows Printer (SMB) A printer attached to a different system which is sharing a printer over a SMB network (for example, a printer attached to a Microsoft Windows ma- chine). UNIX Printer (LPD) A printer attached to a different UNIX system that can be accessed over a TCP/IP network (for example, a printer attached to another Linux system on your network).
Page 217: Modifying Printer Settings
5 Click Forward. 6 Select the printer driver for this printer, then click Apply. You can also install a printer driver from a disk, or visit the printer manufacturer's Web site to download the latest driver. 7 Specify desired options (such as a description or location) for the printer in the Properties dialog box, then click Close.
Page 218 2 Click Edit > Become Administrator. 3 Type the root password, then click Continue. 4 Right-click the printer you want to delete, then click Remove. GNOME User Guide...
Page 219: Part Iii Internet
Part III. Internet...
Page 221: 1 Managing Network Connections
Managing Network Connections To surf the Internet or send and receive e-mail messages, you must have configured an Internet connection with YaST. Depending on your environment, in YaST select whether to use NetworkManager. In GNOME, you can then establish Internet connections with NetworkManager or ifup.
Page 222: Networkmanager And Scpm
refer to the respective section in Basic Networking in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Deployment Guide. 5 Click Finish to close the Network Card Configuration Overview window. If you want to use a dial-up connection, configure your modem in Network Devices > Modem.
Page 223: Using Gnome Networkmanager Applet
11.3 Using GNOME NetworkManager Applet If you have decided to use NetworkManager, the GNOME NetworkManager applet starts automatically with the desktop environment. If the applet is not running, you can start it with the nm-applet command. When it is running, an icon indicating the current network status is shown in the system tray.
Page 224: Connecting To Wireless Networks
3 To switch off all network connections, both wired and wireless, right-click the applet icon and uncheck Enable Networking. To get information about the current connection (including interface used, IP address, and hardware address), right-click the applet icon and select Connection Information. In this dialog, you can also configure your network devices.
Page 225 2 Choose the type of Encryption the network uses and enter the appropriate Passphrase or Key. 3 To connect to a network that does not broadcast its service set identifier (ESSID) and therefore cannot be detected automatically, left-click the NetworkManager icon and choose Connect to Other Wireless Network.
Page 226: Networkmanager And Security
11.4 NetworkManager and Security NetworkManager distinguishes two types of wireless connections, trusted and untrusted. A trusted connection is any network that you explicitly selected in the past. All others are untrusted. Trusted connections are identified by the name and MAC address of the access point.
Page 227: Using Networkmanager With Vpn
2 Add the network name and set the encryption in the Wireless Security dialog. IMPORTANT: Unprotected Wireless Networks Are a Security Risk If you set Wireless Security to None, everybody can connect to your network, reuse your connectivity, and intercept your network connection. To restrict access to your access point and to secure your connection, use encryption.
Page 228 Procedure 11.2 Configuring a VPN connection with NetworkManager 1 Click the NetworkManager applet and select VPN Connections > Configure VPN. 2 Click Add, then click Forward to start the Create VPN Connection wizard. 3 Select the type of VPN connection you want to create, then click Forward. 4 Type a name for your configuration in the Connection Name field.
Page 229 Section 2.4.4, “Managing Keyrings” (page 88). Another option is to use single sign-on with Novell CASA. Single Sign-on is a method of access control that enables users to authenticate once and thus gain access to the re- sources of multiple software systems. If Novell CASA is configured for your system, NetworkManager will not ask for an additional password to unlock GNOME Keyring Manager.
Page 231: 2 Browsing With Firefox
Browsing with Firefox Included with your SUSE Linux Enterprise® is the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. With features like tabbed browsing, pop-up window blocking, and download and image management, Firefox combines the latest browsing and security technologies with an easy to use interface. Using tabs you can view more than one Web page in a single window.
Page 232: Tabbed Browsing
Figure 12.1 The Browser Window of Firefox 12.1.1 Tabbed Browsing If you often use more than one Web page at a time, tabbed browsing makes it easier to switch between the pages. It allows you to load Web sites in separate tabs within one window.
Page 233: Finding Information
12.1.2 Using the Sidebar Use the left side of your browser window for viewing bookmarks or the browsing his- tory. Extensions may add new ways to use the sidebar as well. To display the sidebar, select View > Sidebar and select the desired contents. 12.2 Finding Information There are two ways to find information in Firefox: use the search bar to search the In- ternet with a search engine and the find bar to search the page currently displayed.
Page 234: Managing Bookmarks
12.2.2 Searching in the Current Page To search inside a Web page, click Edit > Find in This Page or press Ctrl + F . The find bar opens. Usually, it is displayed at the bottom of a window. Type your query in the input field.
Page 235 Figure 12.2 Using the Firefox Bookmark Manager To open the bookmark manager, click Bookmark > Organize Bookmarks. A window opens and displays your bookmarks. With New Folder, create a new folder with a name and a description. If you need a new bookmark, click New Bookmark. This lets you insert the name, location, keywords, and also a description.
Page 236: Live Bookmarks
2 Select File > New Live Bookmark 3 Insert a name for the live bookmark and enter the URL in the Feed Location, for example, http://www.novell.com/newsfeeds/rss/coolsolutions .xml. Firefox updates your live bookmarks. 4 Close your bookmark manager. 12.3.4 The Bookmarks Toolbar The Bookmarks Toolbar is displayed beneath the navigation bar and lets you quickly access bookmarks.
Page 237: Using The Download Manager
To manage the Bookmarks Toolbar you can use the bookmark manager as described Section 12.3.1, “Using the Bookmark Manager” (page 222). Its content is located in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder. It is also possible to manage the toolbar directly. To add a folder, bookmark, or separator, right-click on an empty space in the toolbar and choose the appropriate entry from the pop-up menu.
Page 238: Customizing Firefox
disk in an encrypted format. Next time you access this site, Firefox will automatically fill in the login data. To review or manage your passwords, open the Password Manager by clicking Edit > Preferences > Security > Show Passwords..The Password Manager opens with a list of sites and their corresponding usernames.
Page 239: Changing Themes
Figure 12.3 Installing Firefox Extensions In order to disable or activate a temporarily disabled extension, click on an extension in the add-ons manager and choose Disable or Enable. To definitely remove an exten- sion, use Delete. Firefox always has to be restarted for the change to take effect. 12.6.2 Changing Themes If you do not like the standard look and feel of Firefox, install a new theme.
Page 240 Figure 12.4 Installing Firefox Themes You can always switch between installed themes by clicking Tools > Add-ons > Themes and then Use Theme. However, Firefox has to be restarted for the change to take effect. If you do not use a theme anymore, you can delete it in the same dialog with Uninstall. 12.6.3 Adding Smart Keywords to Your Online Searches Searching the Internet is one of the main tasks a browser can perform for you.
Page 241: Printing From Firefox
5 With Create in, choose the location within your bookmarks where to save this smart keyword. 6 Finalize with Add. You have successfully generated a new keyword. Whenever you want to search in Wikipedia , you can now type ws SEARCHTERM into the navigation bar. 12.6.4 Disabling Features For special use cases, for instance when using SUSE Linux Enterprise as an Internet terminal, it is desirable to disable (lockdown) certain features, such as saving or printing...
Page 242: For More Information
users and also binds MHTML archives (ending in either .mht or .mhtml) to Firefox in the desktop shell. 12.9 For More Information Get more information about Firefox from the official home page at http://www .mozilla.com/firefox/. Refer to the integrated help (available via F1 ) to find out more about certain options or features.
Page 243: 3 Reading Newsfeeds With Liferea
Reading Newsfeeds with Liferea Liferea is a news aggregator for receiving and reading online newsfeeds. It provides GNOME users a fast, easy-to-use interface for reading Internet newsfeeds and blogs. 13.1 Starting Liferea To start Liferea, click Computer > More Applications > Communicate > Liferea. Reading Newsfeeds with Liferea...
Page 244: Reading A Newsfeed
Drag the borders between each pane to resize the panes for a more comfortable viewing. 13.2 Reading a Newsfeed Liferea comes preconfigured to receive newsfeeds from Novell® Cool Solutions™ and Novell Technical Information. To read one of these example feeds: 1 Start Liferea as described in Section 13.1, “Starting Liferea”...
Page 245 2 In the Feed List, click the subscription you want to read. For example, click Example Feeds > Novell > Novell Cool Solutions. 3 Click a headline in the Item List. Unread headlines appear in bold text. When you click a headline, the selected item opens for reading in the view pane.
Page 246: Creating A New Subscription
13.3 Creating a New Subscription You can subscribe to feeds from many locations on the Internet. These include news and information services, blogs, discussion forums, and more. This section describes how to add a subscription. The example in the following procedure shows how to sub- scribe to the CNN* Top Stories newsfeed, but the process is very similar for most feed providers.
Page 247: Updating Subscriptions
13.4 Updating Subscriptions Subscriptions are updated with the latest headlines according to the time interval you set when you created the subscription. You can also update your subscriptions manually, before the interval has passed. You have the following choices: Update all subscriptions at once Click Feeds >...
Page 249: Part Iv Multimedia
Part IV. Multimedia...
Page 251: 4 Manipulating Graphics With The Gimp
Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP The GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a program for creating and editing raster graphics. In most aspects, its features are comparable to those of Adobe Photoshop and other commercial programs. Use it to resize and retouch photographs, design graphics for Web pages, create covers for your custom CDs, or almost any other graphics project.
Page 252: Starting The Gimp
Unlike raster graphics, vector graphics do not store information for all individual pixels. Instead, it uses geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons. Vector images can be scaled very easily. There are many specialized applications for vector graphics, for example Inkscape. The GIMP has only a very limited support for vector graphics.
Page 253 Figure 14.1 The Main Window The current foreground and background color are shown in two overlapping boxes. The default colors are black for the foreground and white for the background. Click the box to open a color selection dialog. Swap the foreground and background color with the bent arrow symbol to the upper right of the boxes.
Page 254: Getting Started
Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo In the first section, use the drop-down box to select the image to which the tabs refer. By clicking Auto, control whether the active image is chosen automatically. By default, Auto is enabled. Layers shows the different layers in the current images and can be used to manipulate (page 252).
Page 255: Opening An Existing Image
In Colorspace, select whether the image should be in color (RGB) or Grayscale. For detailed information about image types, see Section 14.5.7, “Image Modes” (page 253). In Fill With select the color the image is filled with. You can choose between Foreground Color and Background Color set in the toolbox, White or Transparency for a transparent image.
Page 256: Saving Images
14.3.4 The Image Window The new, opened, or scanned image appears in its own window. The menu bar in the top of the window provides access to all image functions. Alternatively, access the menu by right-clicking the image or clicking the small arrow button in the left corner of the rulers.
Page 257: Editing Images
This is the format used for The GIMP patterns. Saving an image in this format en- ables using the image as a fill pattern in The GIMP. JPEG JPG or JPEG is a common format for photographs and Web page graphics without transparency.
Page 258: Changing The Image Size
14.5.1 Changing the Image Size Once an image is scanned or a digital photograph is loaded from the camera, it is often necessary to modify the size for display on a Web page or for printing. Images can easily be made smaller either by scaling them down or by cutting off parts of them. Making an image larger is much more problematic.
Page 259: Selecting Parts Of Images
Changing the Canvas Size Changing the canvas size is like putting a mat around an image. Even if the mat is smaller, the rest of the image is there, but you can only see part of it. If the mat is larger, you see the original image with extra space around it.
Page 260 Ellipse Select Use this to select elliptical or circular areas. The same options are available as with rectangular selection. Holding Shift during selection produces a circle. Free Select (Lasso) Draw a selection area freehand with this tool by dragging the mouse over the image with the left mouse button pressed.
Page 261: Applying And Removing Color
After using the paint tools to adjust the selection as desired, convert from the quick mask view back to the normal selection view by clicking the icon in the lower left corner of the image window (currently displaying a red box). The selection is again displayed with the marching ants.
Page 262 left then shows available nuances. Click the desired color. It is then shown in Current. If that color is not what you want, try again. The arrow button to the right of Current enables saving a number of possible colors. Click the arrow to copy the current color to the history.
Page 263: Adjusting Color Levels
The text tool creates text on a special layer. To work with the image after adding text, read Section 14.5.6, “Layers” (page 252). When the text layer is active, it is possible to modify the text by clicking in the image to reopen the entry dialog. Change the settings by modifying the tool options.
Page 264: Undoing Mistakes
apply the changes. With Reset, restore the original settings. Cancel aborts level adjust- ment. 14.5.5 Undoing Mistakes Most modifications made in The GIMP can be undone. To view a history of modifica- tions, use the undo dialog included in the default window layout or open one from the toolbox menu with File >...
Page 265: Printing Images
14.5.7 Image Modes The GIMP has three image modes—RGB, Grayscale, and Indexed. RGB is a normal color mode and is the best mode for editing most images. Grayscale is used for black- and-white images. Indexed limits the colors in the image to a set number. It is mainly used for GIF images.
Page 266: For More Information
Figure 14.3 The Print Dialog In the bottom portion of the window, adjust the image size. Press Use Original Image Size to take these settings from the image itself. This is recommended if you set an ap- propriate print size and resolution in the image. Adjust the image's position on the page with the fields in Position or by dragging the image in Preview.
Page 267 • Help provides access to the internal help system. This documentation is also available in HTML and PDF formats at http://docs.gimp.org. • Find many tutorials explaining basic or advanced image manipulation techniques with The GIMP at http://gimp.org/tutorials/. • The GIMP User Group offers an informative Web site at http://gug.sunsite .dk.
Page 269: 5 Managing Your Digital Image Collection
Managing Your Digital Image Collection F-Spot is a management tool for your collection of digital images tailored for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to assign different tags to your images in order to cat- egorize them and offers various neat image editing options. For example, you can remove red-eye, crop, and adjust brightness and colors.
Page 270 Figure 15.1 F-Spot Main Window F-Spot's main window is divided into three main areas. Categories, tags, and detailed information for the selected images are displayed in a sidebar on the left and thumbnails of all images bearing the selected tag or category or, if none is selected, the entire col- lection is displayed in the right part of the window.
Page 271: Importing Photos
Icon Description Edit Photo This mode allows you to select one image and do some basic image processing. Details are available in Sec- tion 15.7, “Basic Photo Editing” (page 269). Fullscreen Switch to fullscreen display mode. Slideshow Start a slide show. 15.1 Importing Photos You can import photos from your hard drive or from your digital camera (see Sec-...
Page 272: Downloading Pictures From Your Camera
By default, F-Spot copies your photos to the /Photos directory in your home directory. You can change the directory F-Spot uses by clicking Edit > Preferences. If all the photos you are importing are from a particular event, or if they have some other characteristic in common, you can create a tag for them so you can easily find them at a later time.
Page 273: Getting Photo Information
3 Click Copy. 4 When the photo transfer is complete, click OK. The photos are added to your catalog. 15.3 Getting Photo Information When you select an image, some basic statistical information is displayed in the lower- left part of the window. This includes the filename, its version (copy or original image), the date of creation, size, and the exposure used in creating this particular photo.
Page 274: Managing Tags
Figure 15.3 F-Spot Metadata Browser 15.4 Managing Tags Use tags to categorize any of your photos to create manageable subsets of your collection. F-Spot comes with default tags, but you can change them and add new ones. If, for example, you want to organize your collection of portrait shots of your friends or fam- ily, do the following: 1 Select the Browse mode of F-Spot.
Page 275: Searching And Finding Photos
3 Attach tags to images or groups of selected images. Right-click an image, select Attach Tag, then select the appropriate tag for this image. To attach a tag to a group of images, click the first one, then press Shift and select the other ones without releasing the Shift key.
Page 276 You can also start a search by clicking Find > Show Find Bar. With the find bar dis- played, you can drag tags from the tag view to the find bar. Figure 15.4 Show Find Bar in F-Spot To find photos that are tagged with more than one tag, select the first tag in the tag view (or drag the tag onto the Find bar), then drag the second tag and drop it on top of the first.
Page 277: Exporting Image Collections
Figure 15.5 Type-to-find Search 15.6 Exporting Image Collections F-Spot offers a range of different export functions for your photo collections. 15.6.1 Generating a Website Gallery If you use the PHP software known as Gallery [http://gallery.sourceforge .net], you can post your photos to your existing album. Ensure that the Remote module in your Gallery installation is enabled (Site Admin >...
Page 278: Exporting Photos To Cd
3 Select a gallery you want to export your images to, or click Add to add a new gallery. F-Spot establishes a connection to the Web location entered for your Web gallery. 4 Select the album you want to export the images to, then specify whether to scale the images automatically and export titles and comments.
Page 279: Exporting Photos To A Folder
3 Assign a name to your image disk, then select the writing speed. 4 Click Write to start the CD writing process. 15.6.3 Exporting Photos to a Folder 1 Select the photos you want to export. 2 Click File > Export > Export to Folder. 3 Choose from the following export methods: Managing Your Digital Image Collection...
Page 280 Exports your photos to an interactive Web- Create standalone Web gallery: site, ready for you to upload. Save the files only: Exports your photos as files within directories, without putting them into a gallery. Create gallery using “Original”: Exports your photos ready for use with Jakub Steiner's Original Photo Gallery [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ original.php] software.
Page 281: Basic Photo Editing
15.7 Basic Photo Editing F-Spot offers several basic image editing functions, such as the ability to remove red- eye, crop, and adjust colors and brightness. When you edit a photo, a new copy (called a version) is created, so your original photo is never altered.
Page 282 Function Description This effect automatically adjusts color levels to AutoColor make a color-balanced picture. It works best for pictures taken with automatic white balance. Click the Automatically adjust the colors icon to access this feature. Comment You can add a description or a comment to a photo by clicking the text entry box below the photo and entering text.
Page 283 Function Description photo. You should be able to correct both eyes on the same person or even the eyes from multiple persons at once. If this does not work, or if the selected zone contains some vivid red parts (such as lips), you will probably have to correct one red eye at a time.
Page 284: Sharing Photos
Function Description and automagically crops the resulted image so that you always see a perfect rectangle. 4 If you want to edit another photo, use the arrow keys at the bottom right to switch to a new photo. This is optional. 5 To exit the edit mode, click Browse on the toolbar.
Page 285: Printing Photos
3 Select a size for your photos. 4 Click Create mail. Your default e-mail program opens, with your photos attached to a new mail message. 15.8.2 Printing Photos 1 Select the photos you want to print. 2 Click File > Print. Managing Your Digital Image Collection...
Page 286 3 Select the print options you want, such as the printer you want to use or the page orientation, then click Print to print your photos. GNOME User Guide...
Page 287: 6 Playing And Managing Your Music With Helix Banshee
Playing and Managing Your Music with Helix Banshee Helix* Banshee™ is a GNOME music management and playback application that lets you import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod* or other digital audio player, play music directly from an iPod (or other digital audio player), create playlists with songs from your library, create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library, and subscribe to, download, and listen to your favorite podcasts.
Page 288: Listening To Music
Figure 16.2 Helix Banshee Library 16.1 Listening to Music To listen to music, Helix Banshee needs to know what is available to listen to. You can listen to music in your library, which means that you will need to import music from an external source such as a file, folder, or CD, or you can listen to music directly off a CD.
Page 289: Playing Your Music
Helix Banshee can automatically query MusicBrainz [http://musicbrainz.org] for extra information about tracks that you import, and fetch cover art for display when you play a song. To enable this feature, click Edit > Plugins, then select Metadata Searcher. 16.1.2 Playing Your Music To play a song, simply select the song in the library and click the play button in the upper left corner.
Page 290: Ripping Your Music
Music Recommendations Helix Banshee automatically recommends music that you might like, based on the currently playing song. It finds artists and popular songs that people with similar musical tastes enjoy. Figure 16.4 Helix Banshee Music Recommendations If you do not want to receive recommendations, click Edit > Plugins, then deselect Music Recommendations.
Page 291: Listening To Internet Radio
2 Select the CD title in the source list on the left, then click Import CD in the upper right corner. 16.1.4 Listening to Internet Radio You can use Helix Banshee to listen to Internet radio stations and streaming audio. The Radio view in Helix Banshee automatically lists several common Internet radio stations maintained on banshee-project.org [http://banshee-project.org].
Page 292 Figure 16.5 Internet Radio Stations in Helix Banshee Adding a New Internet Radio Station 1 Right-click Radio in the source list, then click Add Station. 2 Enter the stream details in the Add new radio station dialog box, then click Save. The new station is added to your list.
Page 293: Listening To Podcasts
16.1.5 Listening to Podcasts Helix Banshee lets you subscribe, download, and listen to your favorite Podcasts. Podcasting is a form of audio blogging where users subscribe to a feed of shows and the shows’s episodes are downloaded and managed for offline listening. Subscribing to a Podcast 1 Click Music >...
Page 294: Managing Your Music Library
Figure 16.6 Podcasts in Helix Banshee Use the options on the Tools > Podcast menu to update a podcast, subscribe to other podcasts, or find new podcasts. 16.2 Managing Your Music Library Helix Banshee give you several ways to organize your music. You can create playlists, which allow you to put similar songs together, and you can sort and rate songs.
Page 295: Creating Smart Playlists
You can sort a playlist by clicking the title of the column. Click the column again to reverse the sort. You can also right-click Music Library, then click Sort Playlists. You can edit the name of the artist, album, and title, as well as the track number and track count.
Page 296 Helix Banshee automatically updates all smart playlists when a change is made to your music library. If you import new songs, Helix Banshee checks to see if they match any of your available smart playlists. When applicable, Helix Banshee also updates your smart playlists if you just listened to a song or updated a song’s metadata.
Page 297: Using Helix Banshee With Your Digital Audio Player
2 Specify a name for the smart playlist, then specify the search criteria you want. Use the plus and minus symbols to add or remove criteria. 3 Click Save. The smart playlist is added to your music library. 16.3 Using Helix Banshee with Your Digital Audio Player Helix Banshee supports several digital audio players, including Apple iPods, Creative Nomads, and almost any other generic USB Mass Storage player.
Page 298 Select the icon to display the music on your device in the right panel. Double-click the song you want to listen to. Figure 16.8 Helix Banshee MP3 Playback from an iPod Mini To view or change device properties, right-click your device, then select Source Prop- erties.
Page 299: Creating Audio And Mp3 Cds
To remove tracks, select your device in the list of sources, right-click the song you want to delete, then click Remove Song(s). 16.3.3 Copying Music on Your Digital Audio Player to Helix Banshee Helix Banshee supports importing music from your digital audio player to your music library.
Page 300: Sharing Your Music
For example, click Eject disk after writing if you want Helix Banshee to eject your CD when the writing is completed. You can track the status of the burn in the bottom left corner of Helix Banshee. A message box appears when the burn is complete. 4 Click OK.
Page 301 A Configuration tab appears to the right of the Overview tab in the right pane. You can also configure Audioscrobbler later by clicking Tools > Audioscrobbler > Configure. 3 Click the Configuration tab. 4 If you have already registered with Last.fm [http://www.last.fm], click Enable song reporting and specify your Last.fm username and password.
Page 302: Configuring Helix Banshee Preferences
6 Click Close. After Audioscrobbler is configured, use the options on the Tools > Audioscrobbler menu to enable or disable song reporting, visit your user profile Web page, or visit the Web site of any Audioscrobbler groups you belong to. 16.6 Configuring Helix Banshee Preferences 1 Click Edit >...
Page 303 CD Importing Lets you determine encoding profiles for CD ripping. Select the output format you want, then click Edit to configure advanced options for that format. Use error correction when importing The error correction tries to work around problem areas on a disk, such as surface scratches, but can substantially slow down the time it takes to import.
Page 305: 7 Burning Cds And Dvds
Burning CDs and DVDs GNOME uses the Nautilus file manager to burn CDs and DVDs. To burn a CD or DVD: 1 Click Computer > More Applications > Audio & Video > GNOME CD/DVD Creator. You can also insert a blank disc and click Make Data CD or Make Audio CD. 2 Copy the files you want to put on the CD or DVD into the CD/DVD Creator window.
Page 306 4 Modify information in the Write to Disc dialog or accept the defaults, then click Write. The files are burned on the disc. This may take a few minutes, depending on the amount of data being burned and the speed of your burner. To burn audio and MP3 CDs, you can use the Helix Banshee music player as explained Section 16.4, “Creating Audio and MP3 CDs”...
Page 307: A Finding The Information You Need
To support you in your everyday work with SUSE Linux Enterprise® and to help you explore your Linux system, Novell, SUSE, and the open source community have created a wealth of information. Relevant information is compiled and made available in various formats.
Page 308: Additional Resources And More Information
A.2 Additional Resources and More Information You can also access the specific manuals and documentation delivered with your product on the Internet at http://www.novell.com/documentation/sled10. If you are searching for additional information, you can also refer to the following In- ternet sites: Novell Technical Support Knowledgebase http://www.novell.com/support/...
Page 309 Product Support Community Resources http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/ GNOME Documentation Web Site http://www.gnome.org/learn/ In addition, general-purpose search engines are often helpful. For example, you might try the search terms Linux CD-RW help or OpenOffice file conversion problem, if you were having trouble with the CD burning or with OpenOffice.org file conversion.
Page 311: B Moving From Windows To Linux
Moving from Windows to Linux If you are coming from Microsoft Windows, take a look at how familiar elements of Windows translate to SUSE Linux Enterprise®. After logging in, you will notice that the desktop has a familiar layout and recognizable icons, many of them similar to the Windows and Macintosh desktops.
Page 312: Starting Applications From The Main Menu
B.1 Starting Applications from the Main Menu Similar to the Start menu on Windows, you can access all the programs installed on your system from the main menu. To open the menu click Computer in the left corner of the panel. Commonly used applications appear in the main menu, along with recently used applications.
Page 313: Managing Files
B.2 Managing Files To start the File Manager, click Computer > Nautilus File Browser, click your home folder icon on the desktop or press Alt + F2 and enter nautilus. Figure B.3 File Manager For more information about the File Manager, see Section 1.5, “Managing Folders and Files with Nautilus”...
Page 314: Customizing Your Desktop
Figure B.4 Windows Command Prompt and Terminal B.4 Customizing Your Desktop To change to the way your GNOME desktops looks and behaves, click Computer > Control Center. Some of the settings you might want to change include the desktop background, screen saver, keyboard and mouse configuration, sounds, and file associa- tions.
Page 315: Switching Between Applications
Figure B.5 GNOME Control Center For more information, see Chapter 2, Customizing Your Settings (page 55). B.5 Switching between Applications Similar to the taskbar on Windows, the bottom panel in GNOME lets you easily switch between open windows. Switch between them with a single click. B.6 Accessing Network Resources From your desktop, you can access files and directories or certain services on remote hosts or make your own files and directories available to other users in your network.
Page 316 puter allow for it, you can easily browse your network for shared resources and services with the file manager. Figure B.6 GNOME Network Browsing To learn more about the various possibilities of accessing network resources, refer to Section 1.6, “Accessing Network Resources” (page 29).
Page 317: C Getting To Know Linux Software
Getting to Know Linux Software Linux comes with a wealth of applications, often offering more than one solution to specific needs. The difficulty is finding the application that suits your needs best. The next few sections introduce some of the most powerful Linux counterparts of common Windows* software.
Page 318 Table C.1 Office Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application Office Suite Microsoft Office, StarOffice*, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, OpenOffice.org KOffice Word Processor Microsoft Word, StarOf- OpenOffice.org/StarOffice fice/OpenOffice.org Writer, Writer, KWord WordPerfect Spreadsheet Microsoft Excel, StarOf- OpenOffice.org/StarOffice fice/OpenOffice.org Calc Calc, Gnumeric, KSpread Presentation Microsoft PowerPoint*,...
Page 319 such as HTML and XML. For more information, refer to http://freemind .sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. GnuCash GnuCash is a software tool to control both your personal and business finances. Learn more about GnuCash at http://www.gnucash.org. Gnumeric Gnumeric is a spreadsheet solution for the GNOME desktop environment. Find more information about Gnumeric at http://www.gnumeric.org.
Page 320 array of financial features and tools. Learn more about KMyMoney at http:// kmymoney2.sourceforge.net. KOffice KOffice is an integrated office suite for the KDE desktop. It comes with various modules like word processing (KWord), spreadsheets (KSpread), presentations (KPresenter), several image processing applications (Kivio, Karbon14, Krita), a database front-end (Kexi), and many more.
Page 321 version of OpenOffice.org even exists, enabling Windows users to switch to an open source alternative while still using Windows. Find more information about OpenOffice.org at and read our OpenOf- http://www.openoffice.org/ fice.org chapter for a short introduction to the office suite. Planner Planner is a project management tool for the GNOME desktop aiming to provide functionality similar to the project management tools used under Windows.
Page 322: Network
VYM (View Your Mind) VYM is a software for visualizing your thoughts by creating and manipulating mind maps. Most manipulations do not require more than one mouse click. Branches can be inserted, deleted, and reordered very easily. VYM also offers a set of flags allowing you to mark certain parts of the map (important, time critical, etc.).
Page 323 Epiphany Epiphany is a lean, but powerful Web browser for the GNOME desktop. Many of its features and extensions resemble Firefox. Find more information about Epiphany at http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/. Evolution Evolution is personal information management software for the GNOME desktop combining mail, calendar, and address book functionality. It offers advanced e- mail filter and search options, provides sync functionality for Palm devices, and allows you to run Evolution as an Exchange or GroupWise®...
Page 324 kbear KBear is a KDE FTP client with the ability to have concurrent connections to multiple hosts, three separate view modes, support for multiple protocols (like FTP and SFTP), a site manager plug-in, firewall support, logging capabilities, and much more. Find more information at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ kbear.
Page 325: Multimedia
Linphone Linphone is a smart and lean Voice over IP client using the SIP protocol to establish calls. Find more information at http://www.linphone.org/. You can also read our Linphone chapter. Mozilla Thunderbird Thunderbird is an e-mail client application that comes as part of the Mozilla suite. It is also available for Microsoft Windows and MacOS, which facilitates the tran- sition from one of these operating systems to Linux.
Page 326 Table C.3 Multimedia Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application Audio CD Player CD Player, Winamp, Windows KsCD, Grip, Helix Banshee Media Player CD Burner Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator CD Ripper WMPlayer kaudiocreator, Sound Juicer, Helix Banshee Audio Player Winamp, Windows Media amaroK, XMMS, Rhythmbox,...
Page 327 GStreamer. Find more information about amaroK at http://amarok.kde .org/. You can also read the introduction to amaroK in KDE User Guide. Audacity Audacity is a powerful, free sound editing tool. Record, edit, and play any Ogg Vorbis or WAV file. Mix tracks, apply effects to them, and export the results to WAV or Ogg Vorbis.
Page 328 KsCD KsCD is a neat little CD player application for the KDE desktop. Its user interface very much resembles that of a normal hardware CD player, guaranteeing ease of use. KsCD supports CDDB, enabling you to get any track and album information from the Internet or your local file system.
Page 329 and LilyPond. Find more information about Noteedit at http://developer .berlios.de/projects/noteedit/. Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is a powerful, multitalented media player for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to organize and browse your music collection using playlists and even supports Internet radio. Find more information about Rhythmbox at http://www .gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/.
Page 330: Graphics
Xine Xine is a multimedia player that plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It interprets many multimedia formats. For more information, refer to http://xinehq.de/. XMMS XMMS is the traditional choice for multimedia playback. It is focused on music playback, offering support for CD playback and Ogg Vorbis files. Users of Winamp should find XMMS comfortable because of its similarity.
Page 331 Task Windows Application Linux Application Creating 3D Graphics 3D Studio MAX, Maya, POV- POV-Ray, Blender, Ray, Blender KPovmodeler Managing Digital Pho- Software provided by the cam- DigiKam, f-spot tographs era manufacturer Scanning Vuescan Vuescan, The GIMP Image Viewing ACDSee gwenview, gThumb, Eye of Gnome, f-spot Blender Blender is a powerful rendering and animation tool available on many platforms,...
Page 332 f-spot f-spot is a flexible digital photograph management tool for the GNOME desktop. It lets you create and manage albums and supports various export options like HTML pages or burning of image archives to CD. You can also use it as an image viewer on the command line.
Page 333 KPovmodeler KPovmodeler is a POV-Ray front-end that integrates with the KDE desktop. KPovmodeler saves users from needing a detailed knowledge of POV-Ray scripting by translating the POV-Ray language in an easy-to-understand tree view. Native POV-Ray scripts can be imported to KPovmodeler as well. Find more information at http://www.kpovmodeler.org.
Page 334: System And File Management
C.5 System and File Management The following section provides an overview of Linux tools for system and file manage- ment. Get to know text and source code editors, backup solutions, and archiving tools. Table C.5 System and File Management Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application...
Page 335 Ark is a GUI-based pack program for the KDE desktop. It supports common formats, such as zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2, lha, and rar. You can view, select, pack, and unpack single files within an archive. Due to Ark's integration with Konqueror, you can also trigger actions (such as unpacking an archive) from the context menu in the file manager, similar to WinZip.
Page 336 GOCR GOCR is an OCR (optical character recognition) tool. It converts scanned images of text into text files. Find more information at http://jocr.sourceforge .net/. gzip, tar, bzip2 There are plenty of packaging programs for reducing disk usage. In general, they differ only in their pack algorithm.
Page 337 Nautilus Nautilus is the default file manager of the GNOME desktop. It can be used to create folders and documents, display and manage your files and folders, run scripts, write data to a CD, and open URI locations. For an introduction to using Nautilus as a file manager, see GNOME User Guide.
Page 338: Software Development
C.6 Software Development This section introduces Linux IDEs, toolkits, development tools, and versioning systems for professional software development. Table C.6 Development Software for Windows and Linux Task Windows Application Linux Application Integrated Development Borland C++, Delphi, Visual KDevelop, Eric, Eclipse, Environments Studio, .NET MonoDevelop, Anjuta...
Page 339 full-featured Java development environment. Find more information at http:// www.eclipse.org. Eric Eric is an IDE optimized for Python and Python-Qt development. Find more infor- mation about Eric at http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index .html. GCC is a compiler collection with front-ends for various programming languages. Check out a complete list of features and find extensive documentation at http:// gcc.gnu.org.
Page 340 enable Unix developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET applications. MonoDevelop complements the Mono development with an IDE. Find more infor- mation about MonoDevelop at http://www.monodevelop.com/. Qt is a program library for developing applications with graphical user interfaces. It allows you to develop professional programs rapidly. The Qt library is available not only for Linux, but for a number of Unix flavors and even for Windows and Macintosh.
Page 341: D Using The Fingerprint Reader
Using the Fingerprint Reader With the ThinkFinger driver, SUSE Linux Enterprise® supports the fingerprint reader by UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics included with some IBM and Lenovo ThinkPads. The same fingerprint reader can also be found in other laptops and either as a stand-alone device or built into some USB keyboards. For more details, refer to http://thinkfinger.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ thinkfinger/README.in.
Page 342: Supported Applications And Actions
D.1 Supported Applications and Actions The PAM module pam_thinkfinger supports fingerprint authentication for the following applications and actions (although you may not be prompted to swipe your finger in all cases): • Logging in to GDM/KDM or a login shell •...
Page 343 2 In the configuration dialog, activate Use Fingerprint Reader and click Finish to save the changes and close the dialog. Now you can register a fingerprint for various users. Procedure D.2 Registering a Fingerprint 1 In YaST, click Security and Users > User Management to open the User and Group Administration dialog.
Page 344: Managing Fingerprints With Tf-Tool
7 After you have registered fingerprints for the desired users, click Finish to close the administration dialog and to save the changes. As soon as the user's fingerprint has been successfully registered, the user can choose to authenticate with either fingerprint or password for the actions and applications listed Section D.1, “Supported Applications and Actions ”...
Page 345: For More Information
Procedure D.4 Verifying or Removing a Fingerprint 1 Open a shell and log in as root. 2 To verify an existing fingerprint for a certain user, run the following command: tf-tool --verify-user login 3 Let the user swipe his finger. tf-tool compares the fingerprint to the print stored for this user and provides a message if the fingerprints match.
Page 347: E Support Of Tablet Pcs
Support of Tablet PCs SUSE Linux Enterprise® comes with support for Tablet PCs with serial Wacom devices. Although the majority of installation is the same as on other systems, several packages must be added manually. Then configure the input device properly. NOTE: Tablet PC Features on 64-bit Architectures Currently, Tablet PC support is only available for 32-bit architectures.
Page 348: Installing Tablet Pc Packages
NOTE: Keyboard or Mouse Needed for Installation During installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise, the pen cannot be used as an input device. If your Tablet PC does not feature a built-in keyboard or touch pad, connect an external keyboard or mouse to your Tablet PC for installation of your system.
Page 349: Configuring Your Wacom Device
E.2 Configuring Your Wacom Device After the Tablet PC packages have been installed, configure your tablet device. Currently, SUSE Linux Enterprise does not support configuration of Wacom devices with SaX2. Instead, it is necessary to edit a system configuration file. Only the system administrator can make the changes to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Page 350 Example E.1 Configuration for Wacom Devices 1. Add the following InputDevice sections: Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "Mouse[5]" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" Option "InputFashion" "Tablet" Option "Mode" "Absolute" Option "SendCoreEvents" "on" Option "Type" "cursor" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom"...
Page 351 2. Add the following lines to the ServerLayout section: InputDevice "Mouse[5]" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Mouse[7]" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Mouse[9]" "SendCoreEvents" With these changes, your /etc/X11/xorg.conf should resemble the following: [...] Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name"...
Page 352 [...] Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Mouse[5]" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Mouse[7]" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Mouse[9]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection Default mouse configuration. Newly added configuration for tablet cursor input device. Newly added configuration for the tablet stylus input device.
Page 353: Using Common Tablet Pc Features
E.3 Using Common Tablet PC Features After your Wacom device has been configured, you can now make use of your pen as input device. E.3.1 Using the Virtual Keyboard To log in to the KDE or GNOME desktop or to unlock the screen, you can either enter your username and password as usual or via the virtual keyboard, xvkbd, displayed below the login field.
Page 354 2 To rotate your display, click the icon and select the desired orientation from the context menu. Your display is immediately tilted to the new direction. Also the orientation of the graphics tablet changes so it can still interpret the movement of the pen correctly.
Page 355 E.3.4 Taking Notes and Sketching with the To create drawings with the pen, you can use a professional graphics editor like The GIMP or try one of the note taking applications, Xournal or Jarnal. With both Xournal and Jarnal, you can take notes, create drawings, or comment PDF files with the pen. As a Java-based application available for several platforms, Jarnal also offers basic collaboration features.
Page 356 of text using only the pen (or other input devices—it can even be driven with an eye tracker). Start Dasher from the main menu or with dasher from a shell. Move your pen in one direction and the applications starts to zoom into the letters on the right side. From the letters passing the cross hairs in the middle, the text is created or predicted and is printed to the upper part of the window.
Page 357: Troubleshooting
E.4 Troubleshooting Virtual Keyboard Does Not Appear on Login Screen Occasionally, the virtual keyboard is not displayed on the login screen. To solve this, restart the X server by pressing Ctrl + Alt + <— or press the appropriate key on your Tablet PC (if you use a slate model without integrated keyboard).
Page 358: For More Information
E.5 For More Information Some of the applications mentioned here do not offer integrated online help, but you can find some useful information about usage and configuration in your installed system in /usr/share/doc/package/packagename or on the Web: • For the Xournal manual, refer to http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ manual.html •...

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Part I GNOME Desktop

1 Getting Started with the GNOME Desktop

2 Customizing Your Settings

Part II Office and Collaboration

3 The Openoffice.org Office Suite

4 Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring

5 Groupwise Linux Client: E-Mailing and Calendaring

6 Instant Messaging with Gaim

7 Using Voice over IP with Ekiga

8 Accessing Network Resources

9 Searching with Beagle

10 Managing Printers

Part III Internet

1 Managing Network Connections

2 Browsing with Firefox

3 Reading Newsfeeds with Liferea

Part IV Multimedia

4 Manipulating Graphics with the GIMP

5 Managing Your Digital Image Collection

6 Playing and Managing Your Music with Helix Banshee

7 Burning Cds and Dvds

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B Moving from Windows to Linux

C Getting to Know Linux Software

D Using the Fingerprint Reader

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