Changes

In this chapter of Ubuntu Essentials we will provide a guided tour of the Ubuntu 10.10 GNOME Desktop. The purpose of this overview is to provide a detailed explanation of how the desktop works and what the various areas, menus and icons are for. As each area is described you will be referred to a later chapter where the configuration of that particular desktop feature or function will be covered in more detail.

Right clicking on an icon produces the following menu allowing tasks to be performed on the selected item:

[[Image:ubuntu_10.10_desktop_item_menu.jpg|The Ubuntu 10.10 desktop item menu]]

In this chapter we have looked at the Ubuntu implementation of the GNOME desktop. In the next chapter we will look at customizing screensaver and desktop lock and configuring power management settings.

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