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When you first install and run Fedora Linux the first thing you see when you log in is the default desktop. It has the Fedora color scheme and panels at the top and bottom of the screen. There are two predominant desktop environments available with Linux - the GNOME desktop and the KDE desktop. Which is the best desktop is matter of preference and heated disagreement in the Linux community. Both are excellent, feature rich desktops. The Fedora Linux distribution installs the GNOME desktop by default, and that is the desktop covered in this chapter of [[Fedora Linux Essentials]].

The ''Desktop Background Properties'' dialog appears as follows:

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If the selection of pre-installed themes does not provide a sufficiently broad selection of choices, there are many more themes available for download on the internet from [http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/ http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity]. Both window border and icon themes are available.

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Also, additional ~~Clearlook~~ themes are available in the ''gnome-~~theme-clearlooks~~-~~bigpack~~'' package which ~~canbe~~ installed as follows:

Also, a few additional themes are also available in the ''gnome-themes-extras'' package which may be installed as follows:

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su -

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yum install gnome-~~theme~~-~~clearlooks-bigpack~~

yum install gnome-themes-extras

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