Configurations & Applications

Aug 15 2021- POSTED BY projecth 0 Comment

Customization

You can find Themes and Wallpapers to download at:
http://art.gnome.org

Theme Manager:

System / Preferences / Theme

Adding Fonts:

Places / Home / .fonts (if this directory is not there, you can create it yourself.

Menu Detail

The Documentation located in the System menu is very helpful in case you need help with using Linux, and it is located on your local drives: System / Help / System Documentation

Configuration Tools

The main default menus that Ubuntu uses for its desktop are: Applications, Places and Systems. But one can modify or add another menu to these menus by going to:
System / Preferences / Menu Layout

Sessions

Once you log into the system it’s called a "Session", and because Linux is a true multi-user OS it can have multiple sessions running at any give time. You can manage the preferences of each session on your system by going to:
System / Preferences / Sessions

Administration Tools
  • Device Manager: a graphical tool that helps manage the devices connected to the system.
  • Keyboard Indicator Plug-in: very rarely used for specific keyboards with specific features.
  • Keyring Manager: it’s related to authentication and passwords and tying them into certain applications.
  • Language Support: to change the default language in the system and install other languages.
  • Login Window: to define the login screen and manage remote login.
  • Networking: a place where different network interfaces are found and configured.
  • Network Tools: system tools for low level diagnostics.
  • Printing: to setup and manage a local printer.
  • Services: a tool that allows users to turn on/off certain services.
  • Share Folders: this is a way to select which folders are going to be served over the LAN.
  • Software Sources: a tool to enable/disable different servers that one can download from.
  • Synaptic Package Manager: pieces of software in Linux are often called packages, this tool allows one to search for new software to install.
  • System Log Viewer: to show the different logs recorded by the system.
  • System Monitor: a panel for analysis regarding the CPU, memory, processes, free-space.
  • Time & Date: to set the time and date.
  • Update manager: is a daemon that runs in the background, and it has an icon in the upper-right corner of the screen on the menu bar, and it’s a manager for recent software updates.
  • Users & Groups: this is where you can manage the users and groups on the system.

Productivity Applications

OpenOffice.org
Open Office is a large free office suite originally created by Sun Microsystems comparable to Microsoft Office. And it is available in multiple operating systems (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac).
Impress: Presentation
Math
Draw
Calc: Spreadsheet
Base: Database
Writer: Word Processing

Adding New Software

You can add, remove and manage the software on your system through one of the following applications:

Applications / Add\Remove Software (simple but not comprehensive)
System / Administration / Software Sources (software availability)
System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager (by repositories)
easyUbuntu easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/overview.html (Third-party tool)
getautomatix.com (Third-party tool)

Note: Repositories are online servers that offer and maintain software and updates for the Linux operating system.