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4.Click Close to save your changes and close the dialog box. Ditching an appletYou have room for only so many applets. And, if you re like me, you probablydon t want to have every bit of free space cluttered with icons. To remove anapplet from the panel, simply right-click the applet you want to remove andchoose Remove From Panel from the shortcut menu that appears. With narya whimper, the applet vanishes from the panel. Don t forget the programsYou may be looking at your panel and wondering whether you can make anychanges to the programs listed there, like you can with applets. The goodnews is that you canchange the programs on the bar! They fit in the sameempty spaces that applets do. You can also add a program to your desktopitself, if you want. Adding a program to the panelIf you have a program you end up using often, you can add it to your panel byfollowing these steps: 1.Click Applications in Fedora or (if you re using GNOME in another dis- tribution) the distribution s Main Menu button and browse to the pro- gram you want to add to the bar. Don t open the program. Just point to the menu item with your mousepointer. 2.Right-click the program and choose Add This Launcher To Panel. An icon for this program appears on your panel. After you have your program on the panel, you can run the program just byclicking its icon. You can also add a drawer(menu button) to your panel for an entire menu. Todo so: 1.Open the main menu and browse to the submenu you want to add. 2.Enter that submenu. For example, if you want to add a button for the Graphics menu to yourpanel, open the main menu, move your mouse to the Graphics menu, and then move your mouse to the right into the contents of the Graphicsmenu. 3.Right-click to open the context menu. 4.Choose Entire Menu. 296Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux