Changing GNOME s Look and FeelChange (Make my own web site) is inevitable, except
Changing GNOME s Look and FeelChange is inevitable, except from a vending machine. AnonymousThe GNOME desktop environment has an amazing set of features for you toexplore. Some of these customization features are nice and practical, andothers are just plain fun. I tried to group the types of changes into relatedtopics so that you can peruse them easily. In general (including in Fedora), you can find all the GNOME configuration options by going to the mainmenu s Preferences menu. Because Fedora is the only distribution covered inthis book that uses GNOME by default, I focus on Fedora in this chapter. How do ya like them applets? Appletsare a collection of miniprograms that do anything from display thetime to show system status some can even show the depressing trickle ofyour battery power running out if you re using a laptop. Sure, some of theseminiprograms are more useful than others. Then again, everybody needs abit of entertainment too, right? Adding an applet icon to the panelYou can have fun sifting through to see what kinds of applets are available toyou. To look through your options and perhaps add an applet to the panel(remember that the panel is the bar along the bottom of your screen), followthese steps: 1.Right-click any free space on one of your panels and choose Add ToPanel. The Add To (Bottom or Top, accordingly) Panel dialog box appears, asshown in Figure 15-1. If you don t see an Add To Panel command, you re probably looking atthe context menu for one of the applications on the panel. Try right- clicking elsewhere on the panel or closing some programs so that youcan free up space amongst the minimized programs in the middle ofyour panel. 2.Browse the available applets. 3.After you select the applet you want to add to your panel, click Add. The applet is now on your panel. If you then want to move the applet elsewhere on your panel, right-click itand choose Move from the shortcut menu. Then you can drag the appletaround and click after you have it where you want to put it. 294Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux