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[. . . ] GNOME 2. 4 Desktop User Guide <<< Prev GNOME Logo Next >>> GNOME 2. 4 Desktop User Guide About This Document Table of Contents I. Using the Accessibility Preference Tools Glossary <<< Prev About This Document Next >>> Part I. A Tour of the GNOME Desktop GNOME 2. 4 Desktop User Guide Next >>> GNOME Logo GNOME 2. 4 Desktop User Guide Author Sun GNOME Documentation Team Affiliation: Sun Microsystems Publisher GNOME Documentation Project Copyright Copyright © 2003 Sun Microsystems Legal Notice Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1. 1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You can find a copy of the GFDL at this link or in the file COPYING-DOCS distributed with this manual. [. . . ] To Execute Other Actions When Displaying a File When you display a file in the view pane, the side pane might contain buttons. Figure 7. 2 shows the buttons in the side pane when a text file is displayed in the view pane. The buttons represent any actions that are defined in the File Types and Programs preference tool. The actions are defined in the Default action drop-down list in the Edit file type dialog in the File Types and Programs preference tool. For example, if an action defined for plain text documents is to open the file in gedit. If this action is defined, an Open with gedit button is displayed in the side pane. To open the file in the gedit application, click on the Open with gedit button. Note A button that represents the action does not appear in the side pane if the actions are excluded in either of the following dialogs: q q Open with Other Application Open with Other Viewer 7. 3. 5. The Start Here location enables you to access the following functions: q Applications Double-click on Applications to access your key GNOME applications. You can also access the Applications menu through the Main Menu and the Menu Bar. Desktop Preferences Double-click on Desktop Preferences to customize your desktop environment. You can also access the desktop environment preference tools through the Applications menu. q q Applications that enable you to configure your system as a server, and to choose other system settings. You can access the Start Here location in the following ways: q From a file manager window Choose Go->Start Here. From the desktop Double-click on the Start Here object on the desktop. The contents of the Start Here location are displayed in a file manager window. q 7. 3. 6. To Access FTP Sites You can use the file manager to access FTP sites. To access an FTP site, enter the URL for the site in the field on the location bar, then press Return. To access an FTP site that requires a username and password, you can enter the URL in the following form: ftp://username:password@hostname. domain To reload the FTP site in the view pane, choose View->Reload. To Access Network Servers If your desktop environment is configured to access servers on a network, you can use the file manager to access the network servers. To access Windows shares, double-click on the Network Neighborhood icon. A list of the Windows shares available to you is displayed in the file manager window. Location Network servers URI network:/// NFS servers nfs:/// Shares on Windows servers smb:/// 7. 3. 7. 1. To Add a Network Server To add a network server, choose Applications->Network Servers. [. . . ] For example, Nautilus and gedit are GNOME-compliant applications. IP address A unique numeric identifier for a computer on a network. keyboard shortcut A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys that provides an alternative to standard ways of performing an action. launcher A launcher starts a particular application, executes a command, or opens a file. menubar A menubar is a bar at the top of an application window that contains the menus for the application. [. . . ]