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This feature does not maintain shortcuts that are normally common to all applications, such as <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>C</keycap></keycombo> for Copy. This may lead to inconsistencies in your GNOME applications.

To change an application shortcut key, open the menu, and with the mouse pointer on the menu item you wish to change, press the new combination of keys. To remove a shortcut key, press <keycap>Backspace</keycap> or <keycap>Delete</keycap>.

in applications, customizing appearance

Toolbar button labels

Show icons in menus

Interface Preferences

toolbars, customizing appearance

A <firstterm>window</firstterm> is a rectangular area of the screen, usually with a border all around and a title bar at the top. You can think of a window as a screen within the screen. Each window displays an application, allowing you to to have more than one application visible, and work on more than one task at a time. You can also think of windows as pieces of paper on your desktop: they can overlap, or be side by side, for example.

There is no way to restore the original, default keyboard shortcut for a command.

As you make changes to the settings, the preview display in the window updates. This allows you to see the changes if no application windows are currently open.

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<guilabel>Text Below Icons</guilabel>: Select this option to display toolbars with text as well as an icon on each button.

<guilabel>Text Only</guilabel>: Select this option to display toolbars with text only on each button.

Selecting this option allows you to define new keyboard shortcuts for menu items.

<guilabel>Icons Only</guilabel>: Select this option to display toolbars with an icon only on each button.

You can use the <guilabel>Interface</guilabel> tabbed section in the <application>Appearance</application> preference tool to customize the appearance of menus, menubars, and toolbars for applications that are part of GNOME.

Editable menu shortcut keys

When using this feature, you will not be warned if assigning a new shortcut key to a command also removes it from another command.

Choose one of the following options to specify what to display on the toolbars in your GNOME-compliant applications:

To choose an icon for the launcher, click on the icon button, which displays a generic icon by default. An icon selector dialog is displayed. Choose an icon from the dialog.

<guilabel>Text Beside Icons</guilabel>: Select this option to display toolbars with an icon only on each button, and with text on the most important buttons.

This allows you to to type with a Russian keyboard layout in a word processor, then switch to your web browser and type with an English keyboard layout, for example.

Menus &amp; Toolbars

Select this option to display an icon beside items in application menus and the panel menu. Not all menu items have an icon.

A Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type identifies the format of a file. The MIME type enables applications to read the file. For example, an email application can use the <literal>image/png</literal> MIME type to detect that a Portable Networks Graphic (PNG) file is attached to an email.

Please note that some of GNOME applications are developed outside of GNOME, or by commercial companies (these products are still free software). For example, <application>Inkscape</application>, a vector graphics application, is developed at <ulink type="http" url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/">SourceForge</ulink>. Bugs reports and comments about these products should be directed to the respective organization or company. If you are using <application>Bug Buddy</application>, it will automatically send bug reports to the correct database.

Alternatively, you can just send your comments by email to the <ulink type="http" url="http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject">GNOME Documentation Project</ulink> mailing list; our address is <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>. And by the way: if you are not a developer but want to help GNOME — <ulink type="http" url="http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Join">join the GDP</ulink> and help us improve GNOME documentation.

startup

Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. This will open the <application>Add Startup Program</application> dialog box.

To edit an existing startup program, select it from the list of startup programs and click <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. A dialog will appear which allows you to edit the properties of the program. See <xref linkend="gosstartsession-212"/> for more information on the options available in this dialog.

Shut down your computer and switch off the power. To shut down, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenuitem>Shut Down</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and click <guibutton>Shut Down</guibutton> on the dialog that appears.

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Top Edge Panel

The Menu Bar contains the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu>, <guimenu>Places</guimenu>, and <guimenu>System</guimenu> menus. For more on the menu bar, see <xref linkend="menubar"/>.

The exact number of icons depends on your GNOME distribution, but in general you will find at least a launcher for the <application>Web Browser</application>, an <application>Email client</application> and the <application>Help Browser</application>. Click on any launcher icon to open the corresponding application.

Click on this button to minimize all open windows and show the desktop. Click it again to restore all of the windows to their previous state.

Displays a button for each window that is open. The <application>Window List</application> enables you to minimize and restore windows. For more on this, see <xref linkend="windowlist"/>.

Panel Properties

You can change the properties of each panel, such as the position of the panel, the hide behavior, and the visual appearance.

Description

Orientation

Size

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Autohide

Select this option to have the panel use the settings in the <link linkend="prefs-theme"><application>Appearance</application> preference tool</link>. This keeps your panel's background looking the same as the rest of the desktop and applications.

Solid color