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Exploring the desktop environment
From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
Exploring the desktop environment
- [Instructor] Here on the CentOS desktop, we can go up to the top, left corner and click Applications. Inside the menu, there's a couple different categories of applications. There's Favorites, which are things that I've most recently used. Accessories, like a calculator, clocks, file browser, and gedit, a text editor. There's documentation, including a link to the help if you need to get back there. There are some internet tools as well, including the Empathy chat client, and the Firefox web browser. Under Office, there's a Contacts app and a Dictionary application. There's a few sound and video apps, and under the Sundry category, there are a couple of useful things, like an application to manage the firewall and network connections, and to configure print settings if you have a printer. There's System Tools with some things like Software Update and a System Monitor. The System Monitor shows you your file systems, resources that are currently being used on the system, and a handy…
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