Linux desktop environment GNOME practical skills

GNOME is one of the mainstream integrated desktop environments on the Linux desktop. The GNOME desktop is popular with Linux users for its simple style and convenient operation. Here will introduce the operating skills of the Linux desktop environment GNOME, here to share with you.

Here are some common operating techniques in the GNOME desktop environment. These techniques bring great convenience to our operations and allow us to experience the power of the open source Linux desktop.

Starting the terminal to add the right mouse button menu

The GNOME terminal program (& gnome-terminal”) is the most commonly used tool to execute the command line. Menu “ Application & Rarr; Attachments & rdquo; Obviously, as a common tool, it is too inconvenient to click “app →attachment"

Don't worry, we can add it to the right mouse button menu, so you need to start the GNOME terminal at any time, just click the right mouse button.

By default, in the blank area of ​​the GNOME desktop, click the right mouse button, there is no menu item of the GNOME terminal program in the pop-up shortcut menu. In order to add this menu item, we need to manually install a name. “nautilus-open-terminal” package. This package is included in the Ubuntu system's software source. As long as the current system is connected to the Internet, we can use the "ld-get" command to install it.

Let's last click on the menu “app →attachments" and start"terminal”, enter the following command:

“sudo apt-get install nautilus-open- Terminal”

After the command is run, the package will be automatically downloaded and installed online. After the installation is completed, log out from the current user and log back in to the Ubuntu system. After entering the GNOME integrated desktop environment, click the mouse in the blank area of ​​the desktop. Right click, you can see that a new item has been added in the pop-up shortcut menu. Open in the terminal “, is it more convenient?

Window Top Viewing and Entering

Similar to Windows system, when opening multiple windows, if a current window is maximized, it will be opened. Other windows will not be visible. At this point, even if you switch to another window, let other windows be displayed in the foreground, but when you operate in the next window, the window just displayed in the foreground will be hidden. In the GNOME desktop environment, if you want a window to be displayed in the foreground (that is, the top display), just click the right mouse button on the title bar of the window that needs to be topped, and select ““top top” in the pop-up shortcut menu. The item is OK and will not be blocked by any other window.

This intimate little function can solve some special needs in our daily work. For example, when we need to use the information in a certain window as a reference, and another maximized window as the main operation interface, the reference window can be topped and entered in the following window.

It's also very easy to cancel the top. Just close it or right click on the title bar of the top window, and click the “Always on top” item in the shortcut menu that pops up.

Quick logout key combination

At present, there is no command in Linux system that allows login users to quickly log out from the current environment, but don't worry, use keyboard combination The key Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace” can be achieved. In addition, similar to the Windows system, when the desktop stops responding, you can also try to press the key combination, it will "kill" the current X process (“/usr/X11R6/bin/X”, That is, the background service process of the graphical window), and return to the Ubuntu system login interface without restarting the computer. In this way, after the login is successful, normal operations can be performed again. The above is the operating skills of the Linux desktop environment GNOME.