GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home Preface Advocacy History Distributions Installation Basic Survival Wajig Audio AbiWord APM Backup Bash Booting Cameras CD Chinese ChRoot Clock Commercial Conference Management Configuration CRON CVS Databases DIA Directories Disks Documentation DVD Email Eye of Gnome Evolution File Systems Firewalls Floppy Disks Fonts Ghemical GIMP Glade Gnome GnuCash Gnumeric GQView Graphics Groups HTML Editors ImageMagick Initialisations on Booting Java KDE Kernels Keyboard Konqueror KVM Switch LaTeX Log System Login Magellan Mathematics Memory Modems Mounting Devices MS/Windows Music MySQL Nautilus Networks NFS NT File System OpenOffice.org Oracle Packages Partitions Passwords PDF Photos PPP Presentations Printing Python R Remote Desktops Rsync Samba Scanning Science Security SH File System Sketch Spell SPlus Spruce SSH SUDO Subversion Swap Themes USB Video Virtualization Web Word X XML Sample Installations Troubleshooting Index

The Menus and Toolbar

r0.4

We now explore each of the menus in a systematic and comprehensive way. There are five main menus and four of them (excluding View) should look pretty familiar to the Gnome desktop user: File, Edit, Settings, and Help.

r0.4

The toolbar provides a shortcut to some of the menu items. Rather than specifically covering them separately we identify their functionality below with their corresponding menu action.

Subsections

• The File Menu
  • New Project
  • Open
  • Save
  • Build Source Code
  • Project Options
  • Exit
  
  
• The Edit Menu
  • Cut
  • Copy
  • Paste
  • Clear
  
  
• The View Menu
• The Settings Menu
• The Help Menu