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9 <Chapter Id="quick-start">
10 <Title>The Desktop at a Glance</Title>
12 <Primary>overview of desktop</Primary>
15 <Primary>desktop overview</Primary>
18 <Primary>File Manager</Primary>
21 <Primary>Style Manager</Primary>
24 <Primary>Front Panel</Primary>
27 <Primary>desktop</Primary>
29 <Para>&newline;To help you organize and manage your work, the desktop provides windows,
30 workspaces, controls, menus, and the Front Panel.</Para>
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33 <Para><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Windows</GlossTerm> contain software applications and are
34 framed with controls so you can move them, size them, or place them in
35 additional workspaces.
36 <!-- See <xref survival-skills> and <xref ManagingWindowsSI>. --></Para>
38 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.2">
39 <Para><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Workspaces</GlossTerm> are the screen areas where you place the
40 windows needed for your work, arrange them, and put them away when you're done.
41 <!-- See <xref UsingWorkspacesSI>. --></Para>
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44 <Para><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Controls</GlossTerm> enable you to manipulate objects, select
45 choices, or type information.
46 <!-- See <xref SettingUpOrganizingWorkspacesSI>. --></Para>
48 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.4">
49 <Para><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Menus</GlossTerm> provide access to commands you use to manage
50 windows and operate applications.
51 <!-- See <xref UsingMenusSI>. --></Para>
53 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.5">
54 <Para>The <GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Front Panel</GlossTerm> is a collection of frequently used
55 controls, available in every workspace.
56 <!-- See <link hyperlink="FPanel _hometopic" JumpNewView>the Front Panel help
57 volume<\link>. --></Para>
60 <Para>Here are some of the windows, icons and objects you'll encounter as
61 you use the desktop:</Para>
62 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-icons"></InlineGraphic><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Window icons</GlossTerm>&newline;&newline;When you <Symbol Role="Variable">minimize</Symbol> a window, it becomes an icon on the
63 workspace. Shown here are the window icons for File Manager, Style Manager,
64 and Text Editor.&newline;&newline;To minimize a window, click the minimize button near the upper right
65 corner of the window frame.&newline;∅<InlineGraphic Entityref="VI-ZoomedViewOfMinimizeButton" Id="HIMGR.QST.grph.1"></InlineGraphic>&sigspace; Minimize button
66 &newline;To restore the window, <GlossTerm>double-click</GlossTerm> mouse button 1 on
67 the icon.&newline;&newline;∅
68 <GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Style Manager</GlossTerm>
70 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-stylemanager"></InlineGraphic>&newline;∅</Para>
71 <Para>Use Style Manager to easily customize many elements of the desktop including:
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78 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.7">
79 <Para>Workspace backdrops
82 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.8">
86 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.9">
87 <Para>Keyboard, mouse, and window behavior
91 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="VI-StyleManagerFrontPanelControl"></InlineGraphic>To start Style
92 Manager, click its Front Panel control.</Para>
93 <Para>∅&newline;</Para>
94 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-desktop-icons"></InlineGraphic><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Workspace objects</GlossTerm>&newline;&newline;You can place the files, folders, and <GlossTerm Role="baseform=action">actions</GlossTerm> you use
95 frequently on the workspace backdrop as icons.&newline;&newline;To place an object on the workspace, <GlossTerm>drag</GlossTerm> its icon from a
96 File Manager or Application Manager window and drop it directly on the
97 workspace backdrop.&newline;&newline;A workspace object is a <Emphasis>reference</Emphasis> to the actual object,
98 not a copy.&newline;&newline;∅
100 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-filemanager"></InlineGraphic><GlossTerm Role="nogloss">File Manager</GlossTerm>&newline;&newline;File Manager displays the files, folders, and programs on your system as
101 icons. Working with File Manager icons saves you from having to learn complex
102 commands.&newline;</Para>
103 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="VI-FileManagerFrontPanelControl"></InlineGraphic>&newline;To open a
104 File Manager view of your home folder, click the File Manager control
105 in the Front Panel.&newline;∅&newline;&newline;<GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Application Manager</GlossTerm>
107 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-AppMgr"></InlineGraphic>&newline;∅</Para>
108 <Para>Application Manager provides easy access to the applications and
109 actions you use in your everyday work.&newline;&newline;You can place the applications and actions you use frequently on
110 the workspace backdrop.&newline;</Para>
111 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="VI-AppMgrIcon"></InlineGraphic>To open Application Manager,
112 click its Front Panel control.&newline;∅&newline;&newline;<GlossTerm Role="nogloss">Front Panel</GlossTerm>
114 <Para><InlineGraphic Remap="graphic" Role="left" Entityref="q-mini-frontpanel"></InlineGraphic>&newline;∅</Para>
115 <Para>The Front Panel provides controls, applications, and indicators you use in
116 your everyday work. The Front Panel also provides the <Emphasis>workspace
117 switch</Emphasis> for selecting a workspace.&newline;∅&newline;</Para>
119 <Title>More about the desktop ...</Title>
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123 <Para><XRef Linkend="survival-skills"></Para>
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126 <Para><XRef Linkend="survival-skills-mouse"></Para>
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129 <Para><XRef Linkend="survival-skills-keyboard"></Para>
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132 <Para><XRef Linkend="ManagingWindowsSI"></Para>
134 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.14">
135 <Para><XRef Linkend="UsingWorkspacesSI"></Para>
137 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.15">
138 <Para><XRef Linkend="SettingUpOrganizingWorkspacesSI"></Para>
140 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.16">
141 <Para><XRef Linkend="UsingMenusSI"></Para>
143 <ListItem Id="HIMGR.QST.item.17">
144 <Para><XRef Linkend="getting-help"></Para>
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147 <Para><XRef Linkend="LogOutLockScreenTA"></Para>
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150 <Para><XRef Linkend="DesktopKeyboardNav">
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154 <Para><OLink Type="JumpNewView" LocalInfo="Loginmgr SDL-RESERVED-hometopic">Login
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