GNOME Main Menu

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Contents 1 About 1.1 Shortcut 2 Using Main Menu in openSUSE 2.1 Search 2.2 Applications 2.3 Documents 2.4 Places 2.5 System Sidebar 2.6 Status

[edit] About

GNOME Main Menu is a convenient menu accessible from a button in the desktop panel. It is different from conventional menus, in that it lists a user's favourite and recent Applications, Documents and Places in one useful interface. Additionally it provides a search bar that allows a user to search for applications and documents from the menu itself.

The GNOME Main Menu is a special feature of openSUSE's GNOME.

[edit] Shortcut

Hit Alt+F1 to bring up the GNOME Main Menu.

[edit] Using Main Menu in openSUSE

[edit] Search

• If you type something in here and press enter, it will search your computer for any email, documents, websites etc that is related.

[edit] Applications

• Favorite Applications
  • This lists, by default, six of your favourite applications.
  • To remove an application from the Favourites group, you can right click on it and select "Remove from Favourites"
  • You can also right click on any application and select "Add to Startup Programs". By doing so, it will automatically start that application the next time you login.
  • If you previously added an application to "Startup Programs" and no longer wants it to start automatically, right click on that application and select "Remove from Startup Applications"
  • You can right click on any of these applications and choose to Uninstall them completely from your system, or to Upgrade them.

• Recent Applications
  • Lists, by default, four of the last non-favourite applications used.
  • You can right click on a Recent Application and select "Add to Favorites" if you frequently use it.

• More Applications...
  • If you need to run an application that is not in your Favourite List, click on this button to see all installed applications in a separate window called Application Browser, grouped into categories.
  • The Application Browser also includes a search box; typing into it starts real-time search among the listed applications for the entered string.
  • You can Uninstall/Upgrade or add to Favourites any application listed here by right clicking on it and selecting the appropriate option.

[edit] Documents

Similar to the Applications tab this lists your favourite and recently used documents.

• You can drag any document from your desktop or file-browser to the menu to add it to the list of favourite Documents.
• You can right-click on any of the favourite documents and choose to Remove them from Favourites, send them to the Wastebasket and so on.
• To remove an item from the Recent documents list, right-click on it and select Remove from recent menu.
• To clear the record of all recently used items not just from the menu, but also from applications like Gedit, Totem, GIMP and other GNOME applications, right-click on any recently used item ans select Purge all the recent items.

[edit] Places

The Places tab lists your favourite places as Bookmarked in Nautilus.

[edit] System Sidebar

The System sidebar keeps several of the most important utilities within the reach of one-click. This includes

• Help
• Control-Centre: Click on this to open a one-stop shop to configure the whole of your GNOME desktop. If you want to modify the appearance of your desktop, change a sound setting, set or edit personal information, change preferred applications, enable accessibility related applications, and change the Language of your desktop, the Control-Centre lists all these and many more utilities to configure your environment.
• YaST: System-wide configuration requiring administrator privileges can be accessed from YaST.
• Install/Remove Software: Launches the package manager in openSUSE, which allows you to search for and install additional software, or remove existing ones.
• Lock Screen, Logout and Shutdown options to manage your GNOME session.

[edit] Status

• System Monitor: Shows the amount of disk-space free on your home partition. Clicking on this brings up the GNOME-System-Monitor which lets you investigate the memory consumption of your system, the network bandwidth being used, disk usage, etc.
• Network: Shows the present status of you network connectivity. On clicking it brings up tools to configure your network.