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Note to Gnome howtos

• These are howtos related to the gnome template. Some of them are the same as kde and some are different.
• Direct links to other howto sections: General | KDE | Gnome | VMware | VirtualBox | DiskImage (USB stick) | LiveCD/DVD (.iso)

How to add bookmarks to nautilus

• You can do that by adding them while in testdrive and then copying the modified files.

How to customize the wallpaper

• Default wallpapers go into /usr/share/wallpapers . You can see there are some symlinks there that you can customized by pointing to yours.
• If you want to customize only a user wallpaper, do that on test drive and get the modified files.

How to customize menus

• In order to customize the applications menu using the suse studio, upload a customized "applications.xbel" to the folder
  "/home/tux/.local/share/gnome-main-menu/" on the "overlay files" section. Replace tux for your username.
• This way you can remove/edit the applications on the "recent applications" as well.
• You can edit the documents on the user menu by editing the file .local/share/gnome-main-menu/documents.xbel
• You can remove the install option on the user menu (on the system part of the menu, top-left) by editing the file .local/share/gnome-main-menu/system-items.xbel . You can also customize other options on this menu as well.

How to add shortcuts on desktop

• That is very easy, just add a .desktop file into the ~/Desktop folder.
• If you want it for all users, copy these to /etc/skeleton/Desktop.

How to launch a gnome application on login

• That is the same case of "How to launch a kde application on login " so refer to that Howto.

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