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This is Andrew Gee with the sixth screencast from the

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Ubuntu Month of Screencasts.

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All the screencasts in this month are available for free

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at our website, which is screencasts.ubuntu.com

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When you load up your Ubuntu operating system for the first time,

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you may be confused as it does not look like your previous

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operating system.

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But it is really quite simple to get the hang of

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and has some great features, of which I am going to show you.

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The first part of the desktop you should notice is the desktop itself.

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Like most other operating systems there is a background

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upon which you can arrange icons or files,

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so that you are able to quickly access them.

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If you have a CD or other hard drive connected to the computer

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you may also see an icon allowing you to open them.

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At the top and the bottom of the screen you should see two bars.

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These are known as panels and are totally customisable.

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On the left of the top panel you can find the main menus,

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these are Applications, Places and System.

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The Applications menu houses all of the applications on the system,

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for your computer to load up.

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The Places menu allows you to access some of the places on your system,

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such as your home directory, external devices and network.

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The system menu allows you to change the settings of your Ubuntu computer,

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access the help system and turn off your computer.

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Next along on the panel is a blank area,

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here is a good place to make shortcuts for your applications

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to quickly access them.

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As you can see, there are already three icons in the panel for you.

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To add a new button to the panel, simply right-click in a blank area,

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choose Add to panel.

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From the window shows click the Application Launcher... button

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From here you are able to go through the categories just as

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you were going through the applications menu.

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You can choose the application you want to add to a button.

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In this case I will choose calculator.

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Select it and then press the Add button.

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Now you can see that your button has shown up on the panel.

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You can right-click on it

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and choose to move it to whatever place on the panel you would like.

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Next on the top panel is the Fast User Switcher.

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Here you can see which user is currently logged in to the desktop.

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If you are to click on it,

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you can see the other users that are on this computer,

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which you are able to switch to instantly.

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Here I have two user accounts under the same name.

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Clicking on it will instantly swap me over to that user.

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Next on the panel is the search tool.

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This is a powerful search, allowing you to access

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and search for what you want on your computer.

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Just type in the search box and the results will show up.

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You can find the system tray next

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This is where some applications like to hide when they are open.

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You may also find network and sound icons to adjust both settings quickly.

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The date and is displayed next

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and clicking on it will show a calendar,

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so you are able to quickly flip through the days.

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The final button on the top panel

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is the one you would use to shut down, restart, log off, hibernate

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or standby your computer with.

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Clicking on it will bring up the following window,

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giving you the choice of what you would like to do.

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The bottom panel also has a range of items on.

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The first button gives you quick access to your desktop.

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If you have many windows open,

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you may want to minimise them quickly, so that you are

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able to see your desktop.

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Clicking the button again will bring your windows back to where they were,

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before you minimised them with the button.

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Next along is the window list,

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this is where all the windows that are open are put for easy access.

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This is pretty similar to the windows task bar that you may have used.

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As you can see I have loaded up the calculator

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and the calculator is shown up as an item on the window list.

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Right-clicking will do the same as you would expect,

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being able to do things, such as close.

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Next is the Workspace feature.

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This is a really great feature that I will come back to in a second.

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The last button is the waste basket.

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This is the Trash or Recycle Bin of Ubuntu.

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You are able to drag files here that you do not want to have.

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Clicking on it will launch this window.

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You can rescue items by dragging back out

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or you can empty the deleted items by clicking 

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on Empty Deleted Items.

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Now back to workspaces,

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When you are using your computer, you may find that your windows

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become somewhat cluttered on the desktop,

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This is the perfect time to use workspaces.

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Workspaces can be used to split up different windows

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on to different work spaces.

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Now here is a pretty cluttered desktop.

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The best way to use workspaces is to split the different tasks

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you have got running.

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For instance, I have my emails running in the background.

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Which are getting in the way a bit.

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So what I can do is move this on to a separate workspace.

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To do this I hold the Ctrl + Alt + Shift and press the right arrow key.

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From the bottom right, where the workspace switcher is,

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I can now see that the window is in the second workspace, from there.

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But all of the original windows are on the first workspace.

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Switching back, by clicking on the different workspaces in the bottom right corner

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I can see that my original workspace is still there,

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with the email client missing in the background.

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Now you may want even more workspaces.

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In this case, you go to the workspace switcher

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right-click on it and go to preferences.

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Here you can see the number of workspaces.

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You can change this to a different number.

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A well known number that is used is four.

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Now you can see in the bottom-right, there are four workspaces.

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So now I can use that to split up more.

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Now you can see I am using three different workspaces.

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Workspace three, which is this one, has two windows on it.

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and the original two workspaces are still there.

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This keeps things much more tidier and easier to manage on your system.

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You can switch easily by clicking in the bottom

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or simply by holding Ctrl + Alt and the left or right keys to navigate.

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Thanks for watching, I am Andrew Gee.

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