1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:01,320 So here's the fun part. 2 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,210 We're going to go ahead and change some of the settings 3 00:00:03,210 --> 00:00:05,220 for the graphical user interface. 4 00:00:05,220 --> 00:00:07,500 Now typically for most system administrators, 5 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:09,750 we're going to use the command line interface. 6 00:00:09,750 --> 00:00:11,040 It's a lot more powerful, 7 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,930 and having a graphical user interface 8 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:14,850 creates a lot more overhead for the system, 9 00:00:14,850 --> 00:00:16,770 so it does reduce performance, 10 00:00:16,770 --> 00:00:19,260 especially when you're working in the server environment. 11 00:00:19,260 --> 00:00:22,620 Again, some workstations and even some system administrators 12 00:00:22,620 --> 00:00:25,020 might prefer some scenarios where you might want 13 00:00:25,020 --> 00:00:26,730 to use a graphical user interface 14 00:00:26,730 --> 00:00:28,890 instead of using the command line. 15 00:00:28,890 --> 00:00:31,020 It's a lot easier for most of us 16 00:00:31,020 --> 00:00:33,270 than having to work strictly off command line. 17 00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:34,950 So we're going to go through a few settings 18 00:00:34,950 --> 00:00:36,630 that you might either configure for yourself 19 00:00:36,630 --> 00:00:39,660 or any other customers who have workstations. 20 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:40,493 Now the first thing we want to do 21 00:00:40,493 --> 00:00:43,830 is want to check out the KDE Plasma Workspace. 22 00:00:43,830 --> 00:00:45,450 So once you log in, you click your name. 23 00:00:45,450 --> 00:00:48,570 So what we want to do is go ahead and click the settings icon. 24 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:50,433 Let's click the KDE Plasma Workspace. 25 00:00:52,170 --> 00:00:53,043 Once you do that, 26 00:00:55,050 --> 00:00:58,110 okay, this is one of the traditional layouts for the KDE. 27 00:00:58,110 --> 00:01:00,090 This is going to be the Folder View. 28 00:01:00,090 --> 00:01:01,320 But we're going to change this really quick 29 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,980 to the Search and Launch configuration settings. 30 00:01:04,980 --> 00:01:07,230 Now this is slightly different for most people. 31 00:01:07,230 --> 00:01:08,070 I prefer it. 32 00:01:08,070 --> 00:01:09,220 I think it's very nice. 33 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:13,980 Okay, we're going to scroll down to the Search and Launch. 34 00:01:13,980 --> 00:01:15,843 Let's change some of the pictures. 35 00:01:17,670 --> 00:01:19,070 Going to do a quick Apply here, 36 00:01:20,220 --> 00:01:23,010 just to see the differences on here. 37 00:01:23,010 --> 00:01:26,130 Again, this is just to go over just our options 38 00:01:26,130 --> 00:01:28,620 for our graphical user interfaces in Linux, 39 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:31,983 since most of us are familiar with macOS or Windows. 40 00:01:33,570 --> 00:01:35,221 Okay, now we're going to switch to the GNOME. 41 00:01:35,221 --> 00:01:37,271 So we're going to go to the Desktop up here. 42 00:01:39,330 --> 00:01:40,293 Just going to Leave. 43 00:01:41,632 --> 00:01:43,382 I'm going to Logout, I'm going to switch. 44 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,440 I'm going to go to the GNOME Classic this time. 45 00:01:48,351 --> 00:01:49,184 Okay. 46 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,293 GNOME Classic. 47 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,193 So this is what I typically use. 48 00:02:03,210 --> 00:02:08,210 We're just going to go to a favorite type of Text Editor 49 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:10,733 that we like. 50 00:02:11,910 --> 00:02:15,060 Okay, I just want to Open a document. 51 00:02:15,060 --> 00:02:18,303 Let's see what we have here in our Home directory. 52 00:02:20,460 --> 00:02:21,693 TestFiles. 53 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:26,430 Testfile number 2, okay. 54 00:02:26,430 --> 00:02:29,073 Let's make some changes here, blah, blah, blah, 55 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,590 nothing spectacular. 56 00:02:31,590 --> 00:02:34,230 Again, we're just going through and showing 57 00:02:34,230 --> 00:02:37,080 that we can do a lot of these things through our desktop 58 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,910 as we would on a command line. 59 00:02:38,910 --> 00:02:40,380 But typically as administrators, 60 00:02:40,380 --> 00:02:43,350 we're going to focus on the command line interface. 61 00:02:43,350 --> 00:02:45,360 Now one other thing that we might have to focus on 62 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,540 is the accessibility settings for GNOME for users, 63 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:49,920 typically the ones with visual 64 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,230 and manual dexterity impairments. 65 00:02:52,230 --> 00:02:53,700 So we're going to walk through that really quick. 66 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:55,980 We're going to go through Applications. 67 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:59,613 We're going to to to System Tools, and Settings. 68 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:05,470 We'll go to Universal Access, right here. 69 00:03:06,692 --> 00:03:07,710 And then in Seeing section, 70 00:03:07,710 --> 00:03:09,783 we're going to change this to High Contrast. 71 00:03:10,890 --> 00:03:13,680 It helps a lot of people with visual disabilities 72 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:14,910 to see a lot better 73 00:03:14,910 --> 00:03:17,693 when you have that high contrast between the characters. 74 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:20,940 And then we're going to go to, actually, 75 00:03:20,940 --> 00:03:22,940 we're going to use that on-screen keyboard. 76 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,270 Okay, going to turn that on. 77 00:03:27,270 --> 00:03:28,620 Going to close these settings. 78 00:03:29,730 --> 00:03:32,250 We want to test it out on the command line. 79 00:03:32,250 --> 00:03:33,153 We go to terminal. 80 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,950 Tools, where's the Konsole, here. 81 00:03:37,950 --> 00:03:41,820 And we can see now that everything is on the screen. 82 00:03:41,820 --> 00:03:44,453 So now if we need to type anything, we can just click it. 83 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,750 Okay, so a little shortcut here. 84 00:03:48,750 --> 00:03:50,433 Go ahead, take these things off. 85 00:03:52,650 --> 00:03:54,000 Take the High Contrast off. 86 00:03:55,530 --> 00:03:57,390 So we're back to normal. 87 00:03:57,390 --> 00:03:58,260 That was a quick walkthrough 88 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:01,560 of how to configure a graphical user interface settings 89 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,450 and the different options that we have 90 00:04:03,450 --> 00:04:06,150 and just a simplistic navigation tour 91 00:04:06,150 --> 00:04:07,800 and a few of the features that are different 92 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,500 than macOS and Windows. 93 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:12,850 Thank you, and I'll see you in the next lesson.