So here's the fun part.
We're going to go ahead and change some of the settings
for the graphical user interface.
Now typically for most system administrators,
we're going to use the command line interface.
It's a lot more powerful,
and having a graphical user interface
creates a lot more overhead for the system,
so it does reduce performance,
especially when you're working in the server environment.
Again, some workstations and even some system administrators
might prefer some scenarios where you might want
to use a graphical user interface
instead of using the command line.
It's a lot easier for most of us
than having to work strictly off command line.
So we're going to go through a few settings
that you might either configure for yourself
or any other customers who have workstations.
Now the first thing we want to do
is want to check out the KDE Plasma Workspace.
So once you log in, you click your name.
So what we want to do is go ahead and click the settings icon.
Let's click the KDE Plasma Workspace.
Once you do that,
okay, this is one of the traditional layouts for the KDE.
This is going to be the Folder View.
But we're going to change this really quick
to the Search and Launch configuration settings.
Now this is slightly different for most people.
I prefer it.
I think it's very nice.
Okay, we're going to scroll down to the Search and Launch.
Let's change some of the pictures.
Going to do a quick Apply here,
just to see the differences on here.
Again, this is just to go over just our options
for our graphical user interfaces in Linux,
since most of us are familiar with macOS or Windows.
Okay, now we're going to switch to the GNOME.
So we're going to go to the Desktop up here.
Just going to Leave.
I'm going to Logout, I'm going to switch.
I'm going to go to the GNOME Classic this time.
Okay.
GNOME Classic.
So this is what I typically use.
We're just going to go to a favorite type of Text Editor
that we like.
Okay, I just want to Open a document.
Let's see what we have here in our Home directory.
TestFiles.
Testfile number 2, okay.
Let's make some changes here, blah, blah, blah,
nothing spectacular.
Again, we're just going through and showing
that we can do a lot of these things through our desktop
as we would on a command line.
But typically as administrators,
we're going to focus on the command line interface.
Now one other thing that we might have to focus on
is the accessibility settings for GNOME for users,
typically the ones with visual
and manual dexterity impairments.
So we're going to walk through that really quick.
We're going to go through Applications.
We're going to to to System Tools, and Settings.
We'll go to Universal Access, right here.
And then in Seeing section,
we're going to change this to High Contrast.
It helps a lot of people with visual disabilities
to see a lot better
when you have that high contrast between the characters.
And then we're going to go to, actually,
we're going to use that on-screen keyboard.
Okay, going to turn that on.
Going to close these settings.
We want to test it out on the command line.
We go to terminal.
Tools, where's the Konsole, here.
And we can see now that everything is on the screen.
So now if we need to type anything, we can just click it.
Okay, so a little shortcut here.
Go ahead, take these things off.
Take the High Contrast off.
So we're back to normal.
That was a quick walkthrough
of how to configure a graphical user interface settings
and the different options that we have
and just a simplistic navigation tour
and a few of the features that are different
than macOS and Windows.
Thank you, and I'll see you in the next lesson.