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Revision as of 14:47, 30 June 2015
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Ubuntu Linux Desktop. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial we will learn about
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| 00:18 | To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux OS version 14.04 |
| 00:25 | In some of the older versions of Ubuntu Linux, the desktop looks like this. |
| 00:32 | You can see Applications, Places and System tabs on the top left corner of the screen. |
| 00:40 | In the newer versions of Ubuntu Linux, the desktop looks likes this. |
| 00:46 | You'll see the launcher on the left hand side of the screen. If the launcher is hidden, as shown here, then we can make it visible. |
| 00:55 | To do so, move the mouse to the extreme left of the screen.The launcher will be visible. |
| 01:02 | Move the mouse away and the launcher will get hidden once again. |
| 01:07 | How can we make the launcher visible always? Click on the wheel icon at the extreme right corner of the desktop screen. |
| 01:16 | Now, click on System Settings and then on Appearance. |
| 01:22 | In the Appearance, click on Behavior tab. |
| 01:26 | Here, switch Auto-hide the Launcher to OFF position.Now, the launcher will be visible always. |
| 01:35 | Close this window. |
| 01:37 | Notice, there are some icons on the launcher, by default. |
| 01:41 | You can see the Dash home icon at the top of the launcher. |
| 01:45 | To open Dash home, click on it. |
| 01:48 | Right at the top, you'll see the search bar field. |
| 01:52 | Now, how do we locate a particular application? Its very simple! |
| 01:58 | Let’s try to locate the Calculator application. |
| 02:02 | So, in the search bar field, type C a l c. |
| 02:06 | See here, both LibreOffice Calc and Calculator are listed. |
| 02:11 | Click on Calculator icon.The Calculator application now opens on the screen. |
| 02:19 | In old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Applications -> Accessories -> Calculator. |
| 02:27 | Calculator helps perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations. |
| 02:33 | Let us try some simple calculation. |
| 02:37 | Type 5 asterix 8 and press the equal to sign. |
| 02:42 | Instead of pressing equal to sign, you can also press the Enter key on the keyboard. |
| 02:48 | The answer is displayed on the Calculator. |
| 02:50 | Likewise, we can do all sorts of calculations using the Calculator application. |
| 02:58 | Now exit this Calculator by clicking the close button. |
| 03:03 | Let’s get familiar with a few other important applications of Ubuntu Linux OS. |
| 03:08 | For that, we will go back to Dash home. |
| 03:12 | Another way to open Dash Home is to press the Windows key on the keyboard. |
| 03:18 | So in the Search bar, type gedit.The Text Editor icon appears.Click on it. |
| 03:25 | In the old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Application >> Accessories >> gedit. |
| 03:33 | What you see right now on the screen, is the gedit Text Editor window. |
| 03:38 | Let me type some text here.Type "Hello World". |
| 03:43 | To save the file, press Ctrl and S keys simultaneously on the keyboard. |
| 03:49 | Alternately, go to File and then click on Save. |
| 03:54 | Now, a dialog box named “Save as” opens up.It asks for filename and the location where the file has to be saved. |
| 04:03 | So let’s type the name as "hello.txt". |
| 04:09 | And for location let’s select Desktop and click on the Save button. |
| 04:14 | Let's close this gedit window now and check whether our file is saved on the Desktop or not. |
| 04:22 | Now on the Desktop, you can see the file hello.txt.This means our text file was saved successfully. |
| 04:30 | Let me open this file by double-clicking on it.See, our text file has opened with our written text. |
| 04:39 | The Internet has a lot of information on gedit Text Editor.There will be spoken tutorials on this topic at the below link. |
| 04:49 | Let's close this text editor and let's look at another application, Terminal. |
| 04:55 | So let's go to Dash home by pressing the Windows key. |
| 04:59 | Now type terminal in the search bar field. |
| 05:03 | Click on the Terminal icon. |
| 05:06 | In the old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Application >> Accessories >> Terminal. |
| 05:13 | The terminal window opens on the screen.Please Note that the shortcut key to open the Terminal is Ctrl+Alt+T. |
| 05:22 | Terminal is called the command line.This is because you can command the computer from here. |
| 05:29 | In fact it is more powerful than the GUI. |
| 05:33 | Let me switch back to the Terminal window. |
| 05:35 | Now let’s type a simple command to get a feel of the terminal.Type 'ls' and press Enter. |
| 05:44 | You can see a list of all the files and folders in the current directory. |
| 05:49 | Here it is displaying files and folders from the Home folder.We will see later in this tutorial what the Home folder is. |
| 05:59 | We will not spend any more time with the terminal now. |
| 06:02 | Close the terminal. |
| 06:05 | Terminal commands are explained well in the Linux spoken tutorials series on this website. |
| 06:12 | Now, let's move onto another application i.e Firefox Web Browser. |
| 06:17 | Once again press the Windows key on the keyboard, to open Dash home. Type Firefox in the search bar. |
| 06:25 | Click on the Firefox Web Browser icon. |
| 06:29 | In the old versions, we have to click on Application -> Internet -> Firefox Web Browser. |
| 06:35 | Firefox Web Browser is used to access the world wide web.Now we can see that Firefox browser window is open. |
| 06:45 | Let’s go to the spoken-tutorial site.For that, go to address bar or press F6 on the keyboard. |
| 06:52 | I am pressing F6 now.And we are in the address bar. |
| 06:58 | Press backspace to clear any text visible in the address bar. |
| 07:03 | Now let’s type "http://spoken-tutorial.org". |
| 07:13 | As we type, Firefox may suggest a few possibilities. |
| 07:18 | You may choose one of these or type the complete address and press Enter. |
| 07:24 | Firefox will connect to the given website. |
| 07:27 | The Spoken Tutorial Homepage opens on the browser. |
| 07:31 | Let's close this and move on to the next application. |
| 07:35 | So, let's go to Dash home again and type office in the search bar. |
| 07:41 | You'll see various LibreOffice components like Calc, Impress, Writer and Draw. |
| 07:48 | In the old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Application >> Office. |
| 07:55 | Excellent tutorials for all these components are available on the Spoken Tutorial website. |
| 08:01 | Now let's explore the Video option. |
| 08:04 | Go to Dash home and type video. |
| 08:07 | In the displayed list, we have one important application, Videos. |
| 08:13 | Videos is used to play videos or songs.By default, it plays open format video files only. |
| 08:22 | In the old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Application >> Sound & Video. |
| 08:28 | Here we can see various applications and here is the application Movie Player.Click on it. |
| 08:36 | Let me play a sample file from my pen-drive. |
| 08:39 | Now, I am inserting my pen-drive in a usb slot on my machine.The pen-drive folder has opened automatically. |
| 08:48 | If it doesn't open, we can access it from the launcher. |
| 08:54 | Locate the pen-drive icon at the bottom of the launcher. |
| 08:58 | If we click on it, it shows the files and folders available on the pen-drive. |
| 09:04 | Now I will select the movie file to play i.e big-buck-bunny.ogv. |
| 09:10 | Here is my file; now I will double-click to open it. |
| 09:14 | It opens in Videos, by default. |
| 09:18 | Let's stop playing the movie. |
| 09:22 | In the older versions of Ubuntu Linux, the pen-drive will be visible on the Desktop. |
| 09:27 | In newer Ubuntu versions, press Ctrl, Windows and D keys, to go to the Desktop directly. |
| 09:35 | In older Ubuntu versions, the required key combination to go to the Desktop used to be either Ctrl, Alt, D or Windows key and D |
| 09:45 | The user must be prepared to handle such variations from version to version. |
| 09:51 | Let us now press Ctrl, Windows and D keys to go to the Desktop. |
| 09:57 | Now let's see some more important things on this desktop. |
| 10:01 | Notice the folder icon present in the launcher. |
| 10:04 | Let's click on it.The Home folder opens. |
| 10:09 | In the old versions of Ubuntu Linux, we have to click on Places >> Home Folder. |
| 10:15 | Every user has a unique Home folder in Ubuntu Linux. |
| 10:20 | We can say that the Home folder is "our house", where we can store our files and folders. |
| 10:27 | Unless we permit, others cannot see them. |
| 10:33 | More information on file permissions is available in the Linux spoken tutorials. |
| 10:39 | Let us switch back.In our Home folder, we can see other folders, such as….. |
| 10:45 | Desktop, Documents, Downloads,etc. |
| 10:50 | In Linux, everything is a file.Let’s open the Desktop folder by double-clicking on it. |
| 10:57 | Here, we can see that the same "hello.txt" file that we saved from the text editor.So this folder and the Desktop are the same. |
| 11:08 | Let me close this now. |
| 11:10 | Aren't you bored of seeing the same theme of the desktop? Let's change it. |
| 11:15 | Go to Dash home and type system settings in the search bar field. Then click on the system settings icon. |
| 11:24 | Alternately, click on the wheel icon at the top right of the desktop screen.Click on System Settings and then on Appearance. |
| 11:35 | In the previous Ubuntu Linux versions, we have to go to System ->Preferences ->Appearance. |
| 11:42 | The Appearance window opens up. |
| 11:44 | Here under Themes tab, we have many pre-installed themes. |
| 11:50 | Play with these themes as per your preference. |
| 11:54 | As soon as you click on that, you can see that changes have been applied on your desktop. |
| 12:00 | You can see it clearly by pressing Ctrl+Windows+D keys simultaneously. |
| 12:08 | That’s all for this tutorial. Let us summarise. |
| 12:12 | In this tutorial we learnt about
Player and LibreOffice Suite components
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| 12:36 | The video at the following link summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.Pls watch it. |
| 12:42 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team conducts workshops and gives certificates on passing online tests.For details, please write to us. |
| 12:53 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Govt of India.More information on this mission is available at the following link. |
| 13:04 | The script for this tutorial has been contributed by Anusha Kadambala and the Spoken Tutorial Team. |
| 13:12 | And this is Gaurav Shinde from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |
