PoojaMoolya at 05:42, 18 November 2014

2014-11-18T05:42:11Z

Ashwini at 07:54, 11 November 2014

2014-11-11T07:54:49Z

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2014-11-10T12:54:39Z

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Title of script:Overview of BOSS Desktop

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: BOSS OS,Overview, Desktop, Synaptic Package Manager

{|border=1
!width="50%"|Visual Cue
!width="50%"|Narration
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|Title slide
|Welcome to this spoken tutorial onBOSS Desktop.
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|Learning Objectives
|In this tutorial, we will get familiar with theBOSS Desktopenvironment.
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|System Requirements
|Here, I am usingBOSS 5.0with wide Indian language support & packages.
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|Goto desktop
|What you are seeing here, is theBOSS Desktop.
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|Move the mouse to the main menu
|You can see the main menu on the top left hand hand corner.
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|Click on main menu
|To open this menu, pressAlt+F1keys simultaneously on your keyboard.

Alternately, click onApplications menu.
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|TheApplications menu contains all the installed applications in a categorized manner.
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|In thisApplications menu, let us get familiar with some important applications.
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|Goto Applications->Accessories->Calculator.
|So let's go toApplications->Accessories->Calculator.
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|Mouse-over calculator
|Calculator helps perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations.
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|Open on calculator.
|Let's open thecalculator by clicking on it.

Let us try some simple calculation.
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|Type 5*(into)8 and press =
|Type 5*(into)8 and press = sign
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|Instead of pressing = sign, you can also type the enter key
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|Click on close button
|Now exit this calculator by pressing the close button.
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|Click on desktop.
|Now let's look at another application.
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|Click on Application-> Accessories
|For that go back toApplications then go toAccessories.
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|Goto Gedit Text Editor and click on it.
|InAccessories, let's opengedit Text Editorby clicking on it.
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|Be on Gedit Text Editor
|So what you see right now on screen is thegedit Text Editor.

Let me type some text here and save it.
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|Type “Hello World”
|Type"Hello World".

To save the file, I can pressCrtl+S or go toFileand then click onSave.
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|Click on File->save
|So let me go toFile and then onSave.
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|“Save as” dialog comes up
|TheSave Asdialog box opens up.

It prompts

for filename and location in which the file has to be saved.
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|Type “hello.txt” as file name. Select Desktop as location.
|So, let me type the name as"hello.txt"and for location I select theDesktopfolder.
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|Click onSave.
|Click onSavebutton.
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|Click on 'X' button gedit text editor.
|Let's close thisgeditwindownow and check whether our file is saved on theDesktopor not.
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|Move toDesktop and select thehello.txt file.
|Now come to theDesktop and you can see the filehello.txt.

So, our text file has got saved successfully.
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|Double click on hello.txt file
|Let me open this file by double-clicking on it.

Here is our text“Hello World”.
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|We can type in multiple local languages, too, in thegedit text editor.

Let us see how to do so.
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|press (CTRL + SPACE BAR)
|Ingedit Text Editiorpress(CTRL + SPACE BAR)

You can see a small box at the bottom right hand side.

Click on it.
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|Click on Hindi

Click on Inscript.
|SelectHindi.

Then selectInscript.

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I will type “hello world”.

You can see the text has changed toHindi Inscript.
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|Click on Hindi Phonetic >>type“welcome”
|Now I will selectHindi Phonetic.

I will type“welcome”using phonetics.

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And you can see the word “welcome”typed inHindi.
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|Click on Save
|Click onSaveto save the changes.
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|Close the gedit text editor
|Let's close thistext editor and let's see another important application fromAccessoriesi.eTerminal.
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|Click on Applications->Accessories-> terminal.
|So let's move back toApplications->Accessories and thenTerminal.
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|Place your cursor on terminal
|Terminal is called command line because you can command the computer from here.

In fact, it is more powerful than the GUI.
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|Type ls and press enter
|Now let's type a simple command to get a feel ofTerminal.

So let's type 'ls' and pressEnter.
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|Output on the terminal
|You can see it lists all the files and folders in thecurrent working directory.
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|
|Here it is displaying files and folders from theHomefolder.

We will see later in this tutorial what theHomefolder is.
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|Show the list of Linux tuts on

[http://spoken-tutorial.org/ http://spoken-tutorial.org].
|Terminalcommands are explained well in the subsequentLinuxspoken tutorials in this series.
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|Click on 'X' button
|Let us close theTerminalnow.

Close the desktop window.
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|Come to Desktop
|Now let's move on to another application i.eIceweasel Web Browser.

This is the default web browser on theBOSS Operating System.
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|Click onApplications-> Internet->Iceweasel Web Browser
|Click onApplications-> Internet-> Iceweasel Web Browser.
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|Asbrowser opens....
|Iceweasel is the re-branded version of"Firefox".
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|Using this browser, you can access your emails or search for some information on the net.
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|InIceweasel >> PressF6
|Let's go to thegoogle site.

The short-cut key to go to the address bar isF6.
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|Type"www.gmail.com" >>pressEnter.
|I will type"www.google.co.in"
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|

Scroll with the mouse
|As I type,Iceweasel may suggest a few possibilities.

You may choose one of these...

... or continue to type the complete address and pressEnter.
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|We are now in thegoogle search page. Let us type “spoken tutorial”in thesearch bar.
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|Mouse-over the page to show gmail opened
|Thespoken tutorialwebsite is listed as the first option. Let's click on it.

This will open thespoken tutorial home page.
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|Click on Close button
|So let's close this and move on.
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|Click on applications->Office.
|Now, let's click onApplicationsand then onOffice.
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|Mouse-overLibreOfficeWriter,Calc andImpress one after another.
|In thisOfficemenu, we haveLibreOffice options likeWriter,Calc andImpress.

These are the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation components ofLibreOffice Suite.

TheSpoken Tutorial website has spoken tutorials on these topics. We suggest that you explore them.
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|Goto Applications-> Sound & Video
|Next, underApplications,let's exploreSound & Videomenu.
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|Scroll the list
|This option lists the various player options available inBOSS OS.

You can use any of these options to play your video or audio files.
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|
|Now let's see some other important things.
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|Click onPlaces
|Let's go toPlacesmenu this time.
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|Mouse-over home folder >> click on it
|The first option here is theHomefolder.

Let's open it.
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|Every user has a uniqueHomefolder inBOSS OS.
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|In theHome folder
|We can say that theHomefolder is "our house" where we can store our files and folders.
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|Linux tutorials on[http://spoken-tutorial.org/ http://spoken-tutorial.org]
|Unless we permit, others cannot see them.

More information on file permissions is available in theLinux spoken tutorialsavailable on thespoken tutorial website.
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|Click on Desktop, Documents, Videos, Downloads one by one
|In ourHomefolder, we can see other folders such asDesktop, Documents, Downloads, Music,etc.
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|Click on desktop folder
|InLinux, everything is a file.

Let's open theDesktop folder by double-clicking on it.
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|Selecthello.txtfile
|Hey, we can see that the same"hello.txt"file what we saved fromgedit text editoris here.

So this folder and theDesktopare the same.

Let me close this folder now.
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|
|Let's learn to change theDesktoptheme now.
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|Right hand side corner >> point tospoken
|Go to the right hand side corner and click on the username displayed there.

In my case, the username isspoken. So, I will click onspoken.
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|Click onspoken
|Now, click onSystem Settings option.
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|
|The System Settings dialog box opens up.
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|Click onBackground
|Click onBackground icon.
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|Click on yellow sunflower.
|Choose any background from the list displayed.

It will appear as your new background.
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|Click on 'X' to close the box.
|Close this dialog box.
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|Click on Applications >> System Tools
|Now, we will come to theSystem Toolsoption available underApplicationsmenu.
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|
|This menu has many important options, which help you to manage your desktop and the various applications.
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|Click on Administration >> Synaptic Package Manager.
|Click on Administration >> Synaptic Package Manager.
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|Type in theadmin password.
|It will immediately prompt you for theadmin passwordfor authentication.

Type in youradmin password and click onAuthenticatebutton.
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|Slide
|Details on how to useSynpatic Package Manager is available in a separate tutorial in this series.
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|Last slide
|This bring to the end of this tutorial.

In this tutorial we learnt about

* the BOSS Desktop,
* the main menu
* and many important features of BOSS Linux OS.
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|Acknowledgement slides
|Watch the video available at the following link.

It summarises the spoken tutorial project.

If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
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|Workshop slides
|The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials,

gives certificates to those who pass an online test.

For more details, pls write to[mailto:contact@spoken-tutorial.org contact@spoken-tutorial.org]
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|Mission slides
|Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.

It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India.

More information on this mission is available at the following link:[http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro][http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.This .]
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|
|This is _____________ signing off. Thanks for watching.
|}

BOSS-Linux/C2/BOSS-Linux-Desktop/English - Revision history

PoojaMoolya at 05:42, 18 November 2014

Ashwini at 07:54, 11 November 2014

Ashwini: Created page with " Title of script:Overview of BOSS Desktop Author: Nancy Varkey Keywords: BOSS OS,Overview, Desktop, Synaptic Package Manager {|border=1 !width="50%"|Visual Cue !width="5..."