Linux/C2/Ubuntu-Desktop-16.04/English
Title of the script: Ubuntu Desktop 16.04
Author: Spoken Tutorial Team
Visual Cue | Narration |
Starting slide | Hello and welcome to this spoken tutorial on Ubuntu L inux Desktop 16.04 . |
Learning Objective | In this tutorial we will learn about
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System Requirements | To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 1 6.04 O S. |
Go to desktop | The Ubuntu desktop looks like this. |
Point to the launcher bar | You'll see the launcher on the left hand side of the screen. |
Click on the wheel icon (at the extreme right corner of the desktop screen) | How can we hide the launcher? |
Launcher >> click on System Settings | To do so, go to the launcher on the left side.
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Click System Settings >> Appearance | In the System Settings window, click on Appearance. |
Click on Behavior | In the Appearance window, click on the Behavior tab. |
Switch Auto-hide the Launcher to ON
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Here, switch Auto-hide the Launcher to ON position.
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Show desktop without the launcher | If the launcher is hidden, as shown here, then how can we make it visible again? |
Move the cursor to the extreme left of the screen | To do so, move the cursor to the extreme left of the screen.
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Move the mouse away | Move the cursor away and the launcher will get hidden again. |
Appearance window >> Switch Auto-hide the Launcher to ON | Switch back to the Appearance window and turn Auto-hide the Launcher to OFF position. |
Close this window | Close this window by clicking on the tiny X icon at the top left of the window. |
Point to the icons | Notice, there are some icons on the launcher, by default. |
Move the mouse to the launcher | At the top of the launcher , you can see the Dash home icon.
Dash home is an interface which gives access to all applications in Ubuntu Linux, within a screen. |
Click on Dash home | To open Dash home, click on it. |
Point to the search bar, Applications, Files & Folders | Prominently at the top, you'll see the search bar field.
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Now, how do we locate a particular application?
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Let’s try to locate the Calculator application. | |
In the search bar >> type Calc | So, in the search bar field, type C a l c. |
Point to LibreOffice Calc and Calculator | All the applications that have c a l c in their name, will be listed.
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Click on Calculator >> come to the Calculator window | Click on the Calculator icon.
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Mouse-over calculator | Calculator helps perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations. |
Let us try some simple calculation. | |
Type 5*8 >> press = | Type 5 asterix 8 and click on the equal to sign. |
Instead of clicking on the equal to sign, you can also press the Enter key on the keyboard. | |
Point to the answer. | The answer is displayed on the Calculator. |
Likewise, we can do all sort of calculations using the Calculator application. | |
Click on X icon | Now exit this Calculator by clicking on the tiny X icon at the top left of the window.
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Let’s get familiar with some other important applications in Ubuntu Linux OS. | |
Mouse on the desktop area | For that, we will go back to Dash home. |
In the Search Bar >> type gedit >> click on Text Editor icon. | In the Search bar , let ’s type gedit .
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Mouse on gedit Text Editor | What you see right now on the screen, is the gedit Text Editor window. |
Type “Hello World” |
Let me type some text here.
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To save the file, press Ctrl and S keys simultaneously on the keyboard. | |
Click on File->save | Alternately, we can click on File and then on Save. |
“Save as ” dialog comes up | Now, a dialog box named “Save as” opens up.
It asks for a filename and the location where the file has to be saved. |
Type “Hello.txt” as filename. | So let’s type the name as "Hello.txt".
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Select Desktop as location >> click on Save button. | And for location, let’s select Desktop.
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Click on 'X' icon gedit text editor. | Let's close this gedit window now by clicking on the tiny X icon at the top left of the window. |
Move to desktop area and select the Hello.txt file. | On the Desktop, we can see the file Hello.txt .
This means our text file was saved successfully. |
Double click on hello.txt file | Let me open this file by double-clicking on it.
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SLIDE | The Internet has a lot of information on gedit Text Editor .
There are some spoken tutorials available on this topic also, on this website. |
Close the gedit text editor | Let's close this text editor and look at another application i.e the Terminal . |
Click on dash home and type terminal. | So let's go to Dash home, once again .
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Click on the Terminal icon. | Click on the Terminal icon, that appears below. |
Mouse on Terminal window | The terminal window opens on the screen.
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SLIDE | The terminal is also called the command line.
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Place your cursor on terminal | Let me switch back to the Terminal window. |
Type ls >> press Enter | Now let ’s type a simple command to get a feel of the terminal.
Type 'ls' and press Enter. |
Move the cursor over the result of the command
Highlight Home |
You can see a list of all the files and folders in the current directory .
Here, it is displaying files and folders from the Home folder . We will see later in this tutorial what the Home folder is. |
We will not spend any more time with the terminal now. | |
Click on X icon | Close the terminal by clicking on the tiny X icon at the top left of the window. |
SLIDE | Terminal commands are explained well, in the Linux spoken tutorial series on this website . |
Come to desktop | Now, let's move on to another application i.e Firefox Web Browser. |
Go to Dash home and type Firefox | Once again, open Dash home .
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Click on firefox | Click on the Firefox Web Browser icon. |
As firefox opens | Firefox Web Browser is used to access the world wide web.
Now we can see that Firefox b rowser window is open. |
When firefox opens | Let ’s go to the spoken tutorial website.
For that, click on the address bar or press F6 on the keyboard. |
Type "http://spoken-tutorial.org” | Now let’s type "spoken-tutorial.org" and press Enter. |
If you have Internet connectivity, then Firefox will connect to the given website. | |
Mouse-over the page | The Spoken Tutorial Homepage open s on the browser. |
Click on X icon | Let's close this as explai ned earlier, and move on to the next application. |
Go to dash home and type Office | So, let's go to Dash home once again and type office in the search bar. |
Mouse-over Writer, Base, Math, Calc, Draw and Impress (in the order displayed) | You'll see various Libre Office components like
Calc, Impress, Writer and Draw LibreOffice is the default office application in Ubuntu Linux OS. |
Excellent tutorials for all these components are available on the Spoken Tutorial website. | |
Come back to desktop | Now let's explore the Video option. |
Goto dash home and type Video | Type video in the search bar . |
Mouse-over Movie player | In th e displayed list, we have one application named Videos. |
Click on Movie player | Videos is used to play videos and songs.
By default, it plays open format video files only. |
Movie player opens | So le t me play a sample file from my pen-drive . |
Insert pen-drive in the USB | Now I am inserting my pen-drive in a usb slot on my machine.
The pen-drive folder has opened automatically. |
Close if pen-drive opens. | If it does n ot open, we can access it from the launcher . |
Click bottom left icon
Click the bottom left icon again. |
Locate the pen-drive icon on the launcher .
If we click on it, it shows the files and folders available on the pen-drive . |
Select movie file | Now I will select the movie file big buck bunny.ogv to play. |
Double click on movie file | Here is my file.
I will double-click on it, to open it. |
Movie file opens | It opens in Videos, by default. |
Stop the movie. | Let's stop playing the movie. |
Press Ctrl, Windows and D keys | Let us now press Ctrl, Windows and D keys to go to the Desktop. |
Press Ctrl+windows+D keys | Now let's see some other important things on this Desktop . |
Mouse over Home folder icon in l auncher | Notice the folder icon present in the launcher . |
Click on Home folder | Let's click on it.
The Home folder opens. |
Mouse over Home folder | Every user has a unique Home folder in Ubuntu Linux. |
SLIDE | We can say that the Home folder is "our house", where we can store our files and folders .
Unless we permit, others cannot see them. More information on file permissions is available in the Linux spoken tutorial series . |
Point to Desktop, Documents, Videos, Downloads one by one | Let’s switch back.
In our Home folder , we can see other folders such a s, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc. |
Click on desktop folder | In Linux , everything is a file .
Let ’s open the Desktop folder by double -clicking on it. |
Select hello.txt file | He re, 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. |
Close this folder | Let me close this folder now.
That’s all for this tutorial. Let us summarise. |
Summary | In this tutorial we learnt about * the Ubuntu Desktop ,
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Previous slide | The script for this tutorial has been contributed by the Spoken Tutorial Team.
And this is Praveen from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for joining. |