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 Ubuntu Linux Desktop on the gnome environment And some common applications on the Ubuntu Desktop
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. Click on the System Settings icon.
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	Here, switch Auto-hide the Launcher to ON position. Now, the launcher will be hidden.
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. The launcher will become visible.
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.
	Now, how do we locate a particular application? Just type in the name of the application you are looking for, and you will find it instantly. It's that simple!
	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. Observe here - both LibreOffice Calc and Calculator are listed.
Click on Calculator >> come to the Calculator window	Click on the Calculator icon. The Calculator application now opens on the screen.
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. <<PAUSE>>
	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. gedit is the default Text Editor in the Ubuntu Linux OS. The Text Editor icon appears below. Let’s click on it t o open it.
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. For example, type "Hello World".
	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". .txt is the default extension of a text file.
Select Desktop as location >> click on Save button.	And for location, let’s select Desktop. And click on the Save button at the bottom.
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. See, our text file has opened with our written text.
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. Now type the word terminal in the search bar field.
Click on the Terminal icon.	Click on the Terminal icon, that appears below.
Mouse on Terminal window	The terminal window opens on the screen. Please note: The shortcut to open the Terminal is Ctrl+Alt+T keys.
SLIDE	The terminal is also called the command line. This is because you can command the computer from here. In fact it is more powerful than the GUI.
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. Type Firefox in the search bar.
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 browser 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 opens on the browser.
Click on X icon	Let's close this as explained 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 LibreOffice 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 the 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 not 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 launcher	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, the launcher and some of the icons available on it few common applications like Calculator, Text Editor, Terminal, Firefox Web Browser, Videos and LibreOffice Suite components and the Home folder
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