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> The panel is invoked directly by the GNOME session manager
when you type <B
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>gnome-session</B
>, but it can be
also be invoked directly from the shell by typing
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> The panel will bring up a bar at the bottom of the screen,
shown in <A
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>Figure 2-3</A
> (note that this bar will
run across the entire bottom of your screen — in this
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> Starting programs with the panel is easy: you simply click on
the foot icon, from which you will get the top level launcher
menu, as shown in <A
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>Figure 2-4</A
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>Figure 2-4. GNOME panel: main menu</A
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> Most of the entries in the panel menu are submenus; <A
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>Figure 2-5</A
> shows an example of running the
CD player from the
Audio submenu.</P
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> Here are a few things you should explore in the panel: you
would probably discover them anyway because exploring the
panel is an entertaining thing to do, but this will speed the
process up.</P
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> First of all: it is possible to take panel menu entries and
create short-cut icons on the panel itself. You do it with
the Add to panel submenu of the
panel menu which you obtain when you click
the foot button. You can see and
example of this in <A
HREF="c0202.html#PANEL-ICONS"
>Figure 2-7</A
>.
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><A
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>Figure 2-6. GNOME panel: adding another icon</A
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> The result is another icon on the panel (<A
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>Figure 2-7</A
>); clicking that icon will bring up
the associated application.</P
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> Next: try clicking on the little arrows at the two sides of
the panel: they allow you shrink or re-expand the panel, so
you can get it out of the way easily.
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> The other feature I will mention now is <I
CLASS="FIRSTTERM"
>panel
applets</I
>. Applets are little programs which
require little visual space and thus can be run
<I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>on</I
> the panel. There are many applets,
such as a clock, a mail alert, and shrunken versions of the CD
player and the mixer.
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