The GNOME User Guide is a collection of documentation which details general use of the GNOME Desktop environment. Topics covered include sessions, panels, menus, file management, and preferences.
The GNOME Accessibility Guide is for users, system administrators, and anyone else who is interested in how the GNOME Desktop supports people with disabilities. This guide also addresses the requirements of Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act.
GNOME Infrared Remote Control Properties is a tool for configuring your remote control.
Dasher is an accessible text entry application that uses pointing gestures rather than typing. It is designed to be fast while fun to use.
Mousetweaks provides mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME Desktop.
See also: documentation on development version
Archive Manager, also known as File Roller, allows you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive.
See also: documentation on development version
Character Map is a Unicode character map that allows you to select characters from a table and insert then in to a text string.
See also: documentation on development version
The GNOME Control Centre provides a central place for the user to setup their GNOME experience. It can let you configure anything from the behaviour of your window borders to the default font type.
Dictionary enables you to look up definitions and correct spellings of words.
Floppy Formatter, also known as GFloppy, formats floppy disks for use in Linux.
gcalctool is a calculator for GNOME. It includes basic, advanced, financial, and scientific modes and uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.
See also: documentation on development version
gedit is a text editor for the GNOME Desktop featuring basic yet robust capabilities such as printing, spell checking, find and replace, and syntax highlighting. More advanced features are available as plugins.
See also: documentation on development version
A search tool to find files, folders and documents on your computer.
Tomboy is a simple desktop note-taking application, with many features designed to help organize ideas, such as spell checking, highlighting, auto-linking URLs, lists, font stylizing, quick access with a table of contents for notes, and add-ins to extend Tomboy's capabilities. .
See also: documentation on development version
Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialogue boxes from the command line and shell scripts.
AisleRiot is a collection of over 80 card games programmed in GNOME's scripting language, Scheme.
See also: documentation on development version
Blackjack is a casino rules, multiple deck blackjack game for the GNOME Project. The object of the game is to obtain a hand value that is closer to 21 than that of the dealer, without going over 21. The player bets with virtual chips.
glChess is a game for playing the classic board game of chess, in which two players simulate a battle by capturing the opponent's pieces and ultimately the king. It can be played in 2D or 3D mode, full screen or in a window.
See also: documentation on development version
To play Five or More one must align coloured pieces as the board gets filled with randomly placed pieces. When five or more pieces of the same colour get lined up, they disappear. The game ends when the board gets filled up all the way.
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The object of Four-in-a-Row is to place four pieces in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row while the opponent tries to block and make his orher own row of four. Four-in-a-Row can be played against another human or the computer.
See also: documentation on development version
Gnometris is GNOME's version of Tetris, the classic game of interlocking four-piece blocks. As they fall from the top, the player must orient them to fit the other blocks at the bottom so that they form a complete horizontal line, in which case that line disappears and the player gains points.
Iagno is the two player strategy game of Othello, which is also known as Reversi and is similar to Go. The pieces are tiles that are black on one side and white on the other and the objective is for the player to flip his or her opponent's tiles to his or her colour, while keeping the opponent from doing the same. Once the board is filled with tiles, the winner is the player with the most of his or her colour tiles on the board.
See also: documentation on development version
Klotski is a puzzle game of which the objective is to get the patterned block to the marker, which is done by moving the blocks in its way.
See also: documentation on development version
Lights Off is ...
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Mahjongg is a solitaire version of the classic Eastern tile game. It involves clearing as much of the board as possible by matching corresponding tiles and taking them out of play.
See also: documentation on development version
Mines is GNOME's take on the popular logic puzzle minesweeper, which includes avoiding mines while receiving clues for the location of the mines.
See also: documentation on development version
Nibbles is a worm game for GNOME. The player controls a 2D worm while trying to get food. Getting food gives points, but hitting anything causes a loss of points. When all points are lost, the player loses.
See also: documentation on development version
Quadrapassel is GNOME's version of Tetris, the classic game of interlocking four-piece blocks. As they fall from the top, the player must orient them to fit the other blocks at the bottom so that they form a complete horizontal line, in which case that line disappears and the player gains points.
Robots is a graphical version of the original text-based robots game, which can be found on a number of UNIX systems. The player must outwit the robots chasing him/her by getting them to run into each other.
See also: documentation on development version
Same GNOME is a puzzle game, of which the objective is to clear the window of as many pieces as possible by clicking on groups of the same coloured pieces. That group will vanish and the pieces on top will fall until there are none left or no more colour groups.
Sudoku is an application for playing the popular Sudoku logic puzzle game, in which one must fill a 9-by-9 square with the correct digits.
See also: documentation on development version
Swell Foop is a puzzle game, of which the objective is to clear the window of as many pieces as possible by clicking on groups of the same colored pieces. That group will vanish and the pieces on top will fall until there are none left or no more color groups.
Tali is like Yahtzee for GNOME, or like poker with dice. The player rolls dice to try to make the best possible combinations, like four of a kind, small straight, and full house. The player is allowed 3 rolls per turn and can hold certain dice with each roll.
See also: documentation on development version
Tetravex is a simple puzzle game in which pieces have numbers on each side. The pieces must be positioned so that the same numbers touch each other, during which you are being timed. The times are then stored in a system-wide scoreboard.
See also: documentation on development version
Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.
The Evince Document Viewer application enables you to view documents of various formats like Portable Document Format (PDF) files and PostScript files
See also: documentation on development version
User manual for Eye of GNOME Image Viewer.
See also: documentation on development version
User manual for the Ekiga Voice over IP, IP Telephony and Video-Conferencing application
Empathy is an application for instant messaging.
See also: documentation on development version
Epiphany is a simple web browser for GNOME with most standard features such as pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing. It also has optional extensions and rather than using folder-based bookmarks, it has topic-based bookmarks.
See also: documentation on development version
A user's guide to Evolution which explains how to use its mail, calendar, address book, and task list features.
See also: documentation on development version
gnome-user-share is a session service that enables easy sharing of files between several computers.
Vinagre is a Remote Desktop Viewer
See also: documentation on development version
Brasero is an application for burning CDs and DVDs.
See also: documentation on development version
CD Player is the Compact Discs (CDs) audio player for GNOME
GNOME Audio Profiles is a set of audio encoding configurations for GStreamer based applications.
GNOME Volume Control is an audio mixer
GStreamer Properties lets you configure parameters related to the hardware and multimedia
Rhythmbox is the full featured music player for GNOME Desktop.
Sound Juicer is a simple and clean CD ripping tool. It allows you to extract the audio from audio compact discs and convert them into audio files that your computer can understand and play.
Sound Recorder is a simple application to record and play different sound files
Totem Movie Player is a media player for GNOME that runs on GStreamer by default, but can also be run on xine. It has support for most audio and video codecs including DVDs among many others. Features include TV-out, fullscreen, subtitles, and more.
User manual for Glom.
The Bootloader Administration Tool allows you to specify the operative systems and linux images that the bootloader will be able to load at boot time
Configuration Editor can be used to change configuration options used by applications that may not be available through Preference dialogues.
Disk Usage Analyser is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure.
GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME Desktop that manages the power settings for your laptop or desktop computer.
The Terminal gives users the power to communicate with their system using text-based commands through a shell such as Bash.
gnome-bluetooth is an application to manage Bluetooth devices in the GNOME desktop.
See also: documentation on development version
gnome-packagekit is a suite of tools for integration with the GNOME desktop.
The Network Administration Tool allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet.
This document describes the Palimpsest Disk Utility application.
The Services Administration Tool allows you to specify which services will be started during the system boot process.
The Shared Folders Administration Tool allows you to share folders to other computers in your network or in the internet.
System Log Viewer is a graphical user interface to view and monitor system log files.
System Monitor gives users a graphical user interface for monitoring CPU, network, and memory activities as well as a way for viewing and stopping system processes.
The Time Administration Tool allows you to set the time, date and timezone of your system, as well as setting any time server to synchronise your local time server.
The Users Administration Tool allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.
Battery Charge Monitor shows the current charge of the battery and provides notifications if charge drops below a certain threshold.
Character Palette provides a convenient way to access characters that are not on your keyboard, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.
The Clock applet displays the date and time, and when clicked, displays a calendar. The Clock can be customized to show seconds or a 12 or 24 hour clock.
Command Line allows commands to be run from a panel, and includes quick access to a file browser and command history.
CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor shows the current clock speed of the CPU and provides an interface to change the clock speed if the CPU supports it.
Deskbar is a quick access and search applet.
Disk Mounter enables you to quickly mount or unmount various types of drives and file systems from a panel.
Encryption Applet is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys.
See also: documentation on development version
The Fish applet displays an animated image in the panel and gives you your fortune when clicked.
Geyes provides an entertaining way to track the mouse pointer around your screen, through a pair of moving eyes.
User manual for Invest
The Keyboard Accessibility Monitor shows the status of the keyboard accessibility features.
The Keyboard Indicator shows the active keyboard group and enables switching between different groups.
The Network Monitor enables you to monitor the network traffic for a particular interface.
Panel Wastebasket lets you manage the wastebasket from the panel.
Sticky Notes enables you to create, view, and manage sticky notes on your desktop.
The Stock Ticker downloads current stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance and displays them in a marquee in the panel.
System Monitor displays system load information in graphical format in a panel.
User manual for the User Switcher applet.
Volume Control enables you to control the sound volume on your system and provides visual feedback on the current volume level.
The Weather Report Applet downloads weather information for a given location from the internet and displays the temperature and a symbol representing the current weather conditions in the panel. When clicked on, more information is given, such as the forecast, the time of sunrise and sunset, wind direction, pressure, and more. All units are customisable.
Encryption and Keyrings is the application for managing your primary encryption key and how the passphrase for your key is stored after performing an encryption operation.
See also: documentation on development version
Passwords and Encryption Keys is the application for managing encryption keys for the GNOME Desktop
See also: documentation on development version
This is the user's manual for PDF Mod, a simple tool for manipulating PDF documents.
Even though it's extremely user-friendly, GNOME is a large and complex system, and thus requires some learning to use to the fullest. To make that easier, we've provided some very useful documentation.
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