If you look up in your taskbar, the one on the top of your monitor, you’ll see Applications, Places and System. We’re going to look at System today and see a few bits of what’s in there that can be useful to us.

We’ll just touch on a few things up there, this won’t be an exhaustive guide but you should find it useful if you like things like screen savers and themes. This was written on a machine running Ubuntu 6.06 with Gnome.

First let’s go to System-> Preferences. Here’s where you can do a bit of customizing.

The first bit we’ll look at is Desktop Background Preferences. Here’s where you can choose what image you’d like to display as your background. Simply save an image to your computer and then use this utility to browse down to it. Of course, if you’re like me and find that having your background change between many choices when you’d like it too, you can look at this article.

Next we’ll look at Fonts (system-> Preferences-> Fonts). You can get pretty crazy with the fonts in Ubuntu, making your system so awful to look at that you’re guaranteed to get a headache. Of course you can go the other way to and make a really swish look for yourself.

Ubuntu comes with a few neat fonts but of course there are ways to get more. If you’d like to download the MS fonts, or other fonts, you can do the following. You’ll need your extra repositories for this.

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Ubuntu Basics – Wallpaper, Fonts and Themes

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