Customizing Corel LINUX settings

Corel LINUX lets you personalize the look and feel of your desktop environment. The background color, wallpaper, hyperlink and window color scheme, font types, and screen savers are all customizable. The Theme Manager lets you apply a common design theme to your desktop. You can choose sounds for Corel LINUX to play when you perform an action on the desktop. Changing the buttons, colors and text fonts on window Title Bars gives the windows on the desktop a personalized look. You can change the appearance of the fonts on other areas of the desktop, too. Customizing the sizing and placement options for windows helps you to maximize the working space on your desktop.

The Application Starter menu, Quick Start menu and Panel are parts of the desktop that you use to access most utilities and applications. Customizing the items that appear on these menus makes it easy to quickly access the directories and applications you use most frequently. The date and time appear on the Panel; you can reset the time and date, and change the time zone setting.

The Virtual Desktop Manager also appears on the Panel. You can change the number of virtual desktops to use, and rename each of the virtual desktops. You can customize border behavior or set magic borders for the desktops. Placing shortcut icons on the desktop lets you quickly access directories and files. You can create or delete shortcut icons, and change their size, font, color and spacing on the desktop.

Keyboard and mouse setting that you can customize include mouse button behavior, shortcut keys, and international keyboard language maps. You can change the actions of the right and left mouse buttons, change the default shortcut keys or create new ones, and choose from a variety of language settings for the keyboard and desktop. Corel LINUX has several different languages available that you can apply to the desktop so that the menu items and window titles display in the chosen language. It also has different international keyboard language maps you can choose from. International keyboard language maps are useful if you want to type in a language other than English. Setting a keyboard language map assigns special characters to the keys of the keyboard that correspond to letters of the alphabet in the language you have set.