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Messing Around with Windows
Before you can do anything to a window, you have to get its attention. When you have a window’s attention, it has focus. Depending on how you have set up GNOME, you can give a window focus with GNOME in several ways:Click the window’s name on the GNOME Panel.
Click the window’s title bar, at the top of the window.
Click a part of the window itself, which typically also makes the window the topmost one. This method is the default.
If you’re working in an office with lots of people, you can shout, “Hey, you — wake up!” Although this tactic isn’t likely to wake up your window, it sure is fun.
RememberIn this book, we stick with the Red Hat and GNOME default of clicking a window to give it focus.
Moving windows
To move a window, click anywhere on the window’s title bar and hold down the left mouse button. As long as you continue to hold down that button, the window moves anywhere you move your mouse. Release the button and the window stays there.
Resizing windows
Sometimes, a window is a little too big or a little too small, and you know that life would be much easier if you could just nudge that window into shape. To do just that, position the mouse cursor on any border of the window. Click and drag the window’s outline to the size you want. Release the mouse button and the window takes the new size.
Minimizing windows
Now that you have put lots of windows on the screen, how can you get rid of a few or all of them? You can minimize (or iconify) a window by clicking the bold, underscored button toward the upper-right corner, which removes the window from the desktop and places it in a storage area of the GNOME Panel. If you’re in a particularly devilish mood, you can be more drastic and close a window. Figure 9-2 shows an open Mozilla window minimized — you can see its icon on the GNOME Panel along the lower, central edge of the screen.
Figure 9-2: Mozilla minimized inside GNOME.
Here are a few ways to get rid of a window, starting with the least drastic and escalating to outright window death:
Take advantage of any exit buttons or menu options that the window or application in the window gives you. For example, many applications allow you to choose FileExit to close the application.
Click the X button in the upper-right corner of the window’s title bar to close the window.
Click the upper-left corner of the window (or right-click the title bar) and choose the Close option from the menu that opens.
TipYou can return a minimized window to the desktop by clicking the icon that corresponds to the window on the GNOME Panel.
Maximizing windows
To make a window fill the entire screen, click the Maximize button, in the upper-right corner of the window. Check out the buttons to the right of the title bar in a typical window. The Maximize button is the one in the middle; it looks like a square and is similar in action to the Cascade button in Windows.
