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What Can You Change on Your Desktop?

There are so many preference options in KDE and GNOME that you can make your desktop look nothing like a traditional desktop (see Figure 4.1). You can change everything from your desktop wallpaper to themes for your Window Manager to fonts and icons. KDE and GNOME each have their own tools to help you customize your desktop and make it your own.

Figure 4.1. Everything seen here is an integrated desktop object or panel in GNOME.

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