Introduction

Welcome to the Red Hat Desktop Deployment Guide!

Deploying the GNOME Desktop across an organization commonly requires that some aspects of

the desktop enviroment be modified for that specific deployment. This document aims to enumerate

common deployment tasks and establish best practices for those tasks.

This document is not intended to address the more general topic of system administration and the

GNOME Desktop. The GNOME Desktop System Administration Guide already serves this purpose

and readers are encouraged to refer to this guide through Applications (the main menu on the panel)

=> Help, by selecting the Desktop Category, and then selecting the System Administration Guide

Document from the menu.

1. Document Conventions

When you read this manual, certain words are represented in different fonts, typefaces, sizes, and

weights. This highlighting is systematic; different words are represented in the same style to indicate

their inclusion in a specific category. The types of words that are represented this way include the

following:

command

Linux commands (and other operating system commands, when used) are represented this way.

This style should indicate to you that you can type the word or phrase on the command line

and press [Enter] to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words that would be

displayed in a different style on their own (such as file names). In these cases, they are considered

to be part of the command, so the entire phrase is displayed as a command. For example:

Use the

cat testfile

command to view the contents of a file, named

testfile

, in the current

working directory.

file name

File names, directory names, paths, and RPM package names are represented this way. This style

should indicate that a particular file or directory exists by that name on your system. Examples:

The

.bashrc

file in your home directory contains bash shell definitions and aliases for your own

use.

The

/etc/fstab

file contains information about different system devices and file systems.

Install the

webalizer

RPM if you want to use a Web server log file analysis program.

application

This style indicates that the program is an end user application (as opposed to system software).

For example:

Use Mozilla to browse the Web.

[key]

A key on the keyboard is shown in this style. For example:

To use [Tab] completion, type in a character and then press the [Tab] key. Your terminal displays

the list of files in the directory that start with that letter.