colors. F-Spot supports all important image formats, includ-
ing JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and several vendor specific RAW for-
mats.
You can import photos from your hard drive, your digital
camera, or your iPod. You can also use F-Spot to create
photo CDs, generate a Website gallery, or export your
photos to your Flickr, 23, Picasa Web, or SmugMug account.
To access F-Spot, click Computer → F-Spot Photo Browser.
The first time you run F-Spot, you must tell it where to find
the images you want to import into your collection. If you
already have a collection of images stored on your hard
drive, enter the path to the respective directory and option-
ally include subfolders. F-Spot imports these images into
its database.
Thumbnails of your images are displayed in the right part
of the window, and detailed information for a selected im-
age is displayed in a sidebar to the left. By default, your
photos are displayed in reverse-chronological order, so your
newest photos are always at the top. You can sort your
photos in chronological order or reverse-alphabetical order
by clicking View → Reverse Order.
A menu bar at the top of the window allows you to access
the main menus. A toolbar below offers several different
functions depicted by a matching icon.
Managing Your Media
Use Banshee to import CDs, sync your media collection to
an iPod* or other digital media player, play music directly
from an iPod (or other digital media player), create playlists
with songs or videos from your library, create audio and
MP3 CDs from subsets of your library, and subscribe to,
download, and listen to your favorite podcasts. Banshee
also has an Internet Radio plug-in that allows you to listen
to audio streams.
To open Banshee, click Computer → Banshee Media Player.
When you start Banshee for the first time, you need to im-
port your media to make them available in the library. To
do so, select Media → Import Media from the menu. Choose
an import source and click Import Media Source. After
successfully importing your media, you can access them
from your library.
To play a song or a movie, simply select it in the library and
click the play button. You can also use the buttons in the
upper left corner to pause a song or play the next or previ-
ous song. Use the loudspeaker button on the right to adjust
the volume.
Banshee also has an integrated CD player. When you insert
a music CD, your CD title appears in the left panel. Select
the title and click the Play button to play your full CD.
To create audio and MP3 CDs, select the songs you want,
then click the Edit → Write CD from the menu.
Configuring Your System with YaST
Use the YaST Control Center to change the installation and
configuration of your whole system.
root
permission is
required to open YaST.
To open YaST, click Computer → More Applications →
System → YaST, then enter the
root
password. If you do
not know the
root
password, ask your system administra-
tor.
YaST contains various modules you can use to adjust your
system settings. These modules are divided into the follow-
ing categories:
Hardware
Contains modules for configuring hardware components
such as your monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and
scanner.
Miscellaneous
The YaST Control Center has several modules that cannot
easily be classified into the other module groups. The
modules in this category can be used for things such as
viewing log files and installing drivers from a vendor CD.
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