Basics

Hardware

Software

Mouse

Windows

Titlebar: click, hold and move → move the window

Corners & edges: moving the mouse over corners & edges leads to changed symbols: click, hold and move → resize the window

Buttons on the right upper corner:

 close the window (and the according application) → content forgotten
 hide=minimize the Window → the Window can be opened again with the same content (restored) by clicking on the symbol in the panel/taskbar
 maximize the window → the window fills the display and the button changes to . Clicking the symbol  resizes the window to the previous size.
 reduces the window to the titlebar and the button changes to . Clicking the symbol  shows the whole window again.

 

Exercises:

Open two windows, resize and place them on the screen beneath each other filling the whole screen:

window     window    

Open three windos and place them according to the following drawing (the last row symbolizes the panel):

window 1 (enabled)    
window 2     window 3    
window 1 window 2 window 3

Windows can be enabled (active) or disabled (inactive). If you want to do anything with a window (for example change the size or input text), you have to enable it first. You can enable a window by clicking into it. The enabled window comes to the foreground and usually gets another titlebar-color.

Maximized windows can’t be resizedpress  first! The button will change to .

Keyboard

Function-Keys
Special Keys     Arrows Numbers

Open Applications > Office > Abiword (a text editor we need for practicing)

Type two new lines with the following text:

Dimitris says
“I am tired”

(The red line under ‘Dimitris’ indicates, that the computer doesn’t know the word ‘Dimitris’.)