[CentOS] Customizing Gnome

Wed Aug 16 15:45:00 UTC 2006
Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net>

This is not really CentOS specific, but I'm using and supporting  
Gnome on CentOS 4.3 systems, and there are a few Gnome issues that I  
haven't been able to resolve that I thought this list might be able  
to help with.

On my home CentOS 4.3 system, which was originally a CentOS 3.X  
system (i.e., I ran Gnome from the same user account then as I do  
now), when I log in to the Gnome desktop, I only have a "menu bar" at  
the bottom of the screen.  On the new 4.3 systems at work, I have a  
menu bar at the top of the screen and another bar at the bottom of  
the screen.  Each one is about half the height of the one on my home  
system.  It appears that some setting in a Gnome configuration file  
in my home directory must be causing this, but I haven't figure out  
which one.  Any ideas?

The next issue is that one of my users asked me if it was possible to  
add additional entries to the Applications menu.  I haven't found  
anything in the on-line help to point me in the right direction.

Finally, another user would like to be able to open up a Terminal  
window with the working directory set to whatever is currently shown  
in the Nautilus file browser, and again, I haven't found a way to do  
this.  I do realize that you can drag a folder icon from a Nautilus  
window to a Terminal window and that it will past the path into the  
Terminal window which you can use as an argument to cd, but it's not  
as elegant as say right-clicking on a folder and picking "Open in  
Terminal Window".

Any pointer to a fine manual to read are appreciated, as are outright  
solutions of course :-).

Alfred