Backgrounds and Screen Savers

To change your background and screen saver settings move the mouse over the background and press the Right mouse button and select Configure Background Image. This will open up the Gnome Control Center. On the left you will have the different options including Background (selected), Panel, Screensaver, Theme Selector, and Window Manager. You can browse your desktop to find pictures or use the default pictures stored in the /usr/share/pixmaps/redhat directory. The GUI allows you to use colors or to tile, scale, or center an image. If you select Screensaver you will have the random screensaver loaded. This means that it randomly picks screensavers and cycles through them. There are a lot of other screensavers listed. By selecting them you can usually see a demo in the Screen Saver Demo window. Some screensavers do not have demos, but you can see them by Trying them. When you feel adventuresome you can start to modify your Window Manager settings. This changes the whole look of the windows on the screen, so be careful. If you ever completely mess everything up you can delete the .gnome directory directories and the Desktop directory. Then press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart your X server and login again. This is what you would type:

bash$ rm .gnome* -R -f
bash$ rm Desktop -R -f

This will wipe out all of your Gnome settings and then you can start over again fresh.