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The Raspberry Pi Configuration tool
The last program you’ll learn about in this chapter is known as the Raspberry Pi Configuration
tool, and it’s a lot like the Welcome Wizard you used at the start: it allows you to change various
settings in Raspbian. Click on the raspberry icon, move your mouse pointer to select the
Preferences category, then click on Raspberry Pi Configuration to load it (Figure 3-20).
The tool is split into four tabs, each of which can control a particular aspect of Raspbian.
The first of these, which you see when the tool is first loaded, is System: this allows you to
change the password of your account, set a host name – the name the Raspberry Pi uses on
your local wireless or wired network – and change a range of other settings. The majority of
these, though, shouldn’t need changing.
Click on the Interfaces tab to bring up the next category. Here you’ll find a range of settings,
all of which start off disabled. These settings should only be changed if you’re adding new
hardware, such as the Raspberry Pi Camera Module, and then only if instructed by the
hardware’s manufacturer. The exceptions to this rule are: SSH, which enables a ‘Secure Shell’
and lets you log into the Raspberry Pi from another computer on your network using an SSH
client; VNC, which enables a ‘Virtual Network Computer’ and lets you see and control the
Raspbian desktop from another computer on your network using a VNC client; and Remote
3Figure 3-20:
The Raspberry Pi
Configuration tool
MORE DETAILS
This brief overview is simply to get you used to the tool. More
detailed information on each of its settings can be found in
Appendix E, The Raspberry Pi Configuration Tool.
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