payment) software from companies that have an agreement with Canonical to
make it easily available to interested users. This repository is disabled by
default, and if you want to use it, you must enable it by checking a box next to
its entry in the Other Software tab.
System Settings
To configure system settings, search for System Settings or click the settings
logo in the power menu (refer to Figure 1.4). This brings up the Settings
window, shown in Figure 1.9, from which you can select entries from the
menu at the left and then make adjustments as desired. A couple of the
options are described in the following sections.
FIGURE 1.9 Adjust your system settings.
Detecting and Configuring a Printer
Setting up a printer in Linux used to be so difficult that previous editions of
this book included an entire chapter filled with command-line magic and
scary-looking configuration files. The setup is no longer that difficult in most