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TABLE 2.1 Desktop Icons

The icons on the desktop behave as you would expect them to behave. You can double-click each one
with your mouse to open it. You can also right-click an icon to open a drop-down menu and then
select Open to open that program.

The LXTerminal icon provides a portal to the command-line interface. You can double-click the
LXTerminal icon to start the program. Once the window is open, you can type in exactly the same
commands as at the command-line prompt. For example, Figure 2.2 shows what happens when you
type the whoami command in the LXTerminal. You can see that LXTerminal allows you to stay in
the GUI and yet, enter command-line commands.