The GNOME Control Center provides a central place for the user to setup their GNOME experience. It can let you configure anything from the behavior of your window borders to the default font type.

# Control Center

Kevin
Breit
2001, 2002
Ximian, Inc.
GNOME Documentation Project
2.14
2006-03

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This manual describes version 1.5.7 of the GNOME Control Center.

## Introduction

The GNOME Control Center provides a single window from which to launch all preference tools.

To launch the GNOME Control Center, type `gnome-control-center` in a terminal window.

For help on using preference tools, see the User Guide.

## Usage

The GNOME Control Center shows icons for all preference tools installed on your system in a window. Select a preference tool to see its description in the status bar.

To open a preference tool, double-click on its icon.