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>      <H4
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      <H4
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>Copyright © 2000 by <SPAN
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>      The GNOME Control Center allows you to configure various parts of your
      system using a collection of tools called "capplets". These capplets may
      be associated with the core set of GNOME applications or other
      applications for which the developers have written capplets.
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>      Your Control Center may contain more capplets than are documented here
      depending on the applications installed on your system.
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>      The Control Center is divided into two main sections, the menu of
      configurable capplets and the main work space.
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>      Working with the Control Center simply requires you to select a capplet
      from the menu on the left and double click on it. Once this is done, the
      workspace will change, allowing you to configure the item.
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>      You may start the Control Center one of two ways. To launch the Control
      Center without any particular active capplet select the
      <B
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>Control Center</B
> menu item from the
      <B
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>Settings</B
> submenu in the Main Menu.
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>      If you know which capplet you would like to edit you may start that
      capplet by selecting the correct menu item in the <B
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>Control
	Center</B
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