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     There are many tips and tricks  to the Desktop in GNOME. The Drag and Drop 
     functionality extends to many areas of GNOME making it easy to interconnect
     GNOME in many interesting ways. Below is a series of tips and tricks to 
     using GNOME Drag and Drop. This is a good tour of GNOME and will show you 
     how to utilize GNOME to its fullest extent.
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>      Drag a Color onto the Panel - Whenever you have a color selector displayed 
      you may drag a color from the selected color bar to the Panel and it will 
      change the Panel to that color.
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>      Drag a Pixmap to the Background Selector - If you would like to change the 
      background to an image, you can drag that image from your GNOME File 
      Manager to the Monitor Image in the Background Capplet of the Control 
      Center and it will change to that image.
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>      Drag to an Application - Many GNOME compliant applications will accept 
      drag and drop. If you would like to open a file in Gnumeric, a GNOME 
      compliant spreadsheet application, you may simply drag the  file from the
      GNOME File Manager onto Gnumeric and it will open the file.  The same is
      true for applications built using Motif. You may drag a saved URL onto 
      Netscape 4x and it will open the URL. This can be very useful if you are
      working within the GNOME File Manager and wish to quickly open a file.
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>      Adding an Application Launcher to the Panel - If you would like to add an
      application launcher to the Panel you may drag and drop any executable 
      file from the GNOME File Manager, or the Desktop, onto the Panel. This 
      will display the Create Launcher applet dialog box which will allow you to
      select a name and an icon for that launcher.
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>      Dragging Files - There are many ways to use drag and drop to help you
      manage your system. You can open two GNOME File Manager windows selecting
      two different directories then drag files between the two windows to copy, 
      move, or link files. You can drag files from the File Manager to the 
      desktop to make it more accessible. Use the middle mouse button or the 
      right and left mouse buttons together and Drag a directory folder to the
      desktop. Choose the link option from the pop-up menu to make a link to the
      desktop. This will give you a quick way to launch the File Manager to that 
      directory.
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>      You may drag any sub menu from the Main Menu to the panel and a new menu 
      launcher is added to the panel. This allows easier access to that sub-set
      of menus.
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