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Configure basic system settings

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Configure basic system settings

- [Instructor] After we've installed CentOS, we might want to configure a few things. Click on applications, system tools, settings. This is a general, all settings dialogue for Gnome. In here we can change the background, sound settings, add printers and so on. We might start out by clicking on privacy. In here, we can turn the screen lock on and we can decide how long. We can click on usage history and decide if our usage history's retained or not. We can also have it purge our trash and temporary files and keep track of where we are or not. Click on back. Let's go to Region and Language. We can change our language, or the format of numbers and pages. We have date format changes, the measurement system, paper format and the numbers. This might be useful if you live in another country. Input sources is our keyboard type. We can click on France, scroll down, click on French and click on add. You'll notice that on the top bar you can now go back and forth between two keyboard layouts…

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