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  <articleinfo>
    <abstract role="description">
      <para>The GNOME Control Centre provides a central place for the user to setup their GNOME experience. It can let you configure anything from the behaviour of your window borders to the default font type.</para>
    </abstract>
    <title>Control Centre</title>
    <authorgroup>
      <author>
	<firstname>Kevin</firstname><surname>Breit</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
    <copyright>
      <year>2001, 2002</year>
      <holder>Ximian, Inc.</holder>
    </copyright><copyright><year>2007</year><holder>David Lodge (dave@cirt.net)</holder></copyright>

    <publisher role="maintainer">
      <publishername>GNOME Documentation Project</publishername>
    </publisher>
    
    <revhistory>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>2.14</revnumber> 
        <date>2006-03</date> 
      </revision> 
    </revhistory>

    <legalnotice id="legalnotice">
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the <ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:fdl"><citetitle> GNU Free Documentation Licence </citetitle></ulink>, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the licence can be found <ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:fdl">here</ulink>.</para>
      <para>Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and services are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any GNOME documentation, and those trademarks are made aware to the members of the GNOME Documentation Project, the names have been printed in caps or initial caps.</para>
    </legalnotice>

    <releaseinfo>This manual describes version 1.5.7 of the GNOME Control Centre.</releaseinfo>
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  <sect1 id="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <para>The <application>GNOME Control Centre</application> provides a single window from which to launch all preference tools.</para>
    <para>To launch the <application>GNOME Control Centre</application>, type <command>gnome-control-center</command> in a terminal window.</para>
    <para>For help on using preference tools, see the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:user-guide?prefs">User Guide</ulink>.</para>
  </sect1>
  
  <sect1 id="gnomecc-interface">
    <title>Usage</title>
    <para>The <application>GNOME Control Centre</application> 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.</para>
    <para>To open a preference tool, double-click on its icon.</para>
  </sect1>
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