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Tweak Your System Settings On Backtrack 5

Tweak Your System Settings On Backtrack 5

Inside System Settings , we cover

Common Appearance and Behavior

In this tutorial , we cover ( shown in the image below ) -

ACCOUNT DETAILS Contain 4 items

1. 2. 3. 4. Password & User Account Paths Social Desktop Web Shortcuts

When you click on Account details icon , it look like this ( as shown in the below image ) -

PASSWORD AND USER ACCOUNT

Click on the image area to add the image . See the image below for details -

Now select the one new face from these faces as shown in the below image Even you can use your custom image , for this option click on the custom image button . See the image for more details -

Your image is changed now Now Add the name , Organization , Email address etc . To enter password , click on the change password button . When you done with all the settings , click on the Apply button . See the image below for more details -

Click here to change password . See the below image for more details -

When you click OK button , it show you a message as shown in the image below See the image below for more details -

PATH

This options shows you the path of the different directories . From here you can change the locations . See the below image for more details -

SOCIAL DESKTOP

In : you can manage social desktop providers . Social Desktop providers are used for "Get Hot New Stuffs ", "Community" and Social Stuffs".

Social Desktop

To Register,click on the Register tab Now fill the register page and click on Register button . See the below image for details -

Registration complete now. Go to your email and activate it .

WEB SHORTCUTS

Here you can set the web shortcuts to enhanced browsing . See the image below for more details -

2. APPLICATION APPEARANCE

Application Appearance 5 items Style Colors Fonts Icon Emoticons

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

1) Style

Style allow the manipulation if widget behaviour abd changing the Style for KDE.

Different Types of Widget Styles are

See below for the different Widget Styles -

CDE STYLE

Cleanlooks

GTK + Style

Motif

MS Windows 9x

Oxygen Style

FINE TUNING

Tune your Graphical effects from here . See the image below for details -

2) . COLORS

From here you can select different types of color schemes . you can also get new themes from the internet . There are other tabs like - options,colors,intactive and Disabled. See the image for more details -

3) Icons

From here you can customize your KDE Icons . Select the icon theme you want to use . If you want new themes from the internet , then click on the Get new Themes button. You can also install the theme file locally by click on the Install Theme file button. See the below image for more details -

When you click on the Get New Themes , a new windows pop-up with hot new stuff. See the image below -

4) Fonts

Font settings From here you can make changes in the fonts style.

EMOTICANS

Emoticans Theme Manager From here you can install new emoticans . You can add , edit and remove emoticans from here . See the image below for more details -

Application and System Notifications Contain 3 items

Manage Notifications System Bell Launch Feedback

Manage Notifications

System Notification Configuration.

System Bell

You can add system bell instead of notification . In bell settings , you can set the Volume , pitch and Duration. After set all the fields , click on the Apply button . See the image below for more details -

Launch Feedback

From here you can set the application launch feedback style. Here you can select the cursor types You can set the startup indication timeout. See the below image for more details -

File Association

See the image below for more details -

Locale
It contain two items1. 2. Country/Region & Language Spell Checker

Country/Region & Language

See the below image for more details -

Spell Checker

This option is used for spell checking . See the image below for more details -

PERSONAL INFORMATION
CONTAIN 1 ITEMS 1. KDE Resources KDE Resources

SHORTCUT & GESTURES

CONTAIN 3 ITEMS 1. 2. 3. Custom shortcuts Standard keyboard Shortcuts Global Keyboard Shortcuts

Custom Shortcuts -

Standard Keyboard Shortcuts

See the image below for more details -

Global Keyboard Shortcuts

See the below image for more details -

This is how we can tweak system settings on Backtrack 5 . This is the Part -1 , more to come with lots of other tweak information on Backtrack 5 Here is the Part -2 link given below http://www.hackingdna.com/2012/05/tweak-your-system-settings-on-backtrack_29.html Always follow www.hackingdna.com for more Backtrack 5 Articles .

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Tweak Your System Settings On Backtrack 5 Part 2 Tweak Your System Settings On Backtrack 5 Part 2

Tweak Your System Settings On Backtrack 5 Part2

In Part 2 of [ Tweaking your System Setting We Cover ] [Workspace Appearance and Behavior ]

Desktop Effects

From here you can configure desktop effects .

Configure Desktop Effects From here you can Enable or Disable Desktop Effects . From here you can

All Effects

From here you can select difference type of Appearences . See th below image for more details -

Advanced

See the image below for more details -

WORKSPACE APPEARANCE
CONTAIN 3 ITEMS
1. 2. 3. Windows Decorations Desktop Themes Splash Screen

Windows Decorations

From here you can choose the windows border decorations, as well as titlebar buttons position and custom decoration options . To know more about Windows Decorations see the below image -

Different types of themes you can choose are shown below B II preview KDE 2 Keramik preview Laptop Modern System Oxygen Quartz Radmond Tabstrip Web

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

DESKTOP THEME

Here you can customize your Desktop Theme . Here you can change your visual appearence of the desktop. Also you can Get new themes from the internet . For new themes click on the Get New Themes Button . See the below image for more detals -

Details Tab

Here in Details tab you can change the Color Scheme , Panel Background of your theme . See the below image for more details -

Splash Screens

Here you can choose your favourite Splash Screens. You can download New Themes from the Internet . You can Intsall theme file locally . You can remove the theme . You can also Test the theme before Applying it . See the below image for more details -

Accessibility
CONTAIN 1 ITEM 1. Accessibility

Accessibility

In accessibility , you can use Audio bells, Visible bells . You can also use your own custom bells . See the image for more details -

Modifier Keys

1. 2.

Modifier Keys contains two keys Sticky Keys Locking Keys See the details for more details After setting don't forget to click on the Apply button .

Keyboard Filters

1. 2.

Keyboard Filters contain two types of keys settings Slow Keys Bounce Keys See the image below for more details -

Activation Gestures

See the below image for more details

DEFAULT APPLICATIONS

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Here you can choose default components for various services. The services default applications provide are Email Client Embedded Text Editor File Manager Instant Messenger Terminal Emulator Web Browser Windows Manager

DEFAULT APPLICATIONS
Email Client

Choose the default componentes for various services. Email Client Service allows you to configure your default email client

Embedded Text Editor

Here you can set the default Embedded Text Editor Service. See the below image for more details -

File Manager

Here you can set your default file manager . Here you can set Dolphin as a file manager or konqueror web browser as a file manager . See the below image for more details -

Instant Messenger

From here you can set the Instant Messenger Service as a Default, if it is in the list of default component .

Terminal Emulator

Here you can configure your default terminal emulator . Here you can set konsole as a default terminal or you can also set different terminal program like xterm . See the below image for more ddetails -

Web Browser

Here you can configure your default web browser . See the below image for more details -

Window Manager

Here you can set the default KDE Windows Manager as a default or you can also use different windows manager . See the image below for more details -

Desktop Search
On Backtrack 5 , Nepomuk is the KDE Desktop Search tool is enabled by default.

Basic Setting

From here you can enable the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop and Stringi Desktop File Indexer . If your system gets slow while searching files , one reason behind this is Nepomuk because it uses the maximum amount of Ram . So its better to configure the Memory usage according to your system performance . This tweaking will help you to improve the performace . See the below image of Basic Settings -

File Indexing

Below it shows the Stringi Index folders and Strngi Index Exclude Filters that helps for fast desktop searches.

Advanced Settings

From here you can give the amount of memory to Neomuk system for better performance . Below there is a slider through which you can give the amount of memory . See the below image for more details -

Virtual Desktops
It contains 5 items
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Task Switcher Virtual Desktops Screen Edges Window Behavior Window Rules

Task Switcher

Here you can configure the navigation through windows. See the below image for more details -

Virtual Desktops
It contains two tabs -

1. 2.

Desktop Switching

Desktop

Here you can configure the virtual desktops . Here you can set how many virtual desktops you want in your KDE desktop . Also you can give the name to the virtual desktops. See the below image for more details -

Switching

Here you can enable the desktop animations. See the below image for more details -

Screen Edges

Here you can configure your active screen edges . See the image below for more details -

Window Behavior

1. 2.

Windows behavior contains 5 tabs Focus Titlebar Actions

3. 4. 5.

Window Actions Moving Advanced

Focus

See the below image for more details -

TitlebarActions

From here you can configure your titlebar . See the image below for more details -

WindowActions

From here you can customize your Inactive inner window and Inner window, Title bar and Frame . See the below image for more details -

Moving

See the image for more details -

WindowsRules

Here you can customize window settings for some windows . See the image for more details -

Workspace

This is howwe can configurethe SystemSettingsOn Backtrack5