Move your mouse pointer to the
There are several ways of opening an application once you're in the activities overview:
Start typing the name of an application - it should search for it instantly. (If this doesn't happen, click the search bar at the top right of the screen and then start typing.) Then, click the application's icon to start it.
Click the
Some applications have icons in the dash (the vertical strip of icons on the left-hand side of the activities overview). Click one of those to start that application.
If you have applications that you use very frequently, you can add them to the dash yourself.
You can drag an application's icon from the dash or the list of applications and drop it on one of the workspaces on the strip on the right-hand side of the screen. The application will open on that workspace.
Another, more advanced way of running an application is to use its command name, which you can do by presing
For example, to launch