Launch apps from the the activities overview. GNOME Documentation Project gnome-doc-list@gnome.org Starting applications

Move your mouse pointer to the Activities corner at the top left of the screen to show the Activities Overview. This is where you can find all of your applications. (You can open the overview by pressing the windows key too.)

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 Applications heading at the top of the screen to see a list of applications you can run. You can filter them by type using the categories on the right, or search using the search bar at the top right. Click the application's icon to start it.

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.

 Quickly running a command

Another, more advanced way of running an application is to use its command name, which you can do by presing AltF2, entering a command, and then pressing Enter.

For example, to launch Rhythmbox, press AltF2 and type 'rhythmbox' (without the single-quotes). The name of the app is the command to launch the program.