System Information and Settings

This page discusses where various settings and system information can be found on Redhat 6.5 and 7 variants. Unfortunately the location for all of this information has changed between the two versions.

The subtopic in this section refers to the RH6 location. The text cross-references the RH7 location.

System->Preferences

Most user settings at the GUI desktop on RH 6 variants are available in the System->Preferences menu. On RH 7 this has been moved to a Settings menu that is accessed by clicking on the user's name at the right of the menubar (we will call this the User's menu). This same panel is available on RH 7 under Applications->SystemTools->Settings

System->Administration

Many of the settings in this RH6 panel are also available under the Settings panel above. Notable exceptions are the firewall, selinux troubleshooter, network connections and print settings. These are available in SL7 under the Applications->Sundry menu.

Logout, Lock Screen,  Shutdown

These are available under the system menu in RH6. They are only available under the User's menu in RH7.

Applications

These are available under Applications on both systems. Some notable changes in applications are below

• the network manager programs in RH7 are the curses program nmtui, which replaces system-config-network-tui on RH6, and the new command-line nmcli.
  

Desktop configuration

At login to RH6, after the username was entered, a menu would appear that allowed you to select gnome or kde for your desktop. The same thing appears on 7, but it is not so obvious - the menu is under a settings icon (a gear-shaped cog), and the entries contain Gnome and Gnome Classic.

Both Gnome entries use gnome3, a souped-up version of gnome2. Gnome Classic is the familiar workstation format we are used to on RH6, and is the default. Gnome is the new button-oriented display, which has some similarities to Unity from Ubuntu. You can check it out at login. The only thing that you need to know is that clicking on the single menu will show the menu buttons on the right of the screen. Until you do that, it appears that you are only using one application at a time.

If you select Gnome at login, it will be set as the default for future logins. You will have to change it back at a later login (if you want to).