The General Toolbox

The General Toolbox is a container for:

You can move about in the General Toolbox and invoke actions from it. However, you are not allowed to write to it (unless you are logged in as superuser). Therefore, you cannot add actions to it or reorganize it.

Some of the actions in the General Toolbox require you to be logged in as superuser. If you try to start one of these actions logged in as yourself, a dialog box will prompt you for the root password.

See Also. 

To open the General Toolbox

1. Display the Toolboxes subpanel by choosing the up arrow above the Tools control.

2. Choose General in the Toolboxes subpanel.

Figure 6-5 Choose the "General" control to display the General Toolbox.

To make a general action more readily available

• Put the action on your Desktop.

• Or, copy the action to your Personal Toolbox.

• Or, add the action to your Front Panel.

See Also. 

• “To put an object on the Desktop” covers how to put an action on the Desktop.

• “To copy a file” explains how to copy actions.

• Chapter 17 “Customizing the Front Panel” explains how to add controls that start actions to the Front Panel.