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To open eyeControl, click on System preferences in the eyeBar menu.

Personal

Personal

You can change your User Information, Password and language that you are using on this system. To do any of this actions, first click on the preferences panel you want to go it, change/add the required fields and click on the submit button to save the changes.

Look & Feel

Look & Feel

you can change your Desktop's wallpaper (or restore the eyeOS default one if you changed it before), and change your Theme between the available themes for the current eyeOS System.

Administration

Administration

Note that you must be logged as root user in order to be able to see and update the system administration panels

General Administration

The General menu inside the Administration panel allows you to update some system's option such as the System's host name (that appears as the browser's title after the username), and some options such as allowing new users to register in your system, allowing public directories to be created, the system's default language and the Login's box theme that is being used.

To update some of the options, just change their values to the new ones and click on the “Save changes” button.

Note that you can also completely uninstall your eyeOS from that panel, by typing your root's password and clicking on “Uninstall eyeOS” button. This is useful when you want to completely remove your eyeOS installation and you can't do it due to the permissions assigned to eyeOS files during the Installation.

Note that uninstalling your eyeOS can't be undone. Please do it only when you and all the users inside your system have backed up all the important data.

Managing Users

The Manage Users menu allows you to create new users, by clicking on the “New” button and filling the form.

You can also edit a current users (for example, for assigning them permission to access a new group you have just created or change their password), by selecting the user you want to modify and clicking on the “Edit” button.

Finally, you can remove an user and all it's data by selecting the user and clicking on “Remove” button.

Note that you can't remove the root user and this action can't be undone.

Managing Groups

The Manage Groups menu allows you to create new groups to work collaboratively between users. This is one of the most important options inside eyeOS because it allows you to create shared folders between users, so they can work between them.

To create a new group, just create on the “New” button and type the group's name. Once it's created, it won't be assigned automatically to any user. You can go then to the Manage users menu, and edit some users to assign them to the new group.

The next time that those users will log in into their account and go to eyeGroups folder inside the Places category in eyeDock, they will see their new group and will be able to copy and manage files inside it.

Managing Repositories

Repositories are something very important in eyeOS, since they allow you to install applications from the eyeSoft application automatically, without need to download or upload anything into your system.

If you have an eyeOS repository URL and would like to add it to your repositories list so you can install software from there, just click on the “New” button and type the new repository URL.

The next time you update eyeSoft, you will see the applications from that repository too.

System

System

you can update the applications that will autorun when you log in as your user (so you can add a new application, for example, to open eyeFiles each time you log in), or delete current ones. It's not recommended at all to remove the Desktop applications, since you may leave your account unusable without an administrator's fix.

You can also change the Places of your eyeFiles with the File Manager menu, and to change your eyeNav's default start page from the Web Browser menu.

Other

Other

You will also see how many used space you have on your account in the bottom right part of eyeControl.

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eyeControl is both the System preferences application where you can choose all your desktop settings and preferences, and the system administration menu where you can change your system's behavior if you are logged as the root user. If you are not root or a admin you will see used space of your account in the bottom right

To open eyeControl, click on System preferences in the eyeBar (pg.) menu.

Personal About me Update your system's profile: Username, Full name, E-mail, list the Groups that you belong to: After changes dont forget to press Save changes

Password If wanting to change your password. Input your Current password in the appropriate box and type your new password in the next two boxes then press the Change Password button

Language Change yours or the default preferred language. Chose your language from the drop-down box. (If you do not see your desired language below you will see a link “Get more translations” click on that link and eyeNav will send you to our Translations page as a .eyepackage {pg.} ) If you wish to change the default preferred language for all users as root in the lower right corner you will see a drop-down box called “Select user” Chose [Default user] and repeat above.

Look & Feel

 If  you wish to change the look in feel for all users in the lower right corner you will see a drop-down box called “Select user” Chose [Default user].

Desktop Wallpaper If you chose to use a different wallpaper then the themes. Check-mark the “Use a custom wallpaper” box. Then “Select a file...” button browse through your eyeOS file system (note: you must of uploaded your wallpaper to your eyeOS file system first) and select your desired pic. Then we have the opsion to Repeat wallpaper and or Center wallpaper. dont forget to press Save changes

Settings Do not forget to press Save changes Windows You have the option to save your window positions if you close out a sasion and log back in at a later time eyeOS will save your windows positions

Desktop icons chose how icons on the eyeOS desktop behave. Fixed: Icons cannot be moved Smooth: Icons can be moved everywhere Fielded: Icons are aligned to a gride automatically

Mouse by default all icons you only need to click once to open files and apps here we can chose to use doubleclick. Just check-mark the “Use doubleclicks” Box

Theme

 eyeOS comes with 3 themes and more can be downloaded. Just selict you disered theme frome the drop-down box and press “Change theme” If you want to change the login screen theme you must change the [Default users] theme

Administration

 Note that you must be logged as root user in order to be able to see and update the system administration panels 

ACL Access Control List, allow/deny users certain actions in the system, ACL tables makes it possible for the system administrator to manage the rights of the users in the system.

Clean eyeOS eyeOS will see if your Tmp file need cleaning if so you will have the option to do so

System At the top you will see tabs to chose from below we will go through what each does System eyeOS hostname

 This is the name that appears as the browser's title after the username and the
 welcome massage when we first login to our account 

Default language

 Chose the Default language from the drop-down box. If you do not see your   
 desired  language please read page __ Personal > Language

User quota

 A quota is a limit on how much space can be used. So here we can set the
 amount of space each user has or we can turn it off all together. Set the numeric
 value and then from the drop-box you can chose from byte. kilo, mega, and
 gigabytes   

Create thumbnails

 Select if you would like eyeFiles (pg.) to show a preview of image files or
 not 

Permissions Allow user registration

 If enabled at the login screen new users can register and make new accounts

Allow public dirs

 Chose if you want to have  public directory to share or to disable them

Allow web upload

with web upload (pg.) you can  find the url of the file and copy it into web
upload and click Upload and it we download to your eyeOS file system directly

Cache System Enable cache system

 enable or disable the cache system

Current cache version

 If you have modified any theme inside eyeOS, you must increase this number to
 be sure that all your users get a fresh data. 

Patch CSS files

allow you modify how eyeOS patch the urls that are inside the css files. 
There  are 3 ways: 

Manual: eyeOS doesn't patch the css files so it must be done manually. Automatic: eyeOS automatically patch all css files in each request. Semi-automatic: eyeOS only patch the css the first time that is requested. Office Support Please read page __ or visit eyeOS wiki at http://wiki.eyeos.org

Uninstall Completely uninstall your eyeOS from this panel, by typing your root's password and clicking on “Uninstall eyeOS” button. This is useful when you want to completely remove your eyeOS installation and you can't do it due to the permissions assigned to eyeOS files during the Installation.

Note: Uninstalling your eyeOS can't be undone. Please do it only when you and all the users inside your system have backed up all the important data.

Managing Users

 Allows use to remove, edit, and create users. When we first selict managing users a pop-up window will apper so we can filter or serch for our users 

New Input the Username, Password, if you like Full Name, and E-mail

Permissions: Administrator: Has the same power as root over your eyeOS, Users, and groupes without the option of uninstalling eyeOS Mantaner : Can Manage groups and users that a Admin and or root user asindes to them User: can only mantane the files and folders that they make

 Expiration by default is set to Never. If you would like to set a date use this format       
 dd/mm/yyyy ex. If the day is 1 month is June and the year 2009 you would enter
 01/06/2009
 
 Now we can select what Groups the user belongs to. Now we press the Create user 
 button

Edit

 Select the user from the list and press edit and follow the instructions above for New

Delete Select the user from the list and press Delete to remove that user

Load

 Press this icon to reload the list

Note that you can't remove the root user and thes action can't be undone.

Managing Groups

 Create new groups to work collaboratively between users. This is one of the most important options inside eyeOS because it allows you to create shared folders between users, so they can work between them.

New

 A pop-up window will open and you can input the name of the new group.

Once it's created, it won't be assigned automatically to any user. You must go then to the Manage users menu, and edit the users to assign them to the new group.

	 The next time that those users will log in into their account and go to Groups folder    
      inside  eyeFiles (pg.) they will see their new group and will be able to copy and manage  
      files inside it. 

Edit

 Here we can rename groups

Delete

 Delete groups

Set as default Set a group as the default group so all new users will belong to this group

Repositories

 Allow you to install applications from the eyeSoft ( pg. ) application automatically, without need to download or upload anything into your system. By default the official repository is already entered for us. 

New

 If you have an eyeOS repository URL and would like to add it ust click on the button 
 and type the new repository URL. 

Edit

 Select the repository from the list and press edit to change the URL 

Test

 Select the repository from the list and press test to see if the link is active

Delete

 Select the repository from the list and press Delete to remove that repository 

SMTP

 Open and follow the instructions

System If you wish to change the look in feel for all users in the lower right corner you will see a drop-down box called “Select user” Chose [Default user].

eyeOS Board Change your eyeBoard (pg. )settings. Show full names: if you would like to see full name or nick name. Refresh interval: set the refresh interval in seconds

Autorun Commands Manage your autorun commands. If you would like a eyeApp to open when you login you can set it to do so here or edit, delete ones that are set as well as reseting to the default configuration

Web Browser Manage eyeNav's (pg.) startpage, bookmarks and search engines as well as exporting to a file for backup, sharing, or transporting

Security Protect Sessions by IP if checked only one IP address per login permitted so if you are loged in at home and some one finds your username and password at work they will not be able to have accses Coshion! If you do not end sasion at point A you may not be able to login at point B