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# Using the Desktop
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The BoredOS desktop environment is designed to be intuitive while providing powerful window management and icons for quick access to your files and applications.
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## Window Management
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BoredOS uses a stacking window manager (BoredWM) that allows you to overlap and organize multiple windows.
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### Basic Actions
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- **Focus**: Click anywhere on a window to bring it to the front and make it the active window.
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- **Move**: Click and drag the **title bar** (the top bar of the window) to reposition it on the screen.
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- **Close**: Click the red traffic light close button in the top-left corner of the window.
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### System-wide Shortcuts
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BoredOS includes several global shortcuts to help you manage your workflow:
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- **`Ctrl + P`**: Take a screenshot. The image will be saved to `/root/Desktop` as `screenshot.jpg`.
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- **`Shift + Ctrl + Space`**: Toggle **Lumos** search (see the [Lumos guide](lumos.md)).
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## Desktop Icons
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Your desktop represents the contents of the `/root/Desktop` directory.
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- **Launching**: Double-click an icon to open the file or launch the application.
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- **Snapping**: Icons automatically snap to a grid for a clean look. You can toggle "Snap to Grid" and "Auto Align" in the [Settings app](../launching_apps.md).
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- **Context Menu**: Right-click on the desktop background to create new files, folders, or refresh the layout.
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## The Bottom Dock
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The dock at the bottom of the screen provides quick shortcuts to your most-used applications, with for example:
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- **Files**: Browse the entire filesystem.
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- **Terminal**: Access the command-line interface.
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- **Calculator / Notepad / Grapher**: Essential productivity tools.
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[Return to Documentation Index](../README.md)
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