The dock
Rest the pointer on the bottom edge of the screen and the dock slides up, with the time and date above it. It stays up while the desktop is empty and goes when the pointer leaves.
- Click an icon to open the application, or to bring it forward. An application with several windows lays them out to pick from.
- Right click to pin, unpin or close.
- Drag icons along the bar to put them in order; drag one out of the launcher to pin it. A file dropped on an icon opens in that application.
- The glyphs at the end are the network, the sound and, on a laptop, the battery. Each opens a small panel. The bell is the notification centre, and the power glyph is the way out: lock, sleep, log out, restart, shut down.
The launcher
Super+Space, or the first icon of the dock. It is a panel that rises out of
the dock, not a screen of its own: the applications you open most, then all of
them, and a search field.
Search forgives: prefixes, parts of words, loose abbreviations, and text typed
in the wrong keyboard layout. It also does arithmetic in place, and
> command runs a command.
Windows
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
Super | The overview: every window, scaled, to pick one |
Alt+Tab, Super+Tab | The switcher; Shift goes back |
Super+Up | As large as the screen, and back |
Super+Left, Super+Right | The left or right half; again to restore |
Ctrl+Alt+F | Full screen |
Ctrl+Alt+M | Minimize |
Super+W | Close the window |
Super+Q | Kill the program the window belongs to |
Super+T | Keep the window above the others |
Super+D | Show the desktop, and bring the windows back |
A window let go against the left or right edge takes that half of the screen; against the top, all of it.
By default title bars have no buttons: right click a title bar to close the window, double click to make it as large as the screen. Settings > Windows brings the classic buttons back.
The rest of the keyboard
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
Super+Return | Terminal |
Super+I | Settings |
Super+V | Clipboard history, at the text caret |
Super+L | Lock the screen |
Alt+Shift | Next keyboard layout |
Super+Shift+A | Screenshot of the screen |
Super+Shift+S | Screenshot of an area you drag out |
Super+Shift+R | Start and stop a screen recording |
Every one of them can be changed in Settings > Keyboard, or in YAWC’s config.
Installing applications
- The Store lists applications from Debian’s catalog and installs any package by name.
- A
.debfile opens in Files as a sheet that says what it is and what else would be installed with it. - apt works as on any Debian:
sudo apt install …. - X11 programs run through XWayland.
Making it yours
Settings > Appearance: light or dark (or by the clock), the wallpaper, night light. Settings > Dock & Clock: icon size, where the dock sits, the clock. Settings > Language: English or Russian, applied at once.
What Settings writes is plain text under ~/.config/etyde and
~/.config/yawc: see Configuration files.