One of the things that made Windows so popular - was the program windows that automatically appear on the Windows desktop every time you run a program.

The program windows that show on the desktop for each program you run in Windows make working with Windows easy and popular - and all of these same benefits are still there when you're working with Ubuntu Linux!

Here's what I mean by program windows: Let's say you start

a Windows system and then run the Word (word processing) program and then run the Excel (spreadsheet) program. Running these two programs automatically gives you two program windows on the Windows desktop - one program window for Word and one for Excel.

Exactly the same thing happens when you open two programs on the Ubuntu desktop, such as when you run the Writer word processing program and the Calc spreadsheet program!

Working With Program Windows On The Windows Desktop and the Ubuntu Desktop

Program windows, like the ones that appear when you run Word or Excel, have three small icons in the top right corner that allow you to minimize, maximize, or close a program window.

For example, to close a program window on the Windows desktop, you just click on the "X" in the top right corner.

And there are two small icons at the left of the X that allow you to minimize and maximize a program window.

All of these things that you can do with program windows on the Windows desktop - work exactly the same on the Ubuntu Linux desktop!

Program windows on the Windows desktop and on the Ubuntu desktop both:

can be easily moved from one place to another

allow you to copy and paste from one window to another

have a scroll bar with up and down scroll arrows at the right side to move up and down

have a scroll bar with left and right scroll arrows at the bottom to move left and right

And there are lots of other neat things you can do when you're working with program windows in Ubuntu Linux.

Using The Alt Key To Move Between Program Windows on the Ubuntu Linux desktop

For example, you can hold down the Alt key and press the Tab key once, and then let go of the Alt key to easily move to another program (program window).

And you can use these same keystrokes to easily move between multiple programs.

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