If you know how to point, click, select, drag-and-drop, and use your mouse on a Windows desktop - then you know already how to do these same tasks when you're working on the Ubuntu Linux desktop!

Using Your Mouse in Ubuntu Linux vs. Microsoft Windows

For each main heading below, the steps to do the tasks described are the same on

the Ubuntu desktop as they are when you're working on the Windows desktop.

Remember: For each of the Ubuntu Linux desktop / mouse tasks describe below (for each subheading below), the steps are the same on the Ubuntu desktop as they are on the Windows desktop.

Selecting An Item on the Ubuntu Desktop and the Windows Desktop

To select a single item, such as an icon, file or folder, just point to it and click once.

At this point, you can do things like move, copy or delete the item.

Selecting Multiple Items on the Ubuntu and Windows Desktops

To select multiple items, you just point and press and hold down your left mouse button and drag across whatever you need to select.

For example, to select more than one icon on the desktop, you just click on an empty space on the desktop (where there isn't an icon) and drag across the icons you want to select.

The selected icons appear highlighted so that you can do whatever you need to do, such as move them to a new location or press the Delete key to delete them.

Moving Multiple Items on the Desktop in Ubuntu and Windows

To move items that you've selected, such as icons, files or folders, you just point to them, press and hold down the left mouse button to move them to wherever you need them.

Right-clicking on Items When Working in Ubuntu and Windows

When you right-click on an item on the desktop, you get a menu that shows items that relate to the item you right-clicked on.

For example, when you right-click on a file, you can select menu items that allow you to do "generic" tasks with the file, like cut, copy, rename or see the "properties" (settings) of the file.

When you right-click, you can also do tasks related to the program that was used to create the file.

For example, when you right-click on a file created by a graphics program, you can open the file in the program that created it!

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