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Actual Tools / Products / Actual Window Manager / Online Help / User Interface

Control Center User Interface

Since the Control Center is a small, memory-resident application, its user interface is also small and simple to reduce the amount of required memory. It includes the system tray icon and its context menu:

Control Center Context Menu

  • Configure... menu item - opens the Configuration Module's Main Window

  • Exit menu item - stops processing the windows and shuts the Control Center down

  • Stop/Start menu item - tells the Control Center to temporarily stop processing the windows/start it again

  • Virtual desktops submenu - allows switching between existing virtual desktops:

    Virtual Desktops Context Menu

  • Unhide submenu - relates to Unhide tool:

    Unhide Context Menu

    • Unhide all command - click this item to restore all currently minimized windows at once

    • Other items correspond to certain currently minimized windows - click the desired item to restore its corresponding window

    Note
    You can invoke this submenu via special service key combination.

  • Windows Layout submenu - relates to Windows Layout tool:

    Windows Layout Context Menu

    • Relocate now menu item - invokes the manual relocation

    • Keep automatically menu item - enables/disables the automatic relocation. This menu item does the same as this option

    • Resize windows appropriately along with desktop menu item - enables/disables the automatic resizing of windows in addition to their relocation (either automatic or manual). This menu item does the same as this option

  • Logging submenu - relates to Windows Monitoring Log tool:

    Logging Context Menu

  • Info submenu - contains the shortcuts to different information and service windows:

    Info Context Menu

    • Help menu item - opens this Actual Window Manager Help window

    • How to submenu - contains the shortcuts to different Help articles explaining some frequently asked questions

    • About... menu item - opens the About dialog

    • Register... menu item - opens the Registration dialog

All the features of any Actual Tools program (including the Control Center's tray icon visibility) can be accessed via the Configuration Module User Interface.