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Figure 17-56 Changing the wallpaper in Ubuntu’s Settings app

All the things you can modify in Windows, you can modify in Linux. You

just might have to do a little hunting.

Working with Drivers

Now that you know the locations of the primary video tools within the

operating system, it’s time to learn about fine-tuning your video. You need to

know how to work with video drivers from within Settings (or in the Display

applet), including how to update them, roll back updates, and uninstall them.

When you update the drivers for a card, you have a choice of uninstalling

the outdated drivers and then installing new drivers—which makes the

process the same as for installing a new card—or you can let Windows flex

some digital muscle and install the new ones right over the older drivers.

To get to the adapter settings, as you’ll recall from earlier, open the

Display Settings, click Advanced display settings, and click the Display

adapter properties link to open the Monitor and Adapter Properties dialog

box. Click the Properties button on the Adapter tab to open the Adapter

Properties dialog box (see Figure 17-57). (Note that the “Adapter” in the

dialog box will be the specific video card.) The General tab gives some

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