4.3 Hardware

"Hardware settings" includes a set of tools that configure or query multiple input and output devices for the operating system.

With these tools, you can configure a wide variety of hardware devices quickly and easily, including the following contents:

4.3.1 System info

4.3.2 Keyboard

4.3.3 Mouse and touchpad

4.3.4 Power management

4.3.5 Networking

4.3.6 Display

4.3.7 Sound

4.3.8 Printers

4.3.9 Bluetooth

4.3.1 System info

Query system info, click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface; click "System Info" program, and then you can see the system version number, the kernel version number / setup time, processor, memory, disk space, graphics system and other basic information. As shown in the following figure:

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4.3.2 Keyboard

In the keyboard configuration, you can set keyboard repeat, cursor blinks, keyboard shortcuts. Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface. Then click the "Keyboard" to start the keyboard setup tool, as shown in the following figure:


In the figure above, "Enable keystroke repetition" is activated by default. If you do not need this setting, you can cancel the setting of "Reset button ". The "repeat delay" indicates that the waiting time from key press to second time occurrence of this character. "Repetition frequency" refers to the occurrence frequency of each character. "Cursor blink frequency" is a frequency setting of cursor blinking at the time of input.

You can view the shortcut keys that have been set and add / delete custom shortcut keys, and set shortcut keys through "Keyboard shortcuts" tab. From the figure below, you can see the lock screen shortcut key of current system is Ctrl+Alt+l.


To modify the shortcut key, double-click the Ctrl+Alt+l display items, when the "Select Shortcut" appears, enter the shortcut key you want to set on the keyboard to complete the shortcut key settings. For instants, the shortcut key of modifying the locked screen is Ctrl+Alt+j. After "Select Shortcut" appeared, press the keyboard "Ctrl","Alt","J" three buttons to complete the modification. The result is shown below:


4.3.3 Mouse and touchpad

Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface; click the "Mouse and touchpad" to launch the mouse and touchpad setup tool, and click the "Mouse" tab, as shown below:


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  1. desktop routine

    1. Set the left hand or right hand mouse. The right mouse is default. If you need the left hand mouse, please check the "left hand".

    2. When you press the mouse button, current pointer position will be displayed.

    3. When you simultaneously press the left mouse button and the right mouse button, it will simulate the effect of pressing the middle mouse button.

  2. pointer size

    Set the pointer size. It should be noted that not all sizes are supported.

  3. pointer speed

    Set the speed and sensitivity of a mouse. The faster the speed set, the faster the mouse moves on the screen.

  4. double click timeout

    Set double-click delay speed. The shorter the delay speed set, the faster the double-click speed is.

4.3.4 Power management

The power option is used to hang up and screen off in the absence of operation, mainly for energy saving.

Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface; Click the "Power Management" to launch the power option settings. As shown in the following figure:


Set power suspend mode by selecting time value in the "Suspend if there is no operation during this time" of the "power management" dropdown interface. The optional range includes:

•Don't suspend

• 5 minutes

• 10 minutes

• 30 minutes

• 1 hour

You can also select and set the time to turn off the screen in the absence of operation by clicking the drop down list.

4.3.5 Networking

Through the network setup tool, configure the wired network connection service of the current system, including setting network connection, MAC address setting, IPv4, IPv6, routing, and network agents.

Click the "Start Menu""System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and click network to start the network setup tool. As shown in the following figure:

Click the "Options" button to open the network connection configuration interface, as shown below:


In the "General" tab, set the display name of the current network connection, whether launch the automatic link to the available network, whether allow all users to connect the network, whether use this connection to automatically connect VPN, firewall configuration.

In the "Ethernet" tab, set the MAC address and clone MAC address of current network connection, and set the MTU bytes.

In the "802.1X Security" tab, set the configuration of the authentication method for the current network connection. As shown below:


In the "IPv4 settings" tab, set the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS server address, etc. of the current network connection IPV4. IPV4 address can be obtained automatically by DHCP, and can be also configured manually. If the user obtains it through the DHCP, then select the DHCP method in the drop-down list from the following interface. If the user configures it manually, then use the "Add" button in the following figure to add it according to the guide. For example, manually configure the IPV4 address 192.168.2.155, subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.2.254, DNS server: 124.16.136.254, as shown below:


"IPv6 Settings" tab is similar to the "IPV4 Setting" tab, but the IP address is IPV6 format, and the related operations refer to the IPv4 configuration, as shown below:


4.3.6 Display

Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and click "Display" to open the settings interface; change the display appearance. As shown below:


From the "Display" interface in the above figure, it provides the display configuration of Windows-like system. You can set the screen resolution, screen orientation, and whether support the mirror displays and conduct the screen detection. Click the "Apply" button after completing the setup.

4.3.7 Sound

The system has been installed with sound card driver. When the system is installed, then the sound card can make a sound. But due to the configuration and other reasons, the sound card may not make sound in the abnormal circumstances. Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface. Then click "Sound" to open the main interface and set the sound. As shown below:


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In the "Input" tab, set input volume, input level and output volume of the input device, the configuration interface is shown below:

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In the "Sound Effects" tab, set the system warning sound when a system warning occurs. The configuration interface is shown below:

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In the "Application" tab, set the audio program which is currently playing or recording. The configuration interface is shown below:

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4.3.8 Printer

Printer is the indispensable hardware for daily office use. The system also provides a good support, and has the built-in device driver for the mainstream printers in the market.

The system provides a graphical printer configuration interface. Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface. Click "Printer" to open the main configuration interface of the printer. Set a local printer or remote shared LAN printer. As shown below:

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4.3.9 Bluetooth

Bluetooth hardware module provides Bluetooth technology support for the system.
The system provides a graphical printer configuration interface.Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface. Click "Bluetooth" to open the main interface.