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| - | ====== How To: A Beginning User's A to Z Perspective ====== | + | ====== How To: A Beginning User's A to Z Perspective |
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| It all starts with the Total Launcher installation screen\\ | It all starts with the Total Launcher installation screen\\ | ||
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| - | Prefer a bullet-point procedure summary\\ | + | **Prefer a bullet-point procedure summary**\\ [[howto: |
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| - | ... (O)pen Total Launcher. You are presented with a very basic launcher window which will have a few app widgets, a clock and a couple of others all on a blank black background. The basics of editing Total launcher are “long presses”, “dragging”, | + | "... (O)pen Total Launcher. You are presented with a very basic launcher window which will have a few app widgets, a clock and a couple of others all on a blank black background. The basics of editing Total launcher are “long presses”, “dragging”, |
| Long press a blank area of the screen to open the edit options. The main launcher window will shrink and you will see a “Menu” icon on the bottom left and an “Edit Off” icon on the right. The menu is where the launcher setting and backup options are. On the right, press the “Edit Off” icon then you will see it change to “Edit On” and also see a “New Page” option and 3 other icons under the launcher screen “Home” window, a trash can for deleting a window, an “Image” icon, and a cog icon for settings to the launcher windows. If you scroll across the screen, you will see other windows much like what you see when you have several screens full of apps on your phone or tablet’s default launcher. Tap in the middle of the window to make it full size again with the editor still On. Long press on one of the widgets and you will see it highlighted indicating it is in edit mode for this one element with a selection of editing icons. Tapping on a blank space on the window or tapping the Android navigation bars back button will exit the element edit and also saves any changes you made. For now, tap on the trash can in the top right corner then confirm to delete the widget. You’re only deleting it from the window, not from the app or system itself so you can use it again if you want. Do the same with all of the other elements to start with a clean slate. | Long press a blank area of the screen to open the edit options. The main launcher window will shrink and you will see a “Menu” icon on the bottom left and an “Edit Off” icon on the right. The menu is where the launcher setting and backup options are. On the right, press the “Edit Off” icon then you will see it change to “Edit On” and also see a “New Page” option and 3 other icons under the launcher screen “Home” window, a trash can for deleting a window, an “Image” icon, and a cog icon for settings to the launcher windows. If you scroll across the screen, you will see other windows much like what you see when you have several screens full of apps on your phone or tablet’s default launcher. Tap in the middle of the window to make it full size again with the editor still On. Long press on one of the widgets and you will see it highlighted indicating it is in edit mode for this one element with a selection of editing icons. Tapping on a blank space on the window or tapping the Android navigation bars back button will exit the element edit and also saves any changes you made. For now, tap on the trash can in the top right corner then confirm to delete the widget. You’re only deleting it from the window, not from the app or system itself so you can use it again if you want. Do the same with all of the other elements to start with a clean slate. | ||
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| ... That’s the basics of Total Launcher, and there is so much more you can do. For example, instead of a button doing one thing, it can do 5 things by tapping as we know, but also swiping up, down, left and right. And if some of your apps have widgets, you can add them to your launcher too. I will give some more examples in the next step using Tasker, but to wrap this up for now, let’s back up out Total Launcher project and set it as a system default. | ... That’s the basics of Total Launcher, and there is so much more you can do. For example, instead of a button doing one thing, it can do 5 things by tapping as we know, but also swiping up, down, left and right. And if some of your apps have widgets, you can add them to your launcher too. I will give some more examples in the next step using Tasker, but to wrap this up for now, let’s back up out Total Launcher project and set it as a system default. | ||
| - | Long press on a blank space on the launcher window, the tap the Menu icon. Select Backup center, tap + then tap New backup. You will see something like “backup_123456” in the title field, leave this as it is, but tap in front of the word “backup”. Here you can write anything you like so as an example we will name it “My New Table 01”. You cannot use spaces in between the words, so you need to use underscores so it will look like this… My_New_Table_01_backup_123456. When you have done this, tap OK, let it do it’s thing then you should get a “Backup successful” message. Now you can back out of the backup center. To set the launcher as your default launcher, tap the Menu icon then the Default option and choose Total Launcher as the launcher default. You can also do this in the android “Settings” then Apps > scroll to and tap Total Launcher > Advanced > Home App > then select Total Launcher. Have a good play with the launcher to find out what it can do, and make regular backups. If you mess anything up that you cannot fix or would take a lot of work, go to the backup center and choose the last good backup you made and carry on from there. ... | + | Long press on a blank space on the launcher window, the tap the Menu icon. Select Backup center, tap + then tap New backup. You will see something like “backup_123456” in the title field, leave this as it is, but tap in front of the word “backup”. Here you can write anything you like so as an example we will name it “My New Table 01”. You cannot use spaces in between the words, so you need to use underscores so it will look like this… My_New_Table_01_backup_123456. When you have done this, tap OK, let it do it’s thing then you should get a “Backup successful” message. Now you can back out of the backup center. To set the launcher as your default launcher, tap the Menu icon then the Default option and choose Total Launcher as the launcher default. You can also do this in the android “Settings” then Apps > scroll to and tap Total Launcher > Advanced > Home App > then select Total Launcher. Have a good play with the launcher to find out what it can do, and make regular backups. If you mess anything up that you cannot fix or would take a lot of work, go to the backup center and choose the last good backup you made and carry on from there. ..." |
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