Hey you and welcome I'm Mr. Berry and in this whole video I'm going to show you how to
basically do some customizations that are not normally found in your Chromebook settings
for example I'm going to take you to where the flags are located and we'll enable two
different flags and that's going to give us the ability to turn on dark mode as well as change
the app launcher's appearance or the start menu so let's give it a go you and I come on
hey here i am in my Chromebook now if you look at the bottom of that's the shelf and that little
circle there on the far left hand corner that is the app launcher so if I go ahead and click that
notice comes up and at the very top there you have the ability to search so you can
search for apps on your Chromebook but you can also search the internet which is kind of nice
below that are recently used applications and what I'm going to do is I'm going to
click on that little carrot and reveal more and so here we are we actually see
a large number of apps there the problem is is that if you have a large screened Chromebook like
a 15-inch green Chromebook or something like that having these large icons is really unnecessary
and what I'm going to show you is let's say that you want to move one of these apps around so
you'd hold it down and you could move it around so within that one little area it's kind of easy to
do but if you want to really organize your stuff around you have all these little pages to work
with and sometimes that can be kind of not very easy to work with unfortunately so you do have all
of these little pages or slides within your app launcher and that can be annoying so what we're
going to do is we're going to change that behavior and we'll make it so that you can actually have
it come up in a small app launcher here in the corner so we're going to do that by enabling a
specific flag another thing that we want to do is if you look at the bottom of the screen here
you have the uh the shelf and I'm going to show you how to the enable the dark mode with that
as well so what we're going to do is we're going to turn on flags and that's kind of easy to do go
ahead all you got to do is start up with a new tab so here we are in a new tab and then at the very
top you see the URL address box I'm gonna type in chrome colon slash slash or force last four slash
and then flags and you notice it should come up there all you got to do is click on it there and
it opens up there we are so at the very top you notice that it says search flags the first one I'm
going to find is dark so let's go type in dark here and the very first option says dark light
mode for ui or your user interface this basically gives you more control on the appearance of your
shelf as well as other things such as your menus and other things like that which I kind of like
so how do you enable them well right here where it says default click it and then you want to click
on enable now it says enable at the very bottom it says restart but I'm not going to click on restart
yet because there's another flag i wish to enable so the next one we'll look for is app launcher
so you notice we have a few of those the one that we're going to look for is productivity
and there it is productivity and then app launcher and it's right there in the middle and I'll put
a circle around it so you can't miss it and that one there is basically going to change our
start menu our app launcher and kind of combine everything into one screen
instead of having all these separate slides it's really handy if you have a large screen
all right let's click on enable and now we're going to do is click on restart
now after the system has restarted you'll notice right over here the flag window should be
up and it shows you which ones that you've enabled now you can disable these at any time and then
click on restart and it'll go back to normal there let's close this off and see some of the changes
that have has occurred so far my slot my shelf down at the bottom it looks gray and looks very
different there so I'm going to do is I'm going to swipe over to this side and I'm going to click on
the time here and to enable that notice right here where it says dark mode click there
and you have these different options I'm going to click right here where it says
the slider on and there it is now it's the dark theme where the dark mode is on
and it changes according to your image that you're using so if you have this night time
viewing here of the moon boom it'll be really dark there like the night sky all right let me get back
to my never more place and let's click on the app launcher and see how it's changed all right so
notice at the very top you still have the search menu there so you can search for things there
below that you have recently downloaded items or worked on files stuff like that and then
below that all of our apps and they're all in one area here now I like this actually better
than the other way just let you know when I want to start an app many times instead of
having to go down and look through all these apps let's say I want to start Microsoft word
you just click right there in the search box you type in word and it comes up all the appropriate
apps show up there so it's a little bit easier for me using it that way all right so you have that
so the next thing I want to show you is working with the desktop here and you notice I have this
beautiful nighttime scene there with a beautiful moon and this being reflected off there I found
that on the website there as far as for sharing desktops if you want to find a one that's similar
to it because I customized this one here a little bit but if you want to find that I'll have a link
down in the description what I'm going to do is I'm going to simply right click up here and then
click on set wallpaper and it comes up now the very first option that you have there is images
that are located on your drive and you can click in there and find some of the images that you
want to use if you don't want to use that you can use one of these other themes and there are many
different themes you can actually click onto and then find different things there like that so it
is easy to change your background image and your theme by simply right clicking and then saying
set wallpaper all right so there you go now you know how to customize your Chromebook into more
ways and hopefully you knew before and if you like these types of videos please give it a thumbs up
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