Changes

The right hand side of the panel includes the current time and a volume control. Also present on laptop based installations is an icon indicating current power status. A variety of other status icons will appear in this section from time to time. Typically hovering over or clicking on the status icon will display a brief description of the icon’s purpose. As you perform more administrative tasks on the system you will see a yellow badge appear. This indicates that root (administrative) privileges have been assigned to the desktop session allowing tasks to be performed without repeatedly entering the root password. To de-authorize these elevated privileges simply click on the badge icon and click on the Forget Authorization button in the resulting dialog.