<h1 id="top-navigation-bar">Top navigation bar</h1>

The shape of the Activities button represents your workspaces, the grouping of windows on your desktop. For example, below is the shape of the Activities button if you have 3 workspaces and the second workspace is the one that it displayed right now.

Click on the Activities button.

Throw your mouse pointer to the upper-left corner of the screen.

Press the [[!img lib/start.png class="symbolic" link="no" alt="Super"]] key on your keyboard.

You can see your windows and applications in the overview. You can also start typing to search your applications, files, and folders.

<p><b><i>Settings</i></b></p>

<p>By default, any setting that you change in Tails is lost when you shut
down. Only the settings that you saved in the [[Persistent
Storage|persistent_storage]] are restored when you restart Tails.</p>

<p><b><i>About Tails</i></b></p>

<p>To know the version of Tails that you are currently running, choose
<b>Tails</b>&nbsp;▸ <b>About Tails</b>.</p>

<p><b><i>Help</i></b></p>

<p>To access the <b>GNOME Desktop Help</b>, choose
<b>Utilities</b>&nbsp;▸ <b>Help</b>.</p>

<p><b><i>Tor Browser</i></b> allows you to browse the web anonymously
and uncensored.</p>

<p>See [[browsing the web with <i>Tor Browser</i>|anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser]].</p>

<p><b><i>Tor Connection</i></b> allows you to connect to the Tor
network.</p>

<p>See [[connecting to Tor|anonymous_internet/tor]].</p>

<p><b><i>Persistent Storage</i></b> allows you to save some of your
files and configuration in an encrypted Persistent Storage on your Tails
USB stick.</p>

<p>See [[Persistent Storage|persistent_storage]].</p>

<p>See our [[documentation|doc]].</p>

<p><b><i>WhisperBack Error Reporting</i></b> allows you to report
problems to our team.</p>