Workbench Basics
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Figure 2-10 The Workbench Menu To display a menu's items, hold the menu button down and move the pointer to the menu. Items in the Workbench menu affect the Workbench environment as a whole.
Accessing a menu item is easy. Once again, hold the menu button and pull down the Workbench menu. Now, while still holding the button, move the pointer down to the first item, Backdrop. The Backdrop item will be high lighted — it will appear blue on white. To perform the Backdrop function, or any menu item function, you simply release the menu button while the item is highlighted (see Figure 2-11). So, release the button (your finger must be get
ting tired).
What happened? At first glance the Workbench window seems to be gone. Your disk icons are no longer inside a window, and they aren't surrounded by a border. They are, in fact, still in the Workbench window, but the nature of the window has changed. It has become a backdrop window, which, by defini tion, doesn't have a title bar, borders, or any of the other normal window at tributes. Also, a backdrop window is always behind all other windows on the screen. In fact, with previous versions of Workbench (1.3 and older), the Workbench window was always a backdrop window. It's only with Work bench 2.0 that you can manipulate the main Workbench window as you can other windows.