The settings manager provides the MCS (Multi-Channel Settings), a modular, host independent, network transparent and centralized configuration system. It runs in the background and provides global settings information to other Xfce components. There is a main control panel to access the configuration dialogs of all the components. The MCS plugins provide settings dialogs for general items that are not part of a package, e.g. GTK, mouse, fonts, keyboard, and display settings.