Burrows, Scott wrote: >Hi all, > >I've just installed MD 8.1. > >My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed <CTRL><ALT><F1> and it took >me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.......... > >How do I get back to GNOME from there? > >How is this different then simply clicking the "Open Terminal" icon in >GNOME? > >Thanks from a true newbie. > >Scott Burrows >GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support >perotsystems(tm) >Office: 407 804-3208 >Pager: 407-400-0197 >Fax: 407-804-3340 >E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ctrl-alt-f7 gets you back
It is different in that the logged-in device is a console rather than a pty, and you do not have the DISPLAY variable set. You can make a terminal window behave almost identical to a console by unset DISPLAY The other major difference is that your foreground/background control is only from the command line since you can't just move the mouse to the GUI windows and do something else but have to use ctrl-alt-fx (where 1 <=x <=7) to go to a different window. Note also that it is unwise to use ctrl-alt-f1 becaue that is where X is launched. Use 2-6 for additional consoles It is a good skill to be able to use consoles--when some program freezes X, you can slip away with ctrl-alt-f2 from the frozen screen, login, call up the processes list with ps ax|less and probably discover the process causing you problems--note its name or number and try kill (number) or killall (name) or kill -9 (number) Then ctrl-alt-f7 will take you back to an unfrozen GUI That's how the folks using linux a while get uptimes of hundreds of days... Civileme
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