three finger salute

[Rob Clack]

Thanks to several of you who responded and I have found the answer;  my 
(recently acquired) keyboard has an F-lock button I've never encountered 
before, which, it turne out,  enables and disables the function keys.  
Soon as I hit it, up pops a little indicator light and lo! my function 
keys all work as intended.

The Logout option on the main menu would only log me out as a user.  The 
purpose of using Ctrl/Alt/F1 is to get to a session where I can log in 
as root so I can shut the machine right down, which I do every night.

Many thanks.
Rob

David P James wrote:

>On Tue 27 April 2004 19:44, Rob Clack wrote:
>  
>
>>A friend installed debian linux 3.0 for me and assured me that
>>Control/Alt/F1 would flick me back to a console monitor so I could
>>log on as root and shut the machine down.  Only it doesn't happen. 
>>    
>>
>
>Well, the console at Ctrl+Alt+F1 is actually in use when your graphical 
>desktop gets running (which is accessed at Ctrl+Alt+F7). Try 
>Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to another console from which you can shut down.
>
>  
>
>>Let me clue you in to how dim I am:  There's a footprint icon on the
>>panel;  I don't know what that means, in terms of what software I'm
>>running, but I'm pretty sure it should tell me something.
>>    
>>
>
>You're running GNOME - http://www.gnome.org/
>
>You should be able to log out from the aforementioned Foot menu 
>(probably under Actions or somesuch - I can't recall since I use KDE)
>
>  
>


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