three finger salute

[David P James]

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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David P James
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