three finger salute

[cr]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:08, 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)


Well, on my  Deb 3.0 running Gnome 1.4  (with a host of KDE apps like 
Kmail!), left-clicking on the Gnome 'foot' brings up 'Logout' as the first 
item up the menu.

cr

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