three finger salute
Rob Clack
rob at theclacks.org.uk
Wed Apr 28 17:37:41 BST 2004
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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