Re: Gnome Exit

[Werner Kliewer <VKliewer mpi mb ca>]

The CTL-ALT-F[1-7] keyboard shortcuts allow you to switch between the different 
virtual consoles in linux, of which in RedHat as distributed there are 6. 
Number 7 is the GUI when one is running. This is another way to a command 
prompt, but does not exit the GUI.

You will find that if you use CTL-ALT-F1 after running startx (with no trailing 
&) you get back to a console that does not have a command prompt. Using your 
recently learned skills, you can use a CTL-z to stop the foreground process 
(startx) and then the "bg" command to put it in the background. Now you have a 
working command prompt there. While the startx command is in the "stopped" 
state and before you issue the "bg" command, if you go back to the GUI with a 
CTL-ALT-F7, you will find that things still work. This is because everything 
that is running in the GUI is many levels down from the actual "startx" 
command. So while the startx process itself is stopped, it really has nothing 
to do anyway until right at the end of exiting the GUI.

In article 
<135BC37F21798BFD*/c=us/admd=attmail/prmd=amex/o=aefa/ou=HUB1/ou=AMEX/s=Ramstro
m/g=Joseph/@MHS>, Joseph Ramstrom wrote:
> Date: 29 Sep 1999 06:43:52 -0700
> From: "Joseph Ramstrom" <Joseph Ramstrom aexp com>
> To: "redhat-install-list%redhat.com" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Subject: Re: Gnome Exit
> Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> 
> CTRL-ALT-F(1-6) will dump you to another full screen text term.  CTRL-ALT-F7 
> will bring back X.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> dbekarge%netzero net Internet
> 09/29/99 08:28 AM
> To: redhat-install-list%redhat com Internet
> cc:  (bcc: Joseph Ramstrom)
> Subject: Gnome Exit
> 
> Newbie question:
> 
> How does one exit Gnome to the RH6 Linux bash prompt?
> 
> startx launches Gnome from the bash prompt.
> The Gnome logout menu shuts down Linux.
> 
> I can't seem to find the proper Help file or man pages entry that explain
> how to do this.
> 
> Dom Bekarge
> <dbekarge netzero net>
> 
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