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 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.