On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:34:29PM -0400, al Sten-Clanton wrote: > Hi, Michael. I hope I'm writing to you off the list. Nope. > very different from anything I had using Ubuntu or Fedora. The > alt-plus-f1 key combination did not give me a list of applications. > Alt-plus-f2 did not give me the screen on which to type the name of a > program to run. Did you hold down the left Alt key? That's the one thing I dislike about Debian based systems. The Alt keys are different. Michael