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On 04/24/17 16:10, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> How does one drop out of slim to the console? I installed FreeBSD-11
> on a spare laptop and I am having some difficulty logging on through
> slim.  I have installed mate and slim but when I run slim it prompts
> for a login and then fails with 'unable to execute login'; or
> something similar.
> 
> However when this happens I do not know how to get out of the
> graphical logon screen without rebooting the system.
> 
> 

Does <Ctrl><Alt>F2 work?