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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:54:48 -0700
From:      Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>
Subject:   Re: How to get out of GNOME?
Message-ID:  <200410301854.48655.mnavarre@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <418436F8.8060703@att.net>
References:  <41842DAB.7080901@att.net> <57d710000410301715351b45a5@mail.gmail.com> <418436F8.8060703@att.net>

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On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:51, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> WHERE should I have found the magic ctl+alt+F1? Nowhere in the GNOME
> help, is it to be found, Google "exit gnome" and the like didn't find
> it....

ctl+alt+F1 doesn't really quit Gnome. It switches to a virtual terminal that 
has getty instead of GDM running on it. 

For more on virtual terminals:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/consoles.html

For more on xdm/gdm/kdm:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

That doesn't really cover gdm, but the basics are the same.
-- 
"We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming,
 and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind
 of thing doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould



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