I am a newb to Redhat and all of a sudden one day when I try to login there is this little box in the right hand corner of my graphical login screen that says Console Log. I didn't think anything of it and continued to log in, but once I log in all i get is a small box against a black screen that has a title bar of "xsm : default" then four little boxes to click each of them saying "Client List", "Session Log", "Checkpoint", and "Shutdown" respectively. My question is how do I get it to go back to logging in normally? I can't do anything with it like this and it is waisting my time and hard drive space. Please help!

Kris

Uhhh, what did you do...

What happens when you hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE or CTRL+ALT+F2-7???

rberry88

If I knew what I did, then I would be able to fix it, I was just hoping that someone would know what was going on. I tried pressing the first combinations of keys that you said and it just blinked the screen and logged me out. The second combination are you telling me to hold F2 - F7 or F2 and the number key 7?

ctrl-alt-backspace kills the Xserver.
ctrl-alt-F1 to F7 select a terminal.