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The desktop environment you're using (e.g. KDE or GNOME) should have an entry called "Konsole" or "Terminal" in the menus somewhere. Also, I think GNOME has an icon on the bar at the top for a terminal.
In RedHat Enterprise, you can also right-click on the desktop to get a terminal. More generally, get in the habit of right-clicking on everything. More and more, there are logical options there.
I suggest going thru all of your menus and trying things. You may find some other useful info this way.
I don't know if this is what you're asking, but if you want to completely get out of your graphical interface and just get to a command line interface, you can hit ctrl-alt-backspace and that will get you out of gui and into a CLI.
Also, you can get to a virtual terminal without having to halt the GUI- often these are mapped to Ctrl-Alt-F*, and there are usually several available, so you could log in on several of them at once as different users, or the same user, to perform several tasks at once.
The ctrl-alt-F* consoles are root consoles, which means they exist outside the graphical shell. By default, ctrl-alt-F7 will get you your graphical shell so if you are in any of the root consoles entering that key combination takes you back to your graphical display. If you log in a second time simultaneously, you can reach that session with ctrl-alt-F8, and so forth. ctrl-alt-F1 through F6 are your root consoles.
They are usually called virtual consoles. To me, a "root console" is a console on which I'm logged in as root. What you say is correct, but your terminology is ambiguous.
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