Hi Everybody,

Hope this is an OK thread to post in here.. have been searching the net to no avail..

I am realitivly new to the whole Linux thing but am finding it all pretty neat however..

I have recently installed Redhat 9 and am running the Gnome desktop..

I am intrerested in doing work from the command line interface though.. (bash is it called?) so i learnt that, holding down <ctrl> <alt> <F1> at the logon screen of Gnome, "exits" me to a plain old logon screen - (great!)

Now, i would like to learn.. How do i fire up the desktop manager again?

...Also is there some sort of way i can interrupt the desktop manager from starting in the first place bypass or something perhaps??

Huge thanks in advance!!

You're not killing the desktop when you switch like that. The desktop is still there, and you can get back to it with <ctrl> <alt> <F7>

It may be <ctrl> <alt> <F5>, but it's probably <F7>

ANd you don't have to do all that to use bash

In Gnome, go to the applications menu, and I think it's the "system tools" submenu that has the "Terminal" or "Gnome-terminal" option. Anyway, it's somewhere in the menu. It'll create a new window, and run bash from there. There's no need to switch back and forth.

Ok, thanks .. make sense to me... will do that from now on...
Great news!!!