Shell prompt - dunno how to exit
 

hello,
im very new to linux, i only just installed it the other day, and today i loaded half life and was configuring it, when the game was not responding so i pressed ctrl alt and f1 i think it was and it brang up a black screen that is called shell prompt i think. anyway i dunno how to exit it, when i type exit it asks me to login. Ive restarted my comp many times and have no idea how to exit. Help would be appreciated thx

Try typing
init 5
- hopefully, you should go to runlevel 5, which, presumably, is where you want to go.

I'm not sure of your situation exactly, but if you got out of your GUI with a ctrl-alt-fn, then you can get back to the GUI with ctrl-alt-f7.

well, asuming that you didn't change too much and that you pressed that in x server alt F7 should also bring you back to x sever (i think). O and also try typing startx. If for some reason x server is closed you should get a message saying "x server is already started" or somthing like that. If that's the case alt F2 should work.

Thanks very much guys, the line startx worked thanks for your help :)