Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
> That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
> yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn´t login as
> root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can´t shutdown or reboot
> graphically or in text. Only via su.
gdm seems to let you shutdown or reboot if you configure it to let you
(System / Configure, if I remember correctly).
> Also, how can one get out of the whole x system under Debian? To get
> back into text mode?
Ctrl-Alt-F1. (Ctrl-)Alt-F7 gets you back to X.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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