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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Joseph Marah <marahkeh@yahoo.com>
To:        Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue
Message-ID:  <640940.3427.qm@web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <460E5E73.2010404@daleco.biz>

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Thanks everyone for your help.  I will let you know of my next confusion.

Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:  Christian Walther wrote:
> On 30/03/07, Joseph Marah wrote:
>> Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen 
>> for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login.
> 
> ALT+CTRL+Backspace shuts down the X Server the hard way. A Desktop
> Manager (KDM, GDM, XDM) is supposed to restart after a session is
> ended, which means that the login screen comes back...
> 
>> Also tried ctrl+f1, ctrl+f1 etc but go nowhere.
> 
> Yepp, but if you try ALT+CTRL+Fx (where 1 >= x <= 8) you'll get a
> console login screen. Here you'll be able to login as root.

Joseph, I'm sorry; as you can see, Christian caught my error;
CTL-*ALT*-F1, etc., is correct.

KDK
-- 
Nuke them till they glow, then shoot them in the dark.



Regards

Joseph Marah
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