From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 15:27:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75A216A404 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marahkeh@yahoo.com) Received: from web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59BE813C489 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marahkeh@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 3957 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Mar 2007 15:27:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=ShcHgZFzlZ4ucZ2gT9e09c6p6vqJR2zY73CO9pvtle1wo9jPN7w8JQ7IJwiRueyiIY3Rzd0fvLAfhpV8ON6a+nmstxBrqvB5ZynowRCoaEplXFyKVt9cv9nT65yoshIXinrHgloR8/tjL7Swx/IR6FJcJFcSjaT8GC9uTqP9mRo=; X-YMail-OSG: rXynvIgVM1mrCCjza.l._BCr3Uc5ANuLWpGXXNfNUEIbZmIO7gT4JlicLkZjyoLfSHZdNXuQwg-- Received: from [67.188.99.206] by web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:27:56 PDT Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Marah To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <460E5E73.2010404@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <640940.3427.qm@web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christian Walther Subject: Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:27:57 -0000 Thanks everyone for your help. I will let you know of my next confusion. Kevin Kinsey 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 ************** "IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL YOU ARE NOT GOING FAST ENOUGH" - Mario Andretti, race car driver. **************