How to get out of GNOME?

[Matt Navarre]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:51, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> WHERE should I have found the magic ctl+alt+F1? Nowhere in the GNOME
> help, is it to be found, Google "exit gnome" and the like didn't find
> it....

ctl+alt+F1 doesn't really quit Gnome. It switches to a virtual terminal that 
has getty instead of GDM running on it. 

For more on virtual terminals:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/consoles.html

For more on xdm/gdm/kdm:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

That doesn't really cover gdm, but the basics are the same.
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