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magicfan241
03-24-2004, 03:48 PM
but, somehow, while in GNOME, I did, without any clicking/keyboard combos out of the ordinary (only ctrl+F3) it logged me out, and set it into to text mode.

Anyone know if it is a glitch, or if there is a combo I shoiuld watch out for.

So far my linux machine is on par with my win98 machine for reboots due to errors (once every 30 days)

magicfan241

rshepard
03-24-2004, 03:56 PM
You sure you didn't snag the ALT key as well? The CTRL+ALT+F3 would have thrown you to a new terminal session, which would have been at a login prompt in text mode.
In such a case, CTRL+ALT+F7 would have put you back in your X-session.

Just a guess.....

Bok
03-24-2004, 05:45 PM
CTRL-ALT-BKSPACE puts you into init 3 (textmode)

Try

startx

or xinit

perhaps

Bok

magicfan241
03-24-2004, 06:54 PM
I think I must have added the alt in my keyboard combo, it was while I was using ctrl+F4 that it happened.

I wrote down how to fix it on a little notecard and taped it to my monitor. I only have about 20 little notcards on there to tell me important info and how to do things

magicfan241