Opening or Closing a Shell Prompt


The graphical desktop offers access to a shell prompt, an application that allows you to type commands to control your interface instead of using a graphical interface for all computing needs. While this book focuses on performing tasks using the graphical interface and graphical tools, it is sometimes useful and faster to perform tasks from a shell prompt. Refer to Chapter 8 for more details.

You can open a shell prompt by clicking the Main Menu button and choosing System Tools > Terminal. You can also start a shell prompt by double-clicking the Start Here icon, then Applications, then System Tools, and finally Terminal.

To exit a terminal window, do one of the following:

  • Click the X button on the upper-right corner of the window.

  • Type exit at the prompt.

  • Press Ctrl-D at the prompt.




The Red Hat Documentation Team - Official Red Hat Linux User's Guide
The Red Hat Documentation Team - Official Red Hat Linux User's Guide
ISBN: N/A
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Year: 2002
Pages: 223

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