Quitting From Kde; Shutting Down At The Shell Prompt - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual

Section 3.9:Shutting Down at the Shell Prompt
=> =>
Button System
type switchdesk at the prompt.
To open Switchdesk at a shell prompt:
• Type switchdesk at a shell prompt.
• Select your new environment and click
• Close the terminal window by typing exit.
• Log out and log in again.
The next time you start your X session, you will be in your newly selected environment.
Regardless of the process you use to switch desktop environments, you have to log out and back in
before your desktop will change.

3.8 Quitting from KDE

There are several easy ways to log out from your KDE session:
• From the Main Menu
• From the panel, select the
• From the desktop, right-click on the desktop and select
KDE offers you the chance to save your current settings, which will preserve your panel settings and
keep your currently open applications.
If you are working in an application and you have not saved your work when you log out, a dialog will
inform you that you will lose your unsaved material when you log out.
When you see this dialog, you can simply select the
If you continue without saving your work, you will lose the data.

3.9 Shutting Down at the Shell Prompt

Like the
Run program
your system from a shell prompt, whether you are working in GNOME, KDE, or the non-graphical
environment.
To halt or restart your system from a shell prompt:
• Open a shell prompt — From the panel, click on the
=>
Desktop Switching Tool
OK
, select the Logout
icon, which looks like:
Logout
option in GNOME, you can use the shutdown command to halt or restart
). Or you can open Run from the main menu and
.
item.
Logout
button, save your work, then log out again.
Cancel
Terminal Emulation
from the menu.
or
Console
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launcher.