2 part question

[Huggy]

Running RadHat 7.1 with Gnome GUI
#1 - Mounting disks
how?
I have a 3.5 disk
and a CD rom with I think works but I would like to check. ?

#2 - Startx
I have it setup up so it goes in the command line on boot up.
now when I type, startx, how do I turn it off so I go back to the command line with starting a new screen (Alt Ctlr F2) ?


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[jaygee432]

1. In your gnome main menu, go applets, utility, drive mount, which gives you a button on the panel which you can configure to mount a drive.
2. ctrl + alt + Fn

[Huggy]

Sorry I forgot one word
#2 - Startx
I have it setup up so it goes in the command line on boot up.
now when I type, startx, how do I turn it off so I go back to the command line without starting a new login screen?

back to
#1
how do configure it?
properties
its says Mount point /mnt/floppy
should it work now?

[Linuxcool]

When you log out of gnome, doesn't that take you back to the screen that you ran startx from?

I haven't used gnome for a while, but if you now have an icon on your task bar try inserting a floppy and clicking on the icon and see if it mounts it.

[element-x]

to Exit XFree, press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[demetrius]

CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE shouldn't be used to exit X under normal circumstances. It is a good way to get out of X in the case of an application crash that wont let you kill the offending application through an xterm, but it is not the proper way to log out of X.

Logging out of X depends entirely on the window manager/desktop environment you are using, but the best place to look is the menu of whatever WM/DE that you use. Exiting X through CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is akin to CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot windows. You loose any changes you have made to your GUI ... i.e. remembering locations of applications on opening, restarting apps when you log back into X, etc.