Access the Terminal

Terminal Access in GUI

Now i am explain how we can access terminal in Graphical User Interfaces. Different linux Distributions are used different methods for accessing the terminal in gui interface. so maybe some method is not working in your system.

• Press the shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+t
  
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• Right click mouse and Open in Terminal
  
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• Click Terminal icon from the icon panel or task bar
  
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• In Gnome Desktop : Go to " Applications > SystemTools > Terminal "
  
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• In KDE Desktop :  Go To " Menu > Applications >System tools > Terminal "

 This picture shows a terminal window - in Gnome Desktop 

In this picture " U1 " is user name, server11 " is computer name, " ~ " is home directory of user, and " $ " indicate normal user logged in terminal. 

 

Terminal Access in Text-Mode

Another way of accessing the terminal is to load Linux in text mode. Many servers are configured not to load graphics by default, so the first thing you’d meet is a login prompt in text mode. "Home" or "desktop" computers on the other hand usually start up in graphics mode. 

You can try the text-mode prompt easily by pressing Alt-Ctrl-F1 to switch to text mode and Alt-Ctrl-F7 to switch back. Actually, from Alt-Ctrl-F1 to Alt-Ctrl-F6 are usually set up as 6 individual text-mode login prompts, while Alt-Ctrl-F7 is the graphics mode.

 When you press Ctrl+Alt+F2 you get like this picture.

In this picture "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server " is Linux Distrubution Name, " 6.0 " is Vertion Number, " Santiago " is Version name, " Kernel 2.6.32-71.el.i686 " is Kernel informaton, and Server11 is Computer name. "server 11 login: _" indicate user is not logged in. You can type your user name here, then you get password prompt. if your your username or password is incorrect you cannot log in the system.

when a user login you get like this picture.
In this picture " # " indicate we are login us root.(Root is the main administrator of linux). " root " indicate root is user name "server11"  indicate server11 is computer name "~"  indicate our current working directory is home. our last login time and date also displayed there.

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