Dear friends: Thanks to two list members, one on the KDE list, I understand the problem of why sometimes when I log off from KDE, I end up in a blank, dark screen instead of the console. Here is the explanation from Kevin of the KDE list: "The problem I think, is that you are not being switched back to a tty. Once you get to your pitch black screen, try pressing either ALT-Fn, or CTRL-ALT-Fn, where n=1...6. X usually shows up as ALT-F7, or CTRL-ALT-F7. I had the same problem when I first installed Caldera 2.2. BTW the reason for the ALT/CTRL-ALT confusion is that from the console, ALT works, but X traps it and uses CTRL-ALT instead. Since X should have shut down by that point ALT should work, but I have found that CTRL-ALT works without X as well. Thanks so much, folks. I feel a lot better now. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
