Jim....if you booted into the console and then started the
desktop gui with a startx command then all you need to do is
logout of the gui. In KDE there is an X button just above a
padlock button on the panel at the bottom of your screen.
Click on this X button and follow the dialog boxes.
If you booted directly into the gui desktop then you don't
shut down the gui to get to the command line. There are 2
ways to get to a command line. Both of them will work in the
above situation (started the gui w/startx) as well. First one
is to open a console window. There is an icon on the panel
for that. Second is to use the ctl-alt-fX (where X=2,3,4,5,or
6). To get back to the gui from one of these consoles you
press alt-f7.
Alan
Jim wrote:
>
> I have a dumb question....I need to run in command line mode and can't seem to
> get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to the command line?
>
> thanks
>
> Jim
