How to switch to text mode

I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do?

Display problem with xfce4

I have a problem about displaying Chinese in xfce4. When xterm is launched, some Chinese characters are displayed as square, but after the font of xterm was switched to large, everything is OK, what is the problem, how can I fix it?

How can I install a system whose locale is utf-8 compatible

When choosing language and region, I choose China, but I want the system to support utf-8 because it is said to be easy to configure some software. How can I do?

I want to get the desktop like this

http://linuxtoy.org/img/2007/02/xfce-4-4.png I want to optimize my desktop like this, what should I do?

The system hangs up when I press ctrl+alt+f1

I want to kill X, so I press the combination but the system hangs up, half of the screen was the desktop and the other one is totally black. I tried alt+f2, the light of num lock on the keyboard was off, and after pressing alt+f1, the light was on again, so, I think the keyboard was still