Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (114 mails)

[Roger Whittaker <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, adrian.wells wrote:

> Roger,
> Or does LINUX handle it's own keyboard input directly from the hardware?
> If so, there must (I assume) be a key de-bounce routine somewhere, one
> would  hope that one could change the 'comfort' values for this.

There is a way to change the repeat rate, but I'd need to look that up.
Try another keyboard :)
 
> Further to logging in/out, 
> Can you please tell me if there is a simple way to log out of the GUI (i.e.
>  back to the command prompt) other than turning the graphical login option
> off?

Control-Alt-F-key will take you to a text console without killing the GUI
which you can get back with Alt-F7.

I personally prefer to log in in text mode, then manually do a startx.

Control-Alt-Backspace will kill X altogether.

> 
>  > I used a machine set up with LINUX yesterday. Today I can't log in.
>  > As soon as I type root as a login name it tells me "login correct"
>  >
>  > Does this mean I have to re-install all over again?
>  >
>  > What caused this?
>  >
>  > Chris
>  > Chris Davies
>  > Head of IT
>  > Epsom College
>  > College Road
>  > Epsom
>  > Surrey
>  > KT17 4JQ
>  > tel.: 01372 821178
>  > fax.: 01372 821005
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Adrian Wells
> _______________________________________
> Systems Manager
> Sidcot School
> Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD.
> 
> Please reply to
> adrian.wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for general enquiries
> 

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Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
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