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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

From there,
you can choose to start your login session with a GNOME, KDE, or Failsafe Terminal
environment. (Failsafe Terminal simply opens a Terminal window so, presumably, you
can make a quick fix to the system without starting up a whole desktop environment.)
 Language??”Linux systems that are configured to start multiple languages may give you
the opportunity to choose a language (other than the default language) to boot into. For
this to work, however, you must have installed support for the language you choose.
 Reboot or Shutdown??”There??™s no need to log in if all you want to do is turn off or
restart your computer. Most graphical login screens offer you the option of rebooting or
shutting down the machine from that screen.
If you don??™t like the way the graphical login screen looks, or you just want to assert greater control
over how it works, there are many ways to configure and secure X graphical login screens. Later,
after you are logged in, you can use the following tools (as root user) to configure the login screen:
 KDE login manager??”From the KDE Control Center, you can modify your KDE display
manager using the Login Manager screen (from KDE Control Center, select System
Administration???Login Manager). You can change logos, backgrounds, color schemes,
and other features related to the look-and-feel of the login screen.


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