Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 Reference Manual

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vi Introduction[key]-[combination]A combination of keystrokes is represented in this way. For example:The [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Backspace] key combination exits your graphical session and return you to thegraphical login screen or the console.text found on a GUI interfaceA title, word, or phrase found on a GUI interface screen or window is shown in this style. Textshown in this style is being used to identify a particular GUI screen or an element on a GUIscreen (such as text associated with a checkbox or field). Example:Select the Require Password checkbox if you would like your screensaver to require a passwordbefore stopping.top level of a menu on a GUI screen or windowA word in this style indicates that the word is the top level of a pulldown menu. If you click onthe word on the GUI screen, the rest of the menu should appear. For example:Under File on a GNOME terminal, the New Tab option allows you to open multiple shellprompts in the same window.If you need to type in a sequence of commands from a GUI menu, they are shown like thefollowing example:Go to Main Menu Button (on the Panel) => Programming => Emacs to start the Emacs texteditor.button on a GUI screen or windowThis style indicates that the text can be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen. For example:Click on the Back button to return to the webpage you last viewed.computer outputText in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and responsesto commands. For example:The ls command displays the contents of a directory. For example:Desktop about.html logs paulwesterberg.pngMail backupfiles mail reportsThe output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory) isshown in this style.promptA prompt, which is a computer’s way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something, isshown in this style. Examples:$#[stephen@maturin stephen]$leopard login:user inputText that the user has to type, either on the command line, or into a text box on a GUI screen, isdisplayed in this style. In the following example, text is displayed in this style:To boot your system into the text based installation program, you must type in the text com-mand at the boot: prompt.