Opening a Shell Prompt
The graphical desktop offers access to a shell
prompt, an application that allows you to type commands
instead of using a graphical interface for all computing needs. While
this manual focuses on performing tasks using the graphical interface
and graphical tools, it is sometimes useful and faster to perform tasks
from a shell prompt. Refer to Chapter 11 for more
details.
You can open a shell prompt by selecting => =>
.
You can also start a shell prompt by double-clicking the
Start Here icon, then
Applications, then System Tools,
and finally Terminal.
To exit a terminal window, click the X button
on the upper right corner of the window, type
exit at the prompt, or press
[Ctrl]-[D] at the prompt.
