Try to press Alt-F7 from the terminal screen. You should be able to go back to X. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will kill your X, but then you should go back to GDM Login automatically. If you have problem with the X, you can go to the terminal screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1...) then kill the process that making the problem or restart the X. -- regards, Murzal Arsya <div>On 3/23/06, Chanchao <<a href="mailto:custom@freenet.de">custom@freenet.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> After you jump to a text terminal screen, how do you get back to where you were in the graphical environment? I think Ctrl-Alt-1 WAS the graphical environment?? Same for when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, then you suddenly find yourself in limbo.. How do you then get Gnome back up? It seems it keeps certain things running, like the panels, which then fail to start when you go back in. Also it seems that Alt-F2 to run a command is linked to a panel; it doesn't work if the panel isn't there (or crashed, etc.) so then you're stuck, is that so? Is there a key combination that ALWAYS gets you somewhere where you can sort out the mess, similar to Ctrl-Alt-Delete in Windows which brings up the task manager? Cheers, Chanchao -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>