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Special Forums Hardware Maxtor 6Y120M0 not recognized by Linux Mint 10 "Julia" � KDE (64-bit) Post 302500464 by Corona688 on Monday 28th of February 2011 04:22:19 PM

02-28-2011

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Okay, so you're giving it its own drive then. Hook that drive up by itself and mint should install much easier (and with much less risk of it trampling over anything else). Once it's installed, you can control which drive your computer boots first through the CMOS settings, or perhaps f12 boot-selection if your BIOS has that.

"alt-f4" doesn't close a window in a prompt because there is no window. You're not in a GUI! You don't have to "escape" the dmesg output either -- it quits by itself when it's done, so do nearly any console commands except editors and viewers. That red thing is a "prompt", when you see a cursor flashing beside it that means the console's waiting for you to type something into it and hit enter.

So you didn't "quit" anything as there was nothing to quit, I think you actually managed to switch to a different console. When a gentoo minimal CD boots it puts you into text mode, in terminal one. There's at least six separate terminals available via ctrl-alt-f1 through ctrl-alt-f6. alt-left or alt-right cycle through them in different directions I think.

alt-f4 is a Windows thing anyway. In lots of window managers it does nothing.

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apper

APPER(1)							 KDE User's Manual							  APPER(1)

NAME

       apper - An application and package manager using PackageKit

SYNOPSIS

       apper [--updates] [--settings] [--backend-details] [--install-mime-type mime-type] [--install-package-name name] [--install-provide-file
	     file] [--install-font-resource font] [--install-catalog file] [--remove-package-by-file filename] [KDE Generic Options]
	     [Qt Generic Options]

DESCRIPTION

       Apper is the KDE interface for PackageKit

       Apper is able to manage packages, applications and updates in a cross-distribution way thanks to the PackageKit project.

       It is providing Linux users a single application that they can learn and use in whatever distribution they are.

OPTIONS

       --updates
	   Show available updates

       --settings
	   Show Apper configuration page.

       --backend-details name
	   Display information about the backend PackageKit uses at time.

       --install-mime-type mime-type
	   Call the mime-type installer.

       --install-package-name name
	   Install package with the name name.

       --install-provide-file file
	   Install package providing file file.

       --install-font-resource font
	   Install a font resource.

       --install-catalog file
	   Install the package catalog in file.

       --remove-package-by-file filename
	   Remove a package containing file filename.

SEE ALSO

       More information about Apper can be found at the Apper website[1].

AUTHORS

       The maintainer of Apper is Daniel Nicoletti dantti12@gmail.com; This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp matthias@tenstral.net.

AUTHORS

       Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12@gmail.com>
	   Author.

       Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>
	   Author.

NOTES

	1. the Apper website
	   http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Apper?content=84745

K Desktop Environment						    2011-10-10								  APPER(1)