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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat 9 Login Screen Help Post 93060 by Alux on Thursday 15th of December 2005 07:59:45 AM

12-15-2005

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Red Hat 9 Login Screen Help

As some users may know, Red Hat 9 uses a graphical login. This works perfectly fine, but one day I had a problem. I logged in as root and changed the resolution of the display. It told me to log out for the changes to take effect.

I did...but was faced with my monitor going down to standby. It couldnt handle the resolution.

Now, basically, I was locked out of the computer. I had to reformat and reinstall Red Hat 9.

However, today I found a neat trick. I dunno if it will log me into a command prompt, but basically if you press CTRL + ALT + F1 - you get the standard text login. Pressing CTRL + ALT + F7 takes you back to the graphical login screen.

If the text interface actually takes you to the command prompt - I'd happily reinstate the old X server configuration file to get back my old resolution, thus solving my problem.

Just thought I'd share a few tips. Btw...is there any way to get to the command prompt from Linux? I ask because Red Hat automatically boots X, and that kinda sucks.

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subscription-manager-gui

subscription-manager-gui(8)				       Subscription Manager				       subscription-manager-gui(8)

NAME

       subscription-manager-gui - Launches the UI client of the Subscription Manager.

SYNOPSIS

       subscription-manager-gui [--register]

DESCRIPTION

       subscription-manager-gui  opens	the  local client tool to manage subscriptions and installed products on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
       The same tasks that can be performed by invoking subscription-manager can be performed in the GUI, including  registering  systems  with  a
       subscription management service, applying and removing subscriptions, and viewing the subscription status of installed products.

       The Subscription Manager UI can also be opened by selecting the Red Hat Subscription Manager item from the Applications > System Tools menu
       in RHEL 5.x or the System > Administration menu in RHEL 6.x.

OPTIONS

       --register
	      If a system has not yet been registered, then the GUI registration page can be opened immediately, as the Subscription  Manager  GUI
	      comes up. This is only relevant for unregistered systems; if this is used after a system is registered, the option is ignored.

REFERENCES

       For  procedures	and  tasks that can be performed in the Subscription Manager UI, check the Gnome help files (by pressing <F1>) or refer to
       the RHEL Subscription  Management  Guide  at  <https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1.0/html/Sub-
       scription_Management_Guide/index.html>.

ASSOCIATED FILES

	      * /usr/sbin/subscription-manager-gui

	      * /usr/sbin/subscription-manager

	      * /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf

BUGS

       This  client  is  part of Red Hat Subscription Manager. To file bugs against this client, go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com, and select Red
       Hat > Red Hat Enterprise Linux > subscription-manager.

AUTHORS

       Deon Lackey, <dlackey@redhat.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Red Hat, Inc. This is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2). A copy of this  license	is
       available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt.

version 1.2							 December 18, 2012				       subscription-manager-gui(8)