@Neal (really at Neal, not at Wally): We already confused Wally. Let's avoid sudo, since sudo can be set up in various ways and IIRC a default Debian comes without sudo.
At the moment it's only important to explain that we don't login as root by a display manager, in the OP's case it for sure is GDM. I guess on Windows it's possible to log in as admin or user. The OP needs to understand that we open a terminal emulation and then run a command, let's reduce it to "su" and/or "su -" to become root for the commands that we use with this terminal emulation. Ctrl+Alt+Fx is also not good. We should explain, step by step to use a terminal emulation. The OP perhaps want to be able to copy a command from an Internet browser to the terminal emulation. Ctrl+Alt+Fx isn't useful for this usage. Apropos copy and paste not only when using a terminal emulation ... we shouldn't overcharge the OP with all kinds off shortcuts, but explain to use menus and right click. For the terminal, we should explain the tab key. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350339298.2252.107.camel@localhost.localdomain
