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    <title><![CDATA[Give a discription as to what a terminal is.]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When you press ctrl alt f1 ect you get a terminal indepenant of X and is wonderfull if you know what your doing, but say my mum accadentally presses ctrl alt f1. Not knowing really what she is doing or the cat lands on the keyboard and puts it into a terminal. She would think the computer is broken and be very confused on how to fix it I think we should put a discription as to what it is and how to get back to X<br />
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<b>[254 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5996</b>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[HI WOMAN OVER THERE WITH THE CONFUSED AND PUZZLED FACE.<br />THIS IS THE COMMAND-LINE INTERFACE.<br />NO YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT BROKEN.<br />PRESS CTRL+ALT+F7 TO GET BACK TO WORKING.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from oblique63</title>
  <description><![CDATA[there was no need to be sarcastic there man.. its a perfectly reasonable idea, and it would really be a perfectly reasonably solution to place a notice at the top of the terminal that actually says "Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 To Get Back To Desktop." or something.  there's no harm in trying to help out confused newcomers...<br /><br />+1]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ajjeckmans</title>
  <description><![CDATA[First time I experienced this I had no clue on how to get back to the "normal" desktop. I ended up rebooting the pc to be able to look it up on the internet.<br /><br />very handy indeed to give some sort of notion to what you should do.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Robsie</title>
  <description><![CDATA[MMM yes I agree. I didn't know that was the shortcut?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Robsie</title>
  <description><![CDATA[lovely now I know!! Hey you know you can use ttys like unix, bloody heck I love that, screw the gui I'm going back to the bash...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from takavar</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The shortcut is 3 keys, so its not really necessary since a force restart would get you back to gui<br />-1]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jerieljan</title>
  <description><![CDATA[putting in a preliminary note, say, You are now in a terminal mode (or something) <br />Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back<br /><br />can actually help.<br /><br />@takavar<br />right, force restart. that's an awesome idea if the user had very critical programs currently running. [/sarcasm]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jooo</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I reckon it's a good idea. Seems trivial enoungh to implement, and it would help a lot of linux newbies.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from deadimp</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Second.<br />I was reading the brief description in the listing, though "Hey, that's interesting" and struck the keys. Stupid me, I didn't actually click on the post.<br />Luckly, the week before I had installed and breifly learned how to use lynx, so I Googled my way out of that.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mp3phish</title>
  <description><![CDATA[it is ignorant to say that something like this is bad and shouldn't be built in. If you don't want the sytem to be user friendly, then go to another OS.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Cheesecake</title>
  <description><![CDATA[my father has told me that this warning can be put in /etc/issue so there is no extra coding effort involved all it need is for someone to write up the warning and get it put in the offical builds]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from nathan_s</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yep, "Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to your desktop." seems perfectly reasonable. If it annoys technical users, it would be easy enough for them to remove the lines from their .bashrc file.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Cheesecake</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I think there should be a little bit of a discription as to what it is though like "This is the emergancy recovery terminal press ctrl alt f7 to return to the ubuntu desktop"]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mathis94</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I agree with nathan_s ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ld_barthel</title>
  <description><![CDATA[But what if the desktop isn't on the "F7" tty?<br /><br />Let's say you were in the middle of something but left your desktop and Grandma goes to check her email, so she uses the "Log on as another user" feature. Her desktop will probably be on the "F8" tty...<br /><br />We probably should use something more like <br />"Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the first graphical desktop." as the second line in /etc/issue]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from vytah</title>
  <description><![CDATA[After several X server crashes (well, Wine made them) my desktop went so far as Ctrl-Alt-F10. So, assuming F7 is bad.<br />Can there be written some detecting program that finds all local graphical terminals and lists them? With usernames?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jimmux</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This is one of those simple but effective ideas that brainstorm was made for. I like.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ubunteando</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Not only for your mom...<br /><br />Yesterday I read the title of the post and went into terminal mode and I didnt know how to go back... So I had to poweroff and turn the pc back on...<br /><br />A line reading: Presss CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back would be great!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from 3wings</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Good idea, +1.<br /><br />But then again, you don't *accidentally* press ctrl+alt+f1 :)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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