Logging InTo access your desktop, you must log in using a Linux account. When you power on your computer, the process goes as follows:
After the computer boots (Step 1), you see a login screen. The login screens for Fedora Core, Mandrake, and SuSE are shown in Figure 6-1. Figure 6-1. Login screens.Select an account by clicking it. In SuSE, the account name appears in the Login field. Type the password in the Password field and click Go! to log in. In Mandrake, a second screen appears, as shown in Figure 6-2. Figure 6-2. Second login screen for Mandrake.Type in the password and click Login to log in. Fedora requires you to type the name of the account. When you type the account name and press <Enter>, the username field changes to the password field, asking for the password. Type the password and press <Enter> to login in. Many Linux distributions allow you to select which desktop to use when you log in. Of course, you can only select among the desktops that you installed. KDE and GNOME are discussed in this book, but other desktops are available and were possibly installed by default during installation. For instance, notice in Chapter 4. Failsafe starts Linux without a desktop, just with the CLI, discussed in Chapter 7. Notice that all three login screens in Figure 6-1 provide a button (Shutdown, Halt) that allows you to stop the login if you want. |