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Introduction

[key] [combination]

A combination of keystrokes is represented in this way. For example:

The [Ctrl] [Alt] [Backspace] key combination exits your graphical session and returns you to the

graphical login screen or the console.

text found on a GUI interface

A title, word, or phrase found on a GUI interface screen or window is shown in this style. Text

shown in this style is being used to identify a particular GUI screen or an element on a GUI

screen (such as text associated with a checkbox or field). Example:

Select the Require Password checkbox if you would like your screensaver to require a password

before stopping.

top level of a menu on a GUI screen or window

A word in this style indicates that the word is the top level of a pulldown menu. If you click on

the word on the GUI screen, the rest of the menu should appear. For example:

Under File on a GNOME terminal, the New Tab option allows you to open multiple shell

prompts in the same window.

If you need to type in a sequence of commands from a GUI menu, they are shown like the

following example:

Go to Applications (the main menu on the panel) => Programming => Emacs Text Editor to

start the Emacs text editor.

button on a GUI screen or window

This style indicates that the text can be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen. For example:

Click on the Back button to return to the webpage you last viewed.

computer output

Text in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and responses

to commands. For example:

The

ls

command displays the contents of a directory. For example:

Desktop

about.html

logs

paulwesterberg.png

Mail

backupfiles

mail

reports

The output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory) is

shown in this style.

prompt

A prompt, which is a computer's way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something, is

shown in this style. Examples:

$

#

[stephen@maturin stephen]$

leopard login:

user input

Text that the user has to type, either on the command line, or into a text box on a GUI screen, is

displayed in this style. In the following example, text is displayed in this style:

To boot your system into the text based installation program, you must type in the text com 

mand at the

boot:

prompt.