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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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How to Run a Shell

To run a shell within GNOME, KDE, or any other graphical interface for Linux, you’ll need to open a shell window. This is done by programs like xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and uxterm. Each of these programs does the same basic thing: open a window that is running a shell, awaiting your input. To run a shell window using the three default windowing interfaces for Fedora:

Interface

Take this action…

…to run this shell window program

GNOME

Menu : System Tools : Terminal or on the desktop: Right Mouse Button : Open Terminal

gnome-terminal

KDE

Menu : System Tools : Terminal or on the desktop:Right Mouse Button : Open Terminal

konsole

twm

On the desktop:Right Mouse Button : XTerm

xterm

Don’t confuse the window program (like konsole) with the shell running inside it. The window is just a container—albeit with fancy features of its own—but the shell is what prompts you for commands and runs them.

If you’re not running a graphical interface—say, you’re logging in remotely over the network, or directly over an attached terminal—a shell will run immediately when you log in. No shell window is required.

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