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Chapter 3 . Getting into the Desktop 113 distribution, but you can get a bunch of other themes from themes. freshmeat.net (click on Metacity). Click Install theme, and then click the Window Border tab to select from different themes that change the title bar and other borders of your windows. Click the Icons tab to choose different icons to represent items on your desktop. Themes change immediately as you click or when you drag a theme name on the desktop. Exiting GNOME When you are done with your work, you can either log out from your current session or shut down your computer completely. To exit from GNOME, do the following: 1. Click the red hat menu button. 2. Select Log Out from the menu. A pop-up window appears, asking if you want to Log Out, Shut Down, or Restart the computer. At this point, you can also choose to save your session by clicking Save Current Setup. This is a great way to have the applications that you use all the time restart the next time you log in. Make sure you save your data before you exit, however. Most applications do not yet support the data-saving feature. 3. Select Log Out from the pop-up menu. This logs you out and returns you to either the graphical login screen or to your shell login prompt. (If you select Shut Down, the system shuts down, and if you select Reboot, the system restarts.) 4. Select OK to finish exiting from GNOME. If you are unable to get to the Log Out button (if, for example, your Panel crashed), there are two other exit methods. Try one of these two ways, depending on how you started the desktop: . If you started the desktop by typing startx from your login shell, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to return to your login shell. Then press Ctrl+C to kill the desktop. . If you started the desktop from a graphical login screen, first open a Terminal window (right-click the desktop and select New Terminal). In the Terminal window, type ps x | more to see a list of running processes. Look for a command named gnome-session and determine its number under the PID column. Then type kill -9 PID, where PID is replaced by the PID number. You should see the graphical login screen. Although these are not the most graceful ways to exit the desktop, they work. You should be able to log in again and restart the desktop. Tip