Accessing the Command Line
You can quickly access the terminal using the desktop menu option Terminal. This opens gnome-terminal, from which you can access the terminal while remaining in a GUI environment. This time, the terminal appears as white text on an aubergine (dark purple) background. This is the most common method for accessing the terminal for most desktop users.
Note
Finding and running programs, such as Terminal, from a GUI is covered in Chapter 2, “Working with Unity,” as is logging it to a Linux system using a graphical interface. This chapter focuses on text-based logins and the use of Linux.
The second most common way for graphical desktop users to access the command line is to press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+F1, after ...
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