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<!-- $XConsortium: ch02.sgm /main/9 1996/09/08 19:42:38 rws $ -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 Digital Equipment Corporation. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 Hewlett-Packard Company. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 International Business Machines Corp. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 Novell, Inc. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 FUJITSU LIMITED. -->
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<!-- (c) Copyright 1995 Hitachi. -->
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<Chapter Id="UG.LogIn.div.1">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.1">Starting a Desktop Session</Title>
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<Para>A desktop session occurs between the time
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you log in and the time you log out.</Para>
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<Para>The login screen, displayed by the Login Manager, is your gateway to the
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desktop.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>login screen</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>
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It provides a place for you to type your login name and password.
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The Options menu on the login screen lists your login options. In addition to
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running a desktop session, you can run a failsafe session. You can
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also select the language for your session.</Para>
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<InformalTable Id="UG.LogIn.itbl.1" Frame="All">
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<TGroup Cols="1">
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<ColSpec Colname="1" Colwidth="4.0 in">
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<TBody>
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<Row Rowsep="1">
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<Entry><Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Starting and Ending a Desktop Session35'--><XRef Role="JumpText" Linkend="UG.LogIn.mkr.2"></Para></Entry>
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</Row>
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<Row Rowsep="1">
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<Entry><Para><!--Original XRef content: 'To Use a Session in a Different Language36'--><XRef Role="JumpText" Linkend="UG.LogIn.mkr.3"></Para></Entry>
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</Row>
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<Row Rowsep="1">
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<Entry><Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Starting a Failsafe Session37'--><XRef Role="JumpText" Linkend="UG.LogIn.mkr.4"></Para></Entry>
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</Row>
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<Row Rowsep="1">
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<Entry><Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Starting a Command-Line Session37'--><XRef Role="JumpText" Linkend="UG.LogIn.mkr.5"></Para></Entry>
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</Row>
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<Row Rowsep="1">
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<Entry><Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Using a Home Session38'--><XRef Role="JumpText" Linkend="UG.LogIn.mkr.6"></Para></Entry>
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</Row>
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</TBody>
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</TGroup>
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</InformalTable>
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<Sect1 Id="UG.LogIn.div.2">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.2">Starting and Ending a Desktop Session</Title>
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<Para>A desktop session starts when you log in. Session Manager is started after
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Login Manager authenticates your login and password.</Para>
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<Para>Session Manager provides the ability to <Emphasis>manage</Emphasis> sessions—to remember the
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state of your most recent session and return you there the next time you log in.</Para>
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<Para>Session Manager saves and restores:</Para>
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<ItemizedList Remap="Bullet1">
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<ListItem>
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<Para>The appearance and behavior settings – for example, fonts, colors, and
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mouse settings.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>The window applications that were running – for example, your File
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Manager and Text Editor windows. Certain types of applications can't be
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saved and restored by Session Manager. For example, if you start the <Command>vi</Command>
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editor from a command line in a Terminal window, Session Manager cannot
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restore your editing session.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</ItemizedList>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.3" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Log In to a Desktop Session</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Type your login name and press Return or click OK.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>logging in</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Type your password and press Return or click OK.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>desktop session</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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<Para>If Login Manager does not recognize your name or password, click Start
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Over and start the log in process over again.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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<Para>Once you've logged in, Session Manager starts a session:</Para>
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<ItemizedList Remap="Bullet1">
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<ListItem>
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<Para>If this is the first time you've logged in, you'll get a new session.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>If you've logged in before, your previous session will be restored.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</ItemizedList>
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</Sect2>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.4" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Log Out</Title>
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<ItemizedList Remap="Bullet1">
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click the Exit control in the Front Panel.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>logging out</Primary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>Front Panel</Primary>
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<Secondary>Exit control</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>Exit control</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para><Emphasis>Or</Emphasis>, choose Log out from the Workspace menu.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</ItemizedList>
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<Para>When you log out of a regular desktop session, Session Manager saves
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information about your current session so that it can be restored the next time
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you log in. Information about non-desktop applications may not be saved.</Para>
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</Sect2>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.5" Role="Procedure">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.3">To Use a Session in a Different Language</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Choose Language from the Options menu on the login screen.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>language, setting for desktop session</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Choose the language group that includes the language you need.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Select a language.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Log in.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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<Para>The default language for your system is set by your system administrator. The
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Options menu enables you to access other languages. Choosing a language in
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the Options menu sets the LANG environment variable for your session. The
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default language is restored at the end of the session.</Para>
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</Sect2>
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</Sect1>
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<Sect1 Id="UG.LogIn.div.6">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.4">Starting a Failsafe Session</Title>
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<Para><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>failsafe session</Primary>
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</IndexTerm>A failsafe session is a session that starts a single Terminal window (and
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optionally Workspace Manager). It is useful when you need access to a single
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Terminal window to execute several commands before logging in to a desktop
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session.</Para>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.7" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Log In to a Failsafe Session</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Choose Session from the Options menu.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Choose Failsafe Session from the Session submenu.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Log in.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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</Sect2>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.8" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Log Out of a Failsafe Session</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Type the <Command>exit</Command> command in a Terminal window.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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</Sect2>
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</Sect1>
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<Sect1 Id="UG.LogIn.div.9">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.5">Starting a Command-Line Session</Title>
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<Para>Command Line Login mode enables you to temporarily leave the desktop to
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work in your operating system environment. Command Line Login mode is not
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a desktop session. When your system is in Command Line Login mode, the
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desktop is suspended. You log in using your operating system mechanism
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rather than Login Manager. There are no windows because the X server is not
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running.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>Command Line Login mode</Primary>
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<Secondary>definition of</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.10" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Log In to and Out of a Command-Line Session</Title>
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<Note>
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<Para>Certain types of configurations (for example, X terminals) do not
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provide a Command Line Login mode option.</Para>
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</Note>
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<Para>To enter Command Line Login mode:<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>Command Line Login mode</Primary>
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<Secondary>logging in to</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>Command Line Login mode</Primary>
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<Secondary>exiting</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>starting</Primary>
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<Secondary>Command Line Login Mode</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Choose Command Line Login from the Options menu.</Para>
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<Para>The login screen disappears and is replaced by a console prompt.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Supply your login and password as prompted.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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<Para>To leave Command Line Login mode:</Para>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Type <Command>exit</Command> at a command-line prompt.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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</Sect2>
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</Sect1>
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<Sect1 Id="UG.LogIn.div.11">
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<Title Id="UG.LogIn.mkr.6">Using a Home Session</Title>
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<Para>Ordinarily, the desktop saves session information when you log out and uses
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that information to start your next session. If you start or stop applications
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during your session, or use Style Manager to change the appearance and
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behavior of your system, changes you make are reflected in your next session.
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This type of session is called a <Emphasis>current session</Emphasis>.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>current session</Primary>
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<Secondary>definition of</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>home session</Primary>
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<Secondary>definition of</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>session</Primary>
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<Secondary>current</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>session</Primary>
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<Secondary>home</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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<Para>The desktop also provides a <Emphasis>home session</Emphasis>. A home session is a session that you
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explicitly save. It's like taking a snapshot of your current session at some point
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in time. Once you've saved a home session, you can specify that logging in
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always restores that session instead of the current session.</Para>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.12" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Save a Home Session</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click the Style Manager control in the Front Panel.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>home session</Primary>
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<Secondary>setting</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click the Startup control in Style Manager.</Para>
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<Para>The Startup dialog box is displayed.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click Set Home Session in the Startup dialog box.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click OK in the confirmation dialog box that appears.</Para>
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<Para>This saves the current state of your session.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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</Sect2>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.13" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Automatically Start the Home Session at Login</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click the Style Manager control in the Front Panel.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>home session</Primary>
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<Secondary>starting automatically at login</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm><IndexTerm>
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<Primary>starting</Primary>
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<Secondary>home session automatically at login</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click the Startup control in Style Manager.</Para>
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<Para>The Startup dialog box is displayed.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Select Return to Home session.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click OK.</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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<Para>When you choose Return to Home session, Session Manager will <Symbol Role="Variable">not</Symbol> save your
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session at logout.</Para>
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</Sect2>
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<Sect2 Id="UG.LogIn.div.14" Role="Procedure">
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<Title>To Choose Which Session to Start</Title>
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<OrderedList>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>On the Login screen, click the Options button.<IndexTerm>
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<Primary>session</Primary>
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<Secondary>determining at login</Secondary>
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</IndexTerm>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>Click Session. The Session menu lists the available sessions:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term>Current</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Starts your most recent session.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>Home</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Starts your home session (if you set one).</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>display-name</emphasis> - Current</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Creates a new session specific to your display and starts your display-specific
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home session (if you created one), your generic home session (if one exists),
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or a new user session.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>display-name</emphasis> - Home</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Creates a new session specific to your display and starts either
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your generic home session (if one exists) or a new user session.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>Failsafe Session</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Starts a failsafe session.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Click on the session you want to start.
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</para>
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</ListItem>
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</OrderedList>
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</Sect2>
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</Sect1>
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</Chapter>
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