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== Open a console ==‎

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KDE comes with the console application [[Special:myLanguage/Konsole|Konsole]]. You will usually find it in the start menu in <menuchoice>Programs -> System</menuchoice>. If you do not have a full KDE installation any console application, such as '''xterm''' will do just fine.‎

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=== Why? ===‎

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When asking for help you may be told to "open a console" or "open a terminal" - they are the same thing. Why would you want to? Well, sometimes something doesn't behave as expected. When you use a GUI (graphical user interface) to do something, you don't know why it failed. If you open a terminal and try to do the same thing from the command-line, you will get a lot of text showing while the command is working, and what it reports will help people to help you find the problem.‎

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=== How? ===‎

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There are several ways, and the one that is easiest for you depends in [[Special:MyLanguage/Tutorials/find_your_distribution_name|which distro]] you use. It's very likely that in your menu you can see an entry with an icon that looks like a black, blank screen, like this: [[File:Utilities-terminal.png|32px]] or this [[File:gnome-terminal.png|32px]]. Click on that and your console will open. Just type in the command your helper gives you, tell your helper what happens.‎

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If you can't see the icon, is there a search box in your menu? If so, type <code>konsole</code> there. That is KDE's console. If that isn't found you may not have KDE installed yet, but there's no problem. <code>xterm</code> can be typed instead and you are sure to have that installed.‎

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If you do have KDE installed you might like to try <keycap>Alt + F2</keycap>. This opens a small window where you can type the application name - <code>konsole</code>.‎

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{{Note|1= if your helper tells you to open a console, take care not to introduce upper-case letters unless you are told to. In Linux, unlike Windows, everything is case-sensitive. If you introduce an upper case letter where there should not be one, it won't know what you mean, and will probably tell you that there is no such file.}}‎

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Later, as you gain confidence, you may find that you use a terminal more often, as some things are much faster from a console, but you needn't worry about that at first.‎

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[[Category:Getting_Started]]‎

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