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</affiliation>
</author>
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<edition>1.25</edition>
<pubdate>20070919</pubdate>
<edition>1.27</edition>
<pubdate>20080606</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
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<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2008</year>
<holder>Machtelt Garrels</holder>
</copyright>
<isbn>ISBN 90-808529-1-0</isbn>
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<para>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.27</revnumber>
<date>20080606</date>
<authorinitials>MG</authorinitials>
<revremark>updates.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.26</revnumber>
<date>20070919</date>
<authorinitials>MG</authorinitials>

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<para>To disconnect from the system in graphical<indexterm><primary>logout</primary><secondary>graphical</secondary></indexterm> mode, you need to close all terminal windows and other applications. After that, hit the logout icon or find <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Log Out</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the menu. Closing everything is not really necessary, and the system can do this for you, but session management might put all currently open applications back on your screen when you connect again, which takes longer and is not always the desired effect. However, this behavior is configurable.</para>
<para>When you see the login screen again, asking to enter user name and password, logout was successful.</para>
<note><title>Gnome or KDE?</title>
<para>We mentioned both the <application>Gnome</application> and <application>KDE</application> desktops already a couple of times. These are the two most popular ways of managing your desktop, although there are many, many others. Whatever deskop you chose to work with is fine - as long as you know how to open a terminal window. However, we will continue to refer to both <application>Gnome</application> and <application>KDE</application> for the most popular ways of achieving certain tasks.</para>
<para>We mentioned both the <application>Gnome</application> and <application>KDE</application> desktops already a couple of times. These are the two most popular ways of managing your desktop, although there are many, many others. Whatever desktop you chose to work with is fine - as long as you know how to open a terminal window. However, we will continue to refer to both <application>Gnome</application> and <application>KDE</application> for the most popular ways of achieving certain tasks.</para>
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<para>The last two items in the above table may need some extra explanantions. For instance, if you want to change into the directory<indexterm><primary>file name completion</primary><secondary></secondary></indexterm> <filename>directory_with_a_very_long_name</filename>, you are not going<indexterm><primary>Bash</primary><secondary>file name completion</secondary></indexterm> to type that very long name, no. You just type on the command line <command>cd dir</command>, then you press <keycap>Tab</keycap> and the shell completes the name for you, if no other files are starting with the same three characters. Of course, if there are no other items starting with <quote>d</quote>, then you might just as wel type <command>cd d</command> and then <keycap>Tab</keycap>. If more than one file starts with the same characters, the shell will signal this to you, upon which you can hit <keycap>Tab</keycap> twice with short interval, and the shell presents the choices you have:</para>
<para>The last two items in the above table may need some extra explanations. For instance, if you want to change into the directory<indexterm><primary>file name completion</primary><secondary></secondary></indexterm> <filename>directory_with_a_very_long_name</filename>, you are not going<indexterm><primary>Bash</primary><secondary>file name completion</secondary></indexterm> to type that very long name, no. You just type on the command line <command>cd dir</command>, then you press <keycap>Tab</keycap> and the shell completes the name for you, if no other files are starting with the same three characters. Of course, if there are no other items starting with <quote>d</quote>, then you might just as wel type <command>cd d</command> and then <keycap>Tab</keycap>. If more than one file starts with the same characters, the shell will signal this to you, upon which you can hit <keycap>Tab</keycap> twice with short interval, and the shell presents the choices you have:</para>
<screen>
<prompt>your_prompt&gt;</prompt> <command>cd st</command>
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<chapter id="chap_07"><title>Home sweet /home</title>
<abstract>
<para>This chapter is about configuring your environment. Now that we now how to use an editor, we can change all kinds of files to make ourselves feel better at home. After completing this chapter, you will know more about:</para>
<para>This chapter is about configuring your environment. Now that we know how to use an editor, we can change all kinds of files to make ourselves feel better at home. After completing this chapter, you will know more about:</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Organizing your environment</para></listitem>