To get a Command Terminal onto your Desktop


If you adjust the size of this browser (and perhaps move some of it off the
screen by Alt+left mouse clickanddrag) you can put a terminal
below it and do these exercises as we go.

You can use Ctrl- to make the print smaller on the browser.

You'll probably have to settle for a terminal emulator.
Either: right-click on your graphical desktop and select 'gnome-terminal'
or 'xterm' or click on a terminal icon on the toolbars.
Without the browser, just go to a default available login terminal by pressing
CTRL ALT F2 and logging in.

When you get a terminal emulator, you shall see:

user@host~$

which represents the prompt that you shall see at the terminal; 
it means that bash is waiting for a command to be typed by you.
On your system, this prompt shall probably look a little different:
'user' shall be your username, and 'host' shall be the hostname 
of your computer, that you set up when you installed the distro.


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