>CTRL + ALT + BackSpace will kill it if you didn't start in Runlevel 5. If, however, you did then this will just restart Gnome. If you are booting directly into Gnome and wnat to stop this then change the runlevel from 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab.
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>Regards,
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>Liam
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>>How do you exit the Gnome desktop back to the shell session that started it?
>>TIA

That works.
Thanks!