Opening a console

SonicDE comes with the console application Terminal. Any other console application, such as xterm, will do just fine too.

#Why?

When you ask for help, you may be told to "open a console" or "open a terminal", which mean the same thing. Why would you want to? Sometimes something doesn't behave as expected. When you use a graphical interface to do something, you don't know why it failed. If you open a terminal and try the same thing from the command line, you get a lot of text showing what the command is doing, and what went wrong.

#How?

There are several ways. Open the application launcher and search for "terminal", or look for an entry with an icon like a black, blank screen. Click it and your console opens. Then type the command your helper gave you.

You can also press Alt+F2 to open KRunner, then type konsole and press Return.

Note: If someone tells you to type a command, take care not to add upper-case letters unless you're told to. Linux is case-sensitive. If you add an upper-case letter where there shouldn't be one, it probably tells you there is no such file.

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