Logging In

To log in, simply click on your name or type your login ID into the login widget and hit return. You will be prompted for your password, which you should then enter. After a few moments, you should be presented with a desktop, complete with a taskbar at the top of the screen. You can launch applications from the Applications menu at the left of the taskbar. The other icons in the taskbar launch other applications; you can find out what they are by mousing over them.

In particular, the Applications - System Tools menu selection has Terminal as one of its selections; this is probably one of the first applications you'll launch each time you log in. You'll typically launch other applications from the terminal window.