What happened to my Desktop icons?

[Robin Laing]

peter kostov wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:12 -0600, fmiddleton at verizon.net wrote:
> 
>>For some strange reason, when I logon now, Gnome doesn't display my desktop icons... it displays my Panels but not the desktop icons. Also, nautilus just won't start when I try to start it...
>>
>>Everything's fine when I login as root... I wonder if this has somethig to d0 with permissions set by SELinux or something?
>>
>>Ferindo
>>
> 
> Login as root in a failsafe terminal and kill all the processes related
> to your user:
> 
> ps -u <username>
> kill <pid>
> (you may have to do kill -kill <pid> for some processes)
> 
> Then you can login again as a normal user, with all your icons and
> nautilus.
> That will do the trick, but why is this happening  - maybe others will
> explain... ;)
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

So what is the procedure to get a terminal window from the default 
login screen?  I have always booted to init3 before but when moving to 
FC4, I go to init5.