MelbXOclub-RandomObservations: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 04:58, 20 December 2008

Record Random observations... thoughts, comments here.

eg. No way to go to links in wikipedia when in ebook mode.

On Ubuntu: apt-get install sugar sugar-activities; sugar-emulator
- Gotcha: leaves processes behind, fix with:

  ps aux|grep sugar|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9

bugs in finding other laptops in neighbourhood. Sometimes we found the network was effectively partitioned and some could only see one or two, or none

Browse - right click on a link to see the url, the context menu appeared over to the right (of the mouse click, still on the rather long url text) and the url was off the side of the screen. Alt-tab with the menu present left the context menu there on top of the other activities (terminal & journal)

The text on a submit button in Browse is white (invisible) on hover (eg. initial page)

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 * bugs in finding other laptops in neighbourhood. Sometimes we found the network was effectively partitioned and some could only see one or two, or none
-* Browse - right click on a link to see the url, the context menu appeared
+* Browse - right click on a link to see the url, the context menu appeared over to the right (of the mouse click, still on the rather long url text) and the url was off the side of the screen.  Alt-tab with the menu present left the context menu there on top of the other activities (terminal & journal)
-  over to the right (of the mouse click, still on the rather long url text)
-  and the url was off the side of the screen.  Alt-tab with the menu present
-  left the context menu there on top of the other activities (terminal & journal)
-* The text on a submit button in Browse is white (invisible) on hover
+* The text on a submit button in Browse is white (invisible) on hover (eg. initial page)
-  (eg. initial page)