Talk:Opera

• Is it possible to open a xterm window in sugar? alt+shift+F11 doesn't work for me. I am using olpc-devel 207 in a real X0.

As recently noted in the B1 Release Notes, the latest builds are launching "Memphis" from alt+shift+F12 instead. Note that Memphis has bugs--it only seems to reliably launch the first time and it is not Sugarize, so you cannot run it with other activities very well, and it is very very slow. Let's hope that this is a temporary situation. --Walter 08:21, 5 January 2007 (EST)

Probably the solution is to switch to a Linux console with the 12x22 font (framebuffer console), giving a 100x40 terminal. The next-best alternative is a full-screen genuine xterm, with a big font and the scrollbar enabled, possibly with a little helper app to do any Sugar-related work related to shutdown and activity switching. Nothing else is reliable and compatible. The xterm solution may be better done with a 600x450 screen resolution (divide down by 2x) and the programmer-friendly "fixed" font. AlbertCahalan 22:37, 23 February 2007 (EST)

Easy for the tech saavy, the rest of us need help

Re: "Installing Opera on test machines is easy. From a shell, run these commands as root"

Sorry to say I don't have a clue what the above means. I have no idea how to do it, but using Opera might mean I could possibly figure out how on earth to use the browser.

Quickstart

Well, for the most part the above means that you'll want to be fairly knowledgeable with Linux administration before you attempt it. Here's the gist, though:

1. Open up a terminal window
2. cd /tmp
3. wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
4. rpm -vi opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

At this point you should be able to run the browser.

1. wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz
2. cd /usr/share/activities
3. tar xvzf /tmp/opera-activity.tar.gz

Now restart sugar (ctl-alt-erase) and look for the Opera logo on your activity bar. Thither 07:04, 21 December 2007 (EST)

Oh, brother, if that's the quick start, I'm in trouble.