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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
* 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)
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
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)
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)

Revision as of 04:55, 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)