[K12OSN] Not full screen, just a window
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu May 3 12:28:32 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 22:36 +1200, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> Does that mean if I set the resolution to 1024x768 in lts.conf it will
> solve the problem?
Probably not. It looks like tuxtype wants 800x600 which is not going to
be good for most LCD monitors. It may be possible to turn off the
warning notice at each monitor but we won't know until you try.
What setting the screen resolution will do is force a particular
terminal to use that resolutions. But that can be overridden by an
application requesting a different resolutions.
From what I have seen in the classroom, having the app running in a
window is OK for the kids. If the issue is the mouse gets bumped and the
window loses focus (and suddenly the student input fails to happen) that
can be solved with window manager settings (change from focus follows
mouse to click to focus should do it).
>
> On 03/05/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> wrote:
> You will need to set up each terminal with their own screen
> resolution
> and settings in lts.conf. Most LCD's have a very limited
> frequency range
> whereas most modern CRT's have a very wide range.
>
> If the LCD screen supports native 1024x768 and you try to use
> a 800x600
> resolution, you will get an error message from the monitor.
> Some
> monitors allow turning off that error message and some don't.
>
> Currently, tuxtype2 does not have a way to specify the
> resolution.
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:36 +1200, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > How can we fix it so that it opens in full screen but
> without the
> > frequency resolution error?
> >
> > On one terminal I get the message "Frequency out of range"
> but I can
> > still see it on the screen. ??
> >
> > On 27/04/07, William Fragakis < william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> > There is another way
> >
> > go to /usr/share/applications/
> >
> > find your tuxtype icon
> > right click
> > click "Launcher"
> > like Petre said, change the command to: tuxtype2 -w
> >
> > if you have to text edit the file
> >
> > /usr/share/applications/fedora- tuxtype2.desktop
> >
> >
> > change the Exec line to: Exec=tuxtype2
> >
> > this trick works for tuxpaint and GCompris,too,
> > but for Childsplay, you'll need to use: childsplay
> --window
> >
> > regards,
> > William
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 12:00 -0400,
> k12osn-request at redhat.com
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Message: 12
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:42:17 -0500
> > > From: Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org >
> > > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Not full screen, just a
> window
> > > To: "Support list for open source software in
> schools."
> > > <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > > Message-ID: <4630BA49.1010307 at scheie.homedns.org>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;
> format=flowed
> > >
> > > TuxType is really /usr/bin/tuxtype2, which is a
> binary
> > file. You can
> > > have it launch in
> > > a window by using the -w parameter. To make it
> that way for
> > everyone,
> > > cd into
> > > /usr/bin/, change tuxtype2 to, say,
> tuxtype2.bin. Then
> > create a
> > > script in /usr/bin/
> > > called tuxtype2 that has this line in it:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/tuxtype2.bin -w
> > >
> > > Make the script executable (chmod +x
> scriptname). Now,
> > whenever
> > > anyone clicks on the
> > > menu selection for TuxType, it will come up in a
> > window. HTH.
> > >
> > > Petre
> >
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