soas3 for X11

Gary C Martin gary at garycmartin.com
Tue Aug 4 10:36:38 EDT 2009


Hi Mikus,

On 4 Aug 2009, at 14:18, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> [Disclaimer:  I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.]
> Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my
> XO-1 - it works.
>
> Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use
> Terminal.  And Terminal opened __offset__ in the XO-1 screen (its
> upper left corner was below the top of the screen, and to the right
> of the left edge of the screen).  That made it hard to type in long
> lines -- I could not see the characters in that part of Terminal
> that was off-screen.  But later, after restarting Sugar / rebooting
> the XO, Terminal screen *did* show up where it was supposed to be.

Thanks, I've not seen Terminal do this so far so will keep an eye out.  
You might like to take a quick look at the below related tickets.  
Actually, if I remember correctly, I think this is actually good news  
for you ;-) These are new glitches related to the recent switch over  
to Metacity – you wanted a more standard wm for compatibility when  
running non-sugarised apps, right?

	http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1044
	http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1060

Regards,
--Gary




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