<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 6:41 AM, ASWATHY PRASAD <<a href="mailto:aswathyp1986@gmail.com" target="_blank">aswathyp1986@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is the use of
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">X Window System and the Matchbox window? It is said that the laptop runs the Fedora 7 Linux distribution; on top of the X Window System and the Matchbox window manage we run a novel Sugar user interface and support library, supporting a core set of "activities" or applications. Why is it so?
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Does the Draw activity works with the touchpad? Similar to paint in Windows where we use the mouse to draw.</span></div></blockquote><div>
Yes, the touchpad controls the cursor/pointer hence the same would be used for drawing in the Draw Activity. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How many other drawing applications are there in OLPC? Also the word applications. Is Write or Abiword is used as a word application in OLPC?
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span> </div></blockquote><div>The default OS build includes an Activity called "Write" which was earlier called Abiword.
<br><br>You could have a feel of the sugar/Actvities even without getting an XO on your home machine through emulation.<br>See<br><font size="-1"><span class="a"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild">
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If we connect a Wacom graphics tablet in the USB port of OLPC will it detect?
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">aswathy</span><span lang="EN"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span></p></font></blockquote><div>There is support for a lot of USB devices. For example USB drives, USB mass storage devices, USB mouse, USB keyboard..etc but i've never tried putting in a graphics tablet.
<br><br>thanks<br>Arjun<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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