[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Question Tux Typing

[Beth Weeks]

Ok.. We are on Windows machines each child has their own student login.
so the kids are on Tux Typing doing the Easy Fish Cascade... their 
little hand accidentally hits the Windows key and it will minimize the 
Typing screen... the mouse won't work and the Start menu is up. I have 
found a fix if anyone asks you about it again because I tried to do an 
end task and that won't work... so... it was causing a lot of headache 
because we had to log off the students and log them back on again...
Here is the fix... if the Start screen is still up press ESC to make it 
go away. Press the tab key two times so that it has now selected the 
minimize Tux Typing window and press enter and your screen will go back 
to normal size.

I would love it if the windows key didn't do that to the program.. but 
at least we don't have to log kids off and figure out what their student 
ID and password is to log them back on.. we were working with Kinder and 
1st grade!
Beth Weeks

David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Beth,
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Beth Weeks <bweeks at shermanisd.net> wrote:
>   
>> Perfect answer... 2nd question.. my kids are working on Tux Typing and it
>> minimizes their screen and freezes their computer.. to fix I have to log
>> them off and start again...any ideas on how to fix?
>> Beth
>>     
>
> Afraid I need more detailed information - what are they doing in Tux
> Typing when this problem occurs?  As for "it minimizes their screen
> and freezes their computer" - a bug in Tux Typing should not be able
> to crash a modern memory-protected OS.  If Tux Typing becomes
> unresponsive, you should be able to kill it using the Task Manager
> which you can call up with Ctrl-Alt-Del (I'm assuming you are running
> some form of Windows at your school - for OS-X or Linux you can find
> tuxtype's process id with ps -A and then kill it).  In other words, if
> a bug in Tux Typing crashes Windows, it means there is also a bug in
> Windows, and we all know Windows has no bugs ;)
>
> Also, as I mentioned earlier, if you run tuxtype from a single network
> installation, the instances of the program will occasionally crash
> because they try to access the same file on the server at the same
> time, and tuxtype wasn't designed with that type of use in mind,
> although it's something we should address.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> David Bruce
>
>
>
>   
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