Re: A setup for a Linux machine for children
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> while, and this was the prompt I needed. So here is my setup:
> http://www.sf.edu/jhlavacek/computers/kids.html
> ...
> Please send me any comments you have, or better yet, send them to the
> list, if they are of general interest.
Some comments:
described by Stephane Bortzmayer (see references), since the machine
^^^^^^^^^^ he ist spelled "Bortzmeyer"
they are using is also my own playground, and I am about
10000000000000 times likely to mess up the system than they are (maybe
Just use 10^13. It's more readable ;-)).
My 9 year old son has also his own account (without password in the
moment) without any unusual security restriktions (we havn't any
connection to the net) and I have the same opinion that it is much
more risk to give root access to me than normal user access to him ;-).
Most of his interaction with computer consists of attempts
to insert various foreign objects into the cdrom drive.
What about inserting any CD and mounting it so that the tray does not
open for your boy :-).
The description of kali sounds interesting (I did never notice it
in contrib before). Perhaps we should include the work to do
(GTK+ or any other free interface) on a todo-list.
* Gtans - a little gtk based tangram game.
* kugel - arrange objects in rows. If you have certain number of
* lmemory - a game based on the "memory" card game.
What about packaging it?
* Xtedy - puts a tedy bear or a penguin on a desktop. You can move
him around, sit him at the top of your windows and so on.
It is spelled (X)teddy and you can move more than teddys or penguins
around. Just send me your pixmaps and they can sit on your desktop, too.
* A siple maze game I wrote in Python.
Fine, but I can not follow the link (with lynx - is it a browser
application?). What about packaging it?
There is couple of things I would like to improve. I am looking for
some nice, nonintrusive pattern for the desktop background. Maybe a
Perhaps you could try xearth or xearth or even xearth :-). I forgot
to mention it on the debian-jr page: My son loves it! Together with
the clocks you want to put on your desktop it is great. (Someone
said that xearth is the best clock at all ;-).)
In general my setup is quite the same as yours. I tried Gnome for
a short time but switched back to fvwm2 really soon. I have to
learn myself Gnome and I have to admit that I'm to lazy to learn
skills I have for fvwm. It starts with simple things like why the
hell starts this boring gmc with the status line out of the screen
so that I cant rid of it :-((. Under fvwm I would do <Alt-F7>
to move it to a location or just throw the bomb on it which resides
in my fvwm Button field (one thing I have to do with each open window
when I want to finish and my son observes what I'm doing. Even
the Button field itself I have to bomb out when I leave :-).)
Or how can I switch desktops. I'm sure it is possible, but I have
to learn from beginnig such everyday needs. But that's off-topic
here.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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