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Ok.. We are on Windows machines each child has their own student login.<br>
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...<br>
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.<br>
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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!<br>
Beth Weeks<br>
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David Bruce wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Beth,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Beth Weeks <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bweeks@shermanisd.net"><bweeks@shermanisd.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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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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