On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: >> >> At some point, the ctl+alt+backspace signal to restart was dropped. This >> was >> a very handy way >> to get out of dead-ends caused by starting too many activities. >> >> What I would like to do is have this signal show a screen similar to the >> switch desktop screen but with >> a set of options: >> >> Start Sugar >> Start Gnome >> Login >> >> where the login option allows the user to set the nick to his/her >> username. >> The advantage of this is that >> the nick is reset at Sugar start. This option is needed at sites where >> more >> than one person uses the laptop (even in OLPC sites, it can be expected >> that >> more than one person will use the laptop when it is at home). >> >> Does anyone know why this capability was dropped? Is there any technical >> reason it can not be restored? How does one set the ctl+alt+bs to call a >> procedure in globalkeys (similar to viewsource and screenshot)? Is that >> the >> way this should be done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tony >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > The newest versions of Sugar let you limit the number of open activities, > hopefully obviating the root cause of the dead-end you described. Regarding > support for multiple users, that is another topic altogether. >
You should look into implementing KSM and zSwap in the XO kernels. They are a couple of ways that Android KitKat is supporting hardware with 512MB's of RAM. -Jon _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
