Is there any way to start a new document once you're in the activity? --Scott On Saturday, November 5, 2011, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >> G'day Adam, >> >> The holding down of the alt key in the activity view was introduced in >> Sugar 0.86 [1], and 11.2.0 is based on Sugar 0.94, and I've tested it >> just now and the feature works fine for me. >> >> Sometimes the left-alt key fails on membrane keyboards. Please test >> that the alt key works. You can do this easily by opening two >> activities and using alt-tab to switch between them. If this doesn't >> work, then there's more investigation to do. >> >> Otherwise, you can use the ok prompt to "test /keyboard". >> >> 1. >> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes#Home_Favourites_View_Improvements">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes#Home_Favourites_View_Improvements</a> >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> <a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >> > > The graying out is Sugar's way of telling you that you'll get a fresh > instance instead of reopening the most recent. If you are seeing gray, > then it should work. Perhaps the children are releasing the Alt key > before clicking? > > Alternatively, right click brings up the hover menu immediately. At > the bottom of the hover menu for activities on the Home View is the > option to open a new instance. > > regards. > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > -- ( <a href="http://cscott.net" target="_blank">http://cscott.net</a> )