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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> The xgames mostly did not work and the few that worked were too
> complicated for children ages 3 5 7 9 13 (they all wanted to play at
> once).  I can try to figure out Steven's games for them.  castlemaze does
> not tell you that you can 'climb' or 'jump' until you try to 'go' down.

There are some xlib games binaries available for libc5 - you have to
look hard to find them, though. The one I saw (xboing, breakout-type
game) required two fonts that don't come with BL3.

> The two middle kids were most interested in being allowed to type such
> things as 'cd /fd'.  bsdgames has an arithmetic 'game' but not a tpying
> tutor.  Is there one for linux?

I think there's something called tux typing. I wonder if there are any
online typing tutors...

> How does one turn off xsnow (which wastes memory) from the menu?
> kill `pidof xsnow` works from CLI but not in the menu
> ("stop snow" app rxvt -e kill `pidof xsnow` )

Maybe you need another set of quotes:

"stop snow" app rxvt -e "kill `pidof xsnow`"

David