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As of October 18, Simpi is running Athena 10, as opposed to Debathena (starting summer '08) and Athena 9 (before summer '08). Athena 10 is in beta (official release around IAP '09; deployment to clusters around summer '09), and while it is a significant improvement over Athena 9 there are lots of usability issues that need to be ironed out. People should report these issues here.

I (Meeg) will be checking this page roughly daily. If I can find a workaround, it will be added to the hall computer how-to. If the issue is specific to our hardware or setup, I'll fix it as best I can. If the issue is a general problem with Athena 10, I will report it to the testers list. In any case I'll make a note on this page.

Depending on how this goes, I may switch Simpi back to Debathena, in which case this page will still be used for help requests with Simpi.


Issues - Athena 10

  • Too much shiny desktop effects (chrome); login is slow. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Turn off the effects in System/Preferences/Appearance. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Issues - Debathena

  • Default browser is Epiphany, which sucks. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Run Firefox (see below) and set preferences to make it your default browser. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Can't find Firefox. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Firefox is called Iceweasel and is in Applications/Internet. Alternatively, run it from a terminal, where "firefox" is aliased to Iceweasel. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Screen resolution settings may be screwed up by changing them on other Debathena machines. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Use the "set as default on this computer only" option when changing resolution. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Package manager prompts for updated packages, even for users without admin privileges. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Turn off notifications. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Don't know how to log out. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • System menu. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Can't find Terminal. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Applications/Accessories. Meeg 20:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


Outside resources

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