Configuration

Latest addition : 14 June 2011.

DoudouLinux is designed to be used by children without requiring to tune the system first. Nevertheless you may want to improve some of its aspects, depending on your hardware configuration. For example changing the screen resolution, the mouse speed or even choosing the sound output when several output are available. All of these are basic DoudouLinux tuning.

Finally an aspect that may be interesting to configure if you intend to use DoudouLinux regularly is data persistence. In this case it is obviously better to find your work after rebooting the computer. Persistence makes it possible by using either the internal computer disk or an USB data storage device (external key or hard drive).

Mouse setting

Children who discover the mouse use do not have at the beginning gestures precise enough to get the cursor at the right place. For this reason DoudouLinux changes the mouse speed depending on (...) Read more…
Sound settings

In addition to the sound control icon in the panel on the screen, top right (see the screenshot below), DoudouLinux features a classical sound volume tuning tool and a tool to choose the sound (...) Read more…
Screen settings

DoudouLinux is featuring a tool to change the screen resolution and set which screen is on or off when 2 screens are plugged. Its interface varies depending on the number of connected screens. (...) Read more…
The Activities Menu

The first screen shown to users when DoudouLinux has started is called the Activities Menu (see the screenshot below). From this menu, children can choose among the activities of various (...) Read more…
Using a USB key or a USB hard disk

If you want to export/import data from/into DoudouLinux, you can use standard USB devices: a USB key, a USB disk or even camera cards such as SD, CF, XD cards, etc. This type of USB device is (...) Read more…
Using a printer

Printers can be used from within DoudouLinux without any complicated operation: DoudouLinux, as any other Linux, can detect and configure automatically more than a thousand printers [1]. You just (...) Read more…
Using networking

DoudouLinux can handle both wired and wireless networks. As usual, it will ask as few questions as possible. If you are using a wired network, it will configure the network automatically, without (...) Read more…