On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Cl��ment Dumazy
<clement.dumazy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a French student who have learned Pharo for 2 months during a university
> course. As this was the first time I use Pharo IDE and the first time I program in
> Pharo, my teacher suggested me to send a mail on the mailing list if I
> encounter problems.

Nice to hear from someone new to Pharo taking the time to let us know
how to improve. I hope you have a long and prosperous experience with
Pharo.

> As I crashed the IDE several times, is there a way to automatically save the
> image every 5 minutes (or every other frequency) to avoid the loss of my
> work ?

Could I just clarify if this was a "crash" where the Image exited, or
a "lockup" where the Image froze.�� Since the code you develop and
execute runs in the same thread as the IDE, an error in you code that
(for example) loops forever will block the UI from operating.�� Do you
know about the system escape keypress [Alt .] "alt-period" for
breaking out of such a situation?

> I can't copy/paste from Google Chrome (on ubuntu 14.04) while I could
> copy/paste from other software like Gedit or Firefox.

I'm on Debian 8 Jessie which uses MATE Desktop Environment 1.8.1.�� Its
similar vintage to 14.04 but I don't know what desktop it uses?

I just downloaded the latest build 50636 and tested against Chrome.�� I
had no problem copying text from a random web page into a playground
in Pharo.�� But I may have a different VM.�� Could you post the exact
links you downloaded, and also the VM and Image shown by World menu >
System > System Reporter.�� Here is mine...

Image
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/home/ben/.local/share/Pharo/images/Pharo 5.0 (beta)-50636/Pharo 5.0
(beta)-50636.image
Pharo5.0
Latest update: #50636
Unnamed

Virtual Machine
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/home/ben/.local/share/Pharo/VMs/spur/pharo-vm/pharo
CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1630 uuid:
2ed025ea-f400-4440-8e8b-5aa46d06c9ab Jan 14 2016
StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1630 uuid:
2ed025ea-f400-4440-8e8b-5aa46d06c9ab Jan 14 2016
https://github.com/estebanlm/pharo-vm.git Commit:
21ec004cce7d26010c18d357c805a0e1a4ffe376 Date: 2016-01-14 11:42:33
+0100 By: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> Jenkins build #498

> Last problem that I have seen, is that I couldn't use Pharo on my windows 10
> Computer. I have downloaded the last version (windows version) on pharo.org
> and when I try to execute it (without and with administrator mode), I have a
> pop-up who appear. I made a screenshot of this pop-up and put it in
> attachment to this mail.

Could you provide the exact links you downloaded from?

> I hope that I have posted this mail in the good mailing list.

Yep, you found the right spot.
cheers -ben