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@@ -86,10 +86,8 @@ systems used by expo.
 <li>You will be asking someone nerdy to take this trip report and to edit it into the proper place later.
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-<p>The first challenge is to find how to start up the text editor. The <em>expo laptop</em> is running debian Linux
-with the Gnome 3.2 desktop manager, so click on "Activities" in the top left corner. 
-This will bring down a vertical menu of icons down the left hand side of the screen. Hovering 
-over the icons brings up a label, and the one you want is at (or near) the bottom with the label "Text editor". Click on it.
+<p>The first challenge is to find how to start up the text editor. The <em>expo laptop</em> is running debian Linux. On the Desktop is an icon labelled "Text Editor": click on it. 
+
 <p>If you are lucky this will bring up an empty window for a new file. 
 <br />If you are unlucky it will bring up the previous person's file.
 <p>If it is a new file, save it to the Downloads folder (/home/expo/Downloads) using the "File->Save" menu 
@@ -174,7 +172,6 @@ or
 
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 Go on to <a href="computing/logbooks-parsing.html">Importing logbooks into troggle</a>.
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