[sugar] Starting jhbuild run/sugar-emulator against an abritrary X server

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Andrew Clunis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm in the process of writing a python script that will start up 4
> instances of Sugar in UML instances on a virtual network (probably
> TUN/TAP), right out of one's jhbuild tree.  The idea here is to make it
> really easy to test the collaboration/sharing, etc. facilities of Sugar
> and the activities without needing multiple computers. I was inspired by
> Openswan's similar facility for testing.
>
> However, is there a way to specify an arbitrary X11 DISPLAY environment
> variable or some such to start Sugar on, rather than having the
> emulation scripts pop open a Xephyr automatically?
>
> I don't suppose I'm lucky today, or will I just have to hack it?
>
> ps. I'm resending this because it looks like my mailserver ate it. I
> apologise for any dupes.
>   

Hi,

you probably want to do something similar to what we do in the .xinitrc 
on the images. (i.e. run dbus, matchbox and sugar-shell).

Marco