[Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 00:55, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> First of two responses:
>
> I've discovered a related problem: I accidentally booted my XO with an SoaS
> USB drive in one of its slots.
>
> I didn't expect it to boot - *unaided* - into SoaS (which it did). Is this
> expected?

Yup.

> At any rate, I found ordinary text (such as on the Terminal and Logs
> activities) to be unreadable (*too* small). I needed to remove my glasses
> and move to six inches from the screen before I could focus.

Yes, a specific setting needs to be used for SoaS to have nice font
sizes on the XO. I don't know if the SoaS team is focusing on the XO,
as there are other efforts to make builds specific for the XO.

In any case, would be good to make sure your version of SoaS is a
recent one (ideally, Strawberry).

Thanks,

Tomeu

> I then ran my activity (or, rather, was able to view some of it on-screen,
> as csound with python is not yet working). Instead of displaying nicely like
> it does on "native" XO, it too displays in tiny type in the upper left-hand
> corner. In other words, there is the same problem of screen formatting as on
> my desktop system.
>
> I note the icons and graphics are nicely sized; but all plain text
> apparently not?
>
> This is a real problem that, IMHO, renders SoaS (i.e., later versions of
> Sugar) fairly useless on the XO. Is this issue being addressed? (If so, I
> haven't seen discussion on this list recently. And what does this mean for
> the future viability of the XO?)
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?
>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 21:13, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I finally managed to see a mockup of my XO Activity on one of my SoaS
>>> setups
>>> (large monitor).
>>>
>>> As I feared, everything displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.
>>>
>>> I know this issue has been frequently discussed here.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to the simplest python code for placing an XO
>>> screen-full square in the middle of any monitor display? No resizing (at
>>> least, not necessarily), just placement in mid-screen (vertically and
>>> horizontally).
>>>
>>> I've got some general ideas, but am not a coder - and my knowledge of
>>> PyGTK
>>> is skin-deep.
>>
>> If I understood correctly what you are asking, it will depend on how
>> you are doing your drawing. Maybe you have the code online somewhere
>> where we can see it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
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