[Sugar-devel] Supported methods of starting Sugar

[Sascha Silbe]

Different documents and even parts of documents show different ways to 
run sugar. Some examples:

1. "sugar-jhbuild run" [1]
     Won't work with up-to-date sugar-jhbuild (I'm using "sugar-jhbuild 
run sugar-emulator" instead, but couldn't find it documented anywhere).

2. "<path>/sugar-jhbuild run dbus-launch 
<path>/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/sugar-shell" [1]

3. "sugar-emulator" [3]

4. "SUGAR_PROFILE=another_profile sugar-emulator" [3]

5. "sugar-jhbuild shell" + "sugar-emulator" [4]

6. "SUGAR_PROFILE=profile-1 sugar" [5]


Which of these methods are supported / supposed to work?
The reason I ask is that a bug I'm experiencing [6] only occurs for #6, 
not for #3. OTOH, "sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator" on Ubuntu intrepid 
is more or less broken because of keyboard issues [7].

While sugar-emulator is useful for debugging / trying out development 
versions in an environment that somewhat resembles an XO, I'd rather 
like to run Sugar without the overhead of Xephyr on a "regular" (i.e. 
non-development) system, i.e. #6 (or rather just "sugar" as 
SUGAR_PROFILE seems to have a default anyway).


[1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild#Run_Sugar
[2] 
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild#Creating_an_xsession_for_Sugar-jhbuild
[3] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian#Usage
[4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Gentoo_Linux#Testing_Sugar
[5] 
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/README
[6] http://bugs.debian.org/512258
[7] http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342

CU Sascha

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