[Sugar-devel] Running sugar in a window

[Daniel Narvaez]

Hello,

with sugar-emulator we used to run by default in a window. These days
sugar-runner defaults to full screen but it's still possible to make it use
a window by setting the resolution preference.

I would like to understand how badly it would affect people if we only
allowed to run in fullscreen. Are you using the resolution preference?
Would it be a major problem if it went away?

The issue is that at the moment there is no good solution for nesting X
inside X. Xephyr is buggy and pretty much unmaintained, and it's now
crashing at startup on unstable Ubuntu. Xvnc  might be an alternative but
last time I tried it was also crashy, it would be a bit complicated to
setup and it won't allow us to test hardware acceleration if we need that
in the future.

Always running a full X session would probably simplify and make
sugar-runner more solid. There are challenges with that approach too with
systemd, but I believe those might be solvable.

I'm probably not going to do anything about this until it becomes a problem
for sugar-build officially supported distros, but I'm thinking about the
issue and I'm interested in people feedback.

-- 
Daniel Narvaez
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