[Sugar-devel] Running sugar in a window

[Walter Bender]

>From the POV of developers, the only advantage I see for seeing a
window size is to test how Sugar/Activities run at different screen
sizes. But much of this can be accomplished by setting the resolution
of the full-screen X display, so I would argue it is not a priority.

regards.

-walter

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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