[Sugar-devel] Running sugar in a window

[Manuel Quiñones]

As Walter said.  For me it is nice to have the window option, and I use it.
 But if it is a pain to maintain and takes time from you Daniel, I'm +1 for
dropping it.


2013/6/25 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

> 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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