[Sugar-devel] Running sugar in a window

[Gonzalo Odiard]

I use the option too.
For me should be better keep it, just document where does not work.

Gonzalo


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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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