[Sugar-devel] Fwd: SOAS on R-Pi

[James Cameron]

Yes, there is a way, but this is not part of Sugar.  It is part of a program in a class of programs called a greeter.

gdm3 offers a choice of Sugar or GNOME if both are installed.

lightdm also offers a similar choice.

nodm can be configured for one choice only.

You can find the documentation for this in the greeter program packages.

Some greeters allow simultaneous sessions, so you can switch between Sugar and something else.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 08:43:32PM -0700, Hilary Naylor wrote:
> Hi James,
> Thank you, that's very helpful. However, isn't there a way to have a choice
> between sugar and the raspbian desktop? I see that .xsession has two entries,
> both of which are "sugar" -- could the other be the name of the raspbian
> desktop? From what I've read so far it might be LXDE. ?? 
> thanks
> Hilary
> 
> ---
> Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
> [1]www.a2zed.us
> Oakland CA
> 
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:59 PM James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     G'day Hilary,
> 
>     As you used "echo sugar >> .xsession" to make it run Sugar on reboot,
>     and you want to stop that from happening, remove the file.
> 
>     "rm .xsession"
> 
>     Do that in Terminal, then reboot.
> 
>     Alternatively, reinstall Raspbian using the downloads from Raspberry
>     Pi Foundation;
> 
>     [3]https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
> 
>     The page you link to is about Debian.  Raspbian is not Debian, but is
>     derived from it.
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:43:13PM -0700, Hilary Naylor wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > Samson advises I forward this query to you>>>
>     > I started from this page
>     > [1][4]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#
>     > using-sugar-0110-on-debian 
>     >  
>     > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>     > From: Hilary Naylor <[2][5]hnaylor at gmail.com>
>     > Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:35 PM
>     > Subject: Re: SOAS on R-Pi
>     > To: Samson Goddy <[3][6]samsongoddy at gmail.com>
>     >
>     > But now I can't get it back to raspian! I followed the commands on this
>     page:
>     > [4][7]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Raspbian 
>     >
>     > I guess this makes it run sugar on reboot
>     > echo sugar >> .xsession
>     > so how do I make it run raspbian on reboot?
>     >
>     >  
>     > ---
>     > Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
>     > [5][8]www.a2zed.us
>     > Oakland CA
>     >
>     > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:15 PM Hilary Naylor <[6][9]hnaylor at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     I got it working! :) 
>     >
>     >     ---
>     >     Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
>     >     [7][10]www.a2zed.us
>     >     Oakland CA
>     >
>     >     On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 5:13 PM Hilary Naylor <[8][11]
>     hnaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Hi Samson,
>     >         Starting from this page:
>     >         [9][12]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/
>     debian.md#
>     >         using-sugar-0110-on-debian  
>     >         Stretch is a raspian image so there is not the opportunity (that
>     I know
>     >         of) to do this: 
>     >           ☆ when asked mid-way through install what to include, deselect
>     all,
>     >         So I open Terminal and enter
>     >
>     >         sudo apt install sucrose lightdm
>     >
>     >          Result:
>     >         E: Unable to locate package sucrose
>     >
>     >         Advice?
>     >         thanks
>     >         Hilary
>     >
>     >         ---
>     >         Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
>     >         [10][13]www.a2zed.us
>     >         Oakland CA
>     >
>     > References:
>     >
>     > [1] [14]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#
>     using-sugar-0110-on-debian
>     > [2] mailto:[15]hnaylor at gmail.com
>     > [3] mailto:[16]samsongoddy at gmail.com
>     > [4] [17]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Raspbian
>     > [5] [18]http://www.a2zed.us/
>     > [6] mailto:[19]hnaylor at gmail.com
>     > [7] [20]http://www.a2zed.us/
>     > [8] mailto:[21]hnaylor at gmail.com
>     > [9] [22]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#
>     using-sugar-0110-on-debian
>     > [10] [23]http://www.a2zed.us/
> 
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> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
> [4] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#
> [5] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [6] mailto:samsongoddy at gmail.com
> [7] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Raspbian
> [8] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [9] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [10] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [11] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [12] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#
> [13] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [14] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#using-sugar-0110-on-debian
> [15] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [16] mailto:samsongoddy at gmail.com
> [17] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Raspbian
> [18] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [19] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [20] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [21] mailto:hnaylor at gmail.com
> [22] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/debian.md#using-sugar-0110-on-debian
> [23] http://www.a2zed.us/
> [24] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [25] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [26] http://quozl.netrek.org/

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