[Sugar-devel] Fwd: SOAS on R-Pi
James Cameron
quozl at laptop.org
Tue Apr 23 03:55:45 EDT 2019
(There's also olpc-dm that was used on Fedora 18 OLPC OS, but it is unmaintained, so you'll need a developer to make it work on Raspbian.)
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 05:46:17PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> 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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> > James Cameron
> > [26]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > 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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