[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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