<div dir="ltr">I tried out Alt-Tab switching and it works fine. I also tried prefs.json, with mixed results. This is the contents of the file:<div><br></div><div><div>{</div><div> "resolution": "1024x768",</div>
<div> "profile": "Willy Wonka"</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div><div>Resolution worked just fine, and Sugar showed up in a window just like the old days. Instead of saying "Sugar in a Window" it says "Sugar Runner". I can't tell if it still uses Xephyr or not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On the other hand, "profile" got ignored. In the F1 and F2 views of Sugar I am identified as "James Simmons" from my login id, not "Willy Wonka".</div><div><br></div><div>
It seems to me that getting rid of Xephyr was supposed to be a big change but I'm not seeing that. If you specify a window size everything seems the same as before. You <b>can</b> run Sugar from a text mode virtual terminal, which may or may not be new.</div>
<div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mokurai@earthtreasury.org" target="_blank">mokurai@earthtreasury.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alt-tab to go between Sugar and other programs is very clumsy at first,<br>
but works. When I do this from a full-screen Sugar session I don't get the<br>
usual view of icons of other applications to choose from, but once I have<br>
Sugar and the program I want to alternate with set up for toggling<br>
between, it is quite easy.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, July 25, 2013 12:10 pm, James Simmons wrote:<br>
> Manuel,<br>
><br>
> I am aware that ./osbuild run can be done from within a GNOME session.<br>
I<br>
> did it that way the first time I ran it. What I need to provide to my<br>
readers is a way they can easily move from a development environment to<br>
a<br>
> Sugar environment and back again. Running Sugar in a window made that<br>
easy. Generally when I debug a Sugar Activity I just quit and relaunch<br>
the<br>
> Activity to test it. Relaunching Sugar is not necessary. The business<br>
with launching it from a virtual terminal makes that possible, and also<br>
makes it possible to run multiple copies of Sugar under different IDs so<br>
you can test collaboration. In the absence of any instructions I<br>
assumed<br>
> that this is what I was meant to do. If there is an easier way to<br>
bounce<br>
> between Sugar and GNOME without restarting Sugar each time I'd love to hear<br>
> about it.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> As for web activities, we do have a guest chapter from Lionel on the<br>
subject. I agree the book needs more but I get the impression that<br>
we're<br>
> still working out the details on this. I am somewhat comfortable with<br>
HTML, JS, CSS, embedded fonts, and the like but I may not be the best<br>
person to write these chapters, at least until things stabilize a bit.<br>
><br>
</div>> James Simmons<br>
><br>
><br>
<div class="im">> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Manuel Quiñones <<a href="mailto:manuq@laptop.org">manuq@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> 2013/7/25 James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> > I finally got sugar-build working on Fedora 19 last night. I plan to<br>
>> update<br>
>> > "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" to discuss this.<br>
>> Excellent James!<br>
>> > How to use "Ctrl-Alt-F2" to open a virtual terminal, which you will<br>
>> use<br>
>> to<br>
>> > run ./osbuild run. Using "Ctrl-Alt-Fkey" to go from the Sugar<br>
>> environment<br>
>> > to your Python development environment.<br>
>> Is this really needed? "./osbuild run" can be done from inside the<br>
GNOME session.<br>
>> > Anything else anyone can think of?<br>
>> Start promoting the development of web activities?<br>
>> .. manuq ..<br>
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