<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I noticed that the sugar-build script installs the framebuffer version of X11 so I assumed it was meant to start from a virtual terminal. That does work. </div>If it is running in a GNOME window but full screen how do you go about switching to another window? Would Alt-Tab do it? I remember that we wanted to get rid of Xephyr, and I've experienced problems with Sugar in Xephyr myself so I can see why, but I'm still kind of puzzled by this and I think MYOSA readers would be too. </div>James Simmons </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:10 PM, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Manuel, > > I am aware that ./osbuild run can be done from within a GNOME session. I > did it that way the first time I ran it. What I need to provide to my > readers is a way they can easily move from a development environment to a > Sugar environment and back again. Running Sugar in a window made that easy. > Generally when I debug a Sugar Activity I just quit and relaunch the > Activity to test it. Relaunching Sugar is not necessary. The business with > launching it from a virtual terminal makes that possible, and also makes it > possible to run multiple copies of Sugar under different IDs so you can test > collaboration. In the absence of any instructions I assumed that this is > what I was meant to do. If there is an easier way to bounce between Sugar > and GNOME without restarting Sugar each time I'd love to hear about it. </div>When you run Sugar using ./osbuild run, even though Sugar is running full screen, it is running in a window in GNOME, so you can switch to other windows within the GNOME session, and, for example, edit activities. <div class="im"> > > As for web activities, we do have a guest chapter from Lionel on the > subject. I agree the book needs more but I get the impression that we're > still working out the details on this. I am somewhat comfortable with HTML, > JS, CSS, embedded fonts, and the like but I may not be the best person to > write these chapters, at least until things stabilize a bit. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Manuel Quiñones <<a href="mailto:manuq@laptop.org">manuq@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >> >> 2013/7/25 James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>>: >> > I finally got sugar-build working on Fedora 19 last night. I plan to >> > update >> > "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" to discuss this. >> >> Excellent James! >> >> > How to use "Ctrl-Alt-F2" to open a virtual terminal, which you will use >> > to >> > run ./osbuild run. Using "Ctrl-Alt-Fkey" to go from the Sugar >> > environment >> > to your Python development environment. >> >> Is this really needed? "./osbuild run" can be done from inside the >> GNOME session. >> >> > Anything else anyone can think of? >> >> Start promoting the development of web activities? >> >> .. manuq .. > > > </div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote></div> </div>