[Sugar-devel] Usage of sugar-build

[James Simmons]

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.

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.

James Simmons



On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:10 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> >
> > 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 <manuq at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2013/7/25 James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>:
> >> > 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 ..
> >
> >
> >
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>
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