[Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

[Sebastian Silva]

BTW, as a workaround I use when all I need to restart is X, I switch to 
a virtual terminal (ctl+alt+f2) and type "killall X". That will avoid 
the full reboot cycle and restart Sugar.

Regards,
Sebastian

El mar, 13 de may 2014 a las 7:23 AM, Jon Nettleton 
<jon.nettleton at gmail.com> escribió:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender 
> <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON 
>> <tony_anderson at usa.net>
>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>  At some point, the ctl+alt+backspace signal to restart was 
>>> dropped.  This
>>>  was
>>>  a very handy way
>>>  to get out of dead-ends caused by starting too many activities.
>>> 
>>>  What I would like to do is have this signal show a screen similar 
>>> to the
>>>  switch desktop screen but with
>>>  a set of options:
>>> 
>>>      Start Sugar
>>>      Start Gnome
>>>      Login
>>> 
>>>  where the login option allows the user to set the nick to his/her
>>>  username.
>>>  The advantage of this is that
>>>  the nick is reset at Sugar start. This option is needed at sites 
>>> where
>>>  more
>>>  than one person uses the laptop (even in OLPC sites, it can be 
>>> expected
>>>  that
>>>  more than one person will use the laptop when it is at home).
>>> 
>>>  Does anyone know why this capability was dropped? Is there any 
>>> technical
>>>  reason it can not be restored? How does one set the ctl+alt+bs to 
>>> call a
>>>  procedure in globalkeys (similar to viewsource and screenshot)? Is 
>>> that
>>>  the
>>>  way this should be done?
>>> 
>>>  Thanks,
>>> 
>>>  Tony
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  The newest versions of Sugar let you limit the number of open 
>> activities,
>>  hopefully obviating the root cause of the dead-end you described. 
>> Regarding
>>  support for multiple users, that is another topic altogether.
>> 
> 
> You should look into implementing KSM and zSwap in the XO kernels.
> They are a couple of ways that Android KitKat is supporting hardware
> with 512MB's of RAM.
> 
> -Jon
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