Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@usa.netwrote: 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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel 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. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel 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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs
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.nettle...@gmail.com escribió: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel 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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs
Hi, The Ctl-Alt-Backspace thing was dropped upstream with xorg, the graphical server. It can be restored to its original function, by means of a configuration on xorg.conf (look for DontZap option). In order to get what you want, more or less, and without any coding, you'd need to use a Display Manager such as GDM, MDM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager_%28program_type%29 ). I'd suggest to find a nice simple one with packages for fedora and start from there. Regards from Colombia, Sebastian El lun, 12 de may 2014 a las 10:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@usa.net escribió: 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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
