-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > >> So, the principal difficulty with using coLinux with Sugar is that it >> uses >> a Windows-side X server, which provides its own window manager. We need >> to use our own, custom-configured window manager, in order for the GUI to >> work. (For the same reason, Sugar won't run over an ssh tunnel.) > Can't say anything about the first part, but the second is plain wrong > (the box running Sugar shipped by lenny is in a different room - go > figure how I prevent having to move my feet :) ). The window manager > isn't tied to the X server in any way.
Are you using the "sugar-emulator" command? I believe this command runs sugar inside a Xephyr box, which creates a complete new virtual X server. This X server runs on the "client"-side, i.e. your Lenny box, with its own window manager, in this case Matchbox. Your "server"-side X server never interacts with Sugar directly. This approach should also work with coLinux. However, it has significant overhead (running multiple X servers will do that), and I'm not sure that it would allow the user to run in full-screen mode (as Sugar is designed to run). Ideally, the user would be able to resize the Sugar window as they please, including switching to and from full-screen. I know that VMWare Player supports this; I haven't tested anything else. >> Virtualbox is Free and potentially similar. Also, coLinux >> requires Administrator privileges to run, so students on school computers >> probably can't use it.[1] > Don't VMs on Windows require admin privileges to install and/or run (I > honestly don't know)? I presume that we can package up the emulator as just some .exe on a USB stick, to be run without needing installation. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm3JZAACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSiKQCeOMTfRVJdxPPxCuDUuFJnkuJH elAAnjTiwXCChpTeKWDHEyk9rc6Up7pp =c3fC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel