I tried out Alt-Tab switching and it works fine. I also tried prefs.json, with mixed results. This is the contents of the file:
{ "resolution": "1024x768", "profile": "Willy Wonka" } Resolution worked just fine, and Sugar showed up in a window just like the old days. Instead of saying "Sugar in a Window" it says "Sugar Runner". I can't tell if it still uses Xephyr or not. On the other hand, "profile" got ignored. In the F1 and F2 views of Sugar I am identified as "James Simmons" from my login id, not "Willy Wonka". It seems to me that getting rid of Xephyr was supposed to be a big change but I'm not seeing that. If you specify a window size everything seems the same as before. You *can* run Sugar from a text mode virtual terminal, which may or may not be new. James Simmons On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, <moku...@earthtreasury.org> wrote: > Alt-tab to go between Sugar and other programs is very clumsy at first, > but works. When I do this from a full-screen Sugar session I don't get the > usual view of icons of other applications to choose from, but once I have > Sugar and the program I want to alternate with set up for toggling > between, it is quite easy. > > On Thu, July 25, 2013 12:10 pm, James Simmons 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. > > > > 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 <ma...@laptop.org> > wrote: > > > >> 2013/7/25 James Simmons <nices...@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 .. > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > -- > Edward Mokurai > > (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) > Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > > > > >
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