Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface

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Language and Keyboard Settings

fedora-16 SoaS-Pineapple defaults to English (USA) keyboard and English language.

You can set other Keyboards and languages in the "My Settings" section

See details below

Trisquel 5.0-Sugar-(TOAST) allows these to be set up at the boot splash screen before starting sugar

A booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples
Download: Trisquel On A Sugar Toast#Trisquel 5.0 Sugar based on Ubuntu 11.04
Toast is listed on left side of all wiki Pages under Projects (Click on the triangle to the left of Projects to reveal list)

Note these screen-shots were Drag-Dropped to a 2nd USB-stick

Copied from the USB to another Computer and uploaded to the Sugarlabs.wiki

Where it was inserted into this page

Note:For All Screen-shots:

Click on Screen-shot to enlarge it

Use your Browsers <== Back arrow to return here

First Start Screens

When Sugar is started for the first time it boots to a screen that shows:
First Screen where you enter a name

NAME:(_____________)
_________________________(=>Next)
Click on (=>Next) and Sugar goes to the

Second Screen where you choose your XO "Avitar" colors

_______Click to change color:
______________XO
(<= Back)____________(=>Done)

(the color of the central XO Avitar changes each time it is clicked.)

These screens set the name and color of your XO "Avitar" and generate a unique ssh user key for this Sugar Instance

These screens run only one time and do not repeat on next boot; if there is Persistence (changes can be saved)
Click on (=>Done) and Sugar goes to the f3 Boot Screen

How to Clear the Keys and users name and color entries

f3 Boot Screen

Sugar boots to this Screen

It contains a circle of activities

It becomes a spiral if a large number of Activities are "Favorites"

and is reached with the f3 key

Click on Any of the Activities in the circle and the activity will start

This links to the sugarlabs wiki page listing information and descriptions on most sugar-activities and how to download them.

Also look at the OLPC Activities List (OLD for reference only)

You will leave this Introduction if you click these links^

To return Click the <== Back arrow on your browser.

If you hover over the round icon, in the top bar, it will show a drop-down menu (Not shown)

With 2 icons:

Stack of 3 boxes in a triangle -(changes the activity display to a random one on the desktop-You can drag them into an arrangement you prefer.)
Circle with dot in center - (Circular/Spiral View)

Hover over the center XO Avitar and a drop down box appears (Shown Above)

On the top right bar are 2 icons
Click on the one with horizontal lines (The list view)

Click on Any of the Activities in the list and the activity will start.

click on the "star" to the left of the activity on the list view

It will alternate as a colored or outlined star.

If the star is colored, It becomes a "Favorite" and will be listed in the Activity circle/spiral on the other screen for f3

Click on the circular figure on the top bar

You switch back to the f3 circular view

In the Center is the users XO figure

Hover over the XO figure and a Drop Down Box Appears

My Settings

(a "Control Panel" page where you set the configuration of Sugar)

Select the "My Settings"

You switch to the :Control Panel"

Here you can click on each of the items to make changes to how Sugar Works

Like Language or Keyboard setting

Also look at OLPC Sugar Control Panel

You will leave this Introduction if you click this link^

To return Click the <== Back arrow on your browser.'

This is a very complete description-(Important Information)

Slightly out of dats as it covers an older version of XO-1 OLPC

About Me

(From F16 SoaS Pineapple Booted live CD)

Change the color of your XO identity

This will vary on the version of sugar you are using

5 Avitars:(Click on any version of the XO except the center one -center shows your current colors)

1 Avitar:(Click on the XO "Avitar" if there is only one shown)

Colors change with each click

Change your name (edit it)
click ( check mark ); to save ( X ) to escape with no changes

You will have to restart Sugar after these changes

About My Computer

Shows Sugar Version and Operating system information

Accessibility

Not present in most sugar versions

(This is Trisquel 5.0- which has some Dextrose3 features)

Date & Time

set your Time Zone

Frame

sets the corner and edge sensitivity of the frame to the cursor

Keyboard and Language

Use to set these up in sugar

Requires a reboot after changes are made

Modem Configuration

Set up mobile broadband connection to a cellular(3G) network

Network

Shows the Jabber Connection Information

fill in the field of the jabber server:

Jabber.sugarlabs.org (default on SoaS)

This field is blank on OLPC XO-1 and XO-1.5 machines

Community Jabber Servers Listing of other jabber.servers- (May not be always working)

Software Update

Updates the applications installed in your sugar

Check the Activities you want to upgrade

This will only upgrade activities that you have installed

Or ask to install new ones in some versions of sugar

This may be customized in deployments with a School server.

To exit the control-panel hit the (X) or (check mark if it appears :it saves changes) in the frame bar right corner

Network Neighborhood

Click in the frame or Hit F1 key and you switch to the Neighborhood View.

Move the mouse pointer to upper right corner of window to expose frame

(wait for it to appear there is a time delay)

The delay and sensitivity of this is set in the "Control Panel"

See the section on the frame discussed above

This is a description of what is showing in this frame:

Starting in the top Right corner and moving Clockwise ===>

Right side

The User's XO Avitar- (the same drop down menu will be shown here as in the f3 home view.

Any other Users you are Collaborating with will be shown below the User's Avitar )

Bottom

Battery indicator (% Charge Level)
Speaker - (Set Volume and Mute)
Wired Network - (Connection and Speed and IP Address.)
Wireless or Ad-Hoc Network Connection - (Connected-disconnect Channel IP Adress)
System Resources- (CPU and Memory Usage in % )-Trisquel and Dextrose3 only
Feedback - (Submit comments)-Trisquel and Dextrose3 only

Left Side

Will contain icons of clippings See the Drag-Drop Page of this Introduction for Details

Top

f-1 Neighborhood-(Jabber View)
f-2 Group-(See the Avitars of your friends-this screen is not used for much anymore in Sugar)
f-3 Home View-(Circular and List Views)
f-4 Activity
Journal-(Display Journal)-Drop down: Show Contents and xxx MB Free Space

move mouse pointer to center of window to retract frame.

You are the XO in the center.

Hover on it and the same drop-down menu will appear as in f3

All the other XO figures are other users on the jabber network

Hover the cursor over one of them and a pop up will give their name

NOTE: icons of Shared activities may appear here.

Hover over the icon and click "Join" on the drop-down menu to begin Collaboration (working with the other user) in the activity.

(There are no shared activities shown in the screen-shot)

hit f3 and return to the main screen

Shutdown Sugar

Choose shutdown on the drop down box

Wait until sugar SoaS shuts down completely before removing the USB-stick

If you just pull it out without waiting after shutdown; you will corrupt the USB-stick' and it will never start again.

It needs to write information about your journal before it shuts down. (Notice the LED on the USB-stick flashes for a while after shutdown)

Re-login to Trisquel after restart from My Settings

If you encounter a re-start of the Trisquel 5.0 Sugar live CD

Caused by a color/name change or other change in My Settings that require a restart

This is NOT the same as the f3 drop down selection Restart which shuts down the CD and ejects it.

It will come op on a login screen:

(other) <===Click on it
[_______]<==Enter trisquel here
Password: (leave it blank)
hit (Login)
Sugar will restart with the changes.