Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface

Introduction to the Sugar Interface

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• A Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples

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

f3 Boot Screen

• Sugar boots to this Screen:

It contains a circle of activities

and is reached with the f3 key

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

On the top right bar are 2 icons

You are using the circular one

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 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

• 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

You can explore them

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

• Hit F3 key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View

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

• hit f3 and return to the main screen

TO Shutdown Sugar

Choose shutdown on the dropdown box

This is the end of this short introduction