Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface

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Use the <==left__________center__________right==> links in the blue top/bottom bars to connect to another part of this Annotated Guide to Sugar
Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples
Trisquel On A Sugar Toast#Trisquel 5.0 Sugar based on Ubuntu 11.04

Listed on left side of all wiki Pages under Projects

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

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

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 "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

OLPC Sugar Control Panel

(Off Site Reference ^)

After Reading:USE your Browser's <==== back arrow to return here

Very complete description-(Important Information)

for older version of XO-1 OLPC

About Me

Change the color of your XO identiy (Click on it)

Change your name (edit it)

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)

The normal one used

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

Hit F1 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

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

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)