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Introduction to the Sugar Interface

 
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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
RECOMMENDED READING


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

Modem Configuration

Set up GSM modem

 

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

 

Can be customized for use with a School server in deployments
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)

 

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