Tutorials/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

Control Panel(My Settings)

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

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

Accessability

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

hit f3 and return to the main screen

TO Shutdown Sugar

Choose shutdown on the dropdown box