Installing The Sugar Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 9.04 - Page 2
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There's one additional thing we must do to make Sugar work (otherwise it won't start, see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Ubuntu). Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)...
... and run the following command:
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout -t string ring-layout
That's it, we can now start to use Sugar. Log out of your current GNOME session:
On the login screen, click on Options in the lower left corner and click on Select Session...:
Select Sugar and click on Change Session:
Then type in your username and password:
You can now select whether you'd like to make Sugar your default desktop environment or just for this session. I suggest you select Just For This Session so that you can test it first:
This is the Sugar welcome screen where you can change Sugar's colour if you like. Then click on Done:
This is how Sugar looks:
In order to learn how to use Sugar, take a look at the Sugar manual and the Sugar keyboard shortcuts.
3 Links
- Sugar: http://www.sugarlabs.org/
- Sugar Wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
- Sugar Manual: http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar
- Sugar Keyboard Shortcuts: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts
- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
