"sugarize" tool and Tux Paint

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:48 , Albert Cahalan wrote:

> I wrote a tool to make normal X programs to run under sugar.
> As a demo, it runs a logo program.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~albert/xlogo-1.xo
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/albert/sugarize;a=summary
>
> How it works: A launcher program places Sugar's incompatible command
> arguments into the environment, along with LD_PRELOAD pointing at
> a shared library. The launcher then starts up the program by calling
> execlp() with the arguments that the program actually needs. As the
> program is starting up, the dynamic linker ("man ld.so") forces the
> shared library into the program. The shared library intercepts calls
> into libX11. From that intercepted function the shared library is
> able to set various Sugar-specific window properties before the app
> becomes visible. This lets activity switching work, gets the donut
> icon right, etc.

Cool. Works fine with xlogo (on latest ship.2 build).

With xeyes, on the second start I get two colored icons, one of which  
keeps pulsing. With xterm, I get the regular gray non-activity icon,  
plus a pulsing one that won't stop. Apparently not even these basic X  
programs use the same method for opening windows?

> A slightly newer version is included in the Tux Paint activity.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tux_Paint

Hmm, didn't help.

Btw, I made a shell version of your sugarize C program. It's easier  
to customize, feel free to use:

#!/bin/sh
while [ -n "$2" ] ; do
     case "$1" in
         -b | --bundle-id)     export SUGAR_BUNDLE_ID="$2" ;;
         -a | --activity-id)   export SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ID="$2" ;;
         -o | --object-id)     export SUGAR_OBJECT_ID="$2" ;;
         -u | --uri)           export SUGAR_URI="$2" ;;
         *) echo unknown argument $1 $2 ;;
     esac
     shift;shift
done
export LD_PRELOAD="$SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH/lib/libsugarize.so"
export NET_WM_NAME="X Logo"
exec xlogo

- Bert -