Get serial number or XO name from command line or python

[LASKE, Lionel (C2S)]

Hi Bert,

Thanks it's exactly what I'm looking for.

Best regards from France.

	Lionel.

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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:25:43 +0200
From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
Subject: Re: Get serial number or XO name from command line or python
To: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
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On 28.05.2011, at 08:55, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all your answers. The serial was exactly what I expected. Great.
> About the "XO name", my question was not clear. What I'm looking for is the name in the Sugar Control Panel (Me). 
> Any way to get it ?

Depends on the Sugar version, and is quite hard to make work universally.

In older versions, you could ask the PresenceService for the "ownerBuddy", and access its nick. Or directly access the file:

	${HOME}/.sugar/${$SUGAR_PROFILE}/config

In newer versions, it's stored in gconf:

	gconftool-2 -g /desktop/sugar/user/nick

Both of these assume you are logged in as the Sugar user. If you are running the script as root, you need to guess the user name. On an XO the user normally is "olpc", on SoaS it typically is "liveuser". If all else fails you could look for all user homes that have a ".sugar" directory. If there is only one you are lucky, otherwise you should fail and ask for the right one.

Also, watch out for non-ascii nick names, and funny characters. Kids frequently use them, unaware there may be problems in command line scripts.

- Bert -



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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 08:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
Subject: stop sharing an activity
To: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
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I could not find a way to stop sharing an activity even when no peers are connected or even present. 
This was true in os860 and os20, XO-1 and XO-1.5 and activities like write and Turtle blocks.
If this is indeed a feature and not a bug or something I miss, could someone point me to the relevant discussion and/or rational of "once public, always public"?
Thx


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