Personalizing your XO

You can change the name, colors, language, time zone, and other settings of your XO by using sugar-control-panel commands in the Terminal Activity. Sugar is the operating system for the XO. It organizes the systems that run the clock, activates the Activities, and stores the Journal entries. The Terminal Activity runs text-based commands for your XO instead of the Sugar graphical commands.

To change the name of your XO

1. Start the Terminal Activity by clicking the Terminal Activity icon from the Home View.
   The Terminal Activity starts and displays a prompt.
   
   
2. To change the name of the XO, click next to the prompt and then type the following command:
   

   sugar-control-panel -s nick newname

   where the newname is the name you want for your XO.
   
3. Press ctrl+alt+erase to restart Sugar.
   
   The XO's new name appears when you hover over the XO icon in the Home view.

To change the colors of your XO icon

1. Start the Terminal Activity by clicking the Terminal Activity icon from the Home view.
2. Type the following command to change the colors:
   

   sugar-control-panel -s color outlinecolor fillcolor outlineshading fillshading

3. Press ctrl+alt+erase to restart Sugar. The XO's new color selections appear when you restart.  

The available outline and fill colors are:  

• red
• orange
• yellow
• green
• blue
• purple
  

The available shading settings are:

• dark
• medium
• light

Tips

• Refer to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel  for a continually updated list of, and reference information about, the command options (such as a list of available language settings). 

• Type sugar-control-panel -h language to get a list of all the available language settings.