olpc-switch-desktop is a collection of utilities for switching between desktop environments.

It consists of:

1. A sugar control panel extension which allows the user to switch to GNOME
2. A GNOME program which allows the user to switch to Sugar

The change is made through the simple scheme of writing the preferred desktop environment at /home/olpc/.olpc-default-desktop (a simple text file containing either "gnome" or "sugar"). It is expected that this file will be parsed (e.g. in an xsession script) during X startup to decide which environment to launch.

Author: Daniel Drake [email protected]