OLPC XO - 8 Personalizing Your XO; To Change the Name of Your XO; To Change the Colors of Your XO Icon

1. Exit being logged in as super user by typing
exit
and then press enter.
1. Click Stop in the Terminal Activity to stop the Terminal Activity and return to the Home View.
Personalizing your XO
When you start your XO, you'll see a small O on top of an X. This symbol represents you when you use
your XO. Click this person symbol to choose colors that you like best.
After the initial startup, 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 store 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.
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.
1. Press enter to run the command, and then press ctrl+alt+erase to restart Sugar.
To change the colors of your XO icon
1. Start the Terminal Activity by clicking the Terminal Activity icon from the Home view.
2. Select your colors from the table of XO icon images at Media:Buddy-Icon-Color-Matrix.pdf.
3. Type the following command to change the colors:
sugar-control-panel -s color outlinecolor fillcolor outlineshading
fillshading
1. Press enter to run the command, and then press ctrl+alt+erase to restart Sugar. The XO's new
color selections appear when you restart.
The available outline and fill colors are: