Archive for December, 2007

Steps toward running a Mono app on the OLPC XO

December 11th, 2007 by Eric Albright

I created a sd card image to boot the XO separately for our Mono environment.

  • Image the sd card using a developer image as documented here
  • Change all instances of ‘disk:\’ to ’sd:\’ in /boot/olpc.fth
  • add mono.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d as documented here and here
  • yum install mono-winforms

To launch a mono application, run: DISPLAY=:0.0 mono AppName.exe at the developer console. (Alt+= will bring up the developer console.)

We did find that the 200 dpi was not getting picked up by mono. In order to get that working, run echo 'Xft.dpi:200' | xrdb -merge at the developer console.

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