After years of being out of programming, linux, and almost anything technical, I found myself playing with a Raspberry Pi in hope that it stimulates my mind and encourages my daughter to experiment as I once used to.

I recently installed a software called Sugar, which is part of the 1 child 1 laptop project.

Anyway, if I add the line sugar to .Xsession, when I startx, then I will have the sugar "front-end" running over as fullscreen.

If I do not add that line, then Rasbian's default desktop environment loads.

If I load sugar from within that desktop, then sugar will run almost fullscreen (it will not use-up the top panel/task-bar).

So, the question is, can I use an appended command when starting X, to choose if sugar loads or not?

I want to be able to choose .Xsession with the sugar line added. (of course, without rename .Xsession files, etc).

Might make a script to name rename it I suppose, but would like something neater.

Thanks.

please post the contents of your Xsession file.

.Xsession file just had 1 line:

sugar (because I added it)

Later I removed it because I did not want sugar to load every single time.

i see.
i think you can just delete that file.

you can start X with e.g.
and i think you can also use xinit directly.
but please verify by reading documentation for both commands.