The recommended (for power users) way to run the virtual machine is using their host browser, just go to http://localhost:8000. This requires a non-broken windows networking stack, though (and various dodgy windows programs can interfere).
In the kiosk mode you can still go back,e.g. open a notebook and then File -> Close and Halt. If you really do want a full browser inside the VM (with a virtualbox menu on top) then you can edit ~/.xinitrc inside the vm. On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 3:21:32 PM UTC+1, Stan wrote: > > Dear all, > > A student of mine has been using SMC because the sage appliance in > virtualbox did not appear very useful with the jupyter notebook. Now that > he encountered a critical bug in SMC (reported offline), he is back with > the sage appliance in VB but it is truly a nightmare. The installation > instructions are still specific for sagews, not jupyter, but we at least > managed to change the working directory to something he can access. What we > haven't managed, is to get out of the kiosk mode in chrome. There is no > obvious possibility of opening several tabs, no address bar to get back to > the directory page and no back button. This means that every time he wants > to go back, e.g. after downloading the worksheet, he has to restart the > virtual machine! I don't understand why chrome was chosen instead of > firefox, and I have no idea why it is set up in kiosk mode. Is there any > sensible way to productively work with the sage appliance using the now > standard jupyter notebook?? I'm sorry if my frustration shows in these > lines, I probably should have asked earlier, but I am wondering a bit if > those that created the sage appliance actually use it themselves. I don't, > which is why it never occurred to me how difficult to use it might be. > Thanks for your help! > > Cheers > Stan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
