please remove me from your mailing list for now. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:00 AM Subject: edubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9
Send edubuntu-devel mailing list submissions to edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of edubuntu-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. initial thoughts on ltsp kiosk plugin (Gavin McCullagh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:01:27 +0100 From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: initial thoughts on ltsp kiosk plugin To: edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, we started using Oliver's LTSP kiosk plugin last night in the school library. It's really nice, even though there are a few small things that may need ironing out. In case anyone's interested or knows something I don't, here are my initial notes. 1. for some reason metacity didn't install. I didn't get a log of the ltsp-build-client, but for some reason, metacity didn't install and therefore firefox is running window manager-less. I presume this is not deliberate as ~kiosk/.xsession tries to invoke metacity. 2. I don't imagine this is something that will be changed but I added sun-java5-plugin and flashplugin-nonfree in the chroot to make sites that use these work better. 3. I tried out sound with a couple of flash sites. It didn't work, though it was clear that there was static on the headphones which was correlated to the sound I should have been getting. This may be flash specific, I'm not sure. 4. firefox didn't go into full screen. This may be related to the lack of window manager, I'm not sure. If you press [F11] it did. 5. I need to test if USB keys work. 6. RAM seems in reasonable supply (just lots being cached), but I'm not certain if this is a good measure. $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 125224 118516 6708 0 0 53492 -/+ buffers/cache: 65024 60200 Swap: 32760 724 32036 6. I'm thinking of ways we could perhaps expand on this. Perhaps: - a DVD player kiosk - add a multimedia player plugin to the existing firefox kiosk - make a simple application kiosk usable with data or even home directory stored on USB key. As we have very little time to give accounts to all students, it's possible this route might help give greater access to students. Gavin ------------------------------ -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel> End of edubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9 ********************************************* -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
