David, I agree. I am doing classroom seessions once a week in our local school for about a year now and tend to forget things when I don't need them regularly. my server runs well so I haven't touch him for a while.
I have surfed the net to collect little bits on how to tweak ltsp or how to get around problems. it would be nice to have this all documented and a real good overview of ltsp as you indicated. if you and others do that, I would volunteer to help and to translate to german. to have things in one place would be really helpful. rgds, uwe Quoting David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In reality, there has been no move away from the standard practices > you describe below. The difference is that we often forget that the > /etc/profile and .../PostLogin are really being read from the user's > chroot (/opt/ltsp/<name-of-chroot>/etc/profile) and that these then > need to be rebuilt using the ltsp-update-image command.... > > It would be wonderful for more documentation on all this stuff, there > is much that gets taken for granted by ltsp experts but just leaves > most newbies clueless... LTSP is not so logical in what it does until > you understand the entire framework, and I don't believe that even > THAT isn't documented anywhere... I've volunteered to re/write some of > edubuntu classroom handbook by writing this email of course... if > anyone wants to join in, we should coordinate.... I've started by > ripping restructuring so that it becomes an LTSP handbook and not a > edubuntu handbook since most LTSP is the same, and only certain > elements are ubuntu specific (btw.... someone should really tell the > canonical corps to get rid of the edubuntu brand name as it does > nothing now but create confusion.) It doesn't exist as a distro as do > xubuntu and geubuntu and kubuntu... it needs to be restructured > somehow cause I bet its just confusing the hell out of people... I > would love for someone that works with canonical to explain to me, > what edubuntu means to them :-) and please dont say: Its the 2nd CD > with all the educactional software.) > > David > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:33 AM, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi oli, >> >> Thanks again for this approach. Is there a story behind the move away >> from using /etc/profile and /etc/gdm/PostLogin? I'd be interested in >> hearing it. >> >> Thanks! >> >> John >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> hi, >>> On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a user >>>> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that >>>> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow >>>> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out? >>> ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm do) >>> one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is to >>> use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart >>> >>> ciao >>> oli >>> >>> -- >>> edubuntu-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >>> >>> >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
