Hi folks. I spent the last few days experimenting with Red Hat 8.0 plus Eric Harrison's LTSP packages. Here are my initial notes.
UNRESOLVED * Sometimes when I "X -query" into the server and login to Gnome, all of the icons and background becomes corrupted and unusable until I log out and log back in. This seems to occur randomly. When I hit PrintScreen the Gnome screenshot preview window shows a completely blue picture. When I save and open that PNG file, it is completely black. I don't know if this occurs with a LTSP client yet. I am doing further testing tonight. * StarOffice 6.0 seems to be broken in RH 8. Installation works fine, but it simply freezes forever after the Splash screen when you attempt to run the applications. Anyone know a solution to this? RESOLVED * Gnome logins seem to be broken, ESD is to blame. It freezes during the Splash screen during login. If I manually kill the esd process login completes and I am able to use the desktop. Strangely it doesn't freeze during login like this when I use an X query from my Red Hat 8.0 laptop with "X -query". Workaround: Edit /etc/esd.conf and change autoconf=0. GENERAL TIPS * Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.6 Download these handy RPM packages from http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html. They contain a workaround to make acroread work in RH 8.0, which otherwise crashes because it doesn't know how to handle the UTF-8 LANG locale. The other package is a simple plugin for Mozilla that embeds acroread within the browser, just like it works in Windows. Very nice. Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group http://www.mplug.org
