Scott, For problem #1 I would recommend using the gnome-watchdog package. This package helped with that issue when I was experiencing it, which most likely has to do with lingering processes on the server after user logout. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GnomeWatchdog .
For problem #2 - Yeah, it's kind of a pain having that icon there. The best I've been able to do is remove all of the evolution packages, but if there's no other default e-mail client for the icon to pick up (which it is for, not just evolution), the default "springboard" icon will come up. Ugly and non-functional, but at least they're not launching Evolution. You can always hack the .desktop icon that is referred to to something more useful for your setup (like Open Office). AFAIK there's no clean way to just remove that default panel icon. Kind of a bummer, I wish the Gnome people would think about multi-user setups a bit more and polish up GConf & friends. Kind of a hack-ish document, but look at http://lns.wikidot.com/gnomecleanupmenus - that's something I whipped up to help general cleanup of Gnome menus/panels. It will also show you how to disable things like the fast-user-switch applet (which wasn't desired in our school environment). Cheers, Jordan/Lns Scott wrote: > > Hello, > > I am building an LTSP server with Ubuntu 8.04 with the Edubuntu add > on. Things are going well except for a couple issues that i can't > figure out. > > 1. When I log in to gnome as a local user on the actual server, not > from a client, it will show the background and sit for about 2 minutes > then the panel will load then about 20 seconds later the icons and > menus will show up. The only relevant logs that I have found are > ~/.xsession-errors. Listed below: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Starting gtk-window-decorator > /usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, > disabling YV12 image format > > ** (nautilus:17165): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported > I/O warning : failed to load external entity > "/home/linux/.compiz/session/default0" > PID TTY TIME CMD > 17143 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio > > ** (gnome-panel:17164): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed > to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet: > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0' > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I have googled all of this and tried dozens of "fixes" none have worked. > > > 2. I need to remove the Evolution-email icon from the default Gnome > panel. This is a school district and I need to remove anything from > plain sight that the kids might want to fiddle with. By default, when > someone logs in they get the: > Applications Places System (firefox) (email) (help) > > I simply want to remove the (email) icon from the panel for all NEW > users. I have gone through all the configs i can find and modified > everything i could think of and it still shows up, even after rm > -rfing the home directories of my test accounts. > > Any advice??? This is also my first post so feel free to tell me what > I did wrong http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif > > --scott > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
