[Ltsp-discuss] Skype, Webcam on LTSP

2009-08-11 Thread Anton Vaaranmaa
Hi, Does Skype + Webcam work on LTSP (Ubuntu 9.04)? is there some up to date Howto on setting this up? Anybody here have any experience with this? What parts can be run from the server what part(s) need to be set up and/or run locally? PS. I have set up the web cam on a conventional fat client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Skype, Webcam on LTSP

2009-08-11 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Anton Vaaranmaa kirjoitti: Does Skype + Webcam work on LTSP (Ubuntu 9.04)? is there some up to date Howto on setting this up? Anybody here have any experience with this? What parts can be run from the server what part(s) need to be set up and/or run locally? You need ltsp-localapps function.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd and squashfs errors while lts.conf having no effect

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Stein
Mh, is lts.conf file in the correct folder? If you do not use standard setup that might cause the problem. Maybe the squashfs image wasn't created succesfully. Look if your nbd-server runs fine. NBD has sometimes a strange behavior. 2009/8/2 Shahar Or sha...@shahar-or.co.il: Dear friends, I

[Ltsp-discuss] CPU usage of xorg and ssh, Java programs slow

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Stein
Dear LTSP users, when it comes to convince somebody of LTSP the usability and feeling is crucial. After setting the chroot up we started testing. And here the real problems begin. Our users are scientists, they work for hours in front of their monitor and they are *sorry* pissed if the computer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CPU usage of xorg and ssh, Java programs slow

2009-08-11 Thread Gideon Romm
Peter, You have several options available: 1. LDM_DIRECTX (set to True in lts.conf, video will not be tunneled through ssh and go back to the client directly) 2. LOCAL_APPS - install java and java programs in the chroot and run them as local apps rather than from the server - do the same with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CPU usage of xorg and ssh, Java programs slow

2009-08-11 Thread Jordan Erickson
/me wonders if tuning gconf for 'reduced resources' (including wireframe mode for moving windows) would help a lot of this kind of thing... http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-July/msg00016.html Cheers, Jordan/Lns Gideon Romm wrote: Peter, You have several options available: 1.