[Ltsp-discuss] slow scrolling in chrome on ltsp

2012-03-27 Thread Evan Ingram
anyone else experienced slow laggy scrolling in chrome on ltsp? even on just simple text web pages. on the same thin client firefox runs with no lag when scrolling through even image heavy pages -- This SF email is spons

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp chrome kiosk

2012-03-15 Thread Evan Ingram
On 15/03/12 13:25, Evan Ingram wrote: > However when I choose the kiosk session and log in it seems to get stuck > in some kind of loop and just continually starts new chrome windows. > i redid it with just this in my xsessions/chromeKiosk.sh file: #!/bin/bash while true; do chromium-b

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp chrome kiosk

2012-03-15 Thread Evan Ingram
I want to set up a thin client internet kiosk. I followed steps to set up chrome to start in a kiosk mode here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-Up-Ubuntu-as-a-Kiosk-Web-Appliance/step6/Set-up-Kiosk-Desktop-Mode-in-Xsessions/ However when I choose the kiosk session and log in it seems

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-09 Thread Evan Ingram
On 09/11/2010 06:38, Peter D Knight wrote: > On ubuntu 10.04 I set > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rulles > KERNEL="fuse", GROUP="users",MODE="0666" > Hope it helps > Peter i tried this and it made no change :( -- The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-08 Thread Evan Ingram
On 08/11/2010 16:25, Gideon Romm wrote: > You are good-to-go with fuse. > > If you have ltspfs installed on the server, and the users are not all > in the same group, it should "just work". how do you mean the "users are not all in the same group" ?? all users are in the "users" group, ive added

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-08 Thread evan . ingram
Quoting Gideon Romm : > Many distros have compiled fuse statically into the kernel rather than > shipping it as a module. The better way to check is with: > > grep fuse /proc/filesystems @sss-ltsp:~$ grep fuse /proc/filesystems nodev fuse fuseblk nodev fusectl im running ubuntu 10.04

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-08 Thread evan . ingram
Quoting evan.ing...@cariss.co.uk: > Quoting JF Straeten : >> >> Just load the module with 'modprobe fuse' >> >> (fuse is mandatory before going further...) >> > > no change, i didnt get any output from modprobe fuse ?? > > @ltsp:~$ sudo modprobe fuse > @ltsp:~$ sudo lsmod | grep fuse > @ltsp:~$ >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-08 Thread evan . ingram
Quoting JF Straeten : > > Just load the module with 'modprobe fuse' > > (fuse is mandatory before going further...) > no change, i didnt get any output from modprobe fuse ?? @ltsp:~$ sudo modprobe fuse @ltsp:~$ sudo lsmod | grep fuse @ltsp:~$ ---

[Ltsp-discuss] local devices

2010-11-08 Thread evan . ingram
hi all im having some problems with local devices, in particular usb drives. ive dropped out to a console screen on the thin client, and having created a root passwd on the chroot have logged in using that. lsusb shows the flash disk mass storage device. fdisk -l shows me a device at /dev/sdb1. m

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread Evan Ingram
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:17 +0100, Chris Roberts wrote: > Is this the case also with the admin install? In which case it sounds like a > pure wine problem, perhaps best tackled on the winehq forums. > having problems running it on the admin install as well. > > used a script to copy .wine to a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread Evan Ingram
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:43 +0100, Evan Ingram wrote: > got another problem though. whenever a user opens a publisher document > on a thin client a .lnk file is created for the document. so if i open > mydoc.pub a file mydoc.pub.lnk is created and is not removed when i > close the do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread Evan Ingram
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 08:16 -0700, h...@neg9.org wrote: > When you think about wine try to think of each .wine as a single user > windows computer, and think of anything out side of that dir as being > on the network. excel still not working, but they may just have to live with that and use calc i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread Evan Ingram
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 08:16 -0700, h...@neg9.org wrote: > Take the set up you have and copy > your working .wine dir to another user's home, fix the perms on that > .wine, and try it. bingo! publisher and word seem to work ok. but excel is throwing up a problem. "excel has encountered a problem a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread Evan Ingram
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 00:19 -0700, h...@neg9.org wrote: > > You could basically set up a "mapped drive" like "x:" thats a symlink > to a shared location. Then you install all software to that shared > location. Your temp files and everything would still be on "c:" (in > each user's .wine) but the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread Evan Ingram
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:28 +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Very interesting, especially the part with the symlinks is exactly what > is important here. We are using crossover because I didn't have the time > to dive so deeply into the world of wine tweaking :-) And crossover is > doing it th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread Evan Ingram
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:48 +0200, Reiner Schmid wrote: > Hello, > > a few years ago I used the informations from > > http://bootpolish.net/home_howto_installwineonltsp > > to use wine programs coming up with the same problem when I run WINEPREFIX="/usr/share/appname" wineprefixcreate wine: /u

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [OT] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread Evan Ingram
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 00:46 +0200, Gian Carlo Stagni wrote: > You had to exclude using OpenOffice, why? end user decision :( -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3,

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-04 Thread Evan Ingram
hi all i need to install microsoft office onto an ltsp ubuntu 10.04 installation. has anyone done this before? i need a "1 install for all users" kind of wine environment, as the standard is for each user to have their own .wine profile directory with their own software. i figured i could just mo

[Ltsp-discuss] editing application menus

2010-09-28 Thread evan . ingram
hi i need to modify 500 users application menus. how can i do this in one go? is it possible to make these changes using gconf-editor? -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them t

[Ltsp-discuss] ubuntu 10.04 out of the box issues

2010-09-22 Thread evan . ingram
hi all ive installed ltsp using the alternate cd on ubuntu 9.10 before and it just works. i've tried doing exactly the same using 10.04 and ive got problems... booting the client machines it connects and gets dhcp ip from the server and does the usual loading the kernel etc from tftp, sorry i don

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NX to ltsp server that uses icewm and idesk

2010-03-04 Thread Evan Ingram
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:53 +, Chris Roberts wrote: > You also don't say which > server component you are using - freenx, nxserver or neatx. sorry yep freenx. i tried just running /usr/bin/idesk on its own as the custom desktop, and i get the same results, just a little icewm taskbar. mig

[Ltsp-discuss] NX to ltsp server that uses icewm and idesk

2010-03-03 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi there, i've got an LTSP server that has a locked down desktop with only 2 desktop icons. used icewm and idesk to achieve this. i want to be able to log in to the same desktop remotely for testing purposes, ie if i remotely make changes to the config i want to be able to remotely connect to the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] remote desktop to the actual ltsp server

2010-01-13 Thread Evan Ingram
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 17:23 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: > When you work on any LTSP client you are actually working > _on_the_server_ already. how come things are different if i log in physically on the server though? such as users and groups. if i log in as admin on the box itself i can authorise and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] remote desktop to the actual ltsp server

2010-01-13 Thread Evan Ingram
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 11:47 +, Evan Ingram wrote: > ~$ vncviewer 10.20.3.13:0 > Connected to RFB server, using protocol version 3.7 > > and then nothing happens. bit more on this... that was when a user account was logged into ltsp. with no logins i get: ~$ vncviewer 10.20.3.

[Ltsp-discuss] remote desktop to the actual ltsp server

2010-01-13 Thread Evan Ingram
hi there haven't got a monitor or keyboard attached to the actual server but i'd like to do some bits on it. figured i'd be able to just remote into it by ssh'ing in with -X and running vino-preferences to enable remote desktop, then just using vncviewer. all fine until running vncviewer, i just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pxes bootloader on compact flash memory card

2010-01-12 Thread Evan Ingram
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 18:56 +0100, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: > Try to download a gPXE Linux kernel from > http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.9/contrib/rom-o-matic/ > and put it on the CF card, create a entry in GRUB's menu.lst for it > (just like the NetBootRom entry), and try to boot. > Should

[Ltsp-discuss] pxes bootloader on compact flash memory card

2010-01-11 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi all, a cleverer person than I set up PXES on a compact flash memory card with a compact flash>ide adapter to plug into some machines I had that had no onboard pxe enabled network adapters, this was to enable them to use my ltsp server. I now want to update my ltsp server from opensuse 9.x to ub

[Ltsp-discuss] RAM requirements

2009-12-16 Thread Evan Ingram
hi i've seen various numbers quoted for ram requirements on an ltsp server; "ranging from 256Mb + 32Mb per client to 1024Mb + 64Mb per client." what are peoples findings in the real world? i need to spec up a server for a school implementation of about 64 workstations, so needs to perform usual w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow client performance

2009-12-04 Thread Evan Ingram
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:28 +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > While it is true that everything is done on the server, the client CPU and > Ram > are still used by XWindow. Further more, some "optimized" applications use > the > cllient ram as a cache (Firefox and nearly all browsers, OpenOffic

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow client performance

2009-11-30 Thread Evan Ingram
thanks for your help but On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:46 +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote: > I use Thincan too (but more recent ones) > There was some problemq with the geode display driver: > - it was not in the chroot by default > install xserver-xorg-video-geode in the chroot and update your image see

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow client performance

2009-11-11 Thread Evan Ingram
1 at the moment :) On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:16 +, Hugo Serrano wrote: > Hi. > > How many ThinClients do you have connected to this server? > > Regards! > > > > Evan Ingram wrote: > > hi all, > > > > this is my first ltsp implementat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow client performance

2009-11-11 Thread Evan Ingram
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:15 +0200, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: > You should use this kind of lts.conf - I do at school where thin clients > are HP t5125/t5135 - they are in same category - nice to look and quiet, > but not so fast ones. > > [Default] > X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 > LDM_DIRECTX=True > X_R

[Ltsp-discuss] slow client performance

2009-11-11 Thread Evan Ingram
hi all, this is my first ltsp implementation using ubuntu. used the alternate 9.10 installer and chose install ltsp server pressing f4 on boot. and it works out of the box, impressive. server is an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3120 @ 3.16GHz with 4gb ram. client is ThinCan DBE61A; Processor: AMD Ge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-build-client failure

2009-10-26 Thread Evan Ingram
Ok, solved. Not an issue with LTSP, was an issue with my network, DNS was failing intermittently. On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:31 +, Evan Ingram wrote: > Having issues building ltsp client environment on xubuntu 9.04. > > Threw up an error during install at the build ltsp client st

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-build-client failure

2009-10-26 Thread Evan Ingram
Having issues building ltsp client environment on xubuntu 9.04. Threw up an error during install at the build ltsp client stage using alternate cd F4 installation, screen went red, I skipped and continued the rest of the install. Removed the /opt/ltsp/i386 directory and ran ltsp-build-client and i

[Ltsp-discuss] pxe or etherboot ??

2009-10-15 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi there, im wanting to create an LTSP server, and am struggling to find info on the merits of pxe or etherboot. Is one better than the other? Is one taking over from the other? Plenty of info out there about what each one is but I don't really understand if one should be chosen over the other. I

[Ltsp-discuss] ubuntu 8.10 ltsp5 nvidia drivers

2009-02-20 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi my ltsp5 server is running on ubuntu 8.10 and im trying to connect a client that has an nvidia graphics chip. without making any changes the client boots and displays fine except that it only has 640x480 and 800x600 available. xrandr only shows those 2 resolutions. i figure i need the nvidia d

[Ltsp-discuss] [Fwd: ubuntu 8.10 ltsp5 nvidia drivers]

2009-02-20 Thread Evan Ingram
this email i sent seemed to fail before.. trying again. cheers --- Begin Message --- Hi my ltsp5 server is running on ubuntu 8.10 and im trying to connect a client that has an nvidia graphics chip. without making any changes the client boots and displays fine except that it only has 640x480 and 8

[Ltsp-discuss] suspend session

2006-12-21 Thread Evan Ingram
Is there any way i can suspend a session and restart it again later and at a different location without losing anything i had open? Much like what you'd do with "screen". Ideally i'd like to be able to use NX also so i can resume a session from a remote location. ~Evan Powered by Open-Xchange.com

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound woes

2006-12-12 Thread Evan Ingram
-noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0.2.36 /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0 /usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0.2.36 /usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0 same for libesd.so.* ~Evan On Dec 12, 2006 10:51 AM, Noel wrote: > Evan Ingra

[Ltsp-discuss] sound woes

2006-12-11 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi all. I'm having some difficulties with sound on a lts running on suse10.0 with kde. The server machine has no soundcard and im using esd server. On the client i get sound in some of the games ive used to test, namely supertux, gnometris, frozen bubble. But i dont get any sound in anything else.