Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-11 Thread Nicholas Metsovon
that - but most users aren't smart enough to do that. Hope this helps... and isn't too late. --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, November 7

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: Scott wrote: 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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-10 Thread Jarosław Stemplewski
Hi, Ad 2. You can create a 'template' user, fine-tune all the user setting, remove unneeded icons, install firefox plugins, lockdown some gnome apps and settings etc., then copy the whole content of the user folder to /etc/skel. You can also change the location of media mounted on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
Jarosław Stemplewski wrote: You can create a 'template' user, fine-tune all the user setting, remove unneeded icons, install firefox plugins, lockdown some gnome apps and settings etc., then copy the whole content of the user folder to /etc/skel. I don't think this is a very good idea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-10 Thread Jarosław Stemplewski
stuff like Mozilla profiles will be user-specific and aren't exactly portable to copy. AFAIK fresh, clean profile can be copied without any mess. It is trivial to install flash/java/etc globally, without copying the plugins over and over for each user. Sure. But I prefer to set _one_ profile

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
Scott wrote: 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)

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-07 Thread Scott
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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues

2008-11-07 Thread Jordan Erickson
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