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  Today's Topics:

     1. initial thoughts on ltsp kiosk plugin (Gavin McCullagh)


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  Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:01:27 +0100
  From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com<mailto:gmccullagh at gmail.com>>
  Subject: initial thoughts on ltsp kiosk plugin
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  Hi all,

  we started using Oliver's LTSP kiosk plugin last night in the school
  library.  It's really nice, even though there are a few small things that
  may need ironing out.  In case anyone's interested or knows something I
  don't, here are my initial notes.

  1. for some reason metacity didn't install.  I didn't get a log of the
     ltsp-build-client, but for some reason, metacity didn't install and
     therefore firefox is running window manager-less.  I presume this is
     not deliberate as ~kiosk/.xsession tries to invoke metacity.

  2. I don't imagine this is something that will be changed but I added
     sun-java5-plugin and flashplugin-nonfree in the chroot to make sites
     that use these work better.

  3. I tried out sound with a couple of flash sites.  It didn't work, though
     it was clear that there was static on the headphones which was
     correlated to the sound I should have been getting.  This may be flash
     specific, I'm not sure.

  4. firefox didn't go into full screen.  This may be related to the lack of
     window manager, I'm not sure.  If you press [F11] it did.

  5. I need to test if USB keys work.

  6. RAM seems in reasonable supply (just lots being cached), but I'm not
     certain if this is a good measure.
  $ free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:        125224     118516       6708          0          0      53492
  -/+ buffers/cache:      65024      60200
  Swap:        32760        724      32036

  6. I'm thinking of ways we could perhaps expand on this.  Perhaps: 
     - a DVD player kiosk
     - add a multimedia player plugin to the existing firefox kiosk
     - make a simple application kiosk usable with data or even home
       directory stored on USB key.
     As we have very little time to give accounts to all students, it's
     possible this route might help give greater access to students.

  Gavin




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