LTSP 5.2 and localapps

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:38 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:40 AM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Sameer,
> >>>>
> >>>> Had any luck on this yet?
> >>>> Probably nothing, but I did notice that in your post you put a space after
> >>>> each comma on the LOCAL_APPS_MENU_ITEMS= line and on the sample provided in
> >>>> the page you linked to there was no space there.  I still don't really get
> >>>> the inner workings of local-apps well enough to know if that's important.
> >>>> Good luck.
> >>>>
> >>>> David
> >>>>
> >>
> >> So, I tried the localapps approach without spaces, but it doesn't
> >> work. I used LOCAL_APPS_MENU_ITEMS=firefox,audacity and checked the
> >> menu items in the thin client, but these remain unchanged.
> >>
> >> Sameer
> >>
> >
> > I must also mention that i am on Karmic without LTSP5.2 I am using
> > LTSP that comes with Karmic now (no PPA). Any help with multiple
> > localapps will be great.
> >
> > Sameer
> >
> 
> Stop the press!!! I'm seeing a strange config. The localapps string
> with commas works, but not if I log into the thin client using the
> main admin/sudo account. The menu items all show localapps menu items
> in all the other accounts, but not in the main account. I'm off to
> class, but will investigate this further.
> 
> Sameer
> -- 
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Information Systems
> Director, Campus Business Solutions
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://cbs.sfsu.edu/
> http://is.sfsu.edu/
> 

Hello,

It might be worth noting that these menu items work by inheriting.
I don't remember the exact order where we apply them in LTSP but it's
possible that this user has "negative" entries in its .config/menus/
directory that'd prevent the localapps entries from showing up.

Alternatively, some permission issues might be a source for that issue
as well.

Can you try making a backup of that user's home directory, then empty it
completely and try logging in ?


-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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