Hi Gavin
Gavin McCullagh wrote:
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.
I *think* the bug is actually that .xsession calls metacity. From what I
vaguely remember from an IRC discussion with ogra, Firefox is supposed
to run windowless and full-screen. I may be wrong though, either way,
there's a bug.
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.
I think once Java is free, it will be nice to include it as an option
for the build client script. Including GNU Gnash by default would also
be great, imho.
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.
Flash sucks. :)
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.
Hmmm.. perhaps it is supposed to use metacity after all. I just assumed
it used the Firefox kiosk plugin to get to full-screen.
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 sharedbuffers
cached
Mem:125224 118516 6708 0 0
53492
-/+ buffers/cache: 65024 60200
Swap:32760724 32036
Firefox LOVES RAM! And on top of that, it has some nasty unfixed memory
leak bugs :(
What seems best for most people is to just restart Firefox at least once
a day.
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.
All of those are great ideas. The USB home one is the most important in
my opinion. IIRC, Scott Balneaves had some ideas for persistent homes
with LTSP. Perhaps now is a good time to get that implemented.
-Jonathan
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