Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Todd O'Bryan wrote: As a follow-on to this question, is the XRAMPERC variable that was available in Gutsy still available in Hardy? I added a setting to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf, but users could still crash their terminals by going to a particularly graphics

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Todd O'Bryan kirjoitti: As a follow-on to this question, is the XRAMPERC variable that was available in Gutsy still available in Hardy? I added a setting to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf, but users could still crash their terminals by going to a particularly graphics heavy website

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: $ sudo nano -w /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox.sh exec env MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1 $LIBDIR/$APPNAME $@ Last line is by default like this one: exec $LIBDIR/$APPNAME $@ Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Dean Mumby
I must say that the move from 7.04 to 8.04 has been very disappointing. I have 8 HP t5125 which are 400MHz 128MB ram machines. They ran perfectly under 7.04 avoiding heavy websites. Under 8.04 they are useless if the user starts multitasking , i.e. having an open office document open , email

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread David Van Assche
I can guarantee that its not Ubuntu Hardy's fault... we run really old dell P II 500 mhz with 128MB Ram without any issues at all... server responds instantly to sessions and people can multitask nicely... There were many problems with Firefox 3 beta 5 (which came out as default with hardy) as

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Richard Doyle
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 12:34 +0200, Dean Mumby wrote: I must say that the move from 7.04 to 8.04 has been very disappointing. I have 8 HP t5125 which are 400MHz 128MB ram machines. They ran perfectly under 7.04 avoiding heavy websites. Under 8.04 they are useless if the user starts

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Actually, Firefox v3 has been pretty wonky for other reasons. It's really slow and does weird things, even on my desktop machine, so I had considered uninstalling it and going back to v2. On the other hand, it looks like from Asmo's email that the change to avoid stressing thin clients isn't on

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-08-29 Thread Todd O'Bryan
As a follow-on to this question, is the XRAMPERC variable that was available in Gutsy still available in Hardy? I added a setting to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf, but users could still crash their terminals by going to a particularly graphics heavy website in Firefox. Do I need to do