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

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

2008-08-28 Thread Todd O'Bryan
My students often manage to lock up the terminal, usually as a result of the pixmap bug in Firefox and OpenOffice that has been much discussed. When that happens, they have to power down and restart the client. But when they try to log back in, their login stalls, because their old processes are