Because when students log back in after a freeze, their desktop appears without the top and bottom panels and they can't do anything until I slay them.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:03 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > How do u know it is not working? can u paste some data? > > David Van Assche > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:05 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> I've taken a look into the email in question, and can answer some > >> questions. I in no way am affiliated with canonical, though I do work > >> within the ed/ubuntu community. Firstly, Scott mentions not using > >> 8.04, clearly you should upgrade as that will solve 50% of your > >> issues... the other issues are all valid, and I guess the problem is > >> one of communication between developers and end users. Lets address > >> the issues seperately: > >> > >> - The gnome lingering process problem > >> > >> Agreed.. this is a heavy issue that is a pain in the behind, but it is > >> not LTSP centric... the fault lies with gnome. Right now the > >> workaround is a watchdog script, which seems to work ok, but is by no > >> means a fix... This needs to be tackled from the gnome side... Right > >> now the solution is in monitoring and ending misbehaving processes > >> through the script or by hand via pkill -u or killall. It makes sense > >> to clean all processes at least 1 time per day... consider it > >> maintenance. > > > > I'm actually running the gnome-watchdog package that Philipp Hanselmann > > wrote. It's not working, he's never tested it on 8.04, so it's hardly his > > fault. I sent an email asking if I had to do something extra to make it > > start working and got no answer. > > > > Also, note that, useful as gnome-watchdog is, it's not in any of the > > official repos. Given that it's essential, someone official should have > > adopted it and pulled it into the repos. > > > > Todd > > > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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