We have an environment where our users don't always use the same machines, and most of the machines have different graphics card and monitor configurations - many of them have dual-monitors in various layouts, some have widescreens, etc.
The lts.conf xrandr settings affect LDM (login screen), but the settings are not carried forward to the Desktop Environment (XFCE in our case) after login. XFCE wants to impose whatever the user's last configuration was, but that may have been on a different machine, so the user often ends up with the wrong resolution / layout / configuration after logging in, and must manually reconfigure the settings. To solve this, I had someone write a script to issue a xrandr command based on the network MAC address of the machine (similarly to how lts.conf works, but this is executed AFTER login). This should work for both fat and thin clients (thin should use ltsp-localapps when running the script). I've posted it here: https://github.com/gdi2k/mac2xrandr We've been running it for a couple of weeks and it works consistently for us. Maybe it's useful to others too. Perhaps such a feature could be added to LTSP one day so monitor settings just be set once in lts.conf and work both for LDM and whatever DE is being logged into. You're welcome to use this code if it's suitable of course. Side note: We disable one monitor on dual-monitor setups for LDM as the username entry field splits across the edges of the screens, causing usability issues. Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
