On 3/16/2015 4:34 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-03-16, John Hupp wrote: >> I want to write a script that, for my thin clients, will run a different >> screen locker if the script detects that it is in an LTSP session. >> >> The biggest problem I'm running into is testing for LTSP. > Check for the LTSP_CLIENT environment variable; it should be set to True > when running in an LTSP environment. > > >> I thought one simple test would be to return the hostname and match it >> against ltsp*. But "ltsp-localapps hostname" has no output. I'm >> running ltsp-pnp and /bin/hostname is certainly in the image. And >> localapps is enabled (I'm using that for another purpose already). In >> fact, I can run "ltsp-localapps xterm" and then run hostname from >> there and get output (clearly not useful for a script). >> >> What am I missing? Does ltsp-localapps not work with apps from /bin? >> If that is the case, can someone think of another solution for my purpose? > That's because ltsp-localapps (on the server) essentially sets an X > property (a.k.a. xatom) that ltsp-localappsd (on the client) reads from > the running X server (on the client) and executes executes the > application specified in the X properties (on the client, displaying to > the client's X server). There's no way to read input or output from > ltsp-localapps. > > > live well, > vagrant
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