Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-23 Thread David Burgess
On 18/04/2008, Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New LTSP5 installation on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Is it possible to disable update notifications from appearing on the clients, but keep them on the server console? The best way (theoretically) to disable anything on a thin client without

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-21 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 11:40 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: In the gconf-editor as root, you can find a key called /apps/update-notifier and check no_show_notifications. Then make it default and/or mandatory -- this applies it to all users. Then you can uncheck it for root only or for any other

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob Owens
In the gconf-editor as root, you can find a key called /apps/update-notifier and check no_show_notifications. Then make it default and/or mandatory -- this applies it to all users. Then you can uncheck it for root only or for any other users you log in as (as long as you didn't use mandatory,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob Owens
I figured out the command for adding the key. Do this as root: gconftool-2 --set -t boolean /apps/update-notifier/no_show_notifications true I'm not sure how to make it mandatory or default w/o the gconf-editor GUI, though. So as root run gconf-editor, find the key we set above, right-click

[Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-18 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
New LTSP5 installation on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Is it possible to disable update notifications from appearing on the clients, but keep them on the server console? Thanks Chuck - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008