./utxconfig -e -t <token>

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Constantine Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Did you have to restart the services for it to work?  I used the command
> that you mentioned and the settings have not taken effect.  Also, what is
> the syntax to remove the token from the db?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:35 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] UTRESADM per user token
>
> Thanks ottomeister,
>
> I tried utxconfig and successfully set one of my tokens to 1024x768
> while the rest stay at the default 1280x1024.  The command I used for
> others is utxconfig -r 1024x768 -t <payflex token number>.
>
> Thanks very much - now to incorporate this into my kiosk
> script....hopefully using the "other info" field in the token setup....
>
> Kevin
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:30:31 -0700
> From: ottomeister <[email protected]>
> To: SunRay-Users mailing list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] UTRESADM per user token
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Nelson, Kevin
> (FacilicorpNB)<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> > utresadm ?a ?c default ?t <payflex user token> 1024x...@60.
> >
> > With this command I get an error stating that if I use default for the
> DTU
> > then I must user default for the User Token.? Am I missing something??
> I
> > have seen posts that use default for the user token and specify a MAC
> for
> > the DTU and this works ? should this then not work the other way by
> stating
> > a payflex token to use a specific screen resolution on any DTU it
> connects
> > to?
>
> You can fix the timing for a DTU regardless of the token (that's the
> '-c <dtu> -t default' combination).  You can not fix the timing for a
> token regardless of the DTU (that would be '-c default -t <token>',
> but the command won't accept that.)
>
> The first is allowed because it's not unusual to have a DTU that is
> attached to a monitor or to other video equipment that does not
> respond to DDC but must nevertheless be driven with a specific
> timing.
>
> The second is disallowed because it creates a huge risk that the
> token will become unusable when hotdesked to some DTUs.  The
> monitors attached to those DTUs may be unable to accept the timing
> that has been tied to the token. When this happens it's very hard to
> figure out what's giong on and there's nothing the user can do to
> recover from it, other than getting an admin to intervene.  (If this
> mode was allowed then it would also create an interesting conflict:
> if both the DTU and the token have a forced timing, which timing
> wins?  But that's resolvable, it's not the reason why
> '-c default -t <token>' is disallowed.)
>
> The safer way to do all of this, provided that your monitors respond
> to DDC requests, is to not use 'utresadm' at all.  Instead use
> 'utxconfig' to force the dimensions of the X desktop.  This allows the
> DTU to choose a monitor timing that matches the desktop, and since
> the DTU will never drive a timing that the monitor can not accept
> there's no risk that any token will be shut out by forcing a timing that
> its monitor can not accept.  'utxconfig' lets the admin set a
> system-wide default for the desktop dimensions of all tokens or for
> individual tokens, and it also lets the user set the dimensions for an
> individual token. (That's assuming that the user has access to the
> 'utxconfig' command.  If you're using kiosk mode then the users might
> not have access to any local commands.)
>
> OttoM.
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>
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