RE: [Sheflug] LTSP / KDE

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Thanks for everyone's contributions. I've ended up settling 
> with the 
> > Gnome desktop. We're using SuSE9.0 on the server. When I 
> switched over 
> > to using gdm, the remote terminals packed up due to lack of display 
> > manager (sure enough, nothing listening on UDP 177 on the 
> server). I 
> > made the switch using YAST2's sysconfig editor which did 
> warn me that 
> > there was no remote access using gdm... I chose to ignore 
> it. I've now 
> > switched back to using kdm and the terminals are working fine.
> 
> Sounds like SUSE didn't enable XDMCP for gdm; this can be 
> done using the graphical app gdmconfig or by manually editing 
> the gdm.conf file.

I'll take a look - thanks for the pointer.


> 
> You'd be better off using epiphany or galeon for the browser, 
> because the XML used by mozilla/moz firefox doesn't cache as 
> well so you use more memory in a thin client environment. The 
> pages look the same as all use the moz gecko rendering engine.

I'll take a look at galeon. It's installed; just not linked in on the
menus.

-- 
David
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