Recent changes to LTSP notes

LTSP notes modified by Jon Trulson

Jon Trulson — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:03:21 -0000

--- v15
+++ v16
@@ -78,4 +78,8 @@
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/
 ~~~~
 When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed, a yellow vertical bar has appearred to the left of the icon, and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
-You may see the screenshots [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)
+You may see the screenshots here:
+
+[[img src=usb-active1.png]]
+[[img src=usb-active2.png]]
+

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:33:16 -0000

--- v14
+++ v15
@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@
 cp -r /usr/dt/config/xfonts/* /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/dt/config/xfonts/
 ~~~~

-Modern systems do not have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. So we create it in the chroot environment:
+Modern systems do not have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Instead the configuration is placed in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
 ~~~~
 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
-cd /etc/X11/
+cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
 ~~~~
-create here a file named xorg.conf with contents:
+(or `cd /etc/X11/` on old systems)
+create here a file named 99-cde.conf (or xorg.conf on old systems) with contents:

 ~~~~
 Section "Files"

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:39:40 -0000

--- v13
+++ v14
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
    ALTERNATE_ICON USBdriveconnected
 }
 ~~~~
-You obviously need the icons stated above. Get them from [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/files/ltsp-usb.tgz) and put the icons in 
+You obviously need the icons stated above. Get them from [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/files/usb-icons.tgz) and put the icons in

 ~~~~
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:38:33 -0000

--- v12
+++ v13
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
    ALTERNATE_ICON USBdriveconnected
 }
 ~~~~
-You obviously need the icons stated above. Get them from [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/files/ltsp-usb.tgz) and put the icons in 
+You obviously need the icons stated above. Get them from [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/files/ltsp-usb.tgz) and put the icons in

 ~~~~
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:37:01 -0000

--- v11
+++ v12
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 ltsp-update-image
 ~~~~

-Now CDE should load properly on the thin clients (provided that our fonts.alias are tested to work on a standalone system).
+Now CDE should load properly on the thin clients (provided that your fonts.alias are tested to work on a standalone system).

 -----

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:36:17 -0000

--- v10
+++ v11
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 FontPath "/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C/"
 EndSection
 ~~~~
-where the C above can be changed to your language if its is supported (chech the contents of /usr/dt/config/xfonts/)
+where the C above can be changed to your language if its is supported (check the contents of /usr/dt/config/xfonts/)

 Having root priviledges we recreate the ltsp image:
 ~~~~

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:35:22 -0000

--- v9
+++ v10
@@ -76,5 +76,5 @@
 ~~~~
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/
 ~~~~
-When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
+When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed, a yellow vertical bar has appearred to the left of the icon, and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
 You may see the screenshots [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:25:37 -0000

--- v8
+++ v9
@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/
 ~~~~
 When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
-You may see the screenshots [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)
+You may see the screenshots [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage-en/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:23:27 -0000

--- v7
+++ v8
@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@
 /etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/
 ~~~~
 When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
-You may see the screenshots ![here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and ![here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)
+You may see the screenshots [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)

LTSP notes modified by Antonis Tsolomitis

Antonis Tsolomitis — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:22:56 -0000

--- v6
+++ v7
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

 **2nd:** The Xserver must know of your fonts and font aliases. On a standalone system this is done automatically by CDE as it starts. But the problem with LTSP is that the Xserver runs on the thin client but CDE runs on the LTSP server, and the mechanism that sets the aliases does not work. So one solution is to manually add a FontPath line to the chroot tree of ltsp. 

-First we install the fonts we are aliasing to, to the choot environment.
+We install the fonts we are aliasing to and the fonts.alias, in the choot environment.
 We assume that the chroot tree is an i386 one. Otherwise replace i386 with amd64 below.
 For Ubuntu and using the default font aliases that point to mscore fonts, we do:
 ~~~~
@@ -46,4 +46,35 @@

 -----

+**3rd** The LTSP server mounts usb keys attached to the thinclient at the server's location
+~~~~
+/media/$USER
+~~~~
+We take advantage of  the capabilities of the CDE panel's controls to watch for a file, in order to get notified that a usb key has been mounted and easily navigate to the correct directory.
+First create the file 
+~~~~
+/etc/dt/appconfig/types/C/ltsp-usb.fp
+~~~~
+(or use your language instead of C) with contents:

+~~~~
+CONTROL MonitorUSBkeys
+{
+   TITLE MonitorUSBkeys
+   TYPE file
+   CONTAINER_TYPE       SUBPANEL
+   CONTAINER_NAME       Home
+   POSITION_HINTS       last
+   FILE_NAME    /media/$USER
+   MONITOR_TYPE file
+   ICON USBdrivedisconnected
+   ALTERNATE_ICON USBdriveconnected
+}
+~~~~
+You obviously need the icons stated above. Get them from [here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/files/ltsp-usb.tgz) and put the icons in 
+
+~~~~
+/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/
+~~~~
+When a usb key is inserted in the thinclient, the arrow on the HOME subpanel becomes yellow. Thus you get notified that the state of the usb control inside the subpanel has changed. Opening the subpanel you may check the the icon also has changed and clicking on it Dtfile opens in /media/$USER location.
+You may see the screenshots ![here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active1.png) and ![here](http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/software/cde/screenshots/usb-active2.png)