Re: [Thinstation-developer] How to show the clients IP address from the main menu
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From: Trevor B. <tre...@us...> - 2006-07-24 21:41:18
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Quoting Mike Eriksen <thi...@gm...>: > On 7/24/06, Trevor Batley <tre...@us...> wrote: >> >> Jason, >> >> I know that we ('the developers' :-)) don't look at the feature >> requests raised on sourceforge very often (about once every three >> months), but I'm trying to get a bit more formality happening and we'll >> loose these good suggestions if we don't put them somewhere more >> permanent than the list. > > > OK, so is this our new policy? Fine with me, I just want to know :-) > Sorry for making a 'policy' statement. Was just worried we'd lose some more good (and simple) ideas. > The same goes for bug reports??? (the formal SF TS "bugs"). > We probably should, it's just that it's too easy to lose these suggestions on the list. We need to record them somewhere so that we don't lose sight of them (and the only thing we have other than the lists ATM are the sourceforge tools). There are a number of good items that have come up, we have agreed are good ideas and then they get lost over time.... > If so, we better update the web on this. > No, I think the site is fine. Report it to the developer forum, and if we think it's worthwhile we ask them to raise it formally as a Feature-Request or Bug-Report (we don't need to document the last bit). What do you think? (better late than never... :-)) Trevor B > Mike > > > So could you please raise this suggestion (and the remote poweroff one) >> as feature-requests via the sourceforge site >> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinstation) >> >> I promise that I'll try and get Miles & myself to review thes more >> often... :-) >> >> Thanks >> Trevor B >> >> Quoting Jason Meers <Jas...@mv...>: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Here is how to show the ip address of a client from the main menu. >> > >> > This means you no longer have to do dhcp, dns or wins lookups to resolve >> > a client to an IP address. >> > >> > The user can still CTRL-ALT-F1 to read the address back to you and then >> > CTRL-ALT-F3 back to their live session without having to log off and on >> > again. >> > >> > >> > >> > Approx line 7 ./packages/base/etc/init.d/menu >> > >> > ---- snip ---- >> > echo -e "s/\$TS_VERSION/$TS_VERSION/g\n \ >> > s/\$CLIENT_IP/$CLIENT_IP/g\n \ >> > s/\$CLIENT_NAME/$CLIENT_NAME/g" >> /tmp/script >> > ---- snip ---- >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Approx line 1 ./packages/base/etc/replimenu/main.tpl >> > >> > ---- snip ---- >> > caption = Thinstation $TS_VERSION on $CLIENT_NAME ($CLIENT_IP) >> > colorscheme = 2 >> > ---- snip --- >> > >> > >> > I think it would also be good to change the "replimenu 0.9" text at the >> > bottom of the screen to read "www.thinstaion.org" or something similar. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Jason Meers >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >> your >> > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >> > >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Thinstation-developer mailing list >> > Thi...@li... >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-developer >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >> your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> Thinstation-developer mailing list >> Thi...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-developer >> > > > > -- > Thinstation FAQ maintainer > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net > - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS > |