| VSpike | Hi - I've installed edubuntu on a reject PC (1800+ Athlon, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD) and I've actually installed xfce-desktop package and am running xfce because gnome is a bit sluggish | 11:22 |
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| VSpike | I'm going to donate the machine to a nursery/preschool so I wanted some way of having a launcher with really big buttons for the common apps (like gcompris, tuxpaint etc) | 11:23 |
| VSpike | Any good ideas? | 11:23 |
| VSpike | Currently thinking either really big desktop icons or maybe wbar | 11:23 |
| ogra | thee are various idesk, pcmanfm come to mind | 11:33 |
| VSpike | pcmanfm is an interesting idea | 12:09 |
| VSpike | For desktop icons you mean? | 12:10 |
| VSpike | I'm not sure that either give me anything that the xfce desktop doesn't already, unless I'm being thick | 12:11 |
| ogra | yup | 12:11 |
| ogra | well, right, ideed you can just use xfce as well :) | 12:11 |
| ogra | i was just pointing out alternatives | 12:11 |
| VSpike | Yeah, i use openbox myself - and i do find myself missing desktop icons a bit | 12:11 |
| VSpike | i'm still finding software that i like, so have used rox a bit which can also do a pinboard | 12:12 |
| VSpike | But idesk looks neat as it's not tied to a fm | 12:12 |
| VSpike | And I still can't commit to fm :) | 12:12 |
| VSpike | But I think for the job in question something more launcher-ish, like a panel quick launch, or wbar, or even something like the stuff they put on the eee would be good | 12:13 |
| VSpike | Although I dont like it myself awn would be good but I think it would kill that pc | 12:13 |
| VSpike | wbar is light | 12:14 |
| VSpike | Hmm i think I'll try out idesk on my own box.. thanks for the pointer | 12:15 |
| ogra | :) | 12:15 |
| VSpike | Something like the xp start menu where you could pin some apps and where it remembered commonly used ones would also be good | 12:16 |
| VSpike | I've seen some alternative application menus for gnome but not yet liked any of them or found them stable | 12:16 |
| neil_d | Hi I have a set of scripts that make a CUPS printer that emails whatever was printed, anyone interested ? | 12:56 |
| stgraber | ogra: I just made that italc-inchroot thing works correctly here :) | 16:40 |
| stgraber | so you can now have ica running on all thin clients | 16:40 |
| stgraber | and have the italc interface running on the server connect to them | 16:40 |
| * ogra dances | 16:40 | |
| ogra | yay | 16:40 |
| stgraber | then when starting a demo, only the link between the two ica (thin clients) will be started without using any server ressource (localapps kind of thing :)) | 16:40 |
| stgraber | demo should now be CPU free for the server | 16:41 |
| stgraber | and in some cases better for the network as well, as it's now a VNC connection you have instead of the X11 traffic you had and it'll stay in the classroom without killing the servers network | 16:42 |
| TheBartman | anyone around | 17:03 |
| TheBartman | yo | 17:20 |
| TheBartman | anyone around | 17:32 |
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| Muhammad_Saad | Hello, I want to know how I can re-install GRUB from Edubuntu 7.10 CD? | 19:18 |
| dan63043 | anybody around? When my thin client tries to boot, it hangs on the USB hid-core.c driver loading. If I disable the USB on the motherboard, no problem. Wht to do? | 22:22 |
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