[21:46] <markit> hi, I've a problem with tuxmath. In ltsp (thin) full sreen is slow like hell. Can't find if is possible to setup a global value for it start "windowed" by default, except give a command line parameter
[21:46] <markit> but for my scripts is easier add an entry in /etc/whatever than "hack" the command
[21:46] <markit> any tip?
[21:47] <alkisg> except give a command line parameter => so you found a command line parameter for it?
[21:47] <alkisg> hehe, --fullscreen
[21:47] <alkisg> It's not in the man page
[21:47] <markit> -windowed
[21:47] <alkisg> markit: to override programs with command line parameters of your choice, here's a method:
[21:48] <alkisg> put scripts for them in /usr/share/local/bin, e.g.:
[21:48] <alkisg> /usr/local/bin/tuxmath, with contents:
[21:48] <alkisg> #!/bin/sh
[21:48] <alkisg> exec /usr/games/tuxmath --windowed
[21:49] <alkisg> That works even from the menus
[21:49] <markit> (btw, never tried, I've tried F10, it makes things better, but of course not ideal with many clients)
[21:49] <markit> oh, great, I'll try, thanks a lot!
[21:52]  * alkisg used to hate java but now with android I've changed my mind :D
[22:07] <alkisg> markit: did it work?
[22:07] <markit> can't test yet, is a problem I had yesterday at school, and I'm still installing stuff in my new ltsp server
[22:07] <alkisg> markit: btw, another method is to run xrandr to select a low resulution, then run it full screen, and then again xrandr to restore the original resolution ;)
[22:08] <markit> other question was "isn't available something like "word art" in libo?"
[22:08] <alkisg> No idea, but there's cool stuff in openclipart.org
[22:08] <markit> and it's not, and i don't know how to use inkscape, and in any case seems more difficoult
[22:08] <markit> openclipart is about clips
[22:09] <markit> wordart is that you enter a label
[22:09] <markit> and then make it fancy
[22:09] <markit> with tons of effects
[22:09] <markit> or something like that (don't use M$ chains)
[22:09] <markit> hi dgroos!
[22:10] <alkisg> Ah sorry I forgot about wordard, it's been years since I've used word
[22:10] <dgroos> Howdy markit
[22:10] <markit> are you also testing Epoptes?
[22:10] <dgroos1> At this very moment!
[22:11] <markit> 0.2.0?
[22:11] <markit> "the latest the greatest" :)
[22:12] <alkisg> markit: there are many online text logo creation sites though
[22:13] <dgroos1> not sure, whichever one gets automatically installed--how do I tell?
[22:13] <markit> if it has the "monitor student" option is the last
[22:13] <markit> unfortunatly the about box is not updated
[22:13] <alkisg> dpkg -l epoptes
[22:13] <markit> (that option is near the "assist student"
[22:13] <dgroos1> alkisg: How hard would it be to put a users full name as an icon label, instead of their username?
[22:14] <alkisg> dgroos1: it's in the TODO
[22:14] <dgroos1> :)
[22:14] <alkisg> We'll also allow for custom display names
[22:14] <dgroos1> Really is great.  I know my teachers will be happy to use it.
[22:15] <alkisg> E.g. for someone that doesn't have fixed ip addresses for his ltsp clients, so they are like ltsp123, ltsp124 etc,
[22:15] <alkisg> so he'll be able to "rename" them to "pc01", "pc02"
[22:15] <alkisg> That will only be a display name, not a host name, but it should help in those cases
[22:15] <dgroos1> I assume I start it from a fatclient using remote-apps, just like we worked up for starting sch-scripts?
[22:16] <dgroos1> That will be very hand--I've still to update the lts.conf lists since all the movements/expansions in our efforts.
[22:16] <alkisg> dgroos1: I've thought of a better way to do it, when we both have some time we can test it so that it's officially supported in next versions:
[22:16] <alkisg> You install epoptes-client in the ltsp server, and epoptes in the chroot!
[22:16] <alkisg> So it actually runs on your fat client
[22:17] <alkisg> And the other clients connect there; not on the server
[22:17] <alkisg> That would be configurable with lts.conf
[22:17] <alkisg> So, e.g., you'd put:
[22:17] <alkisg> [Default]
[22:17] <alkisg> EPOPTES_SERVER=ltsp123
[22:17] <alkisg> [ltsp123]
[22:17] <alkisg> START_EPOPTES=True
[22:18] <alkisg> So all clients would then contact ltsp123, where your fat client would be
[22:18] <alkisg> One downside is that this client needs a fixed dns name or ip address
[22:19] <alkisg> The good side is that you can broadcast to one class, and another teacher to broadcast to another class, from different machines (from your fat clients), not from the same (the server), doubling the frame rate
[22:19] <alkisg> (those lts.conf variables are not implemented yet)
[22:25] <dgroos1> Cool--easy.
[22:26] <dgroos1> I'll be configuring this for the teachers this weekend and will have some feedback by next week.
[22:27] <dgroos1> Time to take my son to sell wreaths... :)
[22:27] <dgroos1> later.