Launch FF on start up

[me]

Hi All

I have been trying to get FireFox to launch on the TC at startup. LDM_REMOTECMD doesn't
seem to do the trick so I started playing with a bash script. FF would start but I would
get THREE instances. Ideas?

Also, I never did get a printer loaded on any of the TC's - I could print to it from the
bash screen - 'cp [file] /dev/lp0 or /dev/usblp0' or something like that as I don't
remember just now. I still needed printers so I used some of the 'extra' TC's that I
had laying around for print servers. XPe seems to handle this just fine. One has three
printers attached - parallel and 2 usb's. I did have problems with Fedora 17 and the
cupsd daemon - seems that whomever has not configured the 'Authentication' correctly and
it would never print; with "Waiting for Authentication" in the queue. Geesh, what to
do? I was getting ready to throw my hands in the air and pitch the TC's .. then it
dawned on me that Fedora 14 was the LTSP OS and I made that a print server too.

With the exception of launching an app at start up, everything is working just fine! So
if you have an answer for that, it would be peachy!

todh

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PoBox 1168
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406.293.3843

[Dean Jones]

You can launch applications using the window managers method for starting a
program at login, instead of trying to use an LTSP specific command.

Post by me
Hi All
I have been trying to get FireFox to launch on the TC at startup. LDM_REMOTECMD doesn't
seem to do the trick so I started playing with a bash script. FF would start but I would
get THREE instances. Ideas?
Also, I never did get a printer loaded on any of the TC's - I could print to it from the
bash screen - 'cp [file] /dev/lp0 or /dev/usblp0' or something like that as I don't
remember just now. I still needed printers so I used some of the 'extra' TC's that I
had laying around for print servers. XPe seems to handle this just fine.
One has three
printers attached - parallel and 2 usb's. I did have problems with Fedora 17 and the
cupsd daemon - seems that whomever has not configured the 'Authentication' correctly and
it would never print; with "Waiting for Authentication" in the queue.
Geesh, what to
do? I was getting ready to throw my hands in the air and pitch the TC's .. then it
dawned on me that Fedora 14 was the LTSP OS and I made that a print server too.
With the exception of launching an app at start up, everything is working just fine! So
if you have an answer for that, it would be peachy!
todh
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Todd Hackett Chief Bottle Washer
PoBox 1168
Libby, MT 59923
406.293.3843
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[Barry Cisna]

Todd,

Not sure about doing FF on a particular thin client MAC address but for
a particular user do:

SYSTEM,>PRFERENCES,>STARTUP APPLICATIONS,>ADD,>
'Firefox-/usr/bin/firefox - firefox', in dialogue boxes.

For a locally attached usb printer the following works in the lts.conf
file ( providing the printer is confirmed to work plugged into the
actual server itself, of course)

[00:16:76:44:8E:DC] #mac address of attached TC

PRINTER_0_DEVICE=/dev/usblp0

Take Care,
Barry

[Barry R Cisna]

Todd,

In regards to your locally attached printer.
This is ltsp v5 you are using correct?

1) If your client ends up with an ip address of 172.31.100.101

From the server can you do a,,

telnet 172.31.100.101 9100
,, and get a connect?
If you don't get this connect you will have to keep scraping,,until you
get this successful.

2) What brand of printer is this?
Have you had it connected to the actual server and it works OK connected
locally to your k12linux server?

Take Care,
Barry

[me]

Hi Barry

Post by Barry R Cisna
Todd,
In regards to your locally attached printer.
This is ltsp v5 you are using correct?

believe so

Post by Barry R Cisna
1) If your client ends up with an ip address of 172.31.100.101

From the server can you do a,,

telnet 172.31.100.101 9100
,, and get a connect?
If you don't get this connect you will have to keep scraping,,until you
get this successful.

Actually I do not use the supplied address block. I have a DHCP server setup to work
with the TC's ( 192.168...stuff ). When I was playing with the printers awhile back, I
did try to telnet to'm without luck.

The end result is it was easier and faster to use a couple of the extra TC's that I
have. They are running XPe and I made them print servers. One even has three printers
connected: 2 USB and 1 Parallel. Sure a dirty hack sorta, but it works and I don't have
to jump through hoops to get K12 printers working and can move on to other things.

Post by Barry R Cisna
2) What brand of printer is this?
Have you had it connected to the actual server and it works OK connected
locally to your k12linux server?

Ithaca BankJet and PosJet; both USB and Parallel. Can't test the Parallel on the server
as there is no port for that, but the USB ones did install and work just fine.

todh

Post by Barry R Cisna
Take Care,
Barry
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