localapps

[Luis Montes]

Just a stab in the dark since I don't have localapps working yet,

try quoting the argument to ltsp-localapps

/usr/bin/ltsp-localapps  "/usr/bin/firefox -url http://www.kclogin.com"

also, i dont think you need -url if the only parameter to firefox is the 
url.

Luis




rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> Robert,
>
> I have firefox running as a local app and it is working great.  I am
> trying to setup an icon that the kids can click on to take them to a
> specific site, www.kclogin.com.  This is a flash based program that we
> have been testing.  I can't simply make a shotcut to the site like I
> would typically do with Firefox (drag and drop the address from the
> toolbar to the desktop).  I have tried several switches from the command
> line to start localapp firefox with a specific URL.  The switches don't
> seem to work.  The exact command that I was trying is
> /usr/bin/ltsp-localapps  /usr/bin/firefox -url http://www.kclogin.com. 
> Do you know of any way that this can be accomplished.  This is for the
> young kids, the older kids can just simply type the site in the address
> bar.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: very slow login times
> From: <rmcdaniel at indata.us>
> Date: Thu, November 06, 2008 1:13 pm
> To: "Development discussion of K12Linux"
> <k12linux-devel-list at redhat.com>
>
> I found one of your post addressing this! Thanks.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net/msg35351.html
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: very slow login times
> From: "Robert Arkiletian" <robark at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, November 06, 2008 12:13 pm
> To: "Development discussion of K12Linux"
> <k12linux-devel-list at redhat.com>
>
> On 11/6/08, rmcdaniel at indata.us <rmcdaniel at indata.us> wrote:
>   
>> Here's the scoop this morning. I have run all updates on the server and
>> rebuilt the client /opt/ltsp/i386 to make sure that I had all current
>> updates applied. I am still seeing excessive bandwidth used on the
>> switch with just 1 thin client attached and booting off of the server.
>> To eliminate any network suspicion, I have a regular pc with XP running
>> off of the same switch in the lab. When I access a youtube video with
>> the thin client, I max my switch port at 100% utilization with 100%
>> unicast packets. When I access the same youtube video with the pc, the
>> switch utilization is very low 2%. It seems like some great
>> inefficiencies in the networking protocols on the thin clients. I can
>>     
>
> Ron this is normal. Youtube is not a good test to see if your setup is
> over utilizing network bandwidth. Youtube will saturate a 100Mbps
> connection. I have tried running a youtube video as a local app and
> the network usage drops dramatically. Here's why.
>
> Flash is a highly compressed video format. The SERVER decompresses it
> and THEN pushes the decompressed stream to the X server on the client.
> This is inefficient for 2 reasons.
>
> 1) the server is taking the cpu load to do the decompression
> 2) your lan is being saturated with decompressed video image data
>
> Try running firefox as a local app and watch the network utilization
> on gnome-system-monitor
>
> This is a big reason why local apps is so important.
>
>