[K12OSN] *sigh* FC2 issues
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Wed Aug 11 20:58:41 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:25, Andrew wrote:
> I know redhat helped a lot with the early stages. But it seems that the
> fedora model just isn't right for k12ltsp. At this rate FC3 will be out
> by the time we have a reliable fc2.Wouldn't it make more sense to drop
> fedora? I did. Debian comes to mind, but for those of us living in
> netware systems maybe suse would be a good candidate? I don't mean to be
> a killjoy, but I haven't been comfortable with any of the 4.X k12ltsps,
> and I get the sense that the prob might be fedora itself.
To spare everyone the agony of repeating this beat-to-death thread, I'll
just point back to the archives ;-) January 2004 had quite a few posts
on the subject:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-January/thread.html#01337
Here is the link to my point-of-view, which has not changed much in the
six months since I wrote this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-January/msg01337.html
-Eric
> >On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 07:14, Shawn Powers wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Apparently the things I tested in beta were not the things I should have
> >>been testing... Because now I'm installing 4.1.0 -- and I'm running into
> >>troublesome issues... Anyone have suggestions:
> >>
> >>1) I like kdm, with the login/password dialog on the same screen. I
> >>always use kdm, but now, in the kdm configuration (in kcontrol) I don't
> >>have the option to remove the sessions I don't want (ie, everything but
> >>icewm) Is there a new configuration place for this? I don't even see
> >>"Reset your Desktop" as an option in kdm.
> >>
> >>2) I guess that was it -- but #1 involves several issues, the "Reset
> >>Desktop" session is gone, and I can't disable everything but IceWM. IN
> >>FACT, IceWM isn't even an option in kdm anymore...
> >>
> >>Were there drastic changes in the way kdm behaves? I have gotten rid of
> >>kdm and gdm, so that xdm is used -- but it doesn't have the option (of
> >>course) to reset desktop either...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >KDM did indeed make a change that none of us caught. I've fixed IceWM and
> >will start work on "Reset Desktop". The updated IceWM has already been added
> >to the update repository.
> >
> >I don't see an option to change sessions in kcontrol. You can do it the
> >"manual" way by removing the sessions you don't want from /usr/share/xessions/
> >
> >-Eric
> >
> >
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