[K12OSN] openoffice-ms-format-defaults.sh in K12LTSP ver 4.1

[Luis Montes]

I hope this setting is something that sticks around in future releases.  
At least until the world wises up and switches to OO.o Writer .sxw files.


While we're goofing around with environmental variables, I've got a 
question:

Is there a way to set other env variables by workstation in lts.conf ?

Would be kind of cool to be able to set any variable that any program 
may need.
For example, maybe I wanted to tweak the Mtools GUI to read from the 
floppy or CD drive on one machine in a section of the lab. Lets say that 
I have 7 of the cool disklessworkstations.com thin clients against one 
wall, and 7 others on another. And on each wall an old pc with a floppy 
and CD.
Seems like env vars specific to the thin clients would be ideal to have 
each row of thin clients able to use the floppy & CD close to them.

Maybe some type of  env var defintion arbitrarily assigned in the 
lts.conf. Starting with a "ENV_" ?
Those could be picked up when the thin client connects, and pre-pended 
to the logging in user's env?

Am I way off base here? Is there already a way to handle this?


Luis




Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Luis Montes wrote:
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>>Not sure what the script did, but here's what worked for me:
>>
>>edit /etc/profile and add this:
>>
>>OOO_MS_DEFAULTS=1
>>
>>Make sure you also append it to the export line with the other env 
>>variables.
>>I couldn't find this information anywhere on the web, but the openoffice 
>>guys on freenode IRC were really helpful.
>>    
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>Oh how do I wish I knew about that little bit of magic!
>
>I'll add this to the next builds of K12LTSP, it is so much easier and
>less error-prone than my current hack.
>
>The "right" way to do this is to create a file in /etc/profile.d/
>let's call it /etc/profile.d/ooo-ms-defaults.sh  and include the
>following:
>
>	export OOO_MS_DEFAULTS=1
>
>-Eric
>
>BTW, google only has three hits on this. One is in a changelog on
>the debian-openoffice list, one is deep in a long perl script, and
>the last one just happens to be included as contextual data in a
>non-related patch. This is definately not common knowledge!
>
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