[K12OSN] TeacherTool && sound in IceWM

[Rita Gibson]

Ooops. At the very bottom of this, I pasted a copy of the email in the 
thread that contains the link to the how-to written by David Trask. I 
forwarded it to myself at work so that I could do it. I still haven't 
managed to, but have plans with my counterpart at school on diving into 
getting this to work on Friday. Hopefully someone will shed some light 
on the problems Robert is having so that I'll have an easy go of it on 
Friday, time permitting. We are using 4.1.0 so I'm not sure if we will 
encounter the same, or more issues.

Rita Gibson
RMSEL Tech


Dennis Daniels wrote:

> Could you supply a link to this TeacherTool for reading? I'm intrigued :)
>
> dgd
>
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>
>> Running 3.1.2 I had to install the following packages to satisfy 
>> dependencies of Teachertool
>>
>> tk
>> tix
>> tcl
>> itcl
>> tkinter
>>
>> and finally teachertool
>>
>> TeacherTool now works but I can't do the "watchteacher" feature where 
>> you run a demo for the clients.
>> I am using icewm so I dug up some info from the list and changed 
>> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM
>> to
>>
>> xhost +192.168.0.254  #which is the ip of the server
>> . /etc/profile.d/ltsp-esound.sh
>>
>> at the top of the file. But I still get
>>
>> ==========================================
>> Xlib: connection to "ws107.ltsp:0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>> Error: Can't open display: ws107.ltsp:0.0
>> ==========================================
>>
>> I actually was able to run a program on the client but "run vnc" 
>> button did not work so I could not control it. It sure would be nice 
>> if there were some docs that came with teachertool package. Also the 
>> teachertool script refers to a passwd file in /usr/local/share but no 
>> such file exists.
>>
>> By the way I can't get sound in the clients with nasd IF they log 
>> into icewm but gnome works fine. I can't even run aumix under icewm. 
>> It says "error opening mixer" I really like icewm so I want to fix 
>> this. And yes I did follow the wiki as you see above.
>>
>> Robert Arkiletian
>>
>>
>
(HOWTO)

This is already possible with vncreflector....I know as I've done
it...here's the how-to  (it integrates with TeacherTool)
http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/vncreflector/    file are in here.

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com <javascript:void(0)>> on
Thursday, November 04, 2004 at 8:19 AM +0000 wrote:
>Martin Woolley wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 12:55 am, Eric Harrison wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Here are the initial wish-list items. Keep'em coming!
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>One thing the teachers here would like is the ability to mirror one X
>session 
>>onto a selcted number of other X sessions.  Let me explain.  The teacher
>runs 
>>a thin client just as the classroom full of students do.  The teacher
>would 
>>like to bring up say a ooimpress presentation on their session and have
>it 
>>display on all of the students machines at the same time, so that the
>entrie 
>>class can view the presentation. Currently they are using projects for
>this 
>>but the teachers reckon they would get more attention if the lesson was 
>>presented directly on the kids vdus.  
>>
>>If this could be made to work, which it probably could but I have no
>idea of 
>>how, then the reverse could be done, ie the teacher could monitor one or
>more 
>>vdus and take control of them if necessary
>>  
>>
>I can second this request! I am subbing this week in the technology lab 
>-- I really could have used something like this in the middle of a 24 
>student lab class! I realized many of the kids didn't know how to select 
>a section of a spreadsheet and turn it into a chart/graph. What a 
>nightmare to try to explain this, unable to "show" them how to do it -- 
>magically if I could have launched the application and demonstrated on 
>their monitors..... Wow! (Of course we can't afford an overhead 
>projector in the lab. I've tried all week to find an optimal place to 
>put a projector and a workstation, if we had one (borrowed a portable), 
>and I decided you have to practically plan your lab around it.)
>
>And then the itty bitty kids. How do you teach kindergarten kids how to 
>open openoffice and start a drawing without a visual? OMG! 
>
>I know I had some big kids playing some games they weren't supposed to, 
>dropping the apps down on the taskbar when I came around, however, I had 
>too much else going on to get through the class to really worry about it 
>until afterward. I don't know how teachers do this everyday!