[K12OSN] Re: [Ltsp-discuss] STARTX and RDESKTOP, Defaulting to RDESKTOP

[Gideon Romm]

Paul-

This is actually a known issue in LTSP that has needed addressing for
some time now.  When you set up two "graphical" sessions on two separate
screens, you create a "race condition", where the first one to
initialize will grab the focus.  This is because, X, by default, always
grabs control of the virtual terminal.

Last time Jim and I spoke about this, he said that he thought the Xorg
folks put a flag into X to tell it not to take control over the screen
(or virtual terminal), but I don't think either of us have had the time
to look into it/code something up.

A quick fix to your problem might be to add a "chvt 1" in the beginning
of the screen.d scripts.  NOTE:  I am thinking off the top of my head -
I have not tried this.

Hope that, at least, explains things...

-Gadi 

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 15:55 -0400, Krishna Murphy wrote:
> Paul-
> 
> Try putting the cursor in front of the "rdesktop..." and hitting enter, 
> then putting in shell for that entry, and finally making a SCREEN_03 = 
> line for the rdesktop entry. If it then defaults to rdesktop, we'll know 
> it's likely something about that, but if it defaults to #2 again... I have 
> seen some things that make me think that the ltsp.conf file is sensitive 
> to stray keystroke entries, especially non-printing characters.
> 
> -Krishna
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Paul VanGundy wrote:
> 
> All,
>  
> I'm having a weird issue...weird to me but I'm hoping others have
> encountered it and found a solution. We currently have Ubuntu 6.06 running
> the latest LTSP 4.2. In the lts.conf I have:
>  
> SCREEN_01 = startx
> SCREEN_02 = rdesktop -fa <IP address of WinTermServer>
>  
> Now when the clients boot up they automatically go to SCREEN_02 and show the
> Windows Terminal Server login screen instead of defaulting to SCREEN_01. Has
> anyone else experienced this? Is it something I am doing or missing? How can
> I fix this so that it will default back to SCREEN_01? To add, I have made
> 'SCREEN_02 = shell' before and it didn't default to bash. Thanks in advance!
> Thanks! :)
>  
> -Paul
>  
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