[K12OSN] LTSP not supporting LCD refresh rates

[mikko.jordman at edu.vantaa.fi]

Hello,

is this also suitable way to fix another problem
with some clients Gcompris full-screen is bigger than the actual screen,
so the screen is scrolling around with the mouse movements?

Yours, mikkoj


> Try those using the window mode. Full-screen mode is an issue with LCD
> monitors.
>
> run the launching command from a terminal with "--help" added to the
> end. It will show you the command line options available. Sometimes it's
> "-w" and other times it's "--window". Once you know, there are two ways
> to go:
>
> The permanent way is to create a small shell script in /usr/local/bin
> for each one and name it the normal name of the launching command. That
> script should look like :
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> childsplay-window --window
>
> (I'm using tuxtype for the example)
>
> Now rename the childsplay binary to childsplay-window
>
> mv /usr/bin/childsplay /usr/bin/childsplay-window
>
> and make a link from the new script to the old name and location (this
> covers a weird $PATH variable)
>
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/childsplay /usr/bin/childsplay
>
> Now it will always launch in a window.
>
> You can also change the launcher command line to include the --window
> The only thing with that is if they right click on it, so can they !
> (unless you have the desktop settings root owned and world read but no
> write)
>
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:57 -0700, Jim Kathan wrote:
>> where can I lock down/specify my LCD horizontal and vertical refresh
>> rates in K12-LTSP? I keep getting "frequency out of range" blanking
>> screen errors with childsplay, tuxtype, etc.
>> Thanks! I appreciate you guys so much!
>>
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