[K12OSN] LTSP not supporting LCD refresh rates

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 06:01 +0300, mikko.jordman at edu.vantaa.fi wrote:
> 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?

It should help. The default screen size for many of the full-screen
games seems to be 800x600. If your client screen is set to 640x480 you
will get the window panning (which is terrible for a game!).
> 
> 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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