[K12OSN] Help with Fl_TeacherTool

[Peter Scheie]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 4/26/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:20 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> > I want to make fl-tt better. Is there any way to get a clients
>> > DISPLAY
>> > and
>> > XAUTHORITY
>> > environment variables if you are root?
>> >
>> > Is XAUTHORITY always =/home/username/.Xauthority  ?
>>
>> I think this is correct. I have never seen any other location
>> for .Xauthority
>> > Is DISPLAY always =wsXXX.ltsp:0.0  where XXX is the last part of the 
>> ip?
>>
>> That is K12LTSP/LTSP specific. If another naming scheme is in use, this
>> will not be the case. In the Atlanta Public Schools pilot roll-out, the
>> thin clients are named rmXXXscYY  where XXX is the room number and YY is
>> a sequential counter within each room. This scheme is used so lpoptions
>> can be run on login to set the default printer (which uses a similar
>> naming scheme: rmXXXprYY).
> 
> Question: Is the DISPLAY env variable for a client always of the form
> hostname:0.0 ?
> 
On my K12LTSP version 6 box it is.  Not sure about ver. 5 although I can check it later 
tonight.

Petre