[K12OSN] Help with Fl_TeacherTool

[Robert Arkiletian]

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 ?

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/