[K12OSN] Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fwd: Unsupported Crossover (Wine) app installed in managed mode only runs as root.

[Nils Breunese]

Krsnendu dasa wrote:

> On 06/10/2007, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:  
> Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > I am cross posting this to the ltsp lists as I got no response  
> from the
> > Crossover list and this software is essential for our school system
> > which I need to get running by Monday.
>
> Are the users members of all the necessary groups? (i.e. audio,  
> cdrom, etc
> Scott
>
> The users are regular smbldap users who are members of students group.
> I don't think they are members of the audio group. Sound works fine  
> for gcompris (-x), tuxpaint and flash videos in Firefox. Does that  
> make any difference?
> Is it the users or the application which needs to be the a member  
> audio group?
>
> I've also noticed a bug previously mentioned that when Crossover  
> pops up an x message it takes a long time. When running as root I  
> have to wait for over a minute for the box to come up which says,  
> "You are running as root do yo uwant to continue?" Once I chose  
> always continue, the start up time for windows applications became  
> a lot quicker.
>
> All help is greatly appreciated. One of the main reasons for  
> switching from K12ltsp to edubuntu is because it can run these  
> multimedia programs. I hope we can get it going soon. It is one  
> feature our principal has been wanting for for years.

What multimedia programs can Edubuntu run that K12LTSP can't? We're  
running Flash videos in Firefox and everything just fine off a  
K12LTSP 5EL server.

Nils Breunese.
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