[K12OSN] Launch FF on start up

[Dean Jones]

You can launch applications using the window managers method for starting a
program at login, instead of trying to use an LTSP specific command.



On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:05 AM, me <me at todhackett.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have been trying to get FireFox to launch on the TC at startup.
> LDM_REMOTECMD doesn't
> seem to do the trick so I started playing with a bash script. FF would
> start but I would
> get THREE instances.  Ideas?
>
> Also, I never did get a printer loaded on any of the TC's - I could print
> to it from the
> bash screen - 'cp [file] /dev/lp0 or /dev/usblp0' or something like that
> as I don't
> remember just now.  I still needed printers so I used some of the 'extra'
> TC's that I
> had laying around for print servers.  XPe seems to handle this just fine.
>  One has three
> printers attached - parallel and 2 usb's.  I did have problems with Fedora
> 17 and the
> cupsd daemon - seems that whomever has not configured the 'Authentication'
> correctly and
> it would never print; with "Waiting for Authentication" in the queue.
>  Geesh, what to
> do?  I was getting ready to throw my hands in the air and pitch the TC's
> .. then it
> dawned on me that Fedora 14 was the LTSP OS and I made that a print server
> too.
>
> With the exception of launching an app at start up, everything is working
> just fine!  So
> if you have an answer for that, it would be peachy!
>
> todh
>
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