[Lias] Desktop on LTSP server

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Sat Nov 8 14:18:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:18, Ken Yap wrote:
> >I haven't tried LTSP, but it is based on RHL9 if i remember correctly.
> > There is a config file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, where you can set the
> >config for all users.  Try setting DESKTOP=KDE there.
> 
> Well no, LTSP isn't RH9 specific, it runs on many distros.

K12LTSP is based on Red Hat 9. Wonder if they'll become Fedora specific
soon.

> As for the original question, LTSP uses *dm to start sessions, so you
> just need to make sure that kdm is the display manager. How may be
> distro specific. This should affect all sessions on the server, local or
> remote. It may be possible that the user can override the system setting
> so it may not be possible to force existing users to change without
> editing their dotrc files.

the *dm (gdm/kdm/xdm) startup stuff is usually in the /etc/init.d/rcX.d.
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