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Re: [PLUG] Xandros hacking on eeePC
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Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 7:57:12 am LeRoy Cressy wrote:
>> Art Alexion wrote:
>>> We are looking to buy a bunch of these as loaner laptops for employees
>>> who occasionally travel. We used to use full featured Dell Latitude
>>> 630s, but the idea is saving cost, durability of the SDD, and travel
>>> weight, among other things. The potential end users were not told it
>>> wasn't windows, only that it was the laptop interface. They seemed to
>>> love it.
>>>
>>> I like the simplicity of the Xandros UI for end users, but it seems to be
>>> a pain to administer at all.
>> Xandros is a Debian based distribution thus I would look at
>> /etc/X11/default-display-manager. If the contents in not something like
>> /usr/bin/xdm then you can edit it or edit the file /etc/init.d/xdm and
>> change the block as per the following instructions
>
> Thanks. Turns out the Xandros login is kdm, so I started poking
> around /etc/X11/kdm/kdmrc. So far no luck because the settings look right
> for a pick list of users, etc. I am going to poke around some more and see
> if there is a single string that overrides all of this.
>
> Could the setting be in another file?
>
Have you looked at the startup script in /etc/init.d/kdm?
> Meanwhile, we installed Ubuntu eee on another (or is it eee Ubuntu?) and I
> really like it except the camera isn't working (not a big deal). I'd like to
> get Xandros working reasonably as well so that real users can look at each
> and choose. They may hate the very things I like.
>
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