Local Devices

[Matthew Armitage]

Hey everyone, 


I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a little snag I'm having with my new Edubuntu setup. I'm rolling out 14 Edubuntu labs this summer to our elementary schools, as a replacement for the K12LTSP labs we had. To keep the interface as similar to the one that the labs had previously with IceWM, I decided to go with a locked down KDE profile using the KDE Kiosk Tool. Now the switch to KDE from gnome has caused a few issues. At first I could not get the Thin-Client-Manager working with the clients anymore. I was able to see the thumbnails of the clients (x11vnc was working), but I was unable to send messages, execute programs, or blank screens. I solved these issues by adding the scp-client and the gnome-screensaver to the kde start script. This fixed all three issues. I should note that I have never seen the share screen function work (in Gnome or KDE). This leads me to the two snags I have left. 
The first snag is that local devices, specifically usb drives, do not show on the desktop (or anywhere) when connected. If I switch back to Gnome without changing any other settings (or even restarting the thinclient) the device shows on the desktop and works perfectly. So I'm wondering if there is some sort of script that Gnome has running in the background that accomplishes this, and if so what and where is it? If not, what could I do to fix this issue? 
The second snag is the volume control. In gnome this works fine on the thin clients but again in KDE it's not. I assume this means that the gnome mixer_applet2 is a modified version of the standard non-edubuntu mixer applet. What needs to be done to run this in KDE? If it can't be, what work needs to be done to the KDE mixer applet to get it working as well? 
Thanks in advance for your help guys, I'm so close to having this all setup I can almost taste it. 



Matt Armitage, 
Elementary School Technician 
School District 72 
Campbell River 
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