[TriLUG] Gnome configuration

[Tanner Lovelace]

Janyne Kizer wrote:

> We contacted our thin client vendor and they said that for $400/unit 
> (that would be like $320,000) they could sell us the OpenGL stuff that 
> we need.
[...]
> These are NCD thin clients -- specifically the HMX and Explora product 
> lines.  We did contact other people that use Linux with these clients 
> and they have experienced the same issues.

Ok, that makes sense.  You didn't mention thin clients before, iirc.

> Well, the clients are not usuable because it pops up an error message 
> about 30 times per minute.  That seems like a really good reason to try 
> something else.

Did you try to figure out what was using OpenGL?  I find it hard to
believe that you can't use KDE unless you have OpenGL working.  There's
just no need for it in a standard windowing environment.  Specific
applications, yes, and I do know that KDE has support for it, but then
again, so does Gnome.  So, I'm still confused.  It would seem easier
to me to figure out what application was generating the error message
and either a) disable that or b) see if there's some way to modify
it to not do that before completely ditching KDE.  Please help me understand
here.  Thanks.

Cheers,
Tanner
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