Can someone point me in the right direction here.

This is the situation we have ( set up as a pilot )

I have a Suse server that provides home and various shared directories
it also authenticates using ldap

Student 1 logs into machine 1 which has a 1440x900 screen and certain sound card and everything is fine

Student 1 now logs into machine 2 - which has a 1280x1024 screen and a different sort of sound card

Two things happen which we don't really like
1. The panel automatically shortens to fit the 1280x1024 screen but when student 1 goes back to machine 1 ( with the 1440x900 screen ) the panel doesn't stretch back out
2. Whenever student 1 logs into a machine with a different sound card a message pops up asking if KDE should forget about the other setup. We would like KDE to 'go with the flow' so to speak and just deal with whatever it finds

If we are to get this to work we/I need a better understanding of how KDE deals with machines that are different ( we have 550 machines and there are about 6 flavours of machines. Students can log into any and change machines up to 9 times a day! )

If there is a howto set up KDE in this kind of environment it would be appreciated

Ta

M

Will the students need to be customising their Desktop appearance, etc? If not, you may be best simply deleting "plasm*" prior to login occurring.

For sound cards, symlink ~/.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc to a system wide version specific to each machine. ( eg: have the machine specific config at /etc/kde4-phononrc and symlink from the users home dir to here ) Or, like above simply delete it prior to login.

Yes, they will be allowed to customise pretty much everything ( that's part of the 'sales pitch' )

I have tried both methods you suggest and I have gone for the 'delete phonondevicesrc option' I have put the rm blah blah in /etc/bash.bashrc.local
which seems so far to work fine

Thanks

M

Hmm. Plasma JavaScripting might be able to autoresize the Panels.

See http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi ... pScripting

I suggest using "kwriteconfig" to remove the update number in question back to it's proper value on login. If you need any help with scripting, I suggest you ask on the Plasma Development mailing list: plasma-devel@kde.org

There should be a 'fit to screen' option

Thanks for your help I'll have a go at scripting

M