On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:31:45 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First, let me confess that I know this is not a Fedora problem, but I > think it's of interest to this list. > > We have a problem with some terminal workstations we're running. They > boot Fedora (or Debian, some of them), and go straight into an > rdesktop connection to a Windows Terminal Server. On the terminal > server, we have a custom (but freely available*) kiosk version of > Mozilla for the browser, and Thunderbird as a mail client. What do you do to get it to boot straight to rdesktop, this is something I was thinking about trying the other day. > > Something about Thunderbird is fairly funky with the Terminal Server. > Thunderbird often does not terminate correctly, so people often get > that message you get about choosing a new profile when they > double-click to start TBird. It's confusing for them, and irritating > for us. When does this occur? When logging off disconnecting or closeing reopening tbird? > > I know that this happens because of the presence of a lock file in the > TBird profile folder. If we delete the lock file, then Tbird will > begin to start normally. One potential solution is to write a new > shortcut that > > 1) finds the lock file and deletes it first, then > 2) starts Thunderbird. > > But this seems unclean. People might click it when Thunderbird is > already actually running, and I don't know what that might do. > > We have no use for Thunderbird profiles, either in Linux or Windows. > Everyone's already running within a unique user profile, and the > Thunderbird profile only causes trouble. > > Is there any way to tell Thunderbird, Mozilla, and/or Firefox to just > quit offering new profiles to each user? Or does anyone have any other > suggestions for how to deal with this issue?
