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Tracer Eyes User Guide

This is an internal User Guide for staff supervising the Tracer Eyes software at the workstation set up in the entrance. Tracer Eyes is the general name for the front desk component of the overarching Tracer project.

Workstation

Welcome to the Workstation

Its real name is 'tracer-eyes', but it is not very particular about what you call it ;)

Most use will only require logging in as the user 'eyes' if the screen locks due to inactivity, but this guide also explains how to power the computer on, how to power it off, and also how to log in.

 

Access Services Staff

You probably only need the following information for logging back in when the screen locks from inactivity.  But you may need to turn it on in the morning or log back in if technical staff needs to reboot it remotely.

 

User             : eyes

Passphrase : tracer eyes

 

General Information about Workstation

The following provides an extended view into the basic functionality of Workstation

 

Power On

  • Press the power button on the front left of Workstation's case.
  • Some text will fill the console.  This is a normal part of the boot process.
  • The whole screen will go black.  This should only persist for a few moments.
  • If the screen has been black for longer than 5 seconds you may kindly ask tracer-eyes to present the log-in screen by pressing the 'Enter' key or wiggling the mouse.  Please refrain from excessive input (clicking and whatnot) if things don't seem to work.
  • Failure state: If a log-in screen doesn't appear within 10 seconds something is wrong; please contact Guy Gastineau at Guy.Gastineau@eku.edu or 1 (859) 314 6367.

 

Logging In

  • The Login Screen will present 3 possible users: guy, todd, and eyes.
  • If you are neither Todd nor Guy you should login as the user eyes.
  • User             : eyes
  • Passphrase : tracer eyes (yes, there is a space in the passphrase)

 

Screen Locking

Our robot friend tracer-eyes has the desktop environment KDE Plasma 5 installed.

It gives us a pretty environment and helps us manage graphical applications.

 

  • The Screen Dims slightly after ~10 minutes of inactivity.
  • The Screen will lock after 20 minutes.  If this happens, simply wake the prompt by jiggling the mouse, and then enter the passphrase in the prompt area to get back into the desktop.

 

 

Power Off / Reboot

The EKU Libraries Department of Technology automatically syncs with the workstation after 11:00 PM every night.  After syncing tracer-eyes is rebooted.  You should never need to turn the workstation off (or on for that matter) during normal circumstances.

 

  • You shouldn't need to power off the Workstation!
  • If somehow you must power off / reboot the Workstation, then there are controls under the name leave in a system menu accessible through a button in the lower left of the desktop screen.  This is very similar to the start menu functionality found in Windows 10.