James W. Thompson, II verraste ons met de boodschap: > I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality > with Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering about the > best Window Manager for the job. Here is the biggest catch, the system > is old.
I've built a kiosk with comparable hardware, with only this installed: - X, the very basics + fonts - icewm for a window manager (extremely configurable and fast) - gdm for the autologin feature - galeon for browsing (ok, a very large set of dependencies, but I like its tab behaviour and the mouse gestures) - xpdf (you could also install gv, java, flashplugin, mozplugger, mplayer, mplayerplugin, ... for other browsing enhancements) - _no_ xterm or equivalent if you don't want guests to explore the filesystem additional feature: /var and /home moved to /var.template and /home.template, mounting /var, /tmp and /home as tmpfs and copying over the contents directly after mounting. add a read-only root partition and shutting down is as easy as turning the power off :-) > Debian installed with no problems as a minimal install but I want to > have some kind of idea of where I am going. To be honest, I have never > configured a system for quite this purpose. I have two accounts on the > machine: root and user. I am wanting to use a graphical login and would > like for FireFox to launch automatically on loading into X. Do I even > need a Window Manager really since I just want FireFox to load and run > and nothing else will need to be there. I've tried the 'no window manager' approach... it sucks ;-). dialog boxes don't get keyboard focus, among other inconveniences > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. indeed, given that the kiosk-howto is almost 5 years old hope this helps, I wish you the best of luck, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
