On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > 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. > > + Pentium 233MHz > + 32MB RAM (Going to try and upgrade it to 64MB if we can find a stick) > + 2 GB Hard Drive > + 3Com 3c509 NIC > + ATI 3D Rage Graphics > + CD-ROM and Floppy > > 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. >
If its just firefox then I am not sure you need a window manager at all. The issue may be with barring a user from login out as X will exit when firefox is closed. fvwm can be quite light if you do want a window manager. The memory may be a problem BTW with firefox, using no window manager may be the solution. Another option which I don't know if firefox supports and will take more setup is directfb. Will probably be a lot lighter on memory if it works. > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. > > > Thanks! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
