Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:17:17PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. > > fluxbox, which ironically is also the best WM on the higest end P4 3.2 + > 980

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:40:19PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > ... I am wanting to use a graphical login > > Why? That is, why have a login at all? Let root use the "real" VT > console and startx from a VT to start X. or startx&logout; lest you want deviants ctrl+alt+f1'ing to a root console

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:26:14PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > James W. Thompson, II writes: > > 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. > > None. As long a

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> BTW, to the original poster: have you considered the new Dillo > versus FireFox? The new version (0.8) isn't backported to Woody yet, > but it should be straightforward to do and dillo is lighter and > faster than any Mozilla derivative (though FireFox is plenty fast). > Don't now why, but a

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread dircha
Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: No need to run a wm at all. I'm not sure how to set it up for all users, but for any one user, just set the ~/.xinitrc to have the single line in it "mozilla-firefox". I thought of that, too, as I posted, but what if a po

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > No need to run a wm at all. I'm not sure how to set it up for all users, > but for any one user, just set the ~/.xinitrc to have the single line in > it "mozilla-firefox". I thought of that, too, as I posted, but what if a popup windo

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Kent West
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 upgra

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Katipo
James W. Thompson, II writes: 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. In order to be as compatible with your predominantly menu orientated users as possible

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread John Hasler
James W. Thompson, II writes: > 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. None. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI --

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
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. >

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. fluxbox, which ironically is also the best WM on the higest end P4 3.2 + 9800XT with 1gig memory. That is, if you like it to be fast -- To UNSU

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread James W. Thompson, II
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:50:06 +0300 (EEST), Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > ... I am wanting to use a graphical login > > > > Why? That is, why have a login at all? Let root use the "real" VT > > console and startx from a VT to start X. >

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > > ... I am wanting to use a graphical login > > Why? That is, why have a login at all? Let root use the "real" VT > console and startx from a VT to start X. But please change the user id to something else then "root" before launching X. But definitly th

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > 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 ... Neither have I, but not knowing

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* James W. Thompson, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 11 11:41 -0500]: > 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. >

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Joris
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 kios

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread James W. Thompson, II
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:20:46 -0500, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 2004-06-11T16:31:01Z, "James W. Thompson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality with > > Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-11T16:31:01Z, "James W. Thompson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 o

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
You might look at Qt... like what mythtv uses. 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. + Pe