From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 9:15:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5129237B650 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2393E43F3F for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044983739.28c2c5@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5283 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2003 17:15:39 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 17:15:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15938.38970.639739.844880@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:15:38 -0600 To: "Kenzo" Cc: Subject: Re: manufacturing In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Kenzo typed: > My boss just presented me with an Idea. And I realize that it's changed, and each computer will now be independent. But here's input anyway. > He is more geared toward a linux box with redhat, but I would rather setup a > computer with Freebsd that would do all the trick. > what x-window manager should I use? I know KDE uses alot of resources, but > what about gnome? I'd recommend plpwm (part of the plwm port). Have it configured with no keyboard shortcuts, or possibly one to relauch the browser. Launch the browser with .xinitrc. plpwm will automatically make it full-screen. They can then mouse around on it to their hearts content, but won't be able to do much else. Ratpoison can probably be used to do the same thing. It should be lighter than plpwm, but it won't be as easy to configure. > what should I use for web browser? Well, I was going to suggest something with a remote feature like Mozilla, but that seems sort of piontless now. You might as well use whatever your webmaster recommends, which will probably mean either mozilla or netscape. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message