RE: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Block Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:39 PM To: Robert Storey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? On Tue, 11 May 2004, Robert Storey wrote: I followed your advice about compiling Links so that it could run in graphics

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-11 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Robert Storey wrote: I followed your advice about compiling Links so that it could run in graphics mode without X. This is REALLY COOL - one of the best tips I've received in a long time, and I thank you for it. However, I've run into one little glitch. As root, it works

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Warren, I followed your advice about compiling Links so that it could run in graphics mode without X. This is REALLY COOL - one of the best tips I've received in a long time, and I thank you for it. However, I've run into one little glitch. As root, it works fine, but as a regular user,

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-10 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 9 May 2004, John Mills wrote: Reading the 'links' project pages puts graphic rendering at links version =2.0, I believe. Thanks, I eventually figured out that /usr/ports/links = v2.1, while /usr/ports/links1 = v0.98. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-09 Thread David Fleck
'links -g', eh? dcf$ links -g Unknown option -g Some *other* links, perhaps? -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

RE: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-09 Thread mark rowlands
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fleck Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 2:49 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? 'links -g', eh? dcf$ links -g Unknown option -g Some *other* links

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-09 Thread John Mills
Freebies - On Sun, 9 May 2004, David Fleck wrote: 'links -g', eh? dcf$ links -g Unknown option -g Reading the 'links' project pages puts graphic rendering at links version =2.0, I believe. I couldn't find an appropriate RPM for my 2.4.x Linuxes but had no problem building and

RE: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 May 2004, mark rowlands wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : /web1/web1: 03:16 PM: links -version Links 2.1pre14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : /web1/web1: 03:17 PM: links -help links [options] URL Options are: -g Run in graphics mode. But the next few lines of the man page say that only works

RE: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Warren Block wrote: Make sure you have svgalib installed (/usr/ports/devel/svgalib). Err... that would be /usr/ports/graphics/svgalib. Sorry. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Roop Nanuwa
On Sat, 08 May 2004 17:21:36 +0800, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help her.)

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, ... She want it to just function as a browser machine, she don't even need a window manager Ion, treewm, or tvtwm should be enough for a window manager

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread jan . muenther
Hey there, But such a slow notebook what browser do you suggest to use? The harddisk don't have much space after the OS is installed, and memory is pretty limited. Epiphany comes to my mind, but it depends on Mozilla and gtk. If there is an extremely light weighted browser that just use

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread albi
On Sat, 8 May 2004 11:57:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But such a slow notebook what browser do you suggest to use? The harddisk don't have much space after the OS is installed, and memory is pretty limited. Epiphany comes to my mind, but it depends on Mozilla and gtk. If there is an

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Samstag, 8. Mai 2004 11:21 schrieb Zhang Weiwu: Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help her.) She want it to just

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Mark Weinem
On Sat, 08 May 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Dillo! You really want to have a look at dillo. Increadibly fast and small, but with limitations (no SSL and such) all true, but unfortunately it's crashing with bookmarking (the ports version). Ciao, Mark Weinem

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Sat, 8 May 2004 02:28:32 -0700, Roop Nanuwa scribbled these curious markings: Take a look at Opera. It is extremely lightweight in both size, memory footprint and CPU usage. It also has a built-in kiosk mode which would probably be perfectly suited for use in the tea house. ... right. Opera

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help her.) She want it to just function as a

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Robert Storey
Is there any way to get links -g to run without starting X? If I run it in an Xterm, it's fine, but at the console it just exits with an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ links -g Could not initialize any graphics driver. Tried the following drivers: x: Can't open display (null) Would be nice

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Roop Nanuwa
On Sat, 8 May 2004 16:35:55 -0400, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... right. Opera is a kitchen sink suite just like Mozilla. That, and it's the ugliest thing on the planet -- even worse than anything Apple's ever released, IMO. It is feature-packed, that's true. However,

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-08T09:21:36Z, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But such a slow notebook what browser do you suggest to use? The harddisk don't have much space after the OS is installed, and memory is pretty limited. Does the browser *have* to run on the laptop itself, or could you configure