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[TUTORIAL] Have a GUI and Browser on Debian and less than 256MB RAM
After some boring lapse, I tried TinyWM, and will teach you how to install it in your LEB
Using iceweasel, flash plugin installed, watching youtube:
free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128 123 4 0 0 39 -/+ buffers/cache: 83 44 Swap: 128 17 110
Lets start:
- apt-get update && apt-get install dialog xserver-xorg tinywm nano iceweasel vnc4server xterm
Put this on terminal:
cat << EOF > /usr/bin/tinywm-session \#!/bin/sh (remove the \) xsetroot -solid "#000000" xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator exec /usr/bin/tinywm EOF
chmod a+x /usr/bin/tinywm-session
- Put this again:
`cat << EOF > /usr/share/xsessions/tinywm-session.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Tinywm session
Comment=Ridiculously tiny window manager
Exec=tinywm-session
Terminal=False
TryExec=tinywm
Type=Application
[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true
EOF`
- mkdir /etc/vnc
- echo tinywm-session >> /etc/vnc/xstartup
- reboot
- vncserver (first tie will ask for password).
- you're ready!
im going to sleep, bye!
Comments
nice tutorial, thanks
btw, i want to use xfce, what should i changed ?
@arieonline you can use this guide: https://my.securedragon.net/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=40
please dont try this
Please put your command in code tag, it's easier for noob like me to read. Btw, tks!
Matchbox window manager is also extremely minimal:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/matchbox-window-manager
thanks, will check this tomorrow and report findings
Do either of these WM's have a "start" button at the bottom? Or are they they kind where you have to click empty "desktop" space to start new applications?
@Damian - Matchbox is just a WM, so just empty desktop space, or depending on what you call/run from your xinitrc/xprofile etc.
Yup, empty ones Damian
JWM is probably what you're looking for..
IceWM is a good one too.
This reminds of of the chinese installing things like this to "watch" youtube and increase the views with bots on 128 and even 50 MB.
It was really bad, now that wave seems to have passed, maybe the returns are not so great anymore.
The returns?
I mean, the income from that. I remember the guy was squeezing every penny, take every promo, making tons of accounts to use a one per account promos, etc.
In the end cancelled all, so I guess the "business" is not longer giving the same "returns".
Thanks, i'll check it out.
The no-"start"-button thing doesn't bother me, but we're finding that some people want a remote desktop and are used to Windows/OSX, and they need the concept of "start" button.
Of I get it
For what it's worth I had vnc and jwm with iceweasel working on your 32mb VPS with the minimal Debian 6 32 bit template.. unfortunately flash would not work, it would crash the browser but other than that it was pretty smooth..
32mb? No way! I can't open the browser on a 128mb!
@netomx you mentioned last year you will try to provide vps last december. any updates?
Yes, bad ones: they want $1500 USD just for 10mbps unmetered... I need to add 2A power and the IPs, so I'm looking for data centers in
Mexico without luck for now
Mexico without luck
Yup 32MB VPS with 32 MB VSwap.. I think it was iceweasel but could be midori, can't remember now..
I had good experiences with X2Go.
+1
x2goserver is awesome...
I'm gonna try this on one of my atom nodes!
in fact, you can remove the step 4.
Will Check x2go
From what I can see this VPS has 128MB RAM + 128MB vSwap, right?
@vanarp yup
Thank you. How do you install Flash for Iceweasel?