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[TUTORIAL] Have a GUI and Browser on Debian and less than 256MB RAM
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[TUTORIAL] Have a GUI and Browser on Debian and less than 256MB RAM

netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran
edited April 2013 in Tutorials

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:

  1. apt-get update && apt-get install dialog xserver-xorg tinywm nano iceweasel vnc4server xterm
  2. 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

  3. chmod a+x /usr/bin/tinywm-session

  4. 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`

  1. mkdir /etc/vnc
  2. echo tinywm-session >> /etc/vnc/xstartup
  3. reboot
  4. vncserver (first tie will ask for password).
  5. you're ready!

im going to sleep, bye! :)

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Comments

  • arieonlinearieonline Member
    edited April 2013

    nice tutorial, thanks

    btw, i want to use xfce, what should i changed ?

  • please dont try this :)

  • sonicsonic Veteran
    edited April 2013

    Please put your command in code tag, it's easier for noob like me to read. Btw, tks! :)

  • twaintwain Member

    Matchbox window manager is also extremely minimal:
    http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/matchbox-window-manager

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @twain said: Matchbox

    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?

  • twaintwain Member

    @Damian - Matchbox is just a WM, so just empty desktop space, or depending on what you call/run from your xinitrc/xprofile etc.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Yup, empty ones Damian :p

  • earlearl Member

    @Damian said: 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?

    JWM is probably what you're looking for..

  • twaintwain Member

    IceWM is a good one too.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    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.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    The returns?

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    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".

  • @earl said: JWM is probably what you're looking for..

    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.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Of I get it :/

  • earlearl Member

    @Damian said: Thanks, i'll check it out.

    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..

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    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?

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    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

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Mexico without luck for now :(

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Mexico without luck

  • earlearl Member

    @netomx said: 32mb? No way! I can't open the browser on a 128mb!

    Yup 32MB VPS with 32 MB VSwap.. I think it was iceweasel but could be midori, can't remember now..

  • ChronicChronic Member

    I had good experiences with X2Go.

  • twaintwain Member

    @Chronic said: I had good experiences with X2Go.

    +1
    x2goserver is awesome...

  • bcrlsnbcrlsn Member

    I'm gonna try this on one of my atom nodes!

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    in fact, you can remove the step 4.

    Will Check x2go

  • vanarpvanarp Member

    @netomx said: Using iceweasel, flash plugin installed, watching youtube:

    From what I can see this VPS has 128MB RAM + 128MB vSwap, right?

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @vanarp yup

  • vanarpvanarp Member

    Thank you. How do you install Flash for Iceweasel?

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