Pure browsing puppy? Possible?

[ricodk]

Hi

First off a little background info. I have a relative who only uses firefox and nothing else in xubuntu. The thing is, it's on a old P4 machine and puppy loads and operates much much faster, and would be preferred.

Ok, so here's my question: is it possible to do a puppy that loads firefox instantly (perhaps in fullscreen mode), has no icons besides a "shutdown" button on the desktop and no panel whatsoever? I have no idea how to do this, but it would be nice to have, a sort of all puppyfox all the time

Any ideas and hints?

Best regards

Rico

[nooby]

I would start here
http://puppylinux.org/wiki/archives/old ... ve/puplets

I have not taking time to read every puplets but pupeez? should be a candidate?

"Simple, Elegant and Fast"
Pupeez is aimed to users who just want a internet / media / photo PC. There is one application per task. Pupeez is aimed at 'technophobes', parents and grand parents. Pupeez is desgined to run on a computer with minimum 128Mb RAM.

[headfound]

Try this
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30727

Todd has been building basic net browsing pups for a while.

[ricodk]

Hi

Thanks I haven't even heard about those, perfect, I'll try it out.

Rico

[ricodk]

Hi again

"Pupeez is aimed at 'technophobes', parents and grand parents. "

How did they know?

Perfect, thanks a million.

Rico

[nutts4life]

ricodk,

I'm the creator of pupeez, so by all means give it a try. Alot of people have really enjoyed it's simplicity. But if you want to expand apon it (add lot's more features, then i would at something else).

The puplet you want completely depends on a couple of factors:

- How will you install puppy? Do you want to run it from a usb key. Do you want to install the whole thing to the hard drive? How's about a frugal install?
(If i've lost you with any of this, check out the puppy wiki for more info)
- When you say a P4, the most important factor is RAM. How much RAM do you have?
- Are you happy with using opera? Opera was far far faster and more reliable than Firefox 2 on linux. Firefox 3 seems to be alot better and now it's just a question of preference. I'm split on my decision for the new version of pupeez.

Thanks,

n4l

[ttuuxxx]

ricodk,

I'm the creator of pupeez, so by all means give it a try. Alot of people have really enjoyed it's simplicity. But if you want to expand apon it (add lot's more features, then i would at something else).

The puplet you want completely depends on a couple of factors:

- How will you install puppy? Do you want to run it from a usb key. Do you want to install the whole thing to the hard drive? How's about a frugal install?
(If i've lost you with any of this, check out the puppy wiki for more info)
- When you say a P4, the most important factor is RAM. How much RAM do you have?
- Are you happy with using opera? Opera was far far faster and more reliable than Firefox 2 on linux. Firefox 3 seems to be alot better and now it's just a question of preference. I'm split on my decision for the new version of pupeez.

Thanks,

n4l

Your right N4L butttttt Firefox 2 is more stable at the moment than 3 when it comes to flash and Java, Also lets not forget Firefox 2 series was just updated to 2.15 plus they will keep the 2 series alive until Christmas this year so that gives Mozilla/Firefox enough time to iron out the bugs.

Next its way simple to hide the taskbar and only have 1 icon, also long as you install puppy fully, or frugal, and have a pup-save file in place you'll do fine, tell me which version your installed and I'll send ya fix to hide your taskbar.

ttuuxxx

[MU]

Muppy-Server.
But it uses Opera 9.27 instead of Firefox.
It has a startmenu, to run xvesa in 800x600 or 1024x768.
For other resolutions you had to edit "xwin".

You can start a simple desktop to modify settings.
Or you can start Opera in Kiosk-Mode.
It then will not be able to exit this mode, except you power down the computer "hard".

Maybe you could modify/remaster it to use Firefox instead of Opera.
You also could remove minisys, java and samba, to reduce the size dramatically.

http://minisys-linux.de/EN

Mark

[nutts4life]

ricodk,

you are now talking to the two kings of the mini barebones puppy.
ttuuxx - fatfree
MU - minisys-server

Take a look at their puplets
www.ttuuxx.com (fatfree)
http://minisys-linux.de/EN (minisys_server)

make your choice and both will be able to help.

As for functionaliy, i would:

- add your favorite browser
- remove the menu from the taskbar, but leave the taskbar
- remove any icons on the desktop
- create a set of keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+alt+<letter>) that allows you to manage the system (open wizardwizard, open terminal)
- create a shutdown icon on the desktop
- add the browser to the .xinitrc file so it starts on start up.

Good luck,

n4l