On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:03:02PM -0600, chris wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:08:01PM -0800, Mike Strickland wrote: > > I want a text-based javascript-enabled web browser. My dilemma is: > > 150mhz 16mb laptop with Debian 3.0. I recently installed X so I > > would be able to use a regular browser and hence have javascripting > > but...it takes more than 30 minutes to boot with X. > > first off, that's seriously bogus boot time. have you watched the > boot process to figure out where it's spending its time? that machine > isn't even supertiny, but more important than changing your x config > is turning off services you don't need, such as daemons like > sendmail...swapping is probably a big time-sink, and it sucks to swap > when you don't have to.
I suspect that Mike is running GNOME or KDE as well as X, which is causing his system to thrash. The effects are exaggerated by the slow laptop hard drive. Can you launch X and send the output of "ps au" to the list? You will want to drop the desktop and try just a window manager; I recommend wm2 as it is lightweight and gives you additional vertical area by moving the title bar from the top to the side. A properly configured system with 16 mbytes should be able to run an older web browser such as Navigator 4 at a reasonable speed. If you have sufficient network bandwidth, you can run a graphical web browser remotely via X to access sites that require Javascript. > as to a text-based javascript-capable browser, i don't know of any. > lynx didn't do it as of a year ago (last time i updated), the other > two worth talking about a year ago were 'links' and 'w3m', so you > might investigate them. w3m has partial support for Javascript, although it was limited as of this summer. It also has full support for images inside an xterm. -- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
