tnx!

Install wicd: sudo aptitude install wicd python-wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk

If you did a command line system you probably have lines in the /etc/network/interfaces file like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

You need to comment these lines out so that the networking stuff that was installed initially does not conflict with wicd. You also need to do this if you install network-manager.

To get wicd to start up with fluxbox, add this line to .fluxbox/startup:

wicd-gtk &

Put it somewhere before the 'exec fluxbox' line.

It seems to work well.

that's pretty lightweight for ubuntu system.

if you need less than that, you might need juice (=jeos - just enough os)
or, try some other lighter os like archlinux.

imho, it's a great replacement for any desktop manager and it's extremely light weight.

i see that remote login, specifically xdmcp is listed in TODO.

but from what i see on kde/gnome and mainstream distros,
it seems that they use either vnc or xrdp as default remote connection.
so, probably xdmcp wont have much support in the latest distros.

probably you can consider vnc/xrdp.
i read about framebuffer client for vnc/xrdp sometime ago.
it will be easy to find on google.

I am building a thin client live cd to use with xdmcp, and to this purpose your article was just WONDERFUL! Thank you very much, and congratulations!

But I have a little problem, perhaps you can help me. I would like to put in my thin client a graphical display manager, not for the user to login in the local system, but to allow the user to connect with a xdmcp server. GDM has a graphical xdmcp chooser, we have only to click on "… xdmcp..", and GDM shows a nice graphical window where it shows the xdmcp servers it has found, and also allows for the user to type a ip-address for a not-automatically-discovered server.

I whought that this resource was default on the others display managers, but tried xdm, wdm, slim, and none of then shows this beautiful graphical window for us to choose a xdmcp server. I have researched the net for it, and found something like "xdmcp chooser", that xdm would have, for something like "X -indirect", etc, etc… But I did not want the user to type anything, I would like to present him with a nice window where he can click on a discovered xdmcp server, or maybe type an ip address informed by me.

Well, to sum up: do you know if there is any light display manager, with a graphical xdmcp chooser, like GDM, but muuuuuuuuuch more lighter?? :-)

Thanks in advance! Best regards!
Carlos

PS: sorry for my poor english.

avahi, i think is not required for dns. it's only usefull for detecting stuffs in your internal network.
/etc/resolv.conf is all that is needed for dns.

afaik, removing hal will indeed causing your device not auto mounted.
but you can still mount them manually if you prefer.
or you could use pmount for easier mounting.

to summaries all, i still recommend you do minimal install instead of trying to trim it down.
afaik, all currently detected hardware will still detected even with minimal install.

I'm using a USB Wireless Adapter, and have Network-Manager installed along with Wifi-Radar & WPA-Supplicant to get WPA wireless going. But there's got to be a better way, right? I'm not sure.

Instead of starting with minimal install and working my way up, I instead did a full Xubuntu install and chipped my way down. I did this, because I knew it would be able to detect all hardware and get the wireless connection going without a problem. (I had already used this USB Wireless Adapter, an Airlink, on another Linux box with success on Ubuntu, so I knew it worked.)

I've chipped away tons of stuff, and re-fitted tons of others (EG: I'm not using JWM, PCManFM, Aptitude, etc). But it still seems like keeping wireless going on the machine is a bit "heavy" … Network-Manager & Wifi-Radar all require some GTK and/or Python plus a few other packages.

I'm also curious if I could get rid of Avahi … it does DNS stuff, so I'm assuming "no" if I want to keep wireless running. Likewise, if I got rid of HAL, it probably wouldn't detect the external USB CD-Rom drive or USB FDD's I connect to it on-the-fly?

Just trying to find ways to trim it down. Even with JWM, it still seems a bit sluggish, where-as when I got the I-Opener it had Win98SE on it and was running pretty smooth. I just don't know why it would run Win98SE so smooth, but can't seem to run Linux with Window Manager very smooth…I'm reduced to using Command-Line for a lot of things, which I don't want to do.

or google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+configure+x

I built a minimalistic cd using these recommendations for light weight desktops. Look at the bottom, install a new desktop.

http://tuxtraining.com/2008/09/28/how-to-make-ubuntu-extremely-fast/

or, better yet, dont print. save the forest.
on the sidebar, there's 'Share This' options that allow you download a pdf version of this page.
then you can read the pdf anytime you like…

many confusion should go away if you view the flickr screencast.

i'll add more details to better help more windows refugee…
(just as i am.)

some links might be broken because the website owner update their website
and i do not have time to re-validate all of them.

but, i will try to keep it updated as more people like you give more inputs and reports bad links.

on qingy: the first comment tells you what file you need to edit.:

1. sudo nano -w /etc/event.d/tty1

btw. my friend i mention in the article, (complete newbies who never see/use linux before and use 100% windows) got extra phone support that i explain few more details. but not too much support.
in fact, he complete the install without a single phone call. the call is more on setting up the dial up modem which require to compile from source.
also… he's not proof reading. he was actually replacing his windows with maintenance-free, trouble-free, virus-free linux.

tnx again!