From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bambach Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:19:42 -0600 Message-ID: <200501112319.42894.eric@cisu.net> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Reply-To: eric@cisu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Jeremy Abbott Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a lightwe= ight=20 window manager . Firefox, Openoffice, Xmms all use toolkits that need a= =20 backend X server to talk to. What gives you the impressions that X is t= hat=20 bloated? I would say just bite the bullet and search out a simple windo= w=20 manager. Sorry if anything doesn't make sense Im quite tired today, but= I=20 hope that answers your question. On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:41 pm, you wrote: > This may seem really newbieish, but I have been running Gentoo for qu= ite > some time now. > > Is it possible to forego X altogether, and run things like firefox, > thunderbird, etc through the framebuffer from a bashprompt, rather th= an > starting X and going from there. The reason I ask, is I hate the blo= at > of Gnome and KDE, and don't have the time to learn to configure fvwm = or > fluxbox, etc. In addition, the X server has a lot to it that I don't > really need. This is just a personal desktop, and aside from setting= up > samba to share mp3's with my fiance's computer (across the room), I > don't do provide any servers. I also generally don't use any graphic= al > utilities for setting up or maintaing the system. The only progs I > really use in X are, Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, Openoffice, and > occasionally KDevelop... mostly for editing my fvwm config. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Jeremy Abbott > jkbullfrog@comcast.net > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbi= e" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs --=20 ---------------------------------------- --EB > All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to = read > from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm). > oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached. > Is there anything else I can contribute? The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and a ballistic missile. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0--Alan Cox LKML-Decembe= r 08,2000=20 ---------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs