From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich =?ISO-8859-15?Q?F=FCrst?= Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:50:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20050112085050.39aec35f@sarge> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Jeremy Abbott wrote: > This may seem really newbieish, but I have been running Gentoo for > quite some time now. > > Is it possible to forego X altogether, and run things like firefox, > thunderbird, etc through the framebuffer from a bashprompt, rather > than starting X and going from there. The reason I ask, is I hate the > bloat of Gnome and KDE, and don't have the time to learn to configure You can start your programs from the console with X and without KDE/Gnome by typing: $ xinit /usr/bin/firefox -- :0 or $ xinit /usr/bin/oowriter -- :1 But I don't know exactly what you have to install (of X I mean). I'd think if you have fvwm installed to get used to it, there should be everything you need. hth Ulrich - 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