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From: Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:41:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> (raw)

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 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 graphical 
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

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-11 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-11 20:41 Jeremy Abbott [this message]
2005-01-12  5:19 ` Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Eric Bambach
2005-01-11 21:28   ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12  6:06     ` Eric Bambach
2005-01-12  6:55     ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-11 23:57       ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 16:21         ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-12 17:37           ` James Miller
2005-01-12  9:40   ` Michael Scottaline
2005-01-12  7:50 ` Ulrich Fürst
2005-01-12  0:00   ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12  9:40     ` Ulrich Fürst
2005-01-13  2:04 ` Peter
2005-01-13  2:15   ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-13  3:12   ` Michael Scottaline
2005-03-10  4:35 ` Marcus Furlong

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