From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:41:24 +0000 Message-ID: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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