From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:28:12 +0000 Message-ID: <41E444EC.4000708@comcast.net> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> <200501112319.42894.eric@cisu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501112319.42894.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: eric@cisu.net What about a possible shell equivalent of XMMS, or at least an mp3 player with a que, I already know I can run elm as opposed to Thunderbird? Also, is there a better (i.e. graphical) web-broweser that runs from the command line? The only browsers I know of are links and lynx. Eric Bambach wrote: >Hi, > I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a lightweight >window manager . Firefox, Openoffice, Xmms all use toolkits that need a >backend X server to talk to. What gives you the impressions that X is that >bloated? I would say just bite the bullet and search out a simple window >manager. Sorry if anything doesn't make sense Im quite tired today, but I >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 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 >> >> > > > - 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