From: Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Ulrich Fürst" <heimwill@compuserve.de>
Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E468B5.30008@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050112085050.39aec35f@sarge>
Ulrich Fürst wrote:
>Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net> 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
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I will try this, but am curious what the purpose of the -- :0 and the --
:1 are. Is this in the man pages for X? Could this possibly be for
running more than one prog at a time, to switch between for the
console? If so how? Or should I also read the man page for this?
Thanks,
Jeremy Abbott
jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-11 20:41 Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 5:19 ` 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 [this message]
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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