From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:53 +0000 Message-ID: <41E468B5.30008@comcast.net> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> <20050112085050.39aec35f@sarge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050112085050.39aec35f@sarge> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_F=FCrst?= Ulrich F=FCrst wrote: >Jeremy Abbott wrote:=20 > =20 > >>This may seem really newbieish, but I have been running Gentoo for >>quite some time now.=20 >> >>Is it possible to forego X altogether, and run things like firefox,=20 >>thunderbird, etc through the framebuffer from a bashprompt, rather >>than starting X and going from there. The reason I ask, is I hate th= e >>bloat of Gnome and KDE, and don't have the time to learn to configure >> =20 >> > >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.=20 > >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 > > =20 > I will try this, but am curious what the purpose of the -- :0 and the -= -=20 :1 are. Is this in the man pages for X? Could this possibly be for=20 running more than one prog at a time, to switch between for the=20 console? If so how? Or should I also read the man page for this? Thanks, 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