From: Marcus Furlong <furlongm@hotmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:35:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0oiqn$rqg$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net
Jeremy Abbott 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
http://quingy.sf.net
qingy is a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a
fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the
user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome,
kde, wmaker, ...).
emerge -a quingy
emerge --newuse world
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 4:35 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
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 [this message]
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