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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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      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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