From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcus Furlong Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:35:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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