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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer
From:       Marcus Furlong <furlongm () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2005-03-10 4:35:55
Message-ID: d0oiqn$rqg$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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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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