Hi, I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a lightweight window manager . Firefox, Openoffice, Xmms all use toolkits that need a backend X server to talk to. What gives you the impressions that X is that bloated? I would say just bite the bullet and search out a simple window manager. Sorry if anything doesn't make sense Im quite tired today, but I hope that answers your question.
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:41 pm, you 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 > of Gnome and KDE, and don't have the time to learn to configure fvwm or > fluxbox, etc. In addition, the X server has a lot to it that I don't > really need. This is just a personal desktop, and aside from setting up > samba to share mp3's with my fiance's computer (across the room), I > don't do provide any servers. I also generally don't use any graphical > utilities for setting up or maintaing the system. The only progs I > really use in X are, Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, Openoffice, and > occasionally KDevelop... mostly for editing my fvwm config. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Jeremy Abbott > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- ---------------------------------------- --EB > All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read > from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm). > oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached. > Is there anything else I can contribute? The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and a ballistic missile. --Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000 ---------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
