At 09:28 PM 1/11/2005 +0000, Jeremy Abbott wrote:
What about a possible shell equivalent of XMMS, or at least an mp3 player with a que,
mpg123, a command-line mp3 player, can be run given a list of files to play. That's the closest I can think of to a playlist (what I assume you mean by a "que") capability in a CLI player. I didn't check, but the similar program mpg321 probably has the same capability.
I already know I can run elm as opposed to Thunderbird?
Yeah, or mutt or mush. I imagine pine is still around too. e-mail is easy for a CLI to handle.
Also, is there a better (i.e. graphical) web-broweser that runs from the command line? The only browsers I know of are links and lynx.
The two you name are the only ncurses-based browsers I am aware of. What you want, though, is (probably) a browser that uses svgalib.
I'm seeing some references that indicate that links2 (a grapgical version of links) can run using svgalib, but the Debian binary seems to be compiled to use X libraries, so you may need to compile your own version. Take a look at the links upstream site -- http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/index.html -- for the details.
There once was a version of arachne that I believe used svgalib, but I can't find any indication that it is currently available.
A little googling turned up lists of lightweight browsers at these URLs --
http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/brows.html http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm/en/lin_browser.html
-- though the svgalib choices they list all appear either to be gone or to be very early-stage alpha code.
The suggestion that you use X with a lightweight WM, which others have already made, really is good advice, probably much less work than diving down any of these rabbit holes. My own favorite in this respect is blackbox, though I think there are several others, such as your own example of fluxbox, that are also pretty good. With blackbox, I've run X on systems that have only 32 MB of RAM, with room to spare ... though some of the apps you are interested in themselves are too heavyweight for that.
Gentoo's source-based approach may make adding packages more trouble than, say, Debian or Fedora or Knoppix users have, but surely you're used to that aspect of Gentoo by now.
And the basic response you already received is also right ... apps familiar to us as X-based use shared libraries specific to X. They cannot write to a "raw" framebuffer.
Eric Bambach wrote:
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.
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