Jeremy Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
You can start your programs from the console with X and without KDE/Gnome by typing: $ xinit /usr/bin/firefox -- :0 or $ xinit /usr/bin/oowriter -- :1 But I don't know exactly what you have to install (of X I mean). I'd think if you have fvwm installed to get used to it, there should be everything you need. hth Ulrich - 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
