Ulrich Fürst wrote:
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
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I will try this, but am curious what the purpose of the -- :0 and the --
:1 are. Is this in the man pages for X? Could this possibly be for
running more than one prog at a time, to switch between for the
console? If so how? Or should I also read the man page for this?
Thanks,
Jeremy Abbott
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