[b2g] Firefox OS alongside a framebuffer console?

2013-12-17 Thread John Magolske
Hi, Would it be possible to have Firefox OS running in one VT, then switch over to another VT and run a framebuffer console? On my ThinkPad I run Debian with a framebuffer console, using tmux as a textmode "window manager" along with various CLI and ncurses applications like zsh, Vim, vifm, Mutt,

Re: [b2g] Firefox OS alongside a framebuffer console?

2013-12-18 Thread daniel . ina1
Hi John, I don't really get the idea about your motivation for using a framebuffer console. On smartphones with rather small screens, you run all apps in full screen and have no window manager, borders etc. You can easily switch between those apps and you can run a terminal emulator there as we

Re: [b2g] Firefox OS alongside a framebuffer console?

2013-12-19 Thread Frederik Braun
On 17.12.2013 19:17, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > Would it be possible to have Firefox OS running in one VT, then > switch over to another VT and run a framebuffer console? > I'm not sure if this is for *using* or *hacking* on Firefox OS, but if you don't need the phone parts, you could look in