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#1 2008-11-13 23:46:42

Army
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xfce without xorg?

Hi guys

A couple of times I read, that xfce can be run without X, but simply on a framebuffer (maybe even without? but I want my widescreen resolution, which I get with radeonfb, that's no problem). But there was never an explanation, howto or link to a way how to make this possible. The ${search eingine} doesn't want to give me any kind of information. But I really would love to just see it big_smile I'm not quite sure, if it is usable or stable or whatever, but I just want to see it.

So, does anybody know, how to do this or does anybody have a link to a howto, which I might have missed on my research?

Thanx for any idea!

Army

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#2 2008-11-14 00:33:39

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Re: xfce without xorg?

About two or three years ago (though I'm unsure if it exists today), there was a method called GtkFB which basically allows all GTK applications to run on the framebuffer.  I don't think it is compatible with modern GTK though.  I understand your need for minimalism, but why no desire for X?


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#3 2008-11-14 10:46:55

Army
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Re: xfce without xorg?

It's not like I really want use it for every day's work, this is pure interest wink If I really wanted pure minimalism, I wouldn't use XFCE wink
edit: I was rethinking about this and did some research with this new keyword gtkfb and seems like these messages of people running XFCE on framebuffer are really old, so this might have been the way, but nowadays it's no longer possible with gtk2.

But if there's somebody out there with an idea of another method or so, feel free to tell me smile

Last edited by Army (2008-11-14 13:05:20)

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#4 2008-11-14 21:08:07

Profjim
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Re: xfce without xorg?

Just some googlefu: try searching "gtk2 (without-x|framebuffer|directfb)". Most of the results are to building Firefox without X. Looks like pango, cairo, and other things all need to be compiled specially. If it's possible at all.

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#5 2008-11-15 02:41:44

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Re: xfce without xorg?

On installation of XFCE today, I saw a message that it can indeed be run with a framebuffer. It didn't give instructions, just told me.

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#6 2008-11-15 10:33:23

Army
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Re: xfce without xorg?

Yes, I saw that as well, this whole thing seems to be some kind of myth wink

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#7 2008-11-15 20:02:02

voteforpedro36
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Re: xfce without xorg?

http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Xfce4_over_DFB

That just explains the panel though. Any other application you would want to use would require X, though.

Last edited by voteforpedro36 (2008-11-15 20:02:18)

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