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bendy
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Hi, I recently posted about running the links browser in a framebuffer console - see
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=87181
Can anyone suggest other good apps which will work with graphical output in the framebuffer (apart from mplayer, which I already know about)?
What would be interesting is a vnc client......
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Roguelazer
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Have you tried "XDirectFB"? It is a framebuffer that behaves as a rootless X server, and therefore allows you to use ANY X application with a framebuffer. It supports all the framebuffer devices in the kernel, and uses DirectFB. It also provides such amenities as transparancy.
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bendy
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| bendy wrote: | | What would be interesting is a vnc client...... |
Answering my own post, I just found directvnc.  |
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Roguelazer
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I find running a fullscreen session of yourself at 50% transparancy in xdirectfb is fun...
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sawanv
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Ah, my friend!
You should check out Qingy, first introduced in the following forums link:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72022&highlight=qingy
I just finished configuring it and its jaw-dropping!! I al
so tried out the themes provided by our friend Roguelazer...good stuff!!
Whats this XDirectFB stuff and how do you get it up and running?
Sawan
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Roguelazer
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emerge directfb
emerge xdirectfb
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starxdfb
... Wait while it loads whatever is in ~/.xinitrc...
Yay!
Startbutton and mousescroll to change opacity values.
Also of interest might be this handy dandy script I made:
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/usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB -enableRoot -defaultOpacity 200 -ac -nolisten tcp -enableUnfocused -unfocusedOpacity 100 -enableFadeIn -enableFadeOut & sleep 3 && DISPLAY=:0 /etc/X11/Sessions/kahakai
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sawanv
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Thanks for the tip man!
Will check out and let you know.
Sawan
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