Comments on: Quit X! screen-vs is more fun!

By: Still with ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho

Still with ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:38:05 +0000

[...] But that unfortunately relies on Xorg to do most of the dirty work, and on a machine this slow, I have no faith in X and company. [...]

By: navin kumar inwati

navin kumar inwati — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:31:20 +0000

my quere is that my screen gone alter to horizontal to vertical, how i get the original screen?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:52:49 +0000

I believe the port for screen-vs is elsewhere on this site; try the “Crux” category on the right.

I don’t recall if I ever made a port for fbterm for Crux though. I’ll dig around and see if I can find it.

By: Perry

Perry — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:45:30 +0000

I would very much like to have access to your screen-vs prot for crux, if at all possible. Also fbterm, if it isn’t too much to ask.

By: rbanavara

rbanavara — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:19:41 +0000

How do you get cvidix to work. I have nvidia 8600 MGT card and when i try this on console, it give some error like driver not found (though fbdev works nicely).

By: Xorg or Wayland: Color me disinterested « Motho ke motho ka botho

Xorg or Wayland: Color me disinterested « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:47:07 +0000

[...] learned a long time ago that I could move closer to my goals by omitting X altogether. When I jettisoned the aging, bloated crowbait, life suddenly turned [...]

By: cdm: Manage desktops from the console « Motho ke motho ka botho

cdm: Manage desktops from the console « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:28:06 +0000

[...] Again, I haven’t actually done that, but it might be a bonus for people like me, who don’t really want X in the first [...]

By: vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt « Motho ke motho ka botho

vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:51:14 +0000

[...] vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt Published 2010/06/26 Linux Leave a Comment Just a short note today, about another possible clock and/or screensaver for your terminal-only system. This is vtclock, running in screen-vs. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:12:14 +0000

The framebuffer support you see in screenshots is only done through the kernel support. I have tinkered very little with DirectFB, mostly because in Crux it’s only available through an outside port (in other words, it’s not in core, opt or contrib) and I haven’t had much luck setting it up.

On the other hand, I do use things like links2 -g or similar applications when I am using Debian or Arch, but that probably doesn’t help with your question. …

By: Mats Rauhala

Mats Rauhala — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:08:46 +0000

Do you use DirectFB for framebuffer? I just installed Gentoo on my old laptop
and was considering of using only console and framebuffer applications in it,
but DirectFB has its own keyboard listeners or something, and without disabling
the keyboard module, all the keyboard input is given twice. Imagine my
frustration when I tried to to go “hhttpp::::////rreeddiitt..ccoomm”.

So I put “disable-modules=keyboard” to ~/.directfbrc and all seemed good, until
I tried to switch ttys and I couldn’t. As far as I see it, by disabling the
keyboard module, I disabled normal console behavior such as Control-F1. This
makes using for example links impossible for me.