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Just change the terminal, no the shell

Just change the terminal, no the shell

Posted Jun 25, 2008 17:07 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Just change the terminal, no the shell by endecotp
Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)

Actually you can do that in the Linux framebuffer.


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Just change the terminal, no the shell

Posted Jun 26, 2008 10:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, but unless you can make it work in an X terminal emulator too it's not going to be
terribly widely used. (I don't use fb even though non-fb is almost unreadable on my LCD screen
--- it gets the width of the screen radically wrong --- simply because, AIUI, fbdev is pretty
much incompatible with accelerated X, and I care much more about accelerated X than I do about
the tiny proportion of the time I'm using the console.)

Just change the terminal, no the shell

Posted Jun 26, 2008 15:07 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

> Actually you can do that in the Linux framebuffer.

Hmm, I just tried "cat foo.jpeg" and got the garbage characters that I was expecting.  Is
there something that I have to enable?

Just change the terminal, no the shell

Posted Jun 27, 2008 12:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It is *possible* to write code such that that works in the Linux 
framebuffer (compared to, say, xterm: w3m can display images in that but 
there's no way it'll work with scrollback or anything because w3m is just 
blatting images into the same X window: xterm doesn't know anything about 
it).

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