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• Started 11 years ago by cpcnw
• Latest reply from oui
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   cpcnw
   

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   Hi All,

   Have made great inroads installing base and console apps inc tmux - was thinking though looking at my vga=795 console...

   Is it possible to install a very light / tiny X (guess xvesa is quite small?) and crank it up to 1680x1050 then run tmux in a single xterm session at start up?

   Anyone doing this? Or help with getting it sorted? I like to get the full use of my screen and tmux :)

   Thanks a mill!

   Slitaz Rocks!

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   cpcnw
   

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   Ah - I have just seen in packages

   xorg-server-Xfbdev : Xfbdev framebuffer Xorg server.

   Is this the minimal I can get X down to for a hi-res console?

   Or is there a better way?

   I'm interested in a 'Console Apps Only' kind of setup - getting down to just base, apps like tmux / mc / elinks etc BUT want better res :)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   Without any xorg-server:

   Text mode - boot with vga=ask to choose the resolution.
   X11 fake - install fbvnc and connect to a VNC server.

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   cpcnw
   

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   > Text mode - boot with vga=ask to choose the resolution.

   Have vga=795 - works but is aspect 1.3 not 1.6 - fonts not great

   > X11 fake - install fbvnc and connect to a VNC server

   This sounds interesting... can you explain further?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   cpcnw
   

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   At a guess: run vnc server on one tty and 'view it' wth fbvnc on another tty on same machine?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   oui
   

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   Hi
   I did install an very minimal SliTaz rolling base (link from forum) with following commandos:

   tazpkg recharge
   tazpkg upgrade and following option "y" (this create actually the dir /boot including content!)
   tazpkg get-install gitmail
   tazpkg get-install xorg
   tazpkg get-install xorg.xinit
   tazpkg get-install xterm
   tazpkg get-install slim
   tazpkg get-install jwm
   tazx (select option Xorg, your card)
   mkfs.ext4 /dev/hda6 (if needed! adapt hdax to your situation)
   mnt /dev/hda6 /mnt
   cp -a /bin/ /mnt/
   cp -a /boot/ /mnt/
   etc. all directories excepted /mnt itself

   add entry for grub.cfg:

   menuentry "SliTaz full ext4 (on /dev/sda6)" {
   linux (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.14-slitaz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=normal sound=noconf nomodeset screen=text
   }

   in /root, the default entries from SliTaz are wrong for that situation.

   mv /mnt/root /mnt/root0 # (so you can visit it later to copy some parts)
   mkdir /mnt/root # (your new /toot after reboot)
   cat > /mnt/root/.xinitrc << "EOF"
   jwm
   EOF

   reboot

   comment1: as the iso coming from web is a old ISO !!!! , and not an fresh night build as annouced doing it online, you also can use an old one downloaded and proceed as indicated in the handbook at http://doc.slitaz.org and directly expand that ohne mounth old ISO from February 2013! it goes faster and do the same after an restart

   comment2: if xorg seems doen't to start after xinit or startx, it can be helpful to wait some time (cook a coffee and drink it slowly) before retrying new tentative ;-) ... xorg needs some 'backslaps'!

   Posted 11 years ago #

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