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cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Minimal X

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!

cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: Minimal X

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

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Minimal X

Without any xorg-server:

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

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

cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: Minimal X

> 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?

cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: Minimal X

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

oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

Re: Minimal X

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'!