Software :: Possible To Run Graphical Linux Without GTK+ Or Qt?
Dec 29, 2010
I have a question, that may be super dumb as I couldn't find anything related while searching. But is it possible to run Linux with a window manager without GTK+ or Qt and still have a graphical web browser, music/movieplayer? I ask because I am trying to load a slim, streamlined linux without any part of KDE or Gnome for my eeepc 1000.Unfortunately a lot of apps seem to require GTK+ or Qt (which I believe requires some part of Gnome or KDE respectively). I would like to keep it as slim as possible.If it is not possible to completely separate from the toolkits I will look into deciding on which one would best fit my needs. Currently I have LXDE Salix OS and it seems to be doing OK. Although, to be honest I find even LXDE kind of busy for the little screen.I'd like to dual boot straight Slackware with Fluxbox or Openbox and one or two dockapps or some such to monitor battery, network connections and a clock.
I'm not a Linux noob, but I am far from guru. I'm running a single board computer with a slightly customized Debian Etch (customized by the SBC vendor). No Gnome/KDE/X installed. My application is a control application which uses SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) to paint some basic graphics on the VGA. I need to run it as root because the application calls iopl() to access an IO port.If I run my application manually from the command line, life is sweet. From Googling around, I found http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28, and hence I:1) Created a script in /etc/init.d2) Executed "update-rc.d scriptName defaults" to link the script into the boot sequenceAll very straightforward. My application starts at boot. But when I try to SSH/SFTP into the SBC, I get "Connection refused". So I can't manage the SBC anymore, and this is a big problem. I am not sure if it's relevant, but my application starts before the SSH daemon.My script looked like:
case "$1" in start) echo "Starting my application"
if anyone of you have shifted using Paid Red Hat Linux with CentOS, and what are your experiences of moving from Paid Linux to Unpaid Linux CenOS. When do you suggest a person use Paid Linux and when to use Unpaid Linux?
I have learnt that the network locked huawei modems may be unlocked to use any sim card bu getting a special unlock code and it should ask for it when a "foreign" SIM card is inserted. This procedure works well in Windows, but in Linux where I use wvdial, I dont get prompted for this unlock code. Does anyone know how to insert the unlock code in Linux using any Linux tool (GAMMU/GNOKII/Minicom etc)?
I am unable to ssh a Linux box from other Linux boxes; also tried to window putty.Although I am getting the password prompt instantaneously.So far, by comparing logs of other server, I am just able figure out that "debug2: callback start" is not coming in ssh -vvv logs.
I just installed the Catalyst drivers under FC13 (package xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-10.9-1.fc13.i686 ) and I am superhappy, as it worked straight out of the box.
The only little annoying thing is that I lost the Plymouth graphical boot, which is now substituted with the text scrollbar...
I edited grub.conf and added
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Somewhere I read that that attribute is now obsolete and has to be changed to
My older brother is switching to Linux and I wanted to set up ssh with him but a graphical but because he is new he needs a graphical way. I was going to download updates and everything he needs from here but I need a way so he can set up ssh and I can do the command line stuff. He wants to use Linux because of wine, ktorrent, xchat, the virus thing, and because of the gui package manager.
I've installed (well, I founded it installed yet in my new job...) Centos 5.3 (Final) version (kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 on an x86_64), but I only can work fron the command line. I don't know if I can use any graphical interface (I've worked with SuSe years ago and it start its graphical interface automaticaly when you reboot the system).
I have to configure sendmail. For it, I download and installed webmin and usermin and start them, but I don't know how to continue...
There are times that I would like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line in order to do that. I learned of a nice app in the Fedora repos called beesu and I will show you how to set up a menu entry to be able to use this nice app.
From man beesu:
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See man beesu for more information.
Beesu can be installed in Fedora with the following command:
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IMPORTANT: Beesu must be installed in order to successfully complete this tutorial.
You can use beesu from the command line with the following example:
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This will open gedit as root user after the correct root password has been entered into the password prompt. This is great. However, I'd like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line or alt+f2 run box. So, I wrote a small bash script that uses zenity to prompt the user for an app to open as well as the root password.
Copy the following code into a new text file and name it mybeesu.sh.
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You need to change the /path/to bit in step 4 "Command" to reflect the path to which you saved the mybeesu.sh script. Click the OK button to save the new menu item.
Now, when you click the new menu item from the gnome menu, a zenity window will open asking which app you want to open. After that, a second window will open prompting you for the root password. If all goes well, and you entered the correct root password, your desired app should open as if you used su -c 'foo' to launch it.
I recently installed fedora 13, everything was going great, now when my computer boots it shows the slash screen and then a blank screen and nothing. its been doing it the past few days, after a few reboots it'll work but i'm unable to figure out what is causing it and today it won't show the graphical login screen at all. after the Fedora slash screen the screen goes black the power button shuts it down as normal. ctrl - alt - F2 works and lets me login text wise but I can't get the graphical login to work. nor can I boot to KDE or gnome.I do have Nvidia drivers installed, normall it'll show the nvidia slash screen before the graphical login prompt comes up and that doesn't happen. I did try init 5 and it says Nvidia drivers are loaded. 3d was working just fine I haven't done anything that I can think of to provoke this.
I ma new in OpenSuSe and I want to create virtual Machine using the graphical interface Xen of Opensuse 11. I did'nt find a good tutorial ton use it or a gut getting started with xen in Opensuse.
i was having problems with filesharing with virtualbox, so in another thread someone told me to uninstall the OSE additions and install the vbox additions on virtualbox. I have uninstalled the OSE additions and now i can't get graphical login, it is all on runlevel 3.
I used (openoffice, firefox, vlc) my acer 5920g this afternoon without any problem and without making any strange operations.When I tried to restart it an hour ago it didn't start correctly: i get a screen full of commands like
Recently my Ubuntu has started dropping to bash shell instead of starting the graphical login. It first asks me login name and password(in the shell) then gives me a command line. I can then type startx to start it. It seems to start alright but that is not how it is supposed to work.
Doed anyone know how I can get it back to default behavior?
I am using 10.04. The grub is working properly but i can't login in graphical environment because the system stops at the ubuntu boot logo. However, TTY is working properly and i am able to login in all the tty [F1-F6]. I think the problem is with xserver but I don't know how to fix it.
I would like to start the x graphical interface without using GDM. I may be using the wrong terms here for x. Maybe it is called xdm or x11 or something.) I have set GDM to login without asking me for a password (I am the only user of this machine.) Sometimes, it still pops up the GDM login screen and if I select "actions" "reboot" (my memory tells me that is what it was,) it will reboot without asking to login, but the fonts are all wrong. If I select "apps" "restart" and it DOESN'T ask for my login, all is OK.
I would like to uninstall GDM, and place whatever GDM uses to start the graphical interface into the /ect/rc2.d startup scripts. I know GDM does other stuff then just logs me in and starts the graphical user interface, and I think I would like to maintain some of that, but I think I would like to manually insert the startup sequence in the startup scripts. Question one, can someone tell me where to look to find out what GDM is doing now so I can attempt to replicate it?
#2, does someone know the startup script line(s) to start the x server and graphical interface without GDM? I think this has bees asked before, but it seems hard to search older posts.
I'm trying to run multiple Graphical sessions. How can I do this? I have read the forum article from 2006 but I get an error when executing startx --:2 [URL] When I follow this howto, this is the error I get Code: # startx --:2 Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at [URL] for help. ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
Anyway, I downloaded a package by accident a while ago which provided a graphical display of the filesystem in with cool colored blocks showing the files and directories. Does anyone know what this is called?
When I run WoW through wine there is severe graphical corruption. I am using opengl and have tried windowed/nonwindowed mode. No luck. Any assistance concerning this?
Here is a pic: [URL...ldofwarcra.png (I am running a w2k theme, this IS linux)
I installed the newest Flash player in an update a few days ago, and now ever since last night, every time I watch a Flash video I get graphics problems. It looks as if the Flash video is stuck in the centre of the screen and if anything black (text, notifications) are in the way, they show the video behind them. Hard to explain what I mean Nothing shows up when I run ps ax.
In addition, all Flash videos are now jumbled up with pixels and weird looking glitches.
- Happens with Firefox, Minefield, and Chromium. - Using latest proprietary NVIDIA drivers available in Jockey - NVIDIA Geforce 8400m graphics - Restarting or using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace always fixes the problem.
