Comment by segasaturn

Comment by segasaturn 6 months ago

I remember Links, the text-based browser that runs in your terminal, had a framebuffer mode that you could use to get rudimentary graphical web browsing on a system with no X11 installed.

prmoustache 6 months ago

I think netsurf can still be compiled for fb.

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baq 6 months ago

May I introduce you to https://www.brow.sh/

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LtWorf 6 months ago

Yeah, also mpv has a framebuffer driver. AFAIK Qt has one as well, so any Qt program could run without X/wayland.

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qalmakka 6 months ago

> Qt
That's EGLFS, it's used quite a bit in automotive AFAIK. It's slowly getting replaced by Wayland and Weston though.

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- jcelerier 6 months ago
  
  Qt also has a directfb backend (among many others: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/plugins/platforms)
  
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