From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 13:34:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6254A15119 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:34:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02809 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:34:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:34:37 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912142134.WAA02809@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donn Miller wrote in list.freebsd-current: > Actually, that's not a bad idea. One idea I had was combining > syscons with XFree86 server code, so you always have a crippled X > server running without the bloat of a full-blown X server > running. I'm afraid that wouldn't work. In order to run non-trivial X11 apps, you _will_ need a full-blown X server, including X libs. You'll also need at least a very simple window manager (while xclock would probably work without, Netscape would certainly be pretty unusable). Although, the window manager would be the smallest problem of your approach... > One potential drawback is that it would probably bloat the > syscons code slightly. *ROTFL* :-)) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message