GUI program in Porteus without window manager?

[rcrsf]

I'm trying to get minimal for when only running one program, and am wondering: Is it possible to run a program (e.g. Firefox or LibreOffice) without loading any of the Porteus desktops (kde/mate/xfce/lxqt)?

I tried some stuff like "xinit -- /usr/bin/firefox", but so far just trial-and-error(s).

[ncmprhnsbl]

AFAIK i dont think so, that is, you need some sort of window manager, to run gtk apps..

check out http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=4053 for a *relatively* lightweight fluxbox setup..
future porteus releases will include a minimal openbox wm for what you're doing,
in the meantime, have a look at the "Nemesis" development branch
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=5066
which has this function...

apart from that, look into twm or xorg-twm

[francois]

I have read somewhere in the documentation of arch Linux that you could open a web browser in xorg only.

However, I have been unable to find the arch wiki about it. I will report it I find the information. If should be tied to autologin in xorg or in graphical mode.

[aus9]

Its not xorg me thinks as some distros now have wayland graphics.
It may relate to the dependencies like gtk or whatever and they may need to find a xorg lib file etc

[francois]

Here is exactly what I meantabout only xorg and firefox:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xi ... ow_manager


Also, I found these other threads about the topic, but the one I meant was the above-mentioned:
http://superuser.com/questions/407043/i ... installing
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7844 ... -a-display

[Bogomips]

^ Thanks, francois. Nice, informative link.

[francois]

@bogomips:
As I never implemented the strategy under porteus or arch, I will be glad to hear that you have achieve it.

[fullmoonremix]

Salutations...

Perhaps you are looking for this?
Twin (windowing system
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
http://slakfinder.org/index.php?act=sea ... e=#results

Caveat?
Your mileage my vary... besides (being unattractive?) even if you avoid a GUI window manager
(and/or environment?), you still will have trouble avoiding the major application toolkits (Qt/Gtk) or Mesa.

Perhaps what you is NEED is this?
PekWM
http://slakfinder.org/index.php?act=sea ... e=#results

And this...
http://fifth-browser.sourceforge.net/
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=5419

Or this...
NetSurf

Open/Flux(box) although lightweight they still rely on Gtk/Mesa. PekWM only uses XCB and does not rely on Mesa.

Also Palemoon (Firefox?) although lightweight still relies on Gtk. Fifth uses FLTK . NetSurf uses XCB and/or xlib.

Sorry... I forgot to also make this shameless plug...Xfe
http://slakfinder.org/index.php?act=sea ... e=#results

If you go this route you will NOT completely avoid toolkits but you will end up with an attractive... faster... smaller memory/resource footprint.
When I switched to Porteus from Android I was big on status quo. Now I have seen the "light" (pun intended) with a little help from my friends @ Porteus.

The revolution will NOT be televised... I'm going rogue.

Best Regards...

[ncmprhnsbl]

thankyou francois, my knowledge(such as it is) has been expanded...

[brokenman]

Perhaps what you need is porteus kiosk.