[Slackware] Do I need an x-server running to watch video?
Hello,
I want to drop an old workstation running Slackware on my entertainment center. Ideally all I want to have going is that by default the user is presented with a terminal on the television screen. They can use a mounted keyboard to type in a command like "vlc video_clip.divx" and have VLC pop up in full-screen and play the video, hopefully terminating when the clip is done. I'm not going for user-friendly here :) But to watch video, do I need to have an x-server running? If yes, what window manager is easiest to navigate using keyboard only? Thanks |
Hi,
I think you can without X started, using framebuffer, but I don't know much about it. Anyway, if you start X, you don't need a WM for what you want do to. You can just put xdm without WM set it will spawn a xterm on the screen. Hope this helps. Antegallya |
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I think that by default it uses 256 color video modes, but maybe there are some options for that somewhere. Quote:
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No x-server required as long as have framebuffer support. If you use mplayer, you can play with mplayer -vo fbdev -vf scale=horizontal_size:vertical_size file_name.
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i got mandriva running well on the machine, so i think i'll do the opposite of what i had planned and ditch slackware for a gui-based system with the only input device being a mouse. the mouse looks nicer than the keyboard anyway. |
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