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I am trying to spend most of my time off of the X session, using only CLI. Is there any way of opening X Window programs like Firefox, video-players and general GUI based programs in there? Or I MUST start an X session in order to do?
It is becoming increasingly possible thanks to Zenity, but it isn't perfect...
Zenity is a framework thats purpose is to support shell-scripts with graphical dialogs that are displayed on a running Xserver, not on a pure CLI system. So the answer is simple: No, you can't. If you want to run a program that uses X, you have to run X.
Zenity is a framework thats purpose is to support shell-scripts with graphical dialogs that are displayed on a running Xserver, not on a pure CLI system. So the answer is simple: No, you can't. If you want to run a program that uses X, you have to run X.
When you say that I must run X, you mean that I need to run a GUI interface for the system (like Gnome or KDE)? Is there a way of running X and staying in the CLI?
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