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Hands-On Graphics Without X11

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166 points ingve | 6 comments | 17 Jan 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.823s | source | bottom
1. segasaturn ◴[17 Jan 25 21:01 UTC] No.42743175[source]▶
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.
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2. LtWorf ◴[17 Jan 25 21:45 UTC] No.42743597[source]▶
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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3. prmoustache ◴[17 Jan 25 22:34 UTC] No.42743985[source]▶
I think netsurf can still be compiled for fb.
4. qalmakka ◴[18 Jan 25 07:27 UTC] No.42746585[source]▶
> 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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5. baq ◴[18 Jan 25 09:21 UTC] No.42747002[source]▶
May I introduce you to https://www.brow.sh/
6. jcelerier ◴[18 Jan 25 16:50 UTC] No.42749573{3}[source]▶
Qt also has a directfb backend (among many others: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/plugins/platforms)