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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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1. LtWorf ◴[17 Jan 25 21:45 UTC] No.42743597[source]▶

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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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