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Hands-On Graphics Without X11

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166 points ingve | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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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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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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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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1. jcelerier ◴[18 Jan 25 16:50 UTC] No.42749573[source]▶
Qt also has a directfb backend (among many others: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/plugins/platforms)