[PD] Gem in -nogui mode?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 9-screen/9-projector/9-computer multimedia room, and I would like the 
> computers to run on a super-stripped down install of Debian, and then 
> run Pd like a standard UNIX daemon. So it would be useful if it was 
> possible to be able to launch Gem windows straight to the framebuffer 
> without X11 even.  Perhaps that's a pipe dream...

You don't need to remove X11. You could remove everything else that is 
built on top of X11, including the window manager.

Besides, I don't think that video card drivers can run without 
X11, and I don't think that X11 necessarily causes a slowdown 
compared to running without X11.

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