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ShadowKyogre / NCDM

NCurses Display Manager
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Inquiry: X-less version? #5

Open johnfrye3 opened 11 years ago

johnfrye3 commented 11 years ago

What would it take to remove the dependencies on X, and have it only launch CLI/TUI (tmux or byobu) sessions, choosing between preset configurations to launch certain commands such as an ncurses interface for starting other applications?

(I am new to programming, only a couple of irrelevant classes in Fortran and R under my belt, but I like the look/simplicity of curses and want to have an entire computer experience based on curses rather than CLI or GUI. Your display manager would be a great improvement over the current login I have. Thanks in advance.)

ShadowKyogre commented 11 years ago

Technically, this can already be done by having a blank gui.csv file and adding the appropriate entries for your CLI sessions to the cli.csv files. Since xorg isn't necessarily a strong dependency, I should move that to the optdepends >>. Anyway, please see the wiki page on adding sessions for how to fill out the appropriate session files.