Re:The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2
by shmerl on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:52AM
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That's the whole point. I mean terminals that can work without graphics environment. Such as what kernel implements for tty.
Re:The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2
by kragen on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:56AM
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well, you can't display mpv videos in your terminal emulator with sixel graphics or any other kind of graphics if your terminal emulator is running in an environment doesn't support graphics, such as if it's displaying on an adm3a. perhaps you mean you don't want your terminal emulator to run inside a window manager. well, the x server and the wayland server don't run under a window manager; the window system runs under them, if it runs at all
Re:The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2
by shmerl on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:09AM
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That's exactly the point. Why can't you? Because no one implemented that support in that terminal emulator? Or it's impossible for some reason?
I get the reason of may be kernel not wanting to overload the minimalist terminal with features due to security concerns and etc, but as the article suggests, it can be moved out of the kernel, so I don't see why it shouldn't be doable.
Re:The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2
by kragen on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:29AM
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i said you can't 'if your terminal emulator is running in an environment doesn't support graphics, such as if it's displaying on an adm3a'. that is because the adm3a hardware physically cannot draw any graphics
but the 'terminal' that a terminal emulator is emulating is a device which provides a user access to a remote computer. it is called a 'terminal' because it is at the end of a long wire connecting it to the computer (perhaps through a network). normally nowadays this is a laptop or cellphone. in that case, yes, you can use x-windows, xpra, vnc, rfb, spice, or a web browser