Re: what parts depend on X ?

[Johann Klammer]

On 09/01/2014 01:17 AM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I was hoping to design an application(s) that would not need X. I
> figured that the mouse mask would depend on X but now I am starting to
> wonder how many parts do. So for instance the window borders do not seem
> to be displaying right, they are back to ascii text.
>
> I brought down X with CTRL + ALT + F1 and ran the same programs. I also
> opened mlterm which displayed them right with X.  rtvm-unicode won't
> start without X.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? is there any documentation I have missed ?

Not that I know. The last time I ran a program like that, it would draw 
the line chars just well. Perhaps something is brohkenz with your 
termcap or console-tools installation. How do you draw the window 
borders? can you post a link to your test pgm?

I believe the mouse input can be got with gpm in the text terminal. Or 
perhaps that was just for copy&paste.. Not sure tho if that still 
exists/works..
oh, there:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_%28software%29>