On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:13:11PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I have a 15" and 17" TFTs at work. For me 15" is not enough scren real > estate to use X, so that box runs in 1024x768 framebuffer console. The > only problem with that is that it's noticeably slow in high-colour > (> 256) modes; on 256-colour framebuffer fbi fails to render high-colour > images (but this has nothing to do with the screen being TFT).
How does using framebuffer console give you more screen real estate than under X? A good window manager could give you borderless windows, so where does that screen real estate really go? Wouldn't using X give you more fonts to choose from, and higher speed?
pgpFyPFakfFfl.pgp
Description: PGP signature
