Small Web Browser?
Leo J Mauler
webgiant at juno.com
Mon Nov 24 10:58:38 CST 2003
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:28:30 -0600 (CST) Gerald Combs
<gerald at ethereal.com> writes:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:03 pm, Gerald Combs wrote:
> >
> > > Links (version 2) has a graphics mode. You can invoke it with
> "-device x"
> > > from X. It also supports JavaScript:
> >
> > >
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/features.html
> >
> > Ok, you're missing the point here: What if you DON'T have or want
> XWindows?
>
>
> And you didn't read the feature page above, or you skipped bullet
> item #2.
> It says:
>
> "Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System
> (UN*X,
> Cygwin), SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI"
>
> bam:/home/gerald> links -help
> links [options] URL
> Options are:
>
> -g
> Run in graphics mode.
>
> -no-g
> Run in text mode (overrides previous -g).
>
> -driver <driver name>
> Graphics driver to use. Drivers are: x, svgalib, fb, directfb,
> pmshell, atheos.
> Available drivers depend on your operating system and available
> libraries.
>
> -mode <graphics mode>
> Graphics mode. For SVGALIB it is in format COLUMNSxROWSxCOLORS --
> for example 640x480x256, 800x600x64k, 1024x768x16M32
>
> [ ... ]
Okay, tried Links with the options:
links -g -driver svgalib -mode 800x600x256
and
links -g -driver svgalib -mode 640x480x256
Each time the system responds with:
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. (which file should I chmod
permissions?)
If I try to run the same commands as root, I get:
Segmentation fault.
Typing
links
by itself with no command line arguments results with a blank screen and
a single flashing cursor near the top of the screen. If I press Ctrl-C I
can get out of the blank screen and back to a shell prompt.
Incidentally, I can get X to run at 800x600x256 using the generic VESA
driver (with the aforementioned blank screen upon exiting X).
This may just be a case of a great piece of software and inadequate
system resources.
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