On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
9-screen/9-projector/9-computer multimedia room, and I would like the computers to run on a super-stripped down install of Debian, and then run Pd like a standard UNIX daemon. So it would be useful if it was possible to be able to launch Gem windows straight to the framebuffer without X11 even. Perhaps that's a pipe dream...
You don't need to remove X11. You could remove everything else that is built on top of X11, including the window manager.
Besides, I don't think that video card drivers can run without X11, and I don't think that X11 necessarily causes a slowdown compared to running without X11.
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