Gary Dunn wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 Jul 2009 15:04:04 K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 29 Jul 2009 2:29:57 pm Gary Dunn wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anyone tried running Squeak from X without a window manager per se?
>>>       
>> Yes. I once launched Squeak from a single user console on a machine that
>> had only 64MB RAM! Squeak can be run from within a desktop, directly from X
>> (use -fullscreen), within a browser (using npsqueak.so plugin) or directly
>> from the console (-vm-display-fbdev). Make sure you env settings and
>> permissions are setup correctly. E.g.
>>
>>  $ startx /usr/local/bin/squeak -vm-display-X11 -swapbtn ~/squeak.image -- :1
>>
>>  $ squeak -vm-display-fbdev ~/squeak.image
>>
>> I am not sure how much these modes are supported, though.
>>
>> Subbu
>>     
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied. On FreeBSD 7.1 the best I could get was Squeak without a window manager and a World desktop that occupied about 80% of the screen.
>
>     o -fullscreen option is documented bwt not recognized.
>
>     o fbdev is not found, possibly unique to Linux.
>   
fbdev is Linux specific. I think that wscons is going to be the *BSD
equivalent.