Re: running gui apps from consul

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Today at 18:57, "hank" <hank hanksmith net> wrote:

> hello some one told me that there was something called think it was
> called cursed it allowed gui apps with consul can I get url to
> program, and views on how well this works? 

It's probably Gtk+ ported to "curses" or "ncurses"[1] library what
you're referring to.  You can find it at 
  http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/

It's not really a GUI, it's basically "full-screen" text UI, and since
Gtk+ applications are rarely designed to fit requirements of a
text-only display, they won't necessarily work very well.

OTOH, you can run almost full Gtk+ on Linux framebuffers using
DirectFB port of Gtk+[2]. What will suit you better depends on what
you're after.

Cheers,
Danilo

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
[2] http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Development%2FProjects%2FGTK%2B