NetSurf framebuffer on FreeBSD
reddit / freebsd

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dorayfoo · 2021-12-12 19:54

I'd like to get an old Thinkpad and try and be a CLI-only as possible.
So that means no X Window or Wayland etc window managers.

However, I don't think I could completely go without a browser.
Netsurf is a browser which includes the ability to show the interface
directly in the framebuffer. I'm guessing that the framebuffer might
be handled differently under Linux and FreeBSD. There is an official
FreeBSD version of Netsurf, but has anyone got this framebuffer
feature to work under FreeBSD?

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gumnos · 2021-12-12 21:16

Running `netsurf` in a frame-buffer [seems to require a helper `nsfb`
program](https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/job/docs-
netsurf/doxygen/md_docs_using-framebuffer.html) which I don't see
available in my FreeBSD package repos. I grabbed a nearby laptop that
happens to have FreeBSD 12.2 without X and installed `netsurf` but had
no luck getting it to run in a framebuffer using the instructions
given at that URL.

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PkHolm · 2021-12-13 11:19

lynx browser should be able to use FB

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grahamperrin · 2022-01-01 08:33

I sent an e-mail to the maintainer with reference to your post.