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Thatâ™s⠀really cool. � Ꭰо уо𝗎 𝗍һі𝗇𝗄 уо𝗎'ӏӏ со𝗇𝗍і𝗇𝗎е ᖯ𝗋о𝗐ѕі𝗇𝗀 ӏі𝗄е 𝗍һа𝗍?
Fuck you, you really made me check on my phone if all my text looks like this :(
(Your comment showed up "fine", by the way)
Yes, I think I will. Not exclusively, of course. But starting Firefox in Wayland just takes a key combo and 5 seconds if needed.

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2
It takes 5 seconds when the PC has to start up a wayland compositor, first.
Ahhh my bad I didn't read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already
What wayland compositor do you use for that? Have you tried
cage?I use Gnome.
I've found
cageto be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
See, that's another great thing about this experiment: I get to discover all kinds of cool new tools.
Thanks for that, looks exactly like what I need.
Make sure to check out the params on it. I noticed by default it disables the ability to switch tty via the keyboard shortcuts. Seems the main use for it is in "kiosk mode", so they don't want users to be able to escape the app easily. There's a param to disable that so you can still pop over to another tty (I forget what it is off the top of my head).
Launching it using the raw framebuffer means it blocks the screen until you close it, and there's no means to do anything else except switching to another TTY, is that it?
Firefox doesn't run in the framebuffer. It opens under Wayland in another tty.