Candlelit Console patch set to the OpenBSD framebuffer console

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  • notcurses

    blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

  • Might be closer than you think... Check out Notcurses.

    https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

    Here's a demo:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

  • fbpdf

    A small framebuffer pdf, djvu, epub, xps, and cbz viewer

  • You may be interested in the work of Ali Gholami Rudi. Scroll down to the "framebuffer" section: https://litcave.rudi.ir

    Apart from things like writing his own C compiler and typesetting systems, Rudi implemented several GUI programs that work on Linux without Xorg or Wayland. He claims there on his site he doesn't even use Xorg any more.

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