Re: [ros-dev] Reactos booting to CLI

[Filip Navara]

We used to support that. The WinLogon was able to run in CUI mode, CSRSS and
win32k started GUI mode only on demand (ie. if any GUI API was called).
Basically all the components were designed in a way that if you specified
cmd.exe as a shell then the GUI would never be started unless you try to
execute an application which requires it. Quitting the application would
switch back to the console mode. Not sure if and why it was removed...

- Filip

2008/3/17 Marc Piulachs <marc.piulachs(a)codexchange.net>et>:

>    As we know Windows (at least till Windows 7) was
> designed to be a GUI
>  based operating system. All applications can safely assume that the
>  windowing subsystem is running.
>
>
>
>  Windows/Reactos can run native applications without starting the windowing
>  subsystem like usetup during 1st stage setup but of course without having
>  access to Win32 apis as Win32k is not loaded. AFAIK win32k is designed to be
>  the main subsystem and is the responsible of starting the windowing
>  subsystem so my question is … Would be technically possible to have a
>  striped win32k version without the GUI code? + command line enabled
>  winlogon, syssetup etc.. so you can boot and run cli based applications like
>  cmd.exe ? what other parts of the boot process relay on having the GUI
>  running?
>
>
>
>  It's more of a design curiosity question rather than a real request
>
>
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Marc
>
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