microwindows VS minifb

Compare microwindows vs minifb and see what are their differences.

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microwindows minifb
7 1
614 0
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2.8 0.0
2 months ago about 6 years ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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microwindows

Posts with mentions or reviews of microwindows. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
  • The Nano-X window system
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
  • Tinyx – resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023
    Interesting link!

    If we look at this directory:

    https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows/tree/master/src/drive...

    Most notably the source files that start with 'scr_', and of those most notably: scr_sdl2.c, scr_win32.c, scr_x11.c, scr_djvesa.c, scr_fb.c -- we see that this windowing system can apparently run on top of an existing windowing system, whether that system is SDL2, Win32, X11, VESA, Linux's framebuffer -- or several others.

    Which makes it interesting and worthy of study...

    Note that I am sure there are probably a whole lot of other windowing systems out there that also support these, let's call them "back-end" (for lack of better terminology) pre-existing windowing systems.

    In other words, a windowing system -- on top of another windowing system...

    Sort of like running X on top of Win32, or Win32 on top X...

    But the posibilities of higher level and lower level windowing system are really unlimited -- mix and match, basically...

    In conclusion -- excellent link!

  • Nano-X Window System
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2022
  • Anybody heard of Nano-X? What's your experience?
    1 project | /r/suckless | 7 Feb 2022
  • How to create a graphical application without relying on Xorg or Wayland?
    2 projects | /r/NetBSD | 26 May 2021
  • Microwindows or the Nano-X Window System
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021
  • JingPad A1 – World’s First Consumer Linux Tablet
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021
    I worked on this [1] Linux tablet 20 years ago, and we had working versions, but it doesn't really count as they weren't put into mass production. I don't know how many were built in the end (I left to co-found a webmail service). Sometimes it's depressing how long it takes for something to actually come to fruition. The screenshots in [1] are our custom UI based on NanoX [2], and an Opera port for the web browser screenshot (it worked). I wanted a production version for years after I left...

    [1] https://linuxdevices.org/freepad-norways-alternative-to-swed...

    [2] https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows

minifb

Posts with mentions or reviews of minifb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microwindows and minifb you can also consider the following projects:

moonlight-tv - Lightweight NVIDIA GameStream Client, for LG webOS TV and embedded devices like Raspberry Pi

GPaste - Clipboard management system

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

dark - C practice - basic roguelike in SDL2 that compiles both for desktop and Emscripten

nsxiv - Read-only mirror of Neo Simple X Image Viewer

gfxprim - Open-source modular 2D bitmap graphics library with emphasis on speed and correctness.

tinyxserver - A small X server, based on Xorg 1.2 but with security fixes.

moonnuklear - Lua bindings for Nuklear

libremarkable - The only public framework for developing applications with native refresh support for Remarkable Tablet

jumpnbump - Jump 'n Bump, play cute bunnies jumping on each other's heads, ported for the web

love-nuklear - Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games