microwindows
tinyx
microwindows | tinyx | |
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7 | 8 | |
615 | 210 | |
- | 5.7% | |
2.8 | 0.0 | |
2 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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microwindows
- The Nano-X window system
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Tinyx – resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history
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
- Anybody heard of Nano-X? What's your experience?
- How to create a graphical application without relying on Xorg or Wayland?
- Microwindows or the Nano-X Window System
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JingPad A1 – World’s First Consumer Linux Tablet
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
tinyx
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Tinyx – resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history
Low level routines found here: https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx/tree/master/kdrive/vesa
Related:
Low-level VESA/VGA routines:
https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx/tree/master/kdrive/ve...
- Tinyx resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history
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Suckless X almost there
Tinyx is a fork of Xorg 1.2.0 that aims to create the smallest, fully featured binary(~572 KB) of X. Here are the instructions on how to build it on tinycore, which uses tinyx by default. However, there is a discussion wheter the lack of drivers in Xvesa is beneficial, so I believe we should fork Tinyx and provide improved drivers from mainstream Xorg as patches.
What are some alternatives?
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