Tinyx – resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history

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  • tinyx

  • Related:

    Low-level VESA/VGA routines:

    https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx/tree/master/kdrive/ve...

  • microwindows

    The Nano-X Window System

  • 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!

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  • tinyxserver

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

  • The README mentions this other project:

    https://github.com/idunham/tinyxserver

    which has an XServer.man file that mentions X11/MIT-like license, but otherwise doesn't state a license for the project as a whole.

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