Microwindows Alternatives

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  1. GPaste

    Clipboard management system

  2. Nutrient

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  3. nsxiv

    Read-only mirror of Neo Simple X Image Viewer

  4. moonlight-tv

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

  5. dark

    C practice - basic roguelike in SDL2 that compiles both for desktop and Emscripten (by Zireael07)

  6. fbpdf

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

  7. libremarkable

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  8. CodeRabbit

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  9. gfxprim

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

  10. moonnuklear

    Lua bindings for Nuklear

  11. tinyxserver

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

  12. jumpnbump

    Jump 'n Bump, play cute bunnies jumping on each other's heads, ported for the web (by midzer)

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  • 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

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    nutrient.io | 19 Feb 2025
    Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free. Learn more →

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