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Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0
From: Ben Williamson ####@####.#### Date: 23 Dec 1999 00:23:04 -0000 Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912231009500.1107-100000@bart.linux.bogus> This is the first release of the project I've been working on for a few weeks now. I thought you folks might find it interesting and maybe even useful. I'd really like to hear from anyone who gets it running, or anyone who has problems for that matter. I'm subscribed to the nanogui list, and DinX has its own mailing lists too. name: DinX is not X version: 0.2.0 homepage: http://dinx.sourceforge.net/ download: http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=637 author: Ben Williamson ####@####.#### category: console/graphics brief: Windowing system, uses Linux framebuffer. license: MPL with GPL option description: DinX is an experimental windowing system that performs clipping and drawing inside Linux kernel modules. This eliminates much context switching between clients and the server, and makes the code small, simple and fast. It is aimed at small systems like Linux handhelds. The first public release includes draggable windows and a simple image viewer. All clipping and drawing operations are working properly. The window server program is under development, to provide a more complete set of events. Perhaps there is an opportunity here to combine DinX and Microwindows in some interesting ways. Microwindows has something that DinX lacks, ie a well developed window server with a defined protocol, palette management etc. DinX is strong on drawing and clipping, which IMHO was always the weak point of the code that came from mini-X. So let me know what you think. Cheers, - Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Williamson ####@####.#### http://www.pobox.com/~benw/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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