I ran into a LOT of conceptual issues trying to port a X11 wm to directfb.

This was no surprise but I also felt that the current design of
DirectFB wm was not
up to the task of supporting an advanced wm easily. Also I wanted a WM
that was a dual DirectFB/X11 wm. The intrinsic problem is directfb
actually implements most of the WM internally and your supposed to be
able to just hook a few functions and it just works TM.
In my case that design could not meet everything I wanted to do.

But back to your orginial question I think that it would be easy to
implement a embedded
wm using the current directfb api. If you give it a shot and are
having problems send me email. I think you will find the current api
is great when it meets your needs.

Mike ( Lazy top poster :)



On 11/23/06, Pedro Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wandering if anyone knows about a Window Manager that runs over
> DirectFB. I think that Mike Emmel was working with Metacity, but I don't
> know the status of it.
>
> Since I'm focused on embedded systems, I would be interested in a WM like
> Matchbox that is designed specially for embedded devices. Other WMs are
> quite modular, light and fast, but were not designed for working with
> small resolutions and very limited resources.
>
> I had a look at some of them: Openbox, Blackbox and WindowMaker.
>
> Do you have any recommendation/tip?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pedro Aguilar
>
>
>
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