It is hard looking for FB-based window manager. I do have some sugestion on an alternative. Are you comfortable with curses-based? On Oct 1, 2012 4:53 AM, "LM" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working with an older, low resource computer. Was wondering about > the possibility of using an alternative to X Windows or building a > lightweight version. If anyone has any tips or pointers to > documentation or more information on the subject, would love to hear > about it. > > For SDL 1.2 based applications, I've been able to run some using > directfb without needing X Windows. However, I don't think this will > work with all the SDL applications I use. I've also been > experimenting with nano-X and it's capable of handling FLTK 1.3 based > applications as well as some programs that just use the X or Win32 > APIs. Am wondering if there are any Linux distributions that just use > nano-X and never bother with X Windows. I've been hearing about > Wayland ( http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html ) and it's possible > use on Ubuntu, but it doesn't sound like it's ready for general use > yet. I've also read about doing minimal X Windows builds such as > KDrive, XVesa, etc. Sounds like everything needed to do that is > bundled in with X Windows itself, but I haven't been able to dig up > any current documentation on how to build a minimal X Windows system > that just supports Vesa and SVGA systems. Would be curious if there > are other options and also if anyone's had any experience with any of > these. Any pointers to more information on this type of thing would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > Laura > http://www.distasis.com/cpp > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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