Re: Wayland Direct Framebuffer (FreeBSD)

2020-07-21 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi pq, Thanks for your question on my post and I am sorry that I was not clearer on the information. Yes, you are correct in that the Direct Framebuffer approach that I am thinking about is how it might be possible to compile Weston compositor of the Wayland protocol to use the DirectFB (direct

Re: Wayland Direct Framebuffer (FreeBSD)

2020-07-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:55:01 PDT Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > I am working on a speciality project for a super ultra-thin distro that > will basically run just a single graphical application in a type of Kiosk > (fullscreen) mode and Xorg is just WAY too large for what I want to do. If you're

Re: Wayland Direct Framebuffer (FreeBSD)

2020-07-21 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi Thiago, Thanks for your response. The problem that I seem to have here is that the FreeRDP client application cannot be compiled to use DirectFB easily as support for it was stopped a number of years ago and would take a lot of work to revitalize that effort. On the other hand, they do have

Re: Wayland Direct Framebuffer (FreeBSD)

2020-07-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 12:15:03 PDT Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > On the other hand, they do have builds for the latest RDP client > applications for Wayland and I was even able to compile it myself, but just > do not have a Wayland server set up and am trying to find the simplest > solution to use

Re: Wayland Direct Framebuffer (FreeBSD)

2020-07-21 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Yea, that is the idea. The concern for me is that my main OS for the project being built off of FreeBSD that has been trimmed down with a project called "mfsBSD" is at about 30MB in size (compressed, uncompress is about 65MB). It holds everything except the graphic stuff. As this is an exercise