Re: non-x window manager

[Alwin Blok]

Chad Hardin heeft op woensdag, 22 okt 2003 om 07:03 (Europe/Amsterdam) 
het volgende geschreven:

> On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:46:43 +0800
> > "Rogelio M.Serrano Jr." <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Directfb can work without X now and it has an integrated window
> > > manager. I wonder if someone is writing a backend for directfb.
> >
> > IIRC, Chad Hardin was working on something like that.
>
>
> Yep, there are problem with using directfb as a back end.  The main 
> one being that resource management is cooperatively based (AFAIK).
>
> I could still write a directfb backend by doing it in a way much like 
> OS X does...Shared memory and a light weight window manager.
>
> Chad


How hard would it be to implement a window manager directly on top of 
the linux-framebuffer?

Alwin