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Re: non-x window manager
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Chris B. Vetter |
Subject: |
Re: non-x window manager |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:01:57 -0700 |
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.
> I used to work with xdirectfb. Alpha blended windows is cool!
Eye candy... Nice to look at, but you don't really *need* it...
Then again, it's a matter of taste...
> > Generally, the problem would be that you will have to somehow "map"
> > a legacy window (one created XCreateSimpleWindow() for example) to a
> > window that GNUstep knows/understands, ie. NSWindow.
> > The AppKit (-gui) doesn't provide anything like that, so you will
> > have to go to a lower level, which is -back.
> How about extending AppKit?
Well, AppKit is more like a development "platform". The proper way to
implement the functionality you are looking for would be at back-end
level...
> Dont know much about gnusteb-back but it would be a good start to
> "hack up" an existing backend.
That's what I said ;-)
--
Chris
- non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Chris B. Vetter, 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Chris B. Vetter, 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
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- Re: non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Chad Hardin, 2003/10/22
- Re: non-x window manager, Alwin Blok, 2003/10/22
- Re: non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Chris B. Vetter, 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/10/21
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- Re: non-x window manager, Larry Cow, 2003/10/21
- Re: non-x window manager, Chris B. Vetter, 2003/10/21
Re: non-x window manager, Banlu Kemiyatorn, 2003/10/22
Re: non-x window manager, Alexander Malmberg, 2003/10/22