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Subject: Re: Graphical Terminal Environment
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:05:40AM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd@brandonfa.lk> wrote:
> 
> > I havent tried tmux yet, but on my system im only able to get
> > 80x40 with vidcontrol on one monitor. But with xterm in xorg
> > i can get 319x89 per monitor ...
> 
> To get higher resolution than what vidcontrol provides, you'll most
> likely need to run the display in graphic mode (which is what X11
> does) rather than in text mode.  That means that you will need to
> either use, or reinvent, the lowest levels of X (display driver,
> window mapping) and at least part of the xterm/rxvt application
> (terminal emulation, font rasterizing, perhaps scrolling).  You
> could, however, eliminate the X practice of using the network to
> connect the terminal emulator to the display; this would give you
> an architecture resembling SunView (and its predecessor, SunTools).
> 
> I _think_ SunTools/SunView were proprietary, although it's possible
> that Sun released the source code at some point.  You could try
> doing some research with Google and/or the Internet Archive.

I don't think they ever released that code.

If you want re-use the lowest levels of the X11 drivers, you ought
to check out the "Wayland" project.  http://wayland.freedesktop.org

-Kurt