From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 19:52:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AB2106573F for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18298FC18 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so3818189wib.13 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of bf1783@googlemail.com designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.92.71; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of bf1783@googlemail.com designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=bf1783@googlemail.com; dkim=pass header.i=bf1783@googlemail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.92.71]) by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr33045071wib.3.1331063533055 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:52:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=y1NqoFhVQu81HfAZYVouiVbzNuOiQd1U1FP69yxsobg=; b=b7Ipu8bk5L67FRiG0sKLttLcPUQb/vd2tCCqMPbOnP/TsFsT5iY0xY7AeiqwdZDlmv BuFSGKMGsKsORJbm17pwdw6A2U8D3xofpPslsp9eVPKo3CnwHdve/d0FGi41HxPQDkVh Ac53yOVGXb2aL/y3zCPxqTLWrld3LmVN9WGyqpmtKlnOf5WbS9rS7YOkI0X+sthH+oC2 rv73utMpuBdqz+euPHSip0V/g3ZdXvLBheoZzoetZ0NqGKMKCXg4WDKjhYOSmUS1ZDHc aMmYq7QR8kI0xYyIpc57NnA74SQ3F5dyfLBvzfPLRooqFAdsiZB5fDaCooqr1rHPUqTa fdzg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr26413372wib.3.1331063532971; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.94.42 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:52:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:52:12 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Brandon Falk , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Graphical Terminal Environment X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:52:14 -0000 Brandon Falk wrote: > I've been thinking for a while about possibly making an extremely > lightweight environment that supports full monitor resolution, custom > fonts, and terminals... that's about it. You may also want to look at our system libvgl ( vgl(3) ), ports/devel/directfb ( http://directfb.org/ ), and ports/graphics/svgalib ( http://www.svgalib.org/ ). Someone has mentioned wayland -- there was also an older X variant called tinyX that is still used by some minimalistic Linux distributions, and was loosely based on the X.org kdrive server. b,