Hi Niels, Thanks for your response. I would like something like an application manager that SaWMan seems to provide since I would like to manipulate placement of these windows and scaling of their contents in a programmatic environment outside of the windowed dfb applications. Basically, I would want the dfb apps to have an WxH surface, draw to it, and then have some other application move them and scale them around. Additionally, I would like to be able to send input to lower windows if the topmost one does not handle it. Would the default manager be enough there?
I found that sometimes I have a .fusion-0 directory in my /tmp directory after running the apps which cause the IPC error. If I delete the directory then I can run the app again. Unfortunately, I'm still not seeing anything when just running testman - should I be? sb On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Niels Roest <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > First off, for working with windows you can also simply use the "default" > window manager. > The major difference with SaWMan is that "default" has no access control, > so it will simply comply what the apps request, I am guessing this is enough > for your needs. Just use IDirectFBDisplayLayer::CreateWindow() and use e.g. > Raise() to change z-order. > > I am unsure why you are having issues with x11, since that is exactly what > I am using - ubuntu 8.04 AMD64 here. Make sure you use a recent version like > 1.4.x. Are you using the fusion kernel module? > > Some Guy wrote: > >> I think SaWMan might be useful, so I started to play with it. I'm trying >> to develop this on a x64 Ubuntu machine. relevant lines in my directfbrc >> file: >> >> system=x11 >> session=0 >> wm=sawman >> >> When I run testman, I see nothing on the screen. Launching any other df >> apps do not come up either. If I don't launch testman, and run df_window, >> I'll see the app, but the window is transparent and I see only one of the >> windows from df_window flashing as if it as focus. The other window is >> chopped out, but I can see part of it since it is translucent and behind the >> focused window. >> >> Also, I sometimes get Fusion/Init IPC errors after unclean shutdowns - >> primarily something about Could not enter world '0'. Is there a way to fix >> this aside from rebooting? Once I'm in that state, no df app that I've >> tried runs for me. I read back in 2002 there was an ipc_cleanup script, but >> it seems to be obsolete now. >> >> Any help/advice would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> sb >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> directfb-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users >> >> > > > -- > > .------------------------------------------. > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > "------------------------------------------" >
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