Hi, On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:25 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> What I don't know is what executable I need to run to bring up the > equivalent of an X server. There is no equivalent of an X server. Provided that DirectFB was compiled with multi-application support, then you can have several DirectFB applications running at the same time, without the need for a dedicated server process. > > If you have a gtk application (that has no other X dependencies), you > > could compile/install directfb-gtk and then compile and link your gtk > > application against the directfb-gtk libs. This way you could run your > > gtk application _natively_ under DirectFB (not requiring XDirectFB). > > OK, this makes sense. > > The reason I missed that in the wiki is that I run debian lenny and I do > not see any package named XDirectFB in the repositories, or anything > that might implement this functionality. As far as I can tell, the > closest would be libgtk-directfb but it looks more like a development > tool than a runtime conversion layer that would let one run applications > compiled against X toolkits under directfb. That is correct. If you want to run GTK+ applications natively on DirectFB, then you need to recompile them against libgtk with the DirectFB backend. What I don't understand is, since you are looking for a complete desktop environment, then what advantages do you expect from using DirectFB instead of X11? Sven _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
