On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:27:36PM EST, Sven Neumann wrote: > 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.
Alright... let's reformulate this as 'X session' .. or maybe 'an active environment on my computer screen that provides the same functionalities that 'X' has provided these past few years, specifically the ability to start applications that will use said screen to display their output and prompt me for input ...' etc. etc. etc. > > > 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? Maybe satisfy my curiosity.. Thank you for your comments. CJ _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
