On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> It would not be possible to add GTK+ GUI code to minirtl, as there's not
> enough storage capacity on a floppy to include X.

Many RTLinux users swear by FLTK.

There is also a small footprint X on the way. 


> 
> If you need to run our of RAM disk, you can take another strategy. 
> Build up the filesystem you want including X, try to get it as small as
> possible, while still functional.  Then you can turn it into a
> compressed root filesystem and then run this from RAM-disk.  To do this,
> you need to add something like this to your lilo.conf
> 
> image=/boot/my_rt_kernel
>         label=ramlinux
>         initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz
>         root=/dev/ram0
>         ramdisk=8192
> 
> Note, that with X you may need a larger RAM disk than 8 Megs.
> 
> 
> Another stragegy, and much simpler is simply to turn swap off with the
> command swapoff -a. To disable networking, use the command ifdown eth0.
> 
> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> > 
> > First of all, because I'm a student and I'm totally new to Real Time
> > programming, I would like to know if there is a possibility to the
> > combine miniRTlinux in my GTK+ GUI program that runs on my normal
> > Debian/GNU linux system...
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