Re: X Windows and alternatives

It is hard looking for FB-based window manager. I do have some sugestion on
an alternative. Are you comfortable with curses-based?
On Oct 1, 2012 4:53 AM, "LM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm working with an older, low resource computer.  Was wondering about
> the possibility of using an alternative to X Windows or building a
> lightweight version.  If anyone has any tips or pointers to
> documentation or more information on the subject, would love to hear
> about it.
>
> For SDL 1.2  based applications, I've been able to run some using
> directfb without needing X Windows.  However, I don't think this will
> work with all the SDL applications I use.  I've also been
> experimenting with nano-X and it's capable of handling FLTK 1.3 based
> applications as well as some programs that just use the X or Win32
> APIs.  Am wondering if there are any Linux distributions that just use
> nano-X and never bother with X Windows.  I've been hearing about
> Wayland ( http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html ) and it's possible
> use on Ubuntu, but it doesn't sound like it's ready for general use
> yet.  I've also read about doing minimal X Windows builds such as
> KDrive, XVesa, etc.  Sounds like everything needed to do that is
> bundled in with X Windows itself, but I haven't been able to dig up
> any current documentation on how to build a minimal X Windows system
> that just supports Vesa and SVGA systems.  Would be curious if there
> are other options and also if anyone's had any experience with any of
> these.  Any pointers to more information on this type of thing would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Laura
> http://www.distasis.com/cpp
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