Tinyx wscons 0.4
Nat Sloss <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Jun 2024 06:16:39 +1000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11 |
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Hi, Just thought I'd post a mention about tinyx-wscons. It works for 1bpp 4bpp 8bpp on up displays and is very fast. It doesn't support many modern features such as GL/GLX or DRI. Its primary target is vintage hw supported by NetBSD. When used as a replacement X server in the startx script the startup time is approximately 25 minutes (25Mhz 68030 14 MB RAM) I found slowdows cased from parsing too many fonts which I limited to /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc and changing the use of uxterm back to xterm. As a consequence it now starts full ctwm with an xterm on screen in 3 minutes and 20 seconds. It may need some work for other platforms though other than amd64/i386/m68k as I dont have the hw to test others. It sould work on all with a wsfb framebuffer wscons keyboard and mouse. Found in pkgsrc/x11/tinyx-wscons. Best regards and happy hacking, Nat