Re: non-x window manager

[Chad Hardin]

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:46:43 +0800
> "Rogelio M.Serrano Jr." <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > Directfb can work without X now and it has an integrated window
> > manager. I wonder if someone is writing a backend for directfb.
>
> IIRC, Chad Hardin was working on something like that.


Yep, there are problem with using directfb as a back end.  The main one 
being that resource management is cooperatively based (AFAIK).

I could still write a directfb backend by doing it in a way much like 
OS X does...Shared memory and a light weight window manager.

Chad