Re: clutter / cogl on Rasperry PI

["Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey boosthardware com>]

On Mon, April 15, 2013 4:55 pm, Roland Peffer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just received a Rasperry Pi Rev B.
> Now I would like to get clutter running on it with best HW acceleration
> possible.
>
> Anyone here has done it yet?
>
> As far as I read I see 2 possibilities.
> 1.) Install Wayland and clutter on top of it.
> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/raspberrypi.html
> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/clutter.html
>
> 2.) Or hack cogl as written here:
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5277
> https://github.com/johang/clutter
>
> As I understand here we would have a fullscreen stage without X Windows?
>
> I am just busy with option 1. Anyway the descriptions seem to be outdated
> a little bit and I am not finished yet!

I was able to get a clutter ui running directly in X without a desktop on
a PC. Just needed to

export DISPLAY=:0

and then run the app from the commandline. Should be possible on RPi too.



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd