Re: gtk nano-X and gtkfb

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes: 
> I'd describe the nanox backend as completely broken and unmaintained.
> 
> We recommend the linux-fb backend; nanox is a single-process thing,
> right, so you are using the GDK API in any case, not the nanox API. So
> framebuffer works just as well, nanox is just bloat.
> 

Owen says nanox does allow multiple processes, so the nanox backend is
possibly interesting in that respect.

(But it needs a lot of work.)

Another option is to simply use the stripped-down X they use on the
iPAQ (www.handhelds.org I believe).

Havoc