Re: Is gtk-fb still actively maintained?

[Woody Wu <narkewoody gmail com>]

On Saturday, March 12, 2016, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On 12 March 2016 at 15:07, Woody Wu <narkewoody gmail com> wrote:
> > Does the ability of gtk can run directly on a frame buffer without X sill be
> > actively developed and supported?
>
> No, it hasn't been developed in a very, very long time. The
> framebuffer backend has been removed ages ago in the 2.x series, and
> it's not available on 3.x; same for the DirectFB backend.

Thanks for the info. It saved my time.

 

> > I am hesitate to install a Xorg sever on a
> > small device.  Thanks.
>
> I don't see the issue. If it can run GTK then it most definitely can run X.

Yes, it can, but need more space and memory.

 

> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
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