Re: Is gtk-fb still actively maintained?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Modern Xorg is actually a lot more lightweight than you might think.
You might be surprised.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Woody Wu <narkewoody gmail com> wrote:
> 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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