Xynth
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| Stable release | 0.10.82
/ April 17, 2009 |
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| Written in | C |
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| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Windowing system |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | sourceforge.net/projects/xynth |
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Xynth is an embedded windowing system, released under LGPL, developed for systems with low resources, and is an alternative to X Window System. The goal of the project is to release a robust but portable and powerful Window Environment. The source language is C. A fork of the project exists as XFast.
Architecture
Xynth acts as an interface between hardware and the desktop environment, working on much hardware, including embedded devices.
Features
- UDS (Unix Domain Sockets) for IPC
- DMA (Direct Memory Access) for each client window surface
- Overlapped client window - server management
- 8-way Move, Resize
- Runtime Theme Plugin Support
- Built-in image renderer xpm, png
- Antialiased fonts with Freetype Library.
- No dependencies except FBDev or SVGALib
- Device independent basic low-level graphics library
- Overlay Drawing Ability
- Anti Flicker Double Buffer Rendering
- Keyboard, Mouse, Touchscreen drivers
- Remote Desktop Support.
- Built-in window manager.
- Low Memory and CPU Usage and Foot Print.
- In 1024x768x32bits mode with 253 clients open Memory usage is ~2.5M
- Static linked binary is of ~125K size.
See also
- Affero General Public License
- GNU Free Documentation License
- GNAT Modified General Public License
- GPL linking exception
- Software using the LGPL (category)
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