Xynth

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Xynth is an embedded windowing system, released under LGPL, developed to systems with low resources, is an alternative for X Window System. The goal of the project is to release a soft but portable and powered Window Environment. The source language is C.

[edit] Architeture

Xynth act as interface between hardware and the desktop environment, working on many hardware, including embedded devices.

[edit] 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 Pluging 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
• rgbcolor, colorrgb, setpixel, getpixel, hline , vline, fillbox, putbox, putboxmask, getbox, putboxpart,
• putboxpartmask, copybox, getsurface, setsurfacevirtual, setsurface
• Overlay Drawing Ability
• rgbcolor_o, colorrgb_o, setpixel_o, getpixel_o, hline_o, vline_o, fillbox_o, putbox_o, putboxmask_o,
• getbox_o, putboxpart_o, putboxpartmask_o, copybox_o, getsurface_o, setsurfacevirtual_o, setsurface_o
• 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 ~125K

[edit] External links

• www.xynth.org