Xynth is an embedded

windowing system In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is software that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for ...

, released under

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, developed for systems with low resources, is an alternative for

X Window System The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wit ...

. The goal of the project is to release a soft but portable and powered Window Environment. The source language is C. A

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of the project exists as

XFast XFast is a lightweight desktop environment that incorporates a display manager and a window manager within the same process. It is portable and works on many devices (embedded devices, handhelds, set-top boxes,...). Here the communication betwee ...

Architecture

Xynth act as

interface Interface or interfacing may refer to: Academic journals * ''Interface'' (journal), by the Electrochemical Society * ''Interface, Journal of Applied Linguistics'', now merged with ''ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics'' * '' Inte ...

between hardware and the

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, working on much hardware, including

embedded devices An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' as ...

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

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s with Freetype

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. * No dependencies except FBDev or SVGALib * Device independent basic low-level graphics library * Overlay Drawing Ability * Anti Flicker Double Buffer Rendering *

Keyboard Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

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drivers *

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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 ~125 K size.

Architecture

Features

See also