Re: Second Sight board

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Philip Stephens (philip@labtam.oz.au) wrote:
: Dan Brown writes:

: >A while ago, the suggestion of an X port under GNO/ME was made, and
: >dismissed due (in part) to lack of desktop real estate.  Could that be
: >considered again?

:   The high resolution of the Second Sight board would certainly make
: X more feasible from a display point of view, but unfortunately the GS
: (even when accelerated) probably still doesn't have the grunt to run X
: very fast!  Plus porting the X server to ORCA/C would undoubtable be
: very, very painful (it's a very big, very messy program!).
:   Still, it would be an interesting project to imbark upon, if suicidal :-)

A better solution would be to write our own Window Manager, etc, just like
the drwm. If drwm/Second Sight can take off, it would be a very attractive
alternative. btw, drwm supports its own software called xprocess too.

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