Xynth

Infobox Software
name = Xynth



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programming language = C
operating system = Unix-like
genre = Windowing system
license = LGPL
website = [http://www.xynth.org/ www.xynth.org]

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.

To provide a project that offer some more ongoing and far reaching changes a fork was done to the project XFast.

Architeture

Xynth act as interface between hardware and the desktop environment, working on many 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 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
* 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.

External links

* [http://www.xynth.org www.xynth.org]