Le lundi 15 septembre 2008 à 18:16 +0200, Denis Leroy a écrit :
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> And that's ok. Do remember that X was defined at a time hardware was
> vastly less powerful and core X is not wasteful at all. Compared to
> how the rest of the system has bloated, X is definitely lean and mean.
I agree with that point. Does an X-based mingetty replacement actually
exists ? Something that's proven to be sufficiently fail-safe (will work
even with half-broken X configurations and such?).
I suspect that as soon as much of the hardware pocking is moved from
xorg to the kernel and X can be run as a normal user "X-based mingetty
replacement" will be just running a x term fullscreen in an
autoconfigured X instance.
Of course one could theorically write a much lighter solution using only
freetype (cairo, pango?) and an xkb-config parser
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Nicolas Mailhot