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- Necromancy
- ==========
- We resurrected Xvesa from the depths of git history, and intend to maintain it with Xfbdev.
- This includes bugfixes, security fixes, and occasional new features if required.
- Why?
- ----
- The TinyX servers fill our needs while being a lot smaller than Xorg can be made.
- Why 1.2.0 and not 1.3.0?
- ------------------------
- As you know, Xvesa was killed in 1.4.0, so the latest released version would be 1.3.0.
- However, they broke all input in 1.3.0 (keyboard and mouse), so the last working released
- version is 1.2.0.
- There were also some changes later on that we disagree with (mandatory xinput & xkb).
- Design choices
- --------------
- We aim for the smallest fully featured X server binary. Currently there are the vesa and
- fbdev servers, but others may appear in the future (Xmodesetting?).
- - no xkb; it's bloat when console keymaps suffice
- - no xinput
- - no xinerama
- - no gl
- - TCP listening disabled by default, shadow FB enabled by default
- ...
- Licensing
- ---------
- While the original codebase is MIT, any changes here are GPLv3. Supporting closed devices
- with this code is not a goal.
- Links
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- There's a similar tinyX fork from the Puppy folks:
- https://github.com/idunham/tinyxserver
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