Framebuffer (devel question)

[Jaymz Julian]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:38:35PM +0000, chinlu chinawa wrote:
>    The target app. I'm referring to, would run on a xserver which is not
>    going to have a mouse running on it, nor a wm. Just a black background
>    and a xterm (-fa), for which I need text and images (not overlapping
>    one to each other at any time) I provide within a ncurses app. of my
>    own. For more info, this app, doesn't scroll either, it's static, and
>    I've put it to work successfully within a tty.
>    I don't know whether I would be able to "blend" somehow my screen's
>    buffer with the existing xserver's screen buffer, so it would refresh
>    my "custom background", or whether I might need to start looking at
>    xterm sources and modify them as needed, so any comments or pointers
>    would my much appreciated.

You should look at w3m - it displays inline images in an xterm by using X to
draw over tHe window.  (by grabing the $WINDOWID envieronment variable, and
watching events on that window to know when to redraw)

Failing that, another simple hack, though annoying, is a terminal emulator
that allows for an background pixmap.  Not that neither of these solutions
are _good_.

There is, of course, the obvious solution of an overlayed window using the
shape extension.  But a better solution would be perhaps rethinking the
design of your application...

	-jj

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