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Old 01-06-2021, 11:21 AM   #27
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You're going to have to write at least a small amount of C (or Rust or Go) code. I haven't looked into the existing options, but if I were to do it from scratch, I'd do it with FBInk.

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Another way would be to use tigervnc+libvnc+FBInk to display the current screen. libx11+fbink would be another option, but although the code may be easier to work with, you might need to deal with damage tracking and optimization manually.
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I thought of all of those options... Recompiling Xorg would be the best, but... Still I have to get myself in touch with C/C++... Well maybe I'll try...
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Err, you *did* look at that link, did you not?
I must have missed that when skimming the thread. Thanks for reminding us before we went and started reinventing the wheel!

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Yeah, sure... I didn't quite understand the code though...
Any specific part, or just where to start?
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