Software:Xynth

Xynth

Stable release	0.10.82 / April 17, 2009
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Windowing system
License	LGPL
Website	sourceforge.net/projects/xynth

Xynth is an embedded windowing system, released under LGPL, developed for 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. A fork of the project exists as XFast.

Architecture

Xynth act as interface between hardware and the desktop environment, working on lots of 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.

See also

• Affero General Public License
• GNU Free Documentation License
• GNAT Modified General Public License
• GPL linking exception