How hard would it be to have fd 3 or 4 be a mmap'able image of the
window (like /dev/fb) && would this suck less?
On 20 May 2011 09:27, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter_AT_plaetinck.be> wrote:
> [...]
> 6)non sucky rendering. I think applications should be able to have
> pixel-precise control of what the output should be (other than maybe a
> terminal-imposed resize factor, and also not _where_ it should be), to
> i.e. render images in the terminal.
> I think a fd to write something to like "here's an image, please
> render it somewhere" is better than cls's suggestion of having apps
> directly write to the terminal. I think the latter idea would get
> messy quickly. It's as if X windows would draw themself to the screen
> rather then having a window manager take care of it.
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