Re: [dev] tinyx port to libXfont2

From: Andrey Dobrovolsky <andrey.dobrovolsky.odessa_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 08:09:41 +0200

Hi *.dev!

вт, 5 лист. 2024 р. о 03:33 Storkman <storkman_AT_storkman.nl> пише:
>
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 11:57:18PM +0000, stefan11111 wrote:
> > Hi dev_AT_ list readers.
> >
> > I just ported tinyx to libXfont2.
> > Maybe some of the readers here are interested in this,
> > as tinyx is made in the suckless spirit of minimalism.
> >
> > https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx/pull/8
> >
> > For those of you who use gentoo, I also have an ebuild
> > for this patched tinyx in my overlay:
> > https://github.com/stefan11111/stefan_overlay/blob/main/x11-base/tinyx/tinyx-1.1.ebuild
> >
> > So far, every X11 app I tested works, with the exception of st.
> > Xterm works however.
> >
> > Even palemoon works.
> >
> > St fails like so:
> >
> > > $ st
> > > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> > > Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
> > > Serial number of failed request: 393
> > > Current serial number in output stream: 394
> >
> > Probably because tinyx doesn't implement an X11 extension that st needs.
>
> Have you tried the current git master of st? The way it handles color maps
> has significantly changed in literally the last commit (August 8), making
> it a lot more tolerant of funny display hardware.
>
> --
> Storkman
>

I've packaged st 0.8.4 for TinyCore Linux and want to mention that it
works fine under TinyX with libXfont 1.4
. TinyX used in Xfbdev incarnation.

Regards!
Received on Tue Nov 05 2024 - 07:09:41 CET

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