Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Aug 1998 12:10:38 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9808142136200.19217-100000@stoli.spirits.org.au>
By author: Nathan Hand <nathanh@chirp.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> X doesn't define any "windowing elements" such as scrollbars or menus
> or the like, so you can't make a TurboWindows clone.
>
> The discussion was about rendering what X does understand - lines and
> circles and text strings - using AALIB.
>
> I don't think it would be pretty, but I'm pretty sure it would work.
>
> PS: It might be possible to target a *widget set* against a text mode
> and get a TurboWindows clone that way.
>
> I don't think it would be pretty, either.
>

Back in '95 I actually hacked on a C++ toolkit which was intended to
be a souped-up version of dialog, but with a twist: in addition to the
ncurses backend (80x24 text/pseudographics), it also had a 640x480x16
SVGALIB backend, and the intent was to also support drawing into an
X11 window, although I never got around to make that work. The
SVGALIB version worked, though.

-hpa

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