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elfmz / far2l

Linux port of FAR v2
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DirectFB backend to replace native linux console #624

Open unxed opened 4 years ago

unxed commented 4 years ago

Cause far2l experience with good looking fonts and all hotkeys supported is simply better :) Also interesting for embedded use cases.

wx has work-in-progress DirectFB backend: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/docs/dfb/install.txt

Maybe it fits our needs?

unxed commented 4 years ago

fbterm can also be used to borrow text rendering code for DirectFB backend: https://code.google.com/archive/p/fbterm/

elfmz commented 4 years ago

Direct FB is near to dead state by itself.

elfmz commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/littlevgl/lvgl

unxed commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/littlevgl/lvgl

As it can render to /dev/fb, it suits my personal needs :) Sick of default console with lots of keys and unicode chars not working. We need a much better TUI for linux-without-x.

unxed commented 4 years ago

For not requiring sudo on each run to access /dev/fb* we can ask user to enter sudo password on first run and do "chgrp video" & "chmod g+s" on executed far2l binary.