I am writing a video player on Linux and I would like to separate it into 2 process : A. decoder process B. GUI In this way, I could use different programming languages and when a problem happens, it's easier to know where is the problem. The problem is, could process A render decoded pictures onto B's surface directly? I don't want ...
Currently what I have a Linux application that was written using Xlib and I needed to add video playing capabilities into it. What libraries would you recommend that I could use for video decoding and rendering that works well with Xlib? ...
What do ctime, atime and mtime of /dev/tty7 suppose to mean on a Linux that runs X? Perhaps ctime is the time X started? It seems that I got conflicting results for atime and mtime... the time a key was pressed? the time something was written to the screen? If it depends on the distribution, I'm particularly interested in the answer f...
Hello, I want to print on the screen the information about Top level windows under Linux. I use the xlib functions. I successfully recurse from the root window to print all the informations about all the element on display. But I need only the Top-Level window. I don't find any good way to filter. From wikipedia : The top-level w...
I'm kind of curious about what layer writing a UI platform to the level of Win32 or the X Windowing System would fall in the grand scheme of an operating system. What layers below do they primarily make use of, is it heavily based on direct communication with the graphics card driver (I can't imagine going though a rendering pipeline lik...
I seek to show a specific window (not a whole desktop) of an application running on a remote Windows of Linux desktop in an element on a web page. I suppose this can be done by means of some binary plugin or a Java applet (like VNC client applet show the whole desktop inside a browser). Any suggestions? ...
We are writing a kind of industry dashboard that shows many graphical information coming from various sources. Because one of these sources is a closed Unix application, we would need a XWindow terminal emulator which works as a Winform control. Has somebody already used such a control, if it exists ? Thanks a lot ...
I have a Macbook and am sshing into a Red Hat machine with the -Y option over VPN. From the Red Hat machine, I do an 'rdesktop' into a windows XP machine, so I get the forwarded X window of the xp desktop on my Mac. After trying many combinations, I cannot figure out what the key set is to right click in the X window of the XP machine. P...
Hi , I want to run a gui application as soon as x startup in ubuntu, I found upstart may work,so I create a conf file inside /etc/init/ but it seems that it cann't work correctly. myjob.conf start on startup task exec /home/camino/test/qt/guiapp any suggestions? Thanks advance for your help Best regards ...
I am playing with X-windows, Xlib, etc. I want to create a X-window independent of the window-manager: meaning that I do not want the WM to put a frame, minimize-maximize, close, menu, title-bar, etc. in the window. I want to create a vanilla X window. How? [edit] Alternatively, how to I capture those events so my windowing app can at l...