Scrutinizing X memory, part 2: what’s taking all that memory?
So here goes some statistics of the Xorg process running. All the informations were fetch from /proc/`pidof Xorg`/{smaps, status}. I used also a script found on the Web to parse and organize these...
View ArticleToolkit, please: Xlib -> XCB
We all know since 2006 (?) that the world is turning to use XCB instead Xlib as the interface between X clients and the server. The advantages of using XCB is well know but, even so, it’s being adopted...
View Articleadopt a child and make multi-card work on Linux
Previously, the message was for toolkit, now it targets new upcoming developers… okay, if I’d be offensive I could say it targets vendor distributions which care for desktop on Linux :) — I have...
View ArticleLinux Graphics for Small Devices at FISL
Last week I’ve been in Brazil at 11th International Free Software Forum (FISL) talking about Linux Graphics for Small Devices*. I tried to cover a bit of everything that I learned in the world I’ve...
View ArticleXorg server 1.9 minimal
That’s what I’m using for MeeGo now. Autoconf parameters, theeere we go: --disable-static --disable-aiglx --disable-config-dbus --disable-config-hal --disable-dbe --disable-dga --disable-dpms...
View ArticleX Census (for 1.9)
Topic’s name is a funny (and friendly) devotion to GNOME Census. So let’s take a look at some numbers from the time Xorg 1.9 was in development – raw data is here. Would be unfair to measure only the...
View Articlelate Christmas gift: freedesktop’s Xorg for MeeGo
Moikka. If you follow here [0] you will see a set of Debian packages that Graphics team at Nokia are continuously working to deploy a X11 implementation for MeeGo-Harmattan, where we target embedded...
View ArticleX Census (for 1.10)
Following is the census of 1.10 window for all X infrastructure – raw numbers here. I did it in a similar way as the previous version. Worth to mention that there’s almost no relation between the...
View ArticleX characterization for MeeGo
Actually this is not a big news but it’s nice to see on practice X being used on the advanced age :) Here I’ve played with some UI configuration settings, browsed for while, toyed with facebook, opened...
View ArticleX on Wayland
A rather cool feature on Weston compositor is xwayland, to support X11 native applications on Wayland. It’s a quite important feature because gives the compatibility with the “old” windowing system, so...
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