Re: [PLUG] text browsers

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:55:52PM -0400, Luke Renn wrote:
>   [19 lines, 78 words, 722 characters]  Top characters: _enolsah
> 
> * Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> [2005-06-16 13:37:28 -0400]:
> 
> > How do they do it? :) I've never used it myself, but I'll take a look at
> > it later.
> > 
> > - -Cos
> 
> I have no idea how they do it, but here's a screenshot:
> 
> http://anthwyn.homedns.org/~lrenn/fvwm.jpg

Based on the notes (but not having looked at the source), it looks
like the access the frame buffer directly somehow.  I don't know how
they do *that*, as I thought X kept you away from that.

-- 
 Jeff

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