How hard would it be to have fd 3 or 4 be a mmap'able image of the window (like /dev/fb) && would this suck less?
On 20 May 2011 09:27, Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> wrote: > [...] > 6)non sucky rendering. I think applications should be able to have > pixel-precise control of what the output should be (other than maybe a > terminal-imposed resize factor, and also not _where_ it should be), to > i.e. render images in the terminal. > I think a fd to write something to like "here's an image, please > render it somewhere" is better than cls's suggestion of having apps > directly write to the terminal. I think the latter idea would get > messy quickly. It's as if X windows would draw themself to the screen > rather then having a window manager take care of it.
