X11 server

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Introduction

Even if using an Xserver in an embedded context is most of the times not a necessity, it could be interesting in some "PDA like" applications, where existing applications reuse is needed. Even if recent embedded systems are capable of running a full Xorg server, in embedded systems we prefer to use the reduced version TinyX/Xfbdev, which is an upper layer of the Linux Framebuffer.

Installing

$ make menuconfig

Package Selection for the target  --->
    Graphic libraries and applications (graphic/text)  --->
        [*] X.org X Window System, X11R7, release 7.5  --->

TinyX
Xserver

Launching

$ Xfbdev -mouse mouse
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0

then you will need to load a window manager (like Matchbox) and some applications....