On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Chris Worley wrote: > Is their an X upcoming that will fit on small boxes? Is reverse-bloat > in X's future? (I realize that feature-bloat is not only X, but WM's > atop X.) Jim Getty has done some amazing stuff to build a small X. The IPAQ "handhelds.org" work has really benefitted. Quoting Jim Getty's on the IPAQ list: > The article is using the full XFree86 server, not Keith's TinyX driver, > for example (my servers are in the 2mb range while running: text (under > 700K + data), for example, even with backing store and frame buffer > mapped and Xrender included. He goes on to write about further improvements to clean cruft out of X which should further reduce running size. Certainly runs quite painlessly on the ipaq. Regards, Steve
