[ale] QT/Embeddix

Mark Hurley debian4tux at telocity.com
Mon Nov 12 19:41:08 EST 2001


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:28:03AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
> I was just reading the review of Sharp's Linux/Java PDA and it mentioned
> Troll Tech's Qt/Embeddix.  Basically it is a version of Qt that runs
> directly off the FrameBuffer (instead of X-Windows).
> 
> I am wondering if anyone (if possible) is running KDE without X-Windows.
> This seems very appealing for me on my aging Laptop.  I tend to follow
> gnome but if I can drop the memory hog of X-Windows it would add several
> put off obselecense(sp?) by a few years I believe.

I don't know about kde without X...but I have a iPAQ running QPE
(Qt-embedded).  They have a pkg which you can run the QPE (Qt Virtual
Framebuffer) on your desktop.

May not be the complete answer...but a start.

  http://qpe.sourceforge.net/x86.html


Mark Hurley

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