{"id":51487,"date":"2021-12-20T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=3329e0e053cfea5a7f4a4c51e810b7e5"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:03:40","slug":"xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibility-layer-for-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=51487","title":{"rendered":"Xlibe: an Xlib\/X11 compatibility layer for Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/134362\/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibility-layer-for-haiku\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Man Haiku keeps showing how clever their devs are and how good the fundamental architecture of BeOS was.<\/div><blockquote><p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.haiku-os.org\/t\/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibility-layer-for-haiku\/11692\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xlib compatibility layer implemented on top of the Haiku API<\/a>, in order to run X11 applications on Haiku without an X server.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.haiku-os.org\/t\/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibility-layer-for-haiku\/11692\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xlib<\/a>&lsquo;s API is relatively low-level, but it is just high-level enough that it can be emulated on top of a higher-level API like Haiku&rsquo;s.<\/p><p>At present, it provides &ldquo;most&rdquo; commonly-used Xlib APIs, but many of them are stubbed or incomplete implementations. (GTK, with some hacks, can compile, link, and open a window before it runs in to missing functionality.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is crazy person work by Haiku developer waddlesplash. He also posted continuously updated progress thread on the Haiku website, which provides a lot more detail about the process, the current state, and possible future plans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Xlib compatibility layer implemented on top of the Haiku API, in order to run X11 applications o&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=51487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}