> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > Can you run X11 on your vt100 ?
>
> I think you can. Just emulate the basic elements of windowing and text
> rendering in X11 as characters.. i.e something like TurboWindows (for
> MSDOG many moons ago). :o) Might rock one's world, especially with a big
> 132x80 console... oh dear, I've been at the evil weed again..
X doesn't define any "windowing elements" such as scrollbars or menus
or the like, so you can't make a TurboWindows clone.
The discussion was about rendering what X does understand - lines and
circles and text strings - using AALIB.
I don't think it would be pretty, but I'm pretty sure it would work.
PS: It might be possible to target a *widget set* against a text mode
and get a TurboWindows clone that way.
I don't think it would be pretty, either.
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