Overview

Embedded Linux Graphics

Typical desktop Linux graphics stack

System RAM Disk

X Window System 5MB 16MB

GNOME 14MB 95MB

KDE 11MB 96MB

Mozilla 12MB 95MB

How does X Work?

•An application displaying to a window of another display system

• A system program controlling the video output of a PC

• A dedicated piece of hardware.

• Matchbox https://matchbox-project.org/small foot-print window manager and

associated applicationsshared utility library

Embedded Linux alternatives

• DirectFB http://directfb.org/hardware graphics accelerationinput device handling and abstractionmultiple display layers hardware abstraction layer with software

fallbacks

Embedded Linux alternatives

Dillo http://www.dillo.org/less than 300KBOpen Source multi-platform web browser Written in C and built on GTK+ libraries

Tiny Xsmall footprint X Window server fit in less than 1MB on x86 CPUs