TinyX

magarcan · 2009-02-26 00:45:47

I have installed my arch from 0. I want to use a smaller x server and I have found TinyX. Can anyone explain me how to install it????
Thank you!!!

Lexion · 2009-02-26 01:31:25

Go to the website, download the source code. There should be a README, README.txt, or an INSTALL file, which should contain instructions. Otherwise run the following in a terminal:

sudo sh configure # if 'configure' exsists
sudo make
sudo make install

.:B:. · 2009-02-26 01:37:27

There is no reason whatsoever to obtain root powers to build or configure. You only need it at the make install stage.

Using root where it's not necessary is quite a bad practice .

skottish · 2009-02-26 01:57:36

B wrote:

There is no reason whatsoever to obtain root powers to build or configure. You only need it at the make install stage.
Using root where it's not necessary is quite a bad practice .

And, there's no time like the present to learn how to write Arch packages.

magarcan · 2009-02-26 08:56:16

So do you think better than make installation, is that I build arch packages and then install it from packages don't you?
I think then I could upload it to AUR!

This is the web of the project. I've been reading docs but I don't knok what I have to install. I'll try to explain me:
As I could read they have sources and binaries. To install binaries they have build a script that make all himself (installation consist on creating some folders and place files into them). You only have to put in the same folder the modules that you have to install. For example:

Assuming that you have run the Xinstall.sh script and found the binary dis-
tribution suitable for your system, download the necessary files. The thir-
teen (13) mandatory files for all installations are listed below. The
installer script will complain if you do not have all of the required files
in the same directory.
1. Xinstall.sh The installer script
2. extract The utility for extracting tarballs
3. Xbin.tgz X clients/utilities and run-time libraries
4. Xlib.tgz Some data files required at run-time
5. Xman.tgz Manual pages
6. Xdoc.tgz XFree86 documentation
7. Xfnts.tgz Base set of fonts
8. Xfenc.tgz Base set of font encoding data
9. Xetc.tgz Run-time configuration files, part 1
10. Xrc.tgz Run-time configuration files, part 2
11. Xvar.tgz Run-time data
12. Xxserv.tgz XFree86 X server
13. Xmod.tgz XFree86 X server modules

And then:

The following thirteen (13) tarballs are optional. You should download the
ones you want to install.
1. Xdrm.tgz Source for DRM kernel modules
2. Xfsrv.tgz Font server
3. Xnest.tgz Nested X server
4. Xprog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs
5. Xprt.tgz X Print server
6. Xvfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server
7. Xtinyx.tgz TinyX servers
8. Xf100.tgz 100dpi fonts
9. Xfcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts
10. Xfscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo, Type1 and TrueType)
11. Xhtml.tgz HTML version of the documentation
12. Xps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation
13. Xpdf.tgz PDF version of the documentation

So I think that if I compile source I'll obtain this files and then use their script to install them, don't I???

Last edited by magarcan (2009-02-26 08:59:54)

iphitus · 2009-02-26 09:03:19

No, that's not what you want. XFree86 used to be the de-facto X server. However there was a fork, X.org which has since eclipsed XFree86 and is what we use now.

TinyX/SmallX were superseded by KDrive which has since been merged into Xorg. It's now a configure option for X.org.

I'm puzzled as to why you would need to do this. We already have a modular Xorg which helps keep the size down, and nearly any i686 hardware should be able to support Xorg easily.

Maybe some more information on the actual problem?

magarcan · 2009-02-26 09:50:52

Reading on internet I found some people that told improve performance of their computers using this server.

Damn Small Linux also uses this server.

Yesterday I tried to install TinyX on my computer. I downloaded script and modules and then installed it. My system was a better performance. I thounght installing it onto a clean install and choosing only thing i'll need this will be even better.

iphitus wrote:

TinyX/SmallX were superseded by KDrive which has since been merged into Xorg. It's now a configure option for X.org.

So I think yesterday I installed XFree86.

Thank you for the answer.

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