Can I use the SDL lib without the Kde?

SDL Development
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I’d like make a application that when linux is loaded start, but without the visual environmnet as kde loaded?

Thanks

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That’s a Linux/XFree86 question, and doesn’t have much to do with SDL,
really. Anyway, I assume you’re working on some kind of turnkey
system, that should just boot up and start your SDL application.

What you do is hack your startup scripts to start X, and then your
application. (You may have to tell SDL where X is by setting the
DISPLAY env. var.)

If this machine isn’t going to function as a workstation or anything
like that, but rather more like an embedded system, console, arcade
machine or whatever, you could, in order of increasing brutality;

1. Prepare a runlevel to start X and your app, and
   have /etc/inittab auto-login at that runlevel.

2. Throw away all the normal init scripts and just
   hack an /etc/inittab that does what you want.

3. Rip out init (the first process Linux starts)
   and replace it with your app, which takes over
   the system, spawns XFree86 and then gets on
   with it's work.

I think 1 or 2 would make sense normally, and it shouldn’t be too hard
to do after reading up a bit (google for “linux init scripts” or
something, without the quotes) and looking at the standard scripts
that come with any normal distro.

3 is only for extreme cases, where you want to keep the system as lean
and mean as possible, for low powered systems and/or very small
disks. You can drop the shell and various other tools and libs, and
just use the Linux kernel and a minimal set of libraries, pretty much
like a sophisticated boot loader, driver infrastructure and
scheduler.

1, 2 and 3 should give about the same (very short) boot time, but if
you want to cut it really low, you have to fine tune your kernel
configuration. Standard builds that come with distros usually spend
quite a few seconds checking for hardware that you don’t have or
don’t need.

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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— http://olofson.net — http://www.reologica.se —On Sunday 28 September 2003 15.58, juavizga wrote:

I’d like make a application that when linux is loaded start, but
without the visual environmnet as kde loaded?