Windows X11 Driver
Goal
The goal of this project is to develop an Windows display driver which uses X11 as output.
Design
The driver will act as a mirror driver and will not replace the normal display driver of windows. All drawing activities are serialized into a stream protocol which is readable by a client application. The client application will convert the stream protocol into coresponding X11 calls and will manage window creation/closing, remote mouse and keyboard input.
Steps
- Get the mirror driver sample from the MS DDK running
- Create serialization of the driver function calls
- Translate the serialization to X11 (code from wine x11drv may help)
- Implement keyboard and mouse input
- Provide 1-1 window mapping between Windows and X11
Resources
Where references and sample implementations can be found
- Windows DDK (mirror display driver)
- Wine x11drv
- React/OS display drivers
-- Main.AlexanderGottwald - 25 May 2004