Linux Framebuffer

fbdump is a simple tool that captures the contents of the visible portion of the Linux framebuffer device and writes it to the standard output as a PPM file. In other words, it takes a screenshot of anything running on the framebuffer. The project currently has fairly complete support for...

DFBSee project is an image viewer and video player for the Linux framebuffer that uses DirectFB. Due to the use of hardware acceleration through DirectFB, it provides very fast and smooth zooming. The files supported at this moment are PNG, JPEG, GIF and AVI, MPEG or a Video4Linux video...

IIViewer is an application for X, and optionally for the Linux framebuffer device. It allows you to display pictures in a directory as thumbnails. Selected images can then be displayed at full size. It reads BMP, GIF, and JPEG (even without libraries).


Platforms: *nix

DirectFB is a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers, not only on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device. It is a complete hardware abstraction...


Platforms: *nix

This page is dedicated to videogen, a small and handy utility that generates XFree86 and/or fbset (Linux framebuffer device) Modelines which tell your video card what signals to send to your monitor. videogen is designed to provide the best refresh rate your hardware supports, but if you do not...


Platforms: *nix

picoTK is a GPL licensed small footprint C GUI toolkit for embedded systems. It readily works with the RTEMS real time kernel - its minimum complexity and OS independency makes a port to any operating system easy. It is not comparable featurewise to real full blown windowing toolkits like nanoX...


Platforms: *nix

OpenGUI is a high-level multi-platform, thread-safe C/C++ windowing and graphics library built upon a fast, low-level graphics kernel. OpenGUI program provides 2D drawing primitives and an event-driven windowing API for easy application development. The benefit of this library is speed, power,...


Platforms: *nix

tpp (short from text presentation program) is an ncurses-based presentation tool. The presentation can be written with your favorite editor in a simple description format and then shown on any text terminal that is supported by ncurses - ranging from an old VT100 to the Linux framebuffer to an...


Platforms: *nix

ggiterm is a terminal emulator which uses the platform-agnostic GGI library for its input and display. This enables ggiterm to be run unmodified on any target supported by GGI, including X Window, the Linux framebuffer, Windows and more exotic setups... Ever dreamed of typing your command...


Platforms: *nix

Fim (Fbi IMproved) aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are confortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. The application is based on the Fbi image viewer and works in the Linux framebuffer console (it is not an...


Platforms: *nix

Zhcon is a fast Linux Console Chinese System which supports framebuffer device. It can display Chinese, Japanese or Korean double byte characters.Supported language encodings include: GB2312, GBK, BIG5, JIS and KSC. UTF-8 is also supported.


Platforms: *nix

Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD with Linux operating system that contains a 2.4 kernel and many free software packages. Whats New in This Release: - Kernel 2.4.20-wolk and 2.4.22 with supermount, squashfs, shfs patches and ALSA 0.9.6 drivers; - Ability to choose a version of linux kernel and...


Platforms: *nix

Splack Linux is Slackware for Sparc. Splack supports all Sun4c, Sun4d, and Sun4m hardware. Most Sun4U (Ultrasparc) machines are supported, but the more modern SunBlade and SunFire systems are not supported in the 2.2.20 kernel. As a workaround you may be able to move the boot disk to a...


Platforms: *nix

PTCPas is a free, portable framebuffer library, written in Free Pascal. It allows low-level high-speed graphics access on multiple platforms and is distributed under the terms of a modified (to allow static linking) GNU LGPL license. Currently supports DirectX, X11, VBE1.2+ and fakemodes. It has...


Platforms: *nix

eboxy is a small Linux application for building user interfaces for set-top boxes, suitable for use on a TV. It reads an XML file describing a simple GUI consisting of pages and widgets, and displays it on the screen. Features Fully themable / skinnable simple GUI interface system Control...


Platforms: *nix

R-Linux is a data recovery and undelete utility for Ext2FS (Linux) file system. File recovery after power failure, system crash, virus infection or partition reformation, even for the different file system. Unformat and unerase tool. Creation of image files an entire disk, partition or its part....


Platforms: Windows

DiskInternals Linux Recovery is a handy no-cost utility that runs under any version of Windows and designed to recover the erased or damaged information that is kept on Ext2/Ext3 partitions. DiskInternals Linux Recovery might come in handy on a number of occasions when due to the unforeseen...


Platforms: Windows

Free digital transcription software for typists on Linux - Express Scribe is professional audio playback control software designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings. It is installed on the typist's computer and can be controlled using the keyboard (with 'hot' keys) and/or foot...


Platforms: *nix

USB Server for Linux. This new unique software product allows to share any USB device to use them over local network or Internet. To share USB device plugged into computer with Linux OS you just need to install USB Server product into your system. Your system must have kernel v2.6.15 and higher...


Platforms: *nix, Source

Call Of Duty 2 Linux Multiplayer Server Code is a COD2 linux server. !! IMPORTANT !! Call of Duty 2 Linux Server is NOT SUPPORTED by Activision Customer Support. Please do not call with any questions related to this free beta product. There are other channels to aid you listed at the bottom...


Platforms: *nix