ASCII-art output platform
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Authored by graesslin on Apr 1 2016, 12:31 PM.

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A new platform: render to ascii art output. It's based on libcaca
which is now an optional dependency to KWin. To run use:
KWIN_COMPOSE=Q kwin_wayland --xwayland --ascii <programs to start>

It works both nested (e.g. on X11) and on a tty.

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graesslin updated this revision to Diff 3057.Apr 1 2016, 12:31 PM

graesslin retitled this revision from to ASCII-art output platform.

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kwin_wayland rendering glxgears on the ascii art output

You just created an excuse for NVidia not to support wayland-proper-opengl in their future driver releases.

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davidedmundson accepted this revision.Apr 1 2016, 10:49 PM

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backends/caca/caca_backend.cpp
57	.arg("a","b") is almost always better than .arg("a").arg("b) otherwise if a translator puts %1 in the first string you get a crazy result
backends/caca/scene_qpainter_caca_backend.cpp
38	magic numbers

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 1 2016, 10:49 PM

Needs to be rebased to newer internal API

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		Path
M		CMakeLists.txt (7 lines)
M		backends/CMakeLists.txt (3 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/CMakeLists.txt (14 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/caca.json (8 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/caca_backend.h (63 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/caca_backend.cpp (78 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/scene_qpainter_caca_backend.h (54 lines)
A	M	backends/caca/scene_qpainter_caca_backend.cpp (97 lines)
A	M	cmake/modules/Findcaca.cmake (54 lines)
M		config-kwin.h.cmake (1 line)
M		main_wayland.cpp (18 lines)