Author Archives: bjornstahl

This is a follow up article to the higher level writing a kmscon/console replacement. In this article, we will instead use the low-level C API to write a simple client. To recap, there are 3 APIs for writing clients: Advanced/Low- … Continue reading →

This article presents an interpretation of the history surrounding the ability for X clients to interact with X servers that are running on other machines over a network; recent arguments as to that ability being defunct and broken; problems with … Continue reading →

In this article, I will show just how little effort that it takes to specify graphics and window management sufficient enough to provide features that surpass kmscon and the ‘regular’ linux console with a directFB like API for clients to boot. … Continue reading →

This is the first article out of three in a series where I will go through what I consider to be the relevant Xorg feature set, and compare it, point by point, to how the corresponding solution or category works … Continue reading →

We’ve accumulated enough features and fixes that it is time for yet another release. The beefier changelogs can be found here: (Arcan) and here: (Durden). Starting with the following video which consolidates the visible changes to (indirectly) Arcan and its reference desktop … Continue reading →

Two years has passed since the public presentation where Arcan and its ecosystem of side projects and tools started to creep out of the woodworks; although the project had been alive and worked on for well-over a decade at that … Continue reading →

Let me preface this by saying that this is a (very) long and medium-rare technical article about the security considerations and minutiae of porting (most of) the Arcan ecosystem to work under OpenBSD. The main point of this article is not … Continue reading →