List of DFB Applications

From DirectFBWiki

Both Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) (http://www.libsdl.org/) and ClanLib (http://www.clanlib.org/) support DirectFB as a backend, so many applications written for those libraries can be ported to DirectFB.

General

Name Description DFB Version Homepage Requires Comments
XDirectFB A DirectFB X-server Emulator 0.25 http://www.directfb.org native dfb Run most X Software under DirectFB
DFBTerm DirectFB Terminal Emulation 0.25 http://www.directfb.org lite
Debian Installer Install Debian Linux Graphically! 0.25 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIBuild DFBGTK
Splashy Displays an image at boot with a progressbar (themeable) 0.1.8 http://splashy.alioth.debian.org DFB Development done on Debian, but it's targeted to all UNIX systems that support DFB
Qingy is a themeable replacement of getty 0.9.6 http://qingy.sourceforge.net/about.php DFB It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde,..)
Links Text mode and GUI web broswer 2.1pre22 http://links.twibright.com DFB Can also use the framebuffer directly, or SVGAlib, or even SDL with DFB
Unreal Tournament 2004 One of the world's best first-person shooters, although commercial 3369 http://www.unrealtournament2004.com/ DFB, SDL compiled with DFB support This isn't yanking your chain, but if you set it to Software Rendering (you need to do this in game, within X11), and then start it on the framebuffer with software rendering set, it *WILL* work on DirectFB. I've done it myself, and it's a good way to pass time of X breaks.
Mozilla over DFB Mozilla browser with DirectFB support DirectFB 1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357946 GTKDFB Mozilla(Firefox Ver 1.5.0.3) browser over DFB for embedded devices, provided by TATA Elxsi, INDIA (TATA ELXSI (http://www.tataelxsi.com))

Audio / Video

Name Description DFB Version Homepage Requires Comments
Mplayer A powerful video player 0.25 http://www.mplayerhq.hu native dfb Plays all kinds of video files, supports a directfb backend (among others)
Xine A free video player 0.25 http://www.xinehq.de native dfb Plays back CDs, DVDs, VCDs, and many kinds of video files. Supports directfb and fusionsound backends