Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] llpp v11

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 11:13 +0400 schrieb malc:
> Hello,
> 
> New version of llpp is now available (tagged v11) at
> http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git
> 
> Blurb:
> 
> llpp a graphical PDF viewer which aims to superficially resemble
> less(1)
> 
> Changes:
> 
> * Removed dependency on GLUT
>   (consequently native Windows and OS X support is also gone)
>   (There's a win32 a binary, built just before GLUT removal at:
>    http://boblycat.org/~malc/llpp.zip - 3857425 bytes)
> * User modifiable key mappings
> * Keyboard link navigation
> * Probably more, since:
> 
> llpp$ git diff --stat v10..v11 | tail -1
>  14 files changed, 4203 insertions(+), 1461 deletions(-)
> 
> (That said: keysym2ucs.c |  849 +++++++++++++++++++
>  IOW 849 added lines is keysym to unicode conversion code by by Markus G. Kuhn)
> 
> How to build/run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtIqD_mHRw

A writeup would be more impressive.

> To run it one must have GLX capable X server, chances are good that if
> the video card in ones machine is less than 10 years old things will run.
> 
> Known to run with:
> RV280 (aka Radeon 9200)           Mesa/linux/ppc
> RV730 (aka Radeon HD 4650)        Mesa/freebsd/x86[_64?]
> ????  (aka ???)                   Mesa/x86[_64?] [1]
> NV94  (aka GeForce 9600 GT)       nouveau (Gallium 0.4 on NV94)/Mesa/x86_64 [2]
>                                   binary blob by NVidia
> 
> (FWIW the card in this machine (rv280) is more than ten years old)

It would be more interesting whether it works with normal office-type
graphics, e.g. integrated Intel cards with only limited hardware
acceleration. Just wanted to give it a try on my laptop, but building
llpp seems to be non-trivial.

Gerd

> [1] 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> 
> [2] Caveat emptor: with nouveau when window manager resizes windows opaquely
>     things might get garbled (same thing happens with GLUT based version too)
>     Workarounds:
>       a. Instruct the WM to not do opaque resizes
>       b. LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRET=1 llpp [args]
>       c.
> diff --git a/link.c b/link.c
> index 10a9eba..8a6f872 100644
> --- a/link.c
> +++ b/link.c
> @@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ CAMLprim value ml_glx (value win_v)
>          caml_failwith ("glXChooseVisual");
>      }
>  
> -    glx.ctx = glXCreateContext (glx.dpy, visual, NULL, True);
> +    glx.ctx = glXCreateContext (glx.dpy, visual, NULL, False);
>      if (!glx.ctx) {
>          XCloseDisplay (glx.dpy);
>          XFree (visual);
> 
> 
> -- 
> mailto:av1474@comtv.ru
> 

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