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gtkfb is what it is called. There is also something new called 'fastx' which can run gtk programs on the framebuffer. The disadvantage is that it requires using a patched gtk, but then you don't need to patch or alter each program.
Regarding what gnashley reported, beware that gtkfb is now obsoleted, and it is not supported by newer Gtk's. Basically, DirectFB is a library that handles the guts of talking to the framebuffer. Before DirectFB, Gtk wanted to be on the framebuffer, so they wrote the guts of that themselves. But since DirectFB came out, Gtk just uses that and saves themselves some work. The new DirectFB based gtk is referred to as Gtk-DFB.
I've never heard of this 'fastx', so I'm interested to hear more about it / see a link too. Google isn't turning anything up.
I'm not very familiar with DirectFB, but either the sample code has a bug or some library is not installed. The DirectFB mailing lists would be a good place to ask on this, but maybe someone here will know the answer too.
Might I ask what it's for? Perhaps we can recommend something else? I think I remember hearing that tinyX-ish Xservers have made good advances lately, perhaps that would help?
Xfast combines the server and client sides of X into one thing. It is a desktop environment which fulfills the role of x server and window manager in one application. It is really meant mostly for embedded OS's, but looks as though it might be usable (at some point) for a regular desktop.
There is a project called tinyX, but it is not open-source. I haven't tried Xsynth which is the parent-project of Xfast.
The sources for Xfast includes several accessory applications which are written esepcially for it. They also include patches which can be used for re-compiling GTK. Doing so allows you to run GTK apps under Xfast without any changes to the application sources.
According to Wikipedia and the Xorg tarball tinyX changed its name to KDrive and is now just a build type of the Xorg X server. Thus, it falls under the same license as Xorg. Most people accept Xorg's license to be free.
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