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      msx80
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      Hi there! i was considering writing a simple custom program to start games (to use alongside emulationstation). I was wondering how to display some minimal graphics, becouse retropie doesn't seem to be using any of the x-server architecture. Indeed in the faqs it says: "RetroPie - and the underlying components - are not using the X11 server for display", but there's no mention about what the underlying system is. Some kind of framebuffer? If anybody knows, perhaps you can also point me to some library to make things easier.

      Thanks!

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        mitu Global Moderator @msx80
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        @msx80 It's the native Linux framebuffer interface that's used by both Emulationstation (front-end) and the emulators.
        As far as the libraries that you can use to program a new interface, you can look at either Emulationstation, which used SDL2 (libsdl.org) or Attract Mode, which uses SFML (http://sfml-dev.org/).

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          msx80
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          wonderful, i'll look into it, thanks!

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