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This reminds me of the time I was a young, naïve idiot, and decided I would learn GTK by writing some basic app in GTK. In x86 (not x86-64) assembly. Like all of my other project ideas from that era, never went anywhere, and I horribly underappreciated just how complicated things were.

Kudos for actually getting somewhere in their attempt to do this, a further state than I ever managed.

This is more like "by communicating with the X server", which is not exactly the level of "from scratch" I was expecting, but then again, it's more involved than the equivalent in Win32 that's not much more than filling in some structures and invoking a few functions.

seesh ! what would `from scratch` mean for you ? invent the whole universe ?

I was expecting something closer to direct framebuffer writes, as is often done in the various write-an-OS articles that get posted here semi-regularly.