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Xynth. A New Embedded Windowing System

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New embedded and portable windowing system, client/server interface between display hardware (mouse, keyboard, video displays) and the desktop environment that works on many hardware, including embedded devices (handhelds, set-top boxes, etc.) has been released by Xynth.
They say "The name Xynth comes from the coordinate system, which is the heart of the Xynth Windowing System design. Xynth is a LGPL licensed free software project. It aims to provide a lightweight GUI supported windowing system for Linux-based and/or real-time embedded systems." The project's range is embedded systems to desktops. It might be a good choice for embedded systems.

An embedded X necessary for GTK

An embedded X window system is necessary for GTK Apps to run without the regular X server, just like QT has QTEmbedded. A particular example would be, Xynth might be able to provide the ability to run GParted without the normal X on a small size boot/rescue disk. But if the existing X.org code could be modified to provide an embedded version, then I feel it would have been best.