Help hijacking initial shell window.

[Molinko 43]

Hello, and thank you in advance.

I'm building a windowing system for OpenOS and was wondering if somebody could help me understand OpenOS's tty system? Basically I would like some tips for hijacking the initial terminal window. My plan is to put the terminals 'viewport' into a window and any subsequent processes into their respective windows. Any tips on the 'best' or 'appropriate' way to claim control of the shell window specifically would be greatly appreciated.  

Please ask any questions if I wasn't clear.

Cheers!   - Molinko

[BrisingrAerowing 12]

Have you seen Dustpuppy's Ultimate GUI? It has a full windowing system with a bunch of apps, including a terminal.

[Molinko 43]

@BrisingrAerowing I have seen it. It's quite nice . I've had a hard time just understanding the way the shell and tty work together... Specifically viewports(windows? )... Would I be right in saying that in @Dustpuppy's version he is doing all the drawing to the screen himself? I'm having a hard time... lol

What I really want to do is intercept the gpu I think.. Id like to have new processes get their own window, under my control. Including the shell. Is there a way to bind the terminal to a fake gpu proxy? Perhaps I can mock(intercept) the gpu proxy and redirect stdout to my drawbuffer.. Am I even close to something that sounds reasonable? First time shell/window programmer here. I don't really no jacksh*t about OS's.. Thanks for your help.

[BrisingrAerowing 12]

I don't think OpenOS supports what you would need to do what you want. I think the way Dustpuppy did it is really the only feasible way to make a GUI.

[Molinko 43]

Thanks @BrisingrAerowing.