DirectFB - no ma cup o' tea

I've tried a few of the demo programs of DirectFB and still don't get it. It is slow and I can't figure out what is wrong when using the keyboard buffer. As the only output is sent to the framebuffer, it is hard to debug the program and find out what is going on.

I looked around for alternative solutions for a Framebuffer Desktop and found two, Nano-X (formally known as Microwindows) and Dinx. The link for Nano-X is here and the link for Dinx is here. The Dinx webpage is out of date but I found the webpage to download the source code, link is here.

I haven't had success trying to compile Dinx but I managed to get Nano-X compiled. First impression of Nano-X is favourable.