Information about a menu such as font size and family, background color, and flags. More ...

The following functions, types, and structures are used to convey basic information about the system, such as the number of CPUs, when the kernel was built, what time it is now and whether your ...

Send a control command to a device through a file descriptor. Send a control command to a device through a file descriptor. ioctls are usually sent to file descriptors corresponding to files in the ...

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about Haiku. For development related topics, please check out the Development FAQ. Haiku is a fast, efficient, easy to use and lean open source operating ...

Unless the system entered KDL by itself, you can normally do that by invoking the keyboard shortcut Alt-SysReq-D. Note that in KDL your keyboard may not work. PS/2 keyboards always do, USB keyboards ...

This document explains the artistic subtleties of Haiku icons. If it leaves something unclear to you, that is, what rules to follow when designing an icon for the Haiku operating system, please bring ...

Below you will find documentation on the Application Programming Interface (API) of the Haiku operating system. This API describes the internals of the operating system allowing developers to write ...

Since I started publishing my Learning to Program with Haiku lesson series back in January, I have, on many occasions, seen comments asking for lessons aimed at current codemonkeys who want to break ...

What is FUSE? FUSE is an acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace" and in essence allows an operating system to communicate with a file system through a userland progam. By providing this functionality ...

The document below outlines our code style guidelines. If you have suggestions for things that should be clarified better, etc. please let us know. Please don’t send us suggestions of the kind “I like ...

Haiku also supports booting via the traditional BIOS boot system. See the regular install instructions if your hardware requires a BIOS boot process. Use the instructions on this page should your ...