Remote X11?

[timb.us]

Thanks buddy! I'll give those a try!

I've made some progress, here's where I'm at:

[K] = Kindle PW, [Pi] = Raspberry Pi, [o2] = MacBook Air

[K] Has a copy of ssh that supports the -X option for tunneling X Sessions. After reading through some other threads here I've learned that a second instance of Xorg will display overtop of the existing framework. So, I've launched it like so: [K] Xorg :1 &
Then I set the display variable: [K] DISPLAY=:1
I then SSH'd into [Pi] from [K]: ./ssh -X pi@rpi

It connects fine, now I try to run an X app: [Pi] midori
It runs, no errors, but nothing is displayed on [K]...

At this point I kill -9 Xorg on [K] and try running midori again on [Pi]. This time I get an error:

connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X1: No such file or directory
Midori - Cannot open display:

So, I know it is trying to tunnel to the second copy of Xorg running, but why isn't anything being displayed?

Edit: Wait a second, it is displaying something! I can see it behind the top menu bar, bits and pieces of it! Hrmmm... Now, how to get it to display on top of everything else?

[timb.us]

[twobob]

right....

Looks like you are fighting for control of the framebuffer.

try... killall -stop awesome

erm...

let me just try that first... gimme sec

edit:

Okay seems safe enough... no auto-reboot..

and killall -cont awesome when you are done

[twobob]

if that fails... (it might if you are using Xephyr or some other way of targetting the onboard X that NEEDS awesome running. I dont know...)

then try using an OVERLAY solution like Xepyhr...

Let me dig up a thread..

[twobob]

right...

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=68

Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_PC:N" -screen 600x800 -cc 4 -dpi 155 &

(insert correct FB size that is for a touch)

and Landscape..

Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_O:R_PC:N" -screen 800x600 -cc 4 -dpi 155 &

BUT!!!

They did allegedly change the _O:R_PC:N bits that you can find in the awesome configs somewheres... have to fiddle to find out... err. You not me I dont have a PW right now.


baf has posted the most about that stuff

[timb.us]

Thanks, let me work on that. Though, the copy of Xephyr you sent me seems to be segfaulting.

[root@kindle bin]# ./Xephyr :1
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/kindle:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Backtrace:
Segmentation fault at address 0x7adf2c

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Aborted

[timb.us]

By the by, all stopping awesome did was freeze the screen until I resumed it. Xorg on :1 wouldn't overlay, so looks like I'm going to have to get Xephyr running.

[twobob]

ah right. I thought it might.

its like ZERO effort to get Xephyr going

just need to right files.


if you dont already have them I can give them.

simple as that.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by timb.us

Thanks, let me work on that. Though, the copy of Xephyr you sent me seems to be segfaulting.

[root@kindle bin]# ./Xephyr :1
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/kindle:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Backtrace:
Segmentation fault at address 0x7adf2c

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Aborted

DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111 111111one one one etc..


I must have bundle the highly experimental one I was building.

Sorry...

(still I wasn't actually checking that at the time)

gimme sec



EDIT AND I HAVE ATTACHED THE MISSING LIB NOW DOH!!!

[twobob]

replace bin.

rename it to Xephyr if you want.

I have a few versions lying around. the name is irrelevent

[timb.us]

Thanks man! It seems to run, but it's complaining about fonts now. I tried pointing it to the usr/share/fonts/X11/ directory that was part of that bundle you sent me awhile back, but no dice. There has to be a default fixed font built into the system, right?

[twobob]

ah yeah..

err.. its on the debian on paperwhite threads how I "fixed" that

[twobob]

or was it the Native Xorg thread? meh... threads.. gah!!

[timb.us]

Haha, let me search through the PW thread. I remember reading that. Just wanted to know if it was something obvious I missed.

[twobob]

no... IIRC it was something really stupid.

like the default font is missing for the kindles.

its an easy fix one you find it. sorry I'm doing like 4 things at once here and should have been in bed hours ago !!