Thread: iLiad Xinit
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Old 01-19-2010, 05:19 AM   #1
kaikae
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Location: Madrid (ES)
Device: iRex iLiad
Post Xinit

Hi there!

I've been reading the forum for a couple of months now, since I bought my iLiad and try to make it a demo interface for my projects since. I do already have the official SDK installed, and successfully compiled and tested some of the apps posted here and simple custom programs.

Here's what I'm trying to do.

Despite of the iLiad limitations wrt screen refreshes, I want to use it as a remote user interface. My work is based on wireless communications, so iLiad is just a portable, light-weight, simple and attractive interface for me. I'm trying to use it as an X terminal for a remote Xserver, having the processing capabilities of a big computer in a light interface.

I've tried using Adam's vncviewer both with the hacked Xlib and xepdmgr, but had problems refreshing the screen and with the user input (I had to show an onscreen kbd 'cos I didn't manage to use the native matchbox-keyboard). So I want to boot the iLiad by starting only xinit to query my Xserver.

I'm slowly working on it, but would like to get everybody's opinion and contribution in case somebody already did something similar
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