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ProphetOfReason · 09-15-2007, 04:20 PM

Greetings,
I've been lurking about for the past several months contemplating whether or not to buy an Iliad. The pros are certainly outnumbering the cons at this point in time, but there's one question I have which I haven't seen a satisfactory answer to: can you use the Iliad as a terminal to display forwarded X programs? I work at a nuclear accelerator facility and I would like to be able to use the Iliad to access a control system so that I can change settings, say, while looking at an oscilloscope when I'm not near a computer. Yes, I could do this with a tablet PC, but if I could also do with the Iliad, then I'd have to buy it (and write it off as a work expense).

So, has anyone tried this? Does the Iliad have a fully functional X server?

09-15-2007, 04:20 PM	#1
ProphetOfReason Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Iliad	X fowarding? Greetings, I've been lurking about for the past several months contemplating whether or not to buy an Iliad. The pros are certainly outnumbering the cons at this point in time, but there's one question I have which I haven't seen a satisfactory answer to: can you use the Iliad as a terminal to display forwarded X programs? I work at a nuclear accelerator facility and I would like to be able to use the Iliad to access a control system so that I can change settings, say, while looking at an oscilloscope when I'm not near a computer. Yes, I could do this with a tablet PC, but if I could also do with the Iliad, then I'd have to buy it (and write it off as a work expense). So, has anyone tried this? Does the Iliad have a fully functional X server?