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Originally Posted by Mythago
I've also wondered if maybe VNC (or something similar) could be used. Run a VNC client on the iLiad to act as a display for another computer that has a normal keyboard.
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That could be done using linuxvnc (part of libvncserver). More information on:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libvnc...ease_id=140150
I like your solution. It would be very easy to implement (the only needed software in the iliad side would be a vncviewer). The only catch would be how to handle the display updates... when scrolling, a full refresh would be needed to avoid too much ghosting, but when simply adding new chars to a line, a "fast" (invisible) update would suffice. As doing a vncviewer is easy, we could do one specifically for the iliad... no porting nightmares ;-).
BTW: I'm currently off-line WRT programming for the iliad, but I'd like to explore this as soon as I can (perhaps in a couple of months...). And I would love to also update to the web browser and the Ted port... ugh!
Another idea is that if/when we have a native vncviewer app for the iliad, we could also run a Xvnc server with the apps and visualize the locally with proper refresh in the vncviewer...