iLiad Open X server port

[design256]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

You could try commanding the download manager window to lower itself.

Even better than that, the KDE kicker app works a treat - it shows all the (Iliad's) windows on the selector panel and lets you choose one to bring to the front. So I can now launch minimo, xpdf etc etc.

... and external links work from minimo!!! ...


I'm off to see if ftp:// links work.. If they do, then we'll be there.

[design256]

Originally Posted by design256

Even better than that, the KDE kicker app works a treat - it shows all the (Iliad's) windows on the selector panel and lets you choose one to bring to the front. So I can now launch minimo, xpdf etc etc.

... and external links work from minimo!!! ...


I'm off to see if ftp:// links work.. If they do, then we'll be there.

Sadly FTP didn't work - FTP is not a registered protocol But I can now browse the web from my Iliad - albeit by a rather complicated route...

[arivero]

Originally Posted by design256

While it is in this state, the network is up and running and there is an unprotected X server running on port 6000. You can happily run X clients on it from another local host or grab window information etc.

Now you can improvise a cradle next to your normal monitor and use the iLiad as an auxiliary E-Ink monitor!

BTW, how is it handling the update of the screen?

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by design256

Even better than that, the KDE kicker app works a treat - it shows all the (Iliad's) windows on the selector panel and lets you choose one to bring to the front. So I can now launch minimo, xpdf etc etc.

Excellent!

Originally Posted by design256

... and external links work from minimo!!! ...

I'm off to see if ftp:// links work.. If they do, then we'll be there.

Hopes up... (Update: it was too beatiful to be true... sniff)

BTW, I've been investigating the 2.4 minimo (/usr/bin/browser) a bit:

What we knew:
- It's profoundly hacked :-)
- doesn't implement the buttons
- doesn't implement the cache: functionality

What I've discovered:
- it opens always with a predefined geometry (that was easy)
- it does some IPC using UDP sockets to communicate with pageBar (send messages to UDP port 50073, receive them in UDP port 50068)
- it implements some dialogs (sometimes it has displayes me a gtk error dialog, I don't remember what it was.

Yes, that means that pageBar is listening in UDP port 50073. What I don't know is the communication method with displayMgr (as it crashes in scratchbox :-/ ).

[design256]

Originally Posted by arivero

Now you can improvise a cradle next to your normal monitor and use the iLiad as an auxiliary E-Ink monitor!

BTW, how is it handling the update of the screen?

Kicker forces a screen update each time you click a button which is great. Otherwise it is possible to get the poor thing hopelessly confused - particularly if you have browser/xpdf running locally and various apps running remotely.

Clicking the page icon at the bottom usually sorts things out, but not always.

[scotty1024]

Active sockets for 2.7 (well 2.7 with dropbear running...):

root@ereader:~# netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
tcp        0      0 *:x11                   *:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN      
udp        0      0 *:1024                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1025                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1026                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1027                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1028                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1029                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1035                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1036                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1037                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1038                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1039                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1040                  *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50065                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50070                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50071                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50072                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50073                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:50076                 *:*                                 
udp        0      0 localhost.localdo:50555 *:*                                 
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     588    /tmp/.X11-unix/X0