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Running Debian proper alongside Maemo
Running Debian proper alongside Maemo
Detlef Schmicker has posted to maemo-developers the first results of his hack to use VNCViewer to connect to a locally running Debian instance on the tablet to solve the keyboard/input issues.
He's had Firefox, Gimp and Xterm all running on his N800 in the IceWM window manager, with VNCviewer providing the keyboard. No network connection was necessary.
It's a very cool hack, it'll be interesting to see if it can be packaged for end-user use.
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Comment from: macbeach [Visitor] 
VNC is OK, but I was actually more excited by the ability to run X-windows applications by remote control. I installed the xterm program and SSH (the description of which didn't make clear whether it was the client component, server or both), and then from an Xterm window:
ssh -X userid@192.168.0.10
password:*****
and I could do just about anything I wanted on the target machine. I am a KDE user so I launched konqueror from which I could also launch firefox, read e-mail, move files around, reboot or shutdown the remote system.
To me this makes a lot more sense when the target system is also Linux based. For a remote Windows or OSX system VNC would be needed of course. While OS X supports X-windows, none of the standard OS X applications support OS X.
Using X-windows, each newly launch application has it's own window on the N800.
What I still haven't figured out how to do on the N800 is to do the equivalent of "right click" on something. I'm sure there must be a secret keypress or something to do this.
ssh -X userid@192.168.0.10
password:*****
and I could do just about anything I wanted on the target machine. I am a KDE user so I launched konqueror from which I could also launch firefox, read e-mail, move files around, reboot or shutdown the remote system.
To me this makes a lot more sense when the target system is also Linux based. For a remote Windows or OSX system VNC would be needed of course. While OS X supports X-windows, none of the standard OS X applications support OS X.
Using X-windows, each newly launch application has it's own window on the N800.
What I still haven't figured out how to do on the N800 is to do the equivalent of "right click" on something. I'm sure there must be a secret keypress or something to do this.
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20/02/07 @ 19:42
Comment from: Tim [Visitor]
What is performance like when running Firefox locally?
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