asked 2014-03-29 20:57:08 +0200
How do you run an X application, both in the remote case and the local case?
Because the phone is running Wayland, there is no built-in X support, like there was on the N900, however, there are ways of running X apps under Wayland. What are the options, and can we have one of them implemented on the Jolla? Preferably including the libs to compile X-based tarballs directly on the Jolla.
answered 2015-01-30 13:34:39 +0200
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There is a Mer repository which can be used: https://build.merproject.org/project/show/home:javispedro:xwayland
You can add the repository via commandline with:
ssu addrepo home_javispedro_xwayland http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/javispedro:/xwayland/sailfish_latest_armv7hl/
ssu er home_javispedro_xwayland
Then you can install xwayland with
pkcon refresh
pkcon install xorg-x11-server-xwayland
Now you should be able to start xwayland:
Xwayland -nolisten tcp :0 &
export DISPLAY=:0.0 &
Xorg/X11 applications should now work.
An example screenshot (by the repo creator https://twitter.com/javispedro) :
EDIT: I just tested it by editing /etc/sshd/sshd_config on my Linux box to support X11 forwarding. On the Jolla I issued:
ssh -X [USER]@[HOST]
I was able to successfully start a graphical application.
This is awesomely cool! I just had to comment, because an upvote simply didn't feel good enough!
00prometheus ( 2015-02-09 22:54:50 +0200 )editNot working on Xperia X. https://gist.github.com/1b63398e3325ed60ba9b3de1e8743c5e Also different kind of error when trying to execute as root: https://gist.github.com/d0f37e99c66f6699fffda50c18d8475d
Ingvix ( 2018-05-11 10:11:58 +0200 )editanswered 2014-03-29 23:43:22 +0200
Xwayland is not ready yet AFAIK so you probably can't.
Are there no other options? I believe there was a way of running X.org as a client under Wayland, and both Gnome and KDE are going to Wayland, with GTK and Qt respectively
00prometheus ( 2014-03-30 01:24:47 +0200 )editThanks for that clarification. Do you know anything about work on directly running toolkits remotely? Is that just a plain wrong Internet rumor I am promulgating?
00prometheus ( 2014-03-31 01:26:12 +0200 )editThe only thing toolkit related i can think of -didn't have to do with wayland- was GTK apps running on html5 capable browsers (localy and remotely). GTK Broadway backend.
In theory you can use your jolla browser to have it render a GTK app running on another computer. How to do this i have no idea.
ApB ( 2014-03-31 01:41:39 +0200 )editanswered 2015-01-30 11:24:28 +0200
A port of Xwayland was done for weston/wayland on Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi: http://archlinuxarm.org/packages, or fedodora rawhide ARMV7HL: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xorg-x11-server-Xwayland&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=armV7HL.
Maybe can you use one of those to compile a Xorg server to Wayland ... fedora is rpmbuild compliant.
Asked: 2014-03-29 20:57:08 +0200
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Just to make it clear, this is not a duplicate of the Question linked below. Actually, it is exactly the opposite!
https://together.jolla.com/question/36501/remote-access-to-graphical-interface-waylandrdp/
00prometheus ( 2014-03-29 20:58:04 +0200 )edit