[maemo-developers] How VNCVIEWER can bring non maemo applications onto the N800

[From: Kemal Hadimli]

Thanks, it works for me too. I'm using the second method on a 1gb card.

Though I couldn't find a source to download a firefox-armel binary.
Did you compile it? I don't really want to set up another cross
compiling environment on my linux box, and it would possibly take half
a day if I tried to compile it on the n800/chroot.

Anyway, great idea. (btw, there's a rdesktop port on the IT2006 app
catalog page, though it doesn't have vkb or anything - you just have
to use the accessibility options of the remote system)

Best regards,
Kemal

On 2/21/07, Detlef Schmicker <d.schmicker at physik.de> wrote:
> Hay Neil,
>
> I only want to stress one advantage of option #1. This would install
> about 7MBytes, where as option #2 and #3 will be about 100MBytes or
> more.
>
> This would be a reason to keep option #1 in mind, e.g. for a quick
> "port" of rdesktop, an application many users request...
>
> But personally I prefer option #3. But you need a big internal SD-flash.
>
> Detlef
>
>
> Am Dienstag, den 20.02.2007, 21:44 +0000 schrieb Neil Jerram:
> > Detlef Schmicker <d.schmicker at physik.de> writes:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > the last weeks I played around a little with setups, which allow to
> run
> > > applications on N800, which are not ported to maemo. The main
> problem
> > > using this kind of applications is the missing keyboard, if they are
> > > cross compiled.
> >
> > In penguinbait's experiments, I believe he uses xkbd to solve this.
> > Presumably that would work with your approach too?
> >
> > > vncviewer (http://vncviewer.garage.maemo.org/ ) can handle this, as
> > > easily is tested connecting to a debian linux machine and trying all
> the
> > > applications availible.
> >
> > Oh I see, that is clever!  (I guess xkbd is still possible, but the
> > vncviewer keyboard is much more convenient.)
> >
> > > Have a look at the screen shot at http://physik.de/770/ with
> debian /
> > > testing runnin on a N800 within chroot and vncviewer.
> >
> > Very nice!  To check that I've understood correctly:
> >
> > - Are you saying that everything from the debian/testing arm port will
> >   run without needing recompilation?
> >
> > - Am I right in thinking that the chroot is only needed so as not to
> >   mix up the debian/testing distribution with the maemo?  (In other
> >   words, it's not required by something about how Xvnc and vncviewer
> >   work?)
> >
> > > I tried three different setups (all are working, but none is enduser
> > > ready:-)