[maemo-developers] Running X11 applications on maemo

[From: Oleksandr Shneyder]

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Hi,
Eero Tamminen schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> (please keep CC on maemo-developers.)
> 
> ext Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:
>>> The window needs to have the standard WM_CLASS property that corresponds
>>> to the string given in the .desktop file corresponding to the running
>>> application.  (this has been discussed earlier, you can google for
>>> more info)
>>
>> Thank you very much for your answer, it was a solution for my problem!
>> Unfortunatly in application that i need, properties WM_CLASS and WM_NAME
>> was not seted. I have modified this application using function
>> XSetClassHint and now it works for me.
>>
>> I have researched this problem and have found that some x-applications
>> not setting properties WM_CLASS and WM_NAME. Well, we can  modify all of
>> them to use with maemo, but it's a large amount of work. And it still
>> not solving problem if we running applications exported from another pc
>> (for example with ssh -X).
> 
> Btw. for "ssh -X" to work, you need to install "xauth", see:
>     https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3556
> 
> (You need to use "-v" ssh option to find this out, it doesn't warn
> about this by default!)


It works for me without xauth, I using  "ssh -X" since nokia 770,
May be reason is that I always use openssh package, not dropbear.


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