On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i have an XDA-2 phone and have just recently managed to get the > touchscreen driver working (sort-of) and also managed to get > a basic framebuffer running. > > xtiny-fbdev works absolutely fine. > > anyway, i would like to be able to make use of the device to make > a demonstration / talk, and to use it as part _of_ the talk. > it occurred to me how i might achieve that, with the limited success > so far. > > the idea is to use the XDA-2 touchscreen as a keyboard / mouse driver > for another x-server. > > in principle it's quite simple: run X on the XDA-2, run a small > keyboard program on it which communicates over Bluetooth to > _another_ X server on a machine running an overhead projector > screen.
> in implementation terms, it's a kind-of extension of the VNC and > rdesktop principle. > > the difference is that [some new?] x-windows program _generates_ > x-events which need, somehow, to be treated as an Input device to a > second x-windows server, but there is no requirement to forward the > Screen events from the second x-windows server _back_ to the > x-windows program running on the first x-server. > > i believe that, when it is put like that, there probably already > exists some software (i recall seeing something like the xvfb > package under debian? no, that's the virtual framebuffer one - i > think i mean Xnest) which is typically used for testing purposes > that could be adapted to do the job i describe. > > i don't really know - i'm just throwing in ideas, see what sticks :) x2x, at ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/x2x/x2x-1.27.tar.gz allows you to use the keyboard and mouse from one X display to drive another X display. I think you would need to modify the from end of it since it is rather difficult to move a touch-screen mouse off-screen, but it might give you a good part of what you need. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
