Xserver for Android- XSDL rocks

[Greg McGee]

Have been looking for an accelerated xserver for Android: It seems to exist : XSDL

Running now from wheezy in a chroot on my x200T (running android 4.3 still) and it seems fast, fluid as running native X11.
The VNC servers do not remotely compare speed wise..

Have not beaten it up trying to play games yet, but for typical use it is as native speed.
You still lose the bottom bit of the screen for the bottom bar, but it works 100% so far.

Simply having the ability to use a real "mc" as a file manager for android---priceless.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2014-02-26 14:47 GMT+08:00 Greg McGee <gjm...@gmail.com>:
> Have been looking for an accelerated xserver for Android: It seems to exist
> : XSDL

Do you mean the android app that can run X applications:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server&hl=zh_TW

Or the KDrive (a light-weight X server for embedded systems)

http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandriva/2010.1/i586/media/main/release/x11-server-xsdl-1.7.7-1mdv2010.1.i586.html

They are entire different directions.

[mariuz]

my guess is XSDL android app that can run X (seems to be available on x86 too)

[Greg McGee]

XSDL on the play store, seems to be ~complete & accellerated xserver, local apps run as native. Ran out of room on the 2GB loopback image with Debian trying to install an openGL game... need to do a proper chroot install on ext3.

Have not tried kdrive.

Now I just need to figure out why inputattach inexplicably chokes on a 64 bit kernel... Android and a full Linux running on 3GB memory is almost tight, 8GB would be better.

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[Ravi]

Hi, 

This looks really good.  I can't seem to get it to work with my Debian Kit install though.  The screen asking me to type the commands into my Linux PC just stays on the screen.

Anything I can do about this?

Thanks

[Greg McGee]

to start deb, the command is "deb"

then:

env DISPLAY=localhost:0 <command to start your xsession> 

(ignore the IP address on the XSDL screen, but do note the "0 or :1 or such, it neds to macth)

debian kit does not install any X11 stuff by default, "apt install lxde" should pull everything required

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Greg McGee]

The IP address XSDL puts up is correct if you are redirecting from a remote PC, but you are coming in from 127.0.0.1 AKA localhost (on the same machine)

[Greg McGee]

to start an lxde session (once installed) the command is:

env DISPLAY=localhost:0 lxsession &

You may want to add user and root passwds in debian so you can start a session as a user.

(may need to create the user etc, its really Debian)

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Greg McGee <gjm...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Greg McGee]

I just grokked your issue:

After starting xsdl, you still need to open a shell, start deb and type the required commands.

No one has written a wrapper to do it all automagically yet.

[Ravi]

Thanks.  I'll give it a go later today.

I had been starting the install from the shell with the deb command and using localhost as the IP - I think I had probably made a mistake with the command, perhaps.