nanogui: Can Nano-X display on remote X-term
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Can Nano-X display on remote X-term
From:
Michael Schnell ####@####.####
Date:
15 Oct 2010 07:38:55 -0000
Message-Id: <4CB8050A.4030107@lumino.de>
On 10/14/2010 10:03 PM, Luca Santini wrote:
> Why don't you put a webserver on your board, and write your app as
> html pages?
IMHO it's a very viable request to run standard GUI applications on a
headless device.
You can do a Framebuffer device that just manages a memory array without
display hardware.
Now you should be able to access the graphic output (and virtual
Keyboard and Mouse devices) via VNC or (maybe even better NX). I do hope
this is supported by Nano-X, as a full X solution would need a lot more
resources.
Using a remote X server often is not a good idea as the said GUI program
should be able to start and run automatically in an embedded device and
the GUI and a remote "head" would only attached when you want to do some
kind of manual service.
I myself face this issue when porting embedded projects from a PC based
solution to a more deeply embedded controller.
-Michael
