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 Apr 27 2006, 12:17 PM
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On the X/Qt site you can see this screenshot of running in rootless mode.
This might be a solution to running individual X apps in Qtopia, i.e. being able to switch just to the app, not to the whole X/Qt desktop. Does anyone have any experience with this? How do you start an app in X/Qt in rootless mode? |
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Apr 27 2006, 12:22 PM
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this sounds interesting....I like the idea!
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Apr 27 2006, 12:32 PM
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That would be a great idea.
 1. would occupy less disc/card space 2. would occupy less RAM 3. seems like apps would launch quicker and be snappier because of using less resources QUOTE(ShiroiKuma @ Apr 27 2006, 03:17 PM) This might be a solution to running individual X apps in Qtopia, i.e. being able to switch just to the app, not to the whole X/Qt desktop.
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Apr 27 2006, 11:45 PM
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QUOTE(Jon_J @ Apr 28 2006, 06:32 AM) That would be a great idea. 1. would occupy less disc/card space 2. would occupy less RAM 3. seems like apps would launch quicker and be snappier because of using less resources QUOTE(ShiroiKuma @ Apr 27 2006, 03:17 PM) This might be a solution to running individual X apps in Qtopia, i.e. being able to switch just to the app, not to the whole X/Qt desktop. the next update of pdaXqtrom will have a rootless option, ie invoked via xlauncher -embed appname the qtopia icons will have the -embed flag added to the launch scripts |
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Apr 28 2006, 01:02 AM
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yes! killer!
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Apr 30 2006, 09:09 AM
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QUOTE(bam @ Apr 28 2006, 07:02 PM) yes! killer! here's xmms in rootless mode the new image will be ready soon. just compiling a few extra bits which takes a while on the Z
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Apr 30 2006, 02:59 PM
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QUOTE(Meanie @ Apr 30 2006, 06:09 PM) here's xmms in rootless mode the new image will be ready soon. just compiling a few extra bits which takes a while on the Z What happens when you run two apps in rootless mode? Do they each have an X/Qt icon in the taskbar? Still would be the same icon, but nevertheless... You could switch between them and other Qt tasks conveniently... |
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Apr 30 2006, 03:25 PM
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Please tell me that the internet exploder icon on the taskbar is a joke.
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Apr 30 2006, 06:20 PM
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QUOTE(jfv @ May 1 2006, 09:25 AM) Please tell me that the internet exploder icon on the taskbar is a joke. Felipe It is  finally someone notices it
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Apr 30 2006, 06:51 PM
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how soon? /me is impatient...this is cool.
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May 1 2006, 07:36 AM
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QUOTE(bam @ May 1 2006, 12:51 PM) how soon? /me is impatient...this is cool. very soon. i was almost done today, but then decided to recompile gtk2 so abiword would have nice window sizes that fit the screen and then I am also compiling some plugins for abiword too which hopefully will allow pdf and openoffice document support in abiword. got screen rotation working too and fixed the window sizes for 6000 models as well. a day or two and it should be ready unless i find something else to add
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May 3 2006, 04:15 AM
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From the other post, I tried your new version...
It seems that only one app can be run in rootless mode. When I start a second one it says one is already running. Can this be gotten around? Also running rootless firefox-embedded doesn't seem to work on my 3200, it just starts the X, you see the icon, and then exits. From a command prompt though it gives no error... How can I debug the start to see what's failing? |
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May 3 2006, 07:44 PM
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QUOTE(ShiroiKuma @ May 3 2006, 10:15 PM) From the other post, I tried your new version... It seems that only one app can be run in rootless mode. When I start a second one it says one is already running. Can this be gotten around? Also running rootless firefox-embedded doesn't seem to work on my 3200, it just starts the X, you see the icon, and then exits. From a command prompt though it gives no error... How can I debug the start to see what's failing? xlauncher -debug -embed firefox-embedded |
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May 3 2006, 10:51 PM
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QUOTE(Meanie @ May 4 2006, 04:44 AM) xlauncher -debug -embed firefox-embedded OK will do. And what about the one-app limit in rootless? Is there no way to run more apps in rootless mode? |
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May 3 2006, 11:00 PM
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QUOTE(ShiroiKuma @ May 4 2006, 04:51 PM) QUOTE(Meanie @ May 4 2006, 04:44 AM) xlauncher -debug -embed firefox-embedded OK will do. And what about the one-app limit in rootless? Is there no way to run more apps in rootless mode? well you could open a terminal and export DISPLAY=:0.0 appname note that this rootless mode is experimental and has many limitations. it is also only available in xqt server 0.8 it was removed in 0.9 i might have a look into it further and recompile xqt server but no time for it right now. |
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