X/qt Rootless Mode

[ShiroiKuma]

well you could open a terminal and

export DISPLAY=:0.0
appname

I did this and it works, the only problem is it launches the second app in the first apps window - obviously. But the second one is on top and there is no way to switch them.

I'd like to just run two rootless instances of X/Qt to open two apps individually. When I just try runx then the X/Qt server gives an error. That's probably why you put it in the launch script to not allow running a second app rootless.

But surely there must be a way to launch a second instance of any program under Linux independently. How can I do this with X/Qt.

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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Yeah, that's what it says on the X/Qt site about it being experimental etc. I like it though. The way it runs the apps as you have done it in your image is really good.

That's why I want to run more than one app in the rootless mode.

[Meanie]

well you could open a terminal and

export DISPLAY=:0.0
appname

I did this and it works, the only problem is it launches the second app in the first apps window - obviously. But the second one is on top and there is no way to switch them.

I'd like to just run two rootless instances of X/Qt to open two apps individually. When I just try runx then the X/Qt server gives an error. That's probably why you put it in the launch script to not allow running a second app rootless.

But surely there must be a way to launch a second instance of any program under Linux independently. How can I do this with X/Qt.

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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Yeah, that's what it says on the X/Qt site about it being experimental etc. I like it though. The way it runs the apps as you have done it in your image is really good.

That's why I want to run more than one app in the rootless mode.
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its possible to have multiple apps in their own rootless window with their own icon by running multiple instances of xqt. each xqt instance needs to run on a different display. i havent written a script for it yet to allocate and deallocate the displays. the next version, 0.7.7  will have this

[ShiroiKuma]

its possible to have multiple apps in their own rootless window with their own icon by running multiple instances of xqt. each xqt instance needs to run on a different display. i havent written a script for it yet to allocate and deallocate the displays.
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I copied your xlauncher script to play with it and just see if it'd work, to xlauncher2.

In xlauncher2 I modified the part where when running an embedded app it checks if X="" and if it does it says that you're running an embedded app already.

Changed it to export the DISPLAY=:1.0 (also :0.1, tried two versions, since couldn't remember the right form).

Now, I run for instance dillo rootless first. Then when I try xlauncher2 -embed xmms, the X/Qt pops an X/Qt Server box, saying Fatal error.

What am I doing wrong?

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Does this work on C1000 as well as C3x00?  

[Meanie]

Does this work on C1000 as well as C3x00? 
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this should work on ALL models with Sharp ROM or Cacko

[Meanie]

its possible to have multiple apps in their own rootless window with their own icon by running multiple instances of xqt. each xqt instance needs to run on a different display. i havent written a script for it yet to allocate and deallocate the displays.
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I copied your xlauncher script to play with it and just see if it'd work, to xlauncher2.

In xlauncher2 I modified the part where when running an embedded app it checks if X="" and if it does it says that you're running an embedded app already.

Changed it to export the DISPLAY=:1.0 (also :0.1, tried two versions, since couldn't remember the right form).

Now, I run for instance dillo rootless first. Then when I try xlauncher2 -embed xmms, the X/Qt pops an X/Qt Server box, saying Fatal error.

What am I doing wrong?
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in addition to setting the display for the client, the server needs to be started on a different display as well so you have matching pairs of client and servers on different displays. in addition, you also need to allocate xauthority cookies to each display

[ShiroiKuma]

in addition to setting the display for the client, the server needs to be started on a different display as well so you have matching pairs of client and servers on different displays. in addition, you also need to allocate xauthority cookies to each display
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Oh yeah, just realized it looking into your runx script.

Seems I'm getting entangled in trying to create a parallel script that would alloc individual displays...

So far haven't managed...

[ShiroiKuma]

in addition to setting the display for the client, the server needs to be started on a different display as well so you have matching pairs of client and servers on different displays. in addition, you also need to allocate xauthority cookies to each display
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OK, I'm trying further, maybe you can help me.

I'm just trying for two apps now to see if I can get it right.

In the xlauncher, changed the part when -embed is called, and X is not empty to export DISPLAY to :1.0 and run runx.

In runx modified it if exported DISPLAY is :1.0 to use .Xauthority2 cookie instead of .Xauthority.

But I'm confused with the lines around

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if [ x"$serverargs" = x ] && expr "$1" : ':[0-9]...That's where it specifies which display X is started on, right?

I'm not sure I understand it correctly, so don't know how to change the display to :1.0 if it's already running on :0.0.

Plus I don't seem to see where runx is called from xlauncher with this display op.

Can you advise?

[Meanie]

in addition to setting the display for the client, the server needs to be started on a different display as well so you have matching pairs of client and servers on different displays. in addition, you also need to allocate xauthority cookies to each display
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Oh yeah, just realized it looking into your runx script.

Seems I'm getting entangled in trying to create a parallel script that would alloc individual displays...

So far haven't managed...
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I will make it work in the next update. promise
can you test the other stuff, especially the keys? i want to make sure everything else works before adding more features and complexity.

[ShiroiKuma]

I will make it work in the next update. promise
can you test the other stuff, especially the keys? i want to make sure everything else works before adding more features and complexity.
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OK, I'll give up on this now then  

One more idea I have associated with this is that then every rootless app can have it's own icon, this'll be tops. The way to do it is symlink Xqt-rootless as Xqt-rootless-firefox, Xqt-rootless-dillo, etc. and then have probably a separate Xqt-server tab in Qtopia, where you'll have the desktop files with different icons for Firefox etc.

Then if you change in the launch script to run Xqt-rootless-firefox if Firefox is called in rootless mode, and voila. You'll have every rootless app with it's own icon, behaving like a separate Qt app, easy to switch between them with Alt-Tab, everything beautiful...

What do you think of this?

I'm testing the other stuff now, the Alt-drag thing I've traced to .xmodmaprc. I've deleted that file, since the keyboard mapping on the 3200 is just fine in X/Qt and now alt-drag works.

Do you want me to check on anything else specifically?

[Meanie]

I will make it work in the next update. promise
can you test the other stuff, especially the keys? i want to make sure everything else works before adding more features and complexity.
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OK, I'll give up on this now then  

One more idea I have associated with this is that then every rootless app can have it's own icon, this'll be tops. The way to do it is symlink Xqt-rootless as Xqt-rootless-firefox, Xqt-rootless-dillo, etc. and then have probably a separate Xqt-server tab in Qtopia, where you'll have the desktop files with different icons for Firefox etc.

Then if you change in the launch script to run Xqt-rootless-firefox if Firefox is called in rootless mode, and voila. You'll have every rootless app with it's own icon, behaving like a separate Qt app, easy to switch between them with Alt-Tab, everything beautiful...

What do you think of this?

I'm testing the other stuff now, the Alt-drag thing I've traced to .xmodmaprc. I've deleted that file, since the keyboard mapping on the 3200 is just fine in X/Qt and now alt-drag works.

Do you want me to check on anything else specifically?
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can you generate a keymap for me then?

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xmodmap -pke > xmodmaprc-c3200
xmodmap -pm  > xmodmaprc-mod
and send me those files

everything else should be working fine, just need someone to double check, but the IM is new and I have only tested it with abiword to input japanese
currently i have uim, anthy and scim installed, scim works, but i have not been able to compile scim-anthy yet to utilise anthy

[ShiroiKuma]

can you generate a keymap for me then?

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xmodmap -pke > xmodmaprc-c3200
xmodmap -pm  > xmodmaprc-mod
and send me those files

everything else should be working fine, just need someone to double check, but the IM is new and I have only tested it with abiword to input japanese
currently i have uim, anthy and scim installed, scim works, but i have not been able to compile scim-anthy yet to utilise anthy
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OK, here goes. It's actually a .tar.bz2 file, just remove the .zip extension...

Why don't you use Prime for Japanese input? It's predictive, so ideal for the Z where you can't touch type. Much faster than Anthy.

[Meanie]

can you generate a keymap for me then?

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xmodmap -pke > xmodmaprc-c3200
xmodmap -pm  > xmodmaprc-mod
and send me those files

everything else should be working fine, just need someone to double check, but the IM is new and I have only tested it with abiword to input japanese
currently i have uim, anthy and scim installed, scim works, but i have not been able to compile scim-anthy yet to utilise anthy
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OK, here goes. It's actually a .tar.bz2 file, just remove the .zip extension...

Why don't you use Prime for Japanese input? It's predictive, so ideal for the Z where you can't touch type. Much faster than Anthy.
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Thanks for doing this.  I compared yours and my keymap, basically yours is exactly like my original keymap which did not work for me so I reassigned Home to Super_L so the left kana key would be Alt_L. In your case, the left kana key is Alt_L and Home is Alt_L / Meta_L. This is bizarre but might have something to do with my keyhelper settings. I am putting your keymap as the default since that was my original default map too and I will call my current map custom map.
So now the installer will use the default map (which is the same as yours).

I hope this will fix everyone's keyboard mappings (well for the Cxx00 series). Since nobody with 7x0 or 6000 has said anything I will assume that your keymappings are all OK

[ShiroiKuma]

Thanks for doing this.  I compared yours and my keymap, basically yours is exactly like my original keymap which did not work for me so I reassigned Home to Super_L so the left kana key would be Alt_L. In your case, the left kana key is Alt_L and Home is Alt_L / Meta_L. This is bizarre but might have something to do with my keyhelper settings. I am putting your keymap as the default since that was my original default map too and I will call my current map custom map.
So now the installer will use the default map (which is the same as yours).

I hope this will fix everyone's keyboard mappings (well for the Cxx00 series). Since nobody with 7x0 or 6000 has said anything I will assume that your keymappings are all OK
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Actually I've just discovered I've been a little dumbfounded by Keyhelper too. So I entered 5 entries into my custom xmodmaprc file, since these keys are not mapped correctly, which I've discovered when I disabled KeyHelper.

The custom mappings are:

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keycode 22 = minus grave
keycode 41 = braceleft
keycode 61 = braceright
keycode 69 = slash comma
keycode 70 = period questionYou might wanna take care of these too.

[Meanie]

Thanks for doing this.  I compared yours and my keymap, basically yours is exactly like my original keymap which did not work for me so I reassigned Home to Super_L so the left kana key would be Alt_L. In your case, the left kana key is Alt_L and Home is Alt_L / Meta_L. This is bizarre but might have something to do with my keyhelper settings. I am putting your keymap as the default since that was my original default map too and I will call my current map custom map.
So now the installer will use the default map (which is the same as yours).

I hope this will fix everyone's keyboard mappings (well for the Cxx00 series). Since nobody with 7x0 or 6000 has said anything I will assume that your keymappings are all OK
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Actually I've just discovered I've been a little dumbfounded by Keyhelper too. So I entered 5 entries into my custom xmodmaprc file, since these keys are not mapped correctly, which I've discovered when I disabled KeyHelper.

The custom mappings are:

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keycode 22 = minus grave
keycode 41 = braceleft
keycode 61 = braceright
keycode 69 = slash comma
keycode 70 = period questionYou might wanna take care of these too.
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Thanks. I have applied these