[Libre-soc-dev] Installing an X terminal on an Android phone

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 15:34 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

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> On Sunday, December 3, 2023, Jacob Lifshay via Libre-soc-dev <
> libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org> wrote:
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> > well with a touch screen. (e.g. you can have the soft keyboard open, but
> > then 50% of your screen is gone, this is less of a problem on a terminal
> > since you can just set the font size to pretty small)
>
> my friend phil solved this 20 years ago on an openmoko
> by writing and installing a *full screen* transparent
> keyboard. that was a resistive touchscreen.
>

ooh, nice idea!

>
> he didn't care in the least bit about android "apps" and
> their bullshit (driven by google)
>
> > . Also, the remote X11
> > protocol doesn't support most of the modern features that apps have come
> to
> > expect, e.g. Vulkan or fast OpenGL using memory mapping.
>
> horseshit.
>

I said *remote* X11, aka over ssh to another computer. if you're running
both the x11 server and client on the same device, it works better but
still not great in my experience on android. i didn't say the hw wasn't
powerful enough, don't put words into my mouth.

Jacob