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Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?
by ejstronge 12y ago
Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?
- kevin_thibedeau 12y agoThe technology already exists in X11. The problem is getting devices to act as display servers.
- ejstronge 12y agoI haven't seen examples of folks trying to use iPads (for example) as X11 displays, likely because it's outside my area of expertise. Do you know of any examples?
- seanp2k2 12y agoSounds like something that could only exist on Cydia. Has anyone checked there?
- aaronem 12y agoiSSH includes an X11 display server, and I've had reasonable success using it with clients on an assortment of architectures, including a Tru64 VM running Open Genera. I wouldn't expect it to work well with something like video playback unless you've got a very fast and uncongested wireless network (or possibly a Lightning-to-Ethernet adapter, if such things exist), but if you don't need that kind of sustained responsiveness, it's at least worth a try.
- ejstronge 12y agoI think the original product link isn't using wireless but instead depends on a wired connection. I've heard about using X11 over the internet but I'm worried that the lag would make this approach more annoying than effective. It would be great to have a wired connection option on other operating systems besides the Mac.
- peatmoss 12y agoI do a lot of reading / annotating on my iPad. My other use case mostly involves emacs. I'd love to have a Linux matchstick dongle that I could simply plug in to my iPad to run emacs (and associated goodies like R, Python, etc).