[REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Hi all,

In OS2008, I used the Debian Xephyr nested X-Server to display a second desktop on top of Maemo. This was somewhat useful for people who wished to have a secondary, more desktop-like environment without rebooting or shutting down Maemo.

Now with Maemo 5 and the new Matchbox WM, many desktop apps just don't display properly at all. Dialogs are the worst offenders; it is almost guaranteed that a desktop app's dialog will be useless in Maemo 5.

Xephyr is needed more than ever! But! It, too, is useless inside the current Maemo 5 window manager! The display inside Xephyr ( :1 ) doesn't receive any keyboard input events at all.

According to this (now infamous) Maemo qt patch, the Maemo 5 WM is "broken" because all apps must make an explicit XSetInputFocus() call.

I'm not sure, but I think qwerty12's patch to xev does the same thing.

So, I'm hoping someone could patch the Debian Xephyr package to do this for me. If this gives me a keyboard in Xephyr, then I'll commence begging the developer to push it into Fremantle Extras-Devel.

Thanks in advance. This community rocks.

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

...bump?

Don't make me lose my faith in the maemo.org community!

;)

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Bump?

Also, I think the default Ctrl+Shift keyboard combo to grab mouse and keyboard should be switched to something else on the N900... ?

But now I am losing hope... :(

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

No promises, but I'll take a "quick" crack at it. I don't have a n900 so I don't know how well it will work; but I can see if I can make it work in scratchbox.

Nathan

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Do you have a link to the Xephyr you ran on your OS2008? I checked the repositories and didn't see it in either Chinook or Diablo. I'm not really sure "which" options I should use; as XServer appears to support a bazillion. ;-) I'll try "defaults" and see what happens; but if I can see what someone else did (that worked) I can probably port it faster.

Nathan

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Nathan: Thank you for taking a look. I didn't port it, I used the Debian Xephyr from the chroot, and it worked fine in Diablo. But the "vanilla" Xephyr no longer works properly in Maemo 5.

My temporary solution, so that I can keep working on Easy Debian, is to use run LXDE in a vncserver on :1 and view it in Maemo vncviewer via "localhost:1". It isn't a great solution, but at least I have a keyboard in my secondary WM.

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Ah, so you downloaded the arm?/armel? version of xephyr from the lenny debian repositories? Any specific version, arm or armel? Or did you get it from somewhere else?


I started working on it -- but I need to figure out a dependancy (x86dirproto) is required, but not sure yet what provides it.

Nathan

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

I tried to build it from the Xorg source tarball corresponding to the Xorg as shipped with the N900, but I still don't understand enough about autotools to get Xephyr built from it... (tried ./configure --enable-xephyr , which seems to... do nothing; after a full make still no Xephyr binary anywhere to be seen).

"Fixing" the wm hints seems to be easy, though.

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

I haven't had much luck either ... I haven't given up yet; but I am rather busy at the moment....

Nathan

Re: [REQ] Maemo 5 Xephyr package
 

Thanks all, the code that qobi posted in this thread seems to do the trick to fix the stock Xephyr app. I'll just use wmctrl and the hint-fixer to work around the problem for now.