[ale] how do I run, and control, X11 server on android tablet?

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 01:52:59 EST 2012


Wow, dejuvu I was reading this off twitter tonight.

http://my20percent.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/android-x-server/

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to figure out how to attach a program running in the GO
> language to a GUI, since it doesn't have a built in GUI.  I've found a
> couple of X11 server programs in the Google Play store entitled, cleverly, X
> Server.  I'm wondering if I can run the X server on the Android tablet and
> control or drive it remotely from another PC with a GO program or even a
> bash script.  So, if I install the X Server program on the tablet, and say
> its address is 192.168.50.5, and the pc's address is 192.168.50.1, how do I
> run Ubuntu graphical apps (say Firefox?) on the PC and have them appear on
> the tablet?  Furthermore, how do I use a program or script to drive the X11
> server directly, so I can use the tablet as the GUI for the GO program?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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