Re: exmh on Android via "AndroWish"?

Kevin Cosgrove <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:03:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.devel
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On 17 March 2015 at 20:56, "Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried running exmh on an Android device using the 
> > >AndroWish port of Tcl/Tk to Android?  AndroWish is here:  
> > >http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home
> > 
> > I have not tried AndroWish, but I can tell you from experience that exmh
> > is tied relatively heavily toward the X11 implementation of Tk; if you run
> > it using the Aqua version of wish, for example, you get something that is
> > unusable.  But since AndroWish looks like it uses X11 emulation you may be
> > in better shape; I think the only thing to do is try it.
> 
> By chance I downloaded an X server for android yesterday 
> https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=X+server&fdid=au.com.darkside.XServer
> but nothing to test it with yet.  I'll dowload
> http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home when I have a WLAN connection.

I just installed XServer XSDL 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server&hl=en
and will try to run a remote application, e.g. exmh, over the 
connection.

Good luck (in the nice sense of the phrase)....

--
Kevin