x11 keyboard input from text console

[Gregory Nowak]

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Thanks much for that. I'll check out what you suggest below. If this
works out for me, I'll post back with what I did in case someone else
wants to do something similar on low-end hardware.

Greg


On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Gregory Nowak, le Mon 04 Jun 2012 01:40:44 -0700, a ?crit :
> > I have a very old laptop here running gnu/linux without gnome, or even
> > xorg, since the machine is way too old to run gnome, and I have no use
> > for a full x11 environment which I can't access.
> 
> > So, I installed Xvfb, and rdesktop.
> 
> That is actually a full x11 environment (even if not a full desktop x11
> environment). You can install the regular Xorg server, and use Xorg
> instead of Xvfb, and that should just work fine.
> 
> > The other possibility would be setting up a minimal x environment
> > which I could run rdesktop in. I don't know though what are the
> > minimum packages required for this in debian, and how much of a
> > challenge it would be to launch rdesktop, and exit from it without
> > something like orca.
> > I think the ideal solution would be something that I can setup from
> > inittab on an unused console.
> 
> That can be done indeed, something like
> 
> 7:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/rdesktop themachine -- vt7
> 
> and that will run on VT7. You thus just need the X server from
> xserver-xorg-core, and startx from the xinit package.
> 
> Samuel
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