[squeak-dev] International text input on X11

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu May 5 22:00:49 UTC 2016


Hi Yoshiki,


> On May 5, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Yoshiki,
>> 
>>>> On May 5, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:11 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 05-05-2016, at 10:36 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It actually is not clear yet which branches are the right one for
>>>>> current Scratch on raspi and also future proof.  Perhaps doing for
>>>>> multiple branches is necessary?  (What are the relationship of those?)
>>>> 
>>>> Oh, it’s absolutely clear for the Pi; Cog/Spur. The ancient original MIT image and an elderly interpreter are kept around for emergency use but will not be updated.
>>> 
>>> Okay!
>>> 
>>> By any chance, can you tell me how you test things? for Raspberry Pi?
>> 
>> A Pi is cheap enough that one can simply buy one.  The new 64-bit one runs 32-bit binaries and is significantly faster than a pi2.  As far as testing, one can either connect a display via hdmi and a mouse & keyboard via usb, or use VNC.  There's a guide to setup of raspbian and of the VNC server on raspberrypi.org.
> 
> Sorry for posing a vague question...  I do have a couple of Pis (Pi
> and Pi2, but not Pi3), and have done some graphics stuff in C over
> SSH.  So I invoke my program from a shell running emacs on an SSH
> session and things appear on a display connected to a Pi.  But I have
> not tried VNC there.  I haven't done any real Squeak stuff on Pi and
> for Pi; if running Squeak on Pi and interacting with it over VNC is
> reasonably fast, I'd go with that path.  But this one involves some C
> programs and if people does some cross compiling more on a host
> computer, that is also an interesting option.

VNC feels pretty fast.  IIRC there was some issue about running X11 apps directly.  I'm not sure I could find a package.  Anyway, Tim and u have been using VNC and it feels fine.

> 
> 
> -- 
> -- Yoshiki
> 


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