# [OmniOS-discuss] X11 application support

Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us
Fri May 17 13:34:22 EDT 2013

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    On Fri, 17 May 2013, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:

    > A few things that might help you our
    > 1) this is not in core by design.
    > 2) using a browser remotely sounds painful... try ssh options to either forward a port (-L) or act as a SOCKS proxy (-D) both
    > *super* useful.
    > 3) this does not solve your "I can only manage an HBA with a Java GUI issue"... you should burn that vendor's offices down*.

    I have some mission-critical software here from Sun which uses an
    "Install Shield" type installer on Solaris.  I am not sure if the
    installer is x86/SPARC binaries, or based on Java.  Once installed,
    the software runs headless on a server.

    There is other software (useful on servers) where use of X11 is
    optional at run-time yet the binaries will fail to run if the X11
    libraries are missing.  If the X11 libraries are missing, then it is
    necessary to create a special build of the software and
    commonly-available pre-compiled binaries won't work.

    Basic X11 client libraries and support files (all highly-portable
    stuff) seems like a basic requirement.  This is quite different than
    an X11 server, which has substantial hardware dependencies.

    > 4) There are people using Joyent's pkgsrc work to build X libs.

    That sounds helpful.

    Bob
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    Bob Friesenhahn
    bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
    GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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