Is it possible to do X forwarding over bluetooth?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Sep 16 03:14:11 PDT 2010


On 09/16/10 06:43 AM, Han wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
> <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>  wrote:
>> Han<keepsimple at gmail.com>  writes:
>>> btw, I can write program to create socket directly over bluetooth
>>> without using PAN.
>>
>> X clients can talk to tcp port or unix socket. You can use the socat
>> program to forward either of those to the stdin of your program.
>>
>
> How does X client talk to unix socket?  Any function names so I can search?

Prior to XCB, via libxtrans:
	http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/xtrans/Xtrans.html
	http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/xtrans/Xtrans.pdf

In systems using XCB (including all systems running Xlib 1.4 which requires
XCB), it now goes through the xcb transport instead.

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	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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